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DIY Ambient Light Keyboard Kit

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the why-the-hell-not dept.

An anonymous reader writes " Do you envy new Apple 17" PowerBook keyboard? Here's keyboard light kits for all most any keyboard no matter which OS you are using. There's NINE choice of colors (Light Blue, Deep Blue, Hot Pink, Yellow, White, Purple, Neon Green, Lime Green, and Red) available but unfortunately not coming with light sensor. "

6 of 226 comments (clear)

  1. neat by loveandpeace · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Cool! can we combine colors? and do neat little effects with them? This could be so much fun in the computer lab late at night.

  2. Bah, manufacturers have no imagination by vadim_t · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'd really like to see a keyboard with a few programmable LEDs, or even better, a LCD screen. It'd be cool to have the memory/CPU use or something like that there.

    But all I see instead is keyboards with annoying power buttons I tend to press in the least inconvenient moment. I just don't get it, what's the point of having it there? As if I needed to turn the computer on and off every 5 minutes.

  3. ironically, by cosmo7 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    this kit would work best with apple keyboards - they are translucent plastic and would let you discern the key legend in the dark. on a regular keyboard it just lights the gutters between the keys.

  4. PB keyboard backlighting is better by celloloop · · Score: 5, Interesting

    But the PB keyboard backlighting illuminates each letter on the surface of the key, not just the space between/around the keys.... in a low-light situation, _that's_ the real benefit... seeing which key you're about ot press, not just seeing a field of silhouetted key blanks.

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  5. And The Keyboards are free! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I believe he passes the price of the item in the URL (i cant believe someone still does this).

    Change the URL and get your products for free!

  6. 58 WPM...I 0wnz j00! by MsGeek · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If you really want to improve your typing speed, spend a lot of time in IRC. I used to think IRC was a timesink. Wrong. It improved my typing speed to the point where I now have my first decent job since the end of the Dot-Bomb era.

    Now, if I could just fit that spoiler on my Model MII I might just crack the 60wpm barrier. Oh yeah...gotta paint it bright yellow and put those Kanji stickers all over them. Heh heh heh...

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