UV Keyboard lights

Tuesday, Sep 17, 2002

Invention of the day: Have you seen the Thinkpads with integrated keyboard lights over the display, to illuminate the keys during dark meetings or lectures? The light in and of itself is pretty distracting, especially when they tend to illuminate your hands more than anything else.

The latest in LED technology is ultraviolet LEDs. Now wouldn't it be cool if one of these was integrated into a powerbook screen, just above the display, pointong down to the keyboard, and the inks used for the keyboard keys were slightly flourescent? You could have a Tron-esque keyboard, without lighting up anything else...

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