Anyone Got Any Suggestions? Its Gotta Be Under 100, If Not Maybe One Under Or Around 150??? I Cant See My Keyboard At Night /: But HATE Gaming With Lights.
torch + cherry g80 3000 black mx
UV LED and fluorescent stickers + whatever keyboard you want.
(backlit on the right, UV frontlit on the left)Show Image(http://img863.imageshack.us/img863/651/imag0339.jpg)
Where do you get those stickers?
USB & audio ports look very similar to Meka G1, hmmm...
Yet the Zibal 60 board gets a huge discussion thread on GH and the Meka G1 is barely mentioned. Let me guess why......could it be because the Zibal 60 is harder to obtain, more rare, and must be ordered from overseas?
I like this Viper2 dude.
Actually I'm pushing the Zibal because Sweden design > Taiwan design.
I like backlit keyboards in my living room.Show Image(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5125/5242179475_a5fc209206_z.jpg)
Plus I have to admit the glowing is fun. I still make pick up a backlit if anybody ever makes a decent quality one.
Like the Mionix which looks nothing like the ThermalTake to me.
Backlit keyboards are a solution to a problem that should not exist in the first place.
First people decide that they want to have black keyboards with light legends (in spite of worse readability), and then they complain that they cannot read the lettering in dim surroundings. Well, duh. You can't have your cake and eat it, too.
An old Cherry or IBM (/ Unicomp) board in fashionable Computer Beige with nice high-contrast lettering (double-shot or dye sub) does pretty well under such circumstances. Maybe not quite as well as a backlit board when it's pitch dark, but chances are you wouldn't see much on your screen either.
For a little analogy:
1. A classic light-colored keyboard with high-contrast lettering is a car on which you can make out the ends pretty well.
2. A black keyboard is a stylish car on which you can only guess where the ends ends and which requires very careful parking.
3. A backlit keyboard is the same car as in 2. but stuffed with all kinds of parking aid gizmos.
Using technology to solve problems that could have been eliminated beforehand with some careful thought is another way of selling the stuff.
Every keyboard should be backlit
Haha, what
Exactly what I wrote.
If you feel supergeeck you can use whatever, square wheels on your cars, a left handed mouse being right handed, a salt in the coffee, a curved ruler to draw lines and so on.
BUT you know, I'm a bit strange and I prefer the correct tool to do a given task, and I use round wheels, a right handed mouse, and a backlit keyboard.
I like backlit keyboards in my living room.
Plus I have to admit the glowing is fun. I still make pick up a backlit if anybody ever makes a decent quality one.
Like the Mionix which looks nothing like the ThermalTake to me.
Exactly what I wrote.
If you feel supergeeck you can use whatever, square wheels on your cars, a left handed mouse being right handed, a salt in the coffee, a curved ruler to draw lines and so on.
BUT you know, I'm a bit strange and I prefer the correct tool to do a given task, and I use round wheels, a right handed mouse, and a backlit keyboard.
interestingly enough i think that if you scrubbed off the logos and removed the wrist rest, that mionis would look identical to the tt meka g1. anyone with photoshop skils wanna do this? just black out the lettering, change the red keys to black, remove logos from both and i doubt you would be able to tell the difference.
Too much unneeded philosophykeyb_gr speaks the truth.
Every keyboard should be backlit, as happen in any car stereo, cellphone, whatever, since the middle age.Too much incorrect analogies.
this is a computer keyboard forum. people here spend hundreds if not thousands of dollars on keyboards. i find it really hard to believe that people with this much dedication to a keyboard would be such poor typists that they would need to look at the keys.
keyb_gr speaks the truth.
Too much incorrect analogies.
Unless he is some divinity keyb_gr speaks his opinion as you and me.Focus on this for a moment:
Backlit keyboards are a solution to a problem that should not exist in the first place.
Oh, thank you for such news, so post some good analogies...Good analogy (NSFW) (http://www.beltzarecords.com/ReferenciaDetalle.asp?cod=93531)
Focus on this for a moment:
You know, I think some keycaps with promethium-147 or tritium legends would be novel. No need for leds, with a nice glow.
If you seek geeckiness an otaku qwerty board is an amateur tool, why not use just 8 button and use them to input the ASCII code directly in binary form ?That's funny.
That's geek
Backlight would be wonderful then. I think otaku looks neat. I like black keyboards because they look better.
If you seek geeckiness an otaku qwerty board is an amateur tool, why not use just 8 button and use them to input the ASCII code directly in binary form ?
Not a novel
http://www.latkey.com/glowing_stickers.asp?SubCat=14
http://www.overclock.net/keyboards/974325-poormans-baclit-black-widow.html
If you really want a backlit board, you could always put the lights in yourself, like they do over at KBC. http://kbc.5d6d.com/thread-5850-1-1.htmlInteresting! I'm assuming this is normal colored keyboard with DIY lights? I'd definitely consider lighting just the home row - that'd be really useful. Any build pics / howtos? Anyone ever try this w/ black keys? Or could I get just the home-row of white filco home keys? Hmm.
If you really want a backlit board, you could always put the lights in yourself, like they do over at KBC. http://kbc.5d6d.com/thread-5850-1-1.html
How do the stickers feel compared to the original keycaps? I've tried stickers on keycaps for the purpose of typing in a different language, but it definitely did not feel as nice as the original texture of the keys.
I don't want to step on any toes here, as a new member, but I personally don't understand backlit keyboards. If I'm in a dark room, my F and J keys have bumps on them, I can find the rest of the keys from there. The last thing I want is a keyboard calling attention to itself in a dark room. If I see the backlight in my periphery, my eyes will constantly want to look down and it'll be a distraction. The only reason I can think to have one is if someone cannot touch type. My suggestion to them would be NOT to invest in a backlit keyboard, but in an invaluable skill that will make that backlighting unnecessary.
I don't want to step on any toes here, as a new member, but I personally don't understand backlit keyboards. If I'm in a dark room, my F and J keys have bumps on them, I can find the rest of the keys from there. The last thing I want is a keyboard calling attention to itself in a dark room. If I see the backlight in my periphery, my eyes will constantly want to look down and it'll be a distraction. The only reason I can think to have one is if someone cannot touch type. My suggestion to them would be NOT to invest in a backlit keyboard, but in an invaluable skill that will make that backlighting unnecessary.
I don't want to step on any toes here, as a new member, but I personally don't understand backlit keyboards. If I'm in a dark room, my F and J keys have bumps on them, I can find the rest of the keys from there.
The last thing I want is a keyboard calling attention to itself in a dark room.
The only reason I can think to have one is if someone cannot touch type.
My suggestion to them would be NOT to invest in a backlit keyboard, but in an invaluable skill that will make that backlighting unnecessary.
My suggestion is to use that marvel machine which is the human brain to accomplish high level tasks, and not waste precious neurons to learn something that a basic technology has already made obsolete.
Are you actually suggesting that touch typing is an "obsolete" skill?
On a forum dedicated to keyboards?
The Solutor has made generally rational statements?
Citation please?
Not an obsolete skill, an unneeded skill.
Are you good in touchtyping ? Good for you, no one is blaming you for this, but at the same time don't blame that 6 billions of people who never mind to learn it.No blame here. The same way I don't blame the billions of people who can't wire up a basic electrical circuit, or cook a decent meal, or play basketball, or perform any other skill that requires a decent investment in learning and practice.
Aren't backlit keyboards included ?Absolutely. I'm not arguing against the technology, I'm arguing that the tech doesn't make touch-typing obsolete. Besides, with the proliferation of computer tech and the adoption of it by our children at a younger and younger age, I'd say that we'll be seeing more people who are able to type without looking at the keyboard, rather than less.
Just curious. In other news I just added Source11 to my Number One Keyboard Expert On The Planet. (http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?18731-A-sad-day-in-Filco-Ninja-Land&p=358530&viewfull=1#post358530) link.
Just curious. In other news I just added Source11 to my Number One Keyboard Expert On The Planet (http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?18731-A-sad-day-in-Filco-Ninja-Land&p=358530&viewfull=1#post358530) link.
you're so cool man, i bet you type like stevie wonder.
I love stevie wonder
Well - have you ever tried to type specific key commands while holding a baby in one arm and watching a movie on the computer (thus lights are off or very low)?Wait, I'm confused... I *swear* I wrote the above sentence, but it's clearly not my account. What's going on? Am I losing my mind? Or is Tallon my evil twin?
Wait, I'm confused... I *swear* I wrote the above sentence, but it's clearly not my account. What's going on? Am I losing my mind? Or is Tallon my evil twin?
Tallon - do you own a 95 Talon TSI AWD in black? Cause if you do, I'm going to come kill you. THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE (me).