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Flexiglow Illuminated Keyboard

Posted by timothy on from the you-thought-fake-barf-was-novel dept.

BigMan writes "You probably have seen a few of these keyboards (illuminated) before but this one is from Flexiglow who are known for making very nice modd products. We will look closer into this and see how bright it really is and if it's nice to type on and use."

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  1. Thank you Flexiglow for making this review possibl by DAldredge · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "Thank you Flexiglow for making this review possible" is at the bottom of the first page, is there any wonder they gave the unit a 5 out of 5?

  2. Re:How often do you look at you keyboard? by NotAnotherReboot · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I concur...on top of that, do you really want your keyboard distracting you if you don't ever look at it? On top of that, even if you did need to look down from time to time, the only time you wouldn't be able to see it is at night (and even then, your monitor would probably illuminate it enough).

    You shouldn't be using a computer in the dark anyways, the contrast between the sceen and the wall is far too high. It hurts your vision.

  3. I like these... by Cyno01 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I've been drooling over EL keyboards ever since i saw the EluminX, and will probably get a knockoff for my next system, but when is somone going to make a full keyboard. By full i mean a seperate block for the arrow keys, the 3x2 block of insert/home/delete etc. and a little seperation betweek the main section and the F keys. It sucks for gaming having the arrow keys in with everything else.

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  4. Re:How often do you look at you keyboard? by P-Nuts · · Score: 5, Interesting
    You shouldn't be using a computer in the dark anyways, the contrast between the sceen and the wall is far too high. It hurts your vision.

    You're clearly not a true geek.

  5. Re:it would be cool.. by TeknoHog · · Score: 4, Interesting
    make every button programmable, so it could be used as an audio spectrum visualisation or something.

    I agree this would be awesome. Also, a program to teach touch typing might use this to illuminate a key you need to find, thus you'd more easily find and learn the positions of keys.

    In fact many many programs would benefit if they could illuminate the keys used at any moment. I'm sure this is already done in touchscreen systems. Then again, a programmably illuminated keyboard is a kind of touchscreen in itself. If it were available, I'm sure someone could hack it into a display console of some kind. For example, you could pipe text into it by illuminating letters in succession.

    However, as a touch typist and a Discordian I don't want anything of the Illuminati kind on my desk ;-)

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