microsoft.com — Can a keyboard create its own mood lighting? Respond to you? Enlighten you? Move with you? Microsoft say their ultimate desktop keyboard can with ambient backlighting, proximity sensing and 30-feet of range.
Jun 29, 2006 View in Crawl 4
uncleleoJun 29, 2006
that's going to be...REALLY expensive
astrotrainJun 30, 2006
...and this keyboard will turn blue when you recieve the BSOD.... so you can be warned from across the room when your PC crashes.
gukidJun 30, 2006
Wow, that's a pretty cheesy flash video... with the keyboard peeking out at you at every angle and stuff. Maybe it's a good thing that I couldn't hear the music..."Imagine... not needing backlighting because you're a touch typist who uses DVORAK and seeing the keys is a waste of time...""Imagine... trying to see what the hell you are typing from 30 feet away...""Imagine... what the hell are you supposed to do with the mouse in your lap...""Imagine... do you really believe that people will think you're cool. seriously."
jdog1016Jun 30, 2006
It is true that powerbooks have had backlit keyboards for a while now. But that's a LAPTOP. Stop comparing apples to oranges--while a tilt sensor has some real utility value in a powerbook, why would a KEYBOARD need a tilt sensor? By the way, I'm a Mac user, and I'm STILL waiting for the apple backlit desktop keyboards. In the meantime, this looks pretty nice.
chexJul 4, 2006
I hope to god it doesn't have F-Lock, Ive hated all MS KB for that reason and that reason alone.
johnsonjiiJul 8, 2006
Since when did Microsoft think it could get into hardware?
tortelvisJul 9, 2006
Man, you Apple true believers need to calm down. Seriously. If 100% of everything Apple ever did was equivalent to the Word of God, then why is it the first thing most new Apple buyers do is to go out buy a Microsoft style mouse? Or keyboard? It's the thing that can't be said out loud. I run all 3 major OS types at home. It's fun. You should try it. But you're either blind or brainwashed if you can't at least realize this is a pretty cool keyboard. Any many people will buy it and love it.
dolphumousAug 1, 2006
As long as it's not a smooth scroll wheel like the previous microsoft mice...I'd buy it.
isepicApr 30, 2007
Sorry to bust your bubbles, but Apple didn't "innovate" the backlit keyboard. Actually, HP owns the patent, and Apple pays HP, and well MS is paying HP as well. So get over your high-horse, Apple doesn't innovate much, it IMPROVES upon existing innovation, and builds products on top of that.