luxeed led rainbow keyboard: disco on your desk
August 12th, 2007 comments (45) stumble it! digg it! by: technabob
Is that drab old monochromatic keyboard getting you down? This keyboard from Korea’s Luxeed features color changing LEDs under each and every key.
While it can certainly be used to produce seizure-inducing displays of blinking color, the keyboard comes with software that lets you do more subtle things, like just set the keyboard to a light up with a single hue that strikes your mood, or create intricate patterns of color.
Luxeed’s USB keyboards are available in a white backlit version (KRW 118,800 / $127 USD) and a sleek black backlit version (KRW 125,600 / $134 USD), where the keys stay black and only the letters change colors.
The keyboards have started to trickle out in their native land of Korea, but hopefully somebody will see fit to import these into the U.S. and Europe soon.
August 12th, 2007 comments (45): stumble it! digg it! by: technabob
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Looks awesome! I’d go for the white one.
well isn’t that a rainbow of fun! what a great thing to sit down to everyday to blog, and, er, work!
Luxeed Colorful LED keyboard…
Here is cheap alternative to the super expensive Optimus keyboard, the Colorful LED keyboard from Luxeed Korea. Availableisin two different versions; the white one featured above ($127) where the whole the key will light up, and a black version ($134) …
WHERE DID YOU GET THAT ONE KEYBOARD TO ORDER FOR 134.00 DOLLARS
MY EMAIL ADDY IS SILKFLY@YAHOO.COM
EXCELLENT ! this one with the OLED keyboard are …. so great
This is not an alternative to the Optimus. OLED and LED are very different things. OLED is a type of screen, capable of displaying graphics while LED is a simple light. Though it is still a pretty cool keyboard.
Yeah, I never said it was like the Optimus, nor that it was OLED. But then again, it doesn’t cost $1500 and it actually does exist. Art Lebedev is still working out the kinks in the Optimus, so it’s still vaporware in my book.
This looks really neat, I do hope that someone imports them soon. I’d buy the black one and set it to alternate between my favorite colors.
hmmmm a neat keyboard with glowing letters or one that glows and shifts from lower to upper case and from numbers to symbols.
$1400 price difference. Since I don’t READ my keyboard and need to see if I am typing an uppercase A or lowercase a, I can’t see spending 1500 on a keyboard that really is boring.
Now $150 on one that puts on a mini light show, WOW
I believe these are being used in Korea to teach touch typing
günstige LED-Tastatur…
Also, wenn Preis (ca. 130 $) von dieser Tastatur (Luxeed) bleibt, dann ist diese einfach unschlagbar. Es gibt dieser in weiss und in schwarz (die würde ich nehmen). Allerdings ist das natürlich nichts gegen die Optimus Maximus (kleine organische, s…
Rainbows are ghey
crazy – just crazy. I still like my bland old keyboard…
wow! where do I get one
They’ve popped up on eBay a few times (search for “Luxeed”) but every time I try to buy one, I get sniped at 3:00am, because that’s when the auction ends in Korea.
It looks like Luxeed is getting ready to sell these to english-speaking folks soon:
http://www.luxeed.com/shopping_main_e.php
You can’t buy yet, but they’ve definitely added that part of the site recently.
awesome keyboard!
Personally, I’ll just stick with my Eclipse II from Saitek, it glows a nice, soft blue.
what are the keys made out of?
Plastic, I believe.
Has anybody purcahsed one of these yet?
purchased that is
indeed. has anyone gotten one or more in america. a representative from luxeed has told me they don’t ship to america unless you are a business. and then, probably only in bulk, i don’t know. price also has went up to $149USD for the white one and $159USD for the black one. if some person or company other than luxeed is willing to ship anywhere let me know where your shopping cart or paypal button is located so i can buy one. contact me via my web form (http://www.wreckbarcrew.com/contact/contacts/war.html) thanks.
Want… SO… Bad…
yes l wanna to buy one now please please please
Good luck finding one in the U.S. I got in a bidding war for one on eBay a while back, but that was the only time I’ve seen one around these parts.
http://www.coolglowythings.com
£140. Bollocks with that! That’s almost a 100% markup!
Yikes. That is quite a markup. But then again, they’re so hard to find, what else can you do? Let’s hope that someone like ThinkGeek will pick them up at some point.
100% markup? Did you factor in import duty and shipping from Korea? That can’t be a small addition to the cost.
£140 is a bit much tho.. Maybe you should look again, the price might have changed
Ooo. £130. Ten quid. Whoopee-freaking-doo.
Bearing in mind that’s just the keyboard and doesn’t include the numeric keypad, CGT.com can go get stuffed.
wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow
na!c
Does somebody know where or when its able to buy?
Looks like you can buy these in the UK now from eBuyer:
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/140119
I still don’t see a U.S. Distributor, but the UK is good for many of our readers.
Ebuyer has got the white version in stock!!!
are we in 6901?
Really the keybord is very smart
May i know this price
This would be great for logical grouping of shortcut keys in applications!
I. want. one.
I cant believe nobody in the US has made an imitation yet! Grrrr.
Now available in the U.S. Finally…
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/a85c/
I must get one now!
http://www.grailcode.net
I got one myself over on ThinkGeek, and it is really cool. It’s no Optimus, but at 1/10th the price, I think I can live.
i really want one, they look ace !
gah!! i want one!!!!
I would love either one. Rainbows rock!
Can be bought in France in AZERTY, for 110€ : http://www.maceria.com/shop/product/Luxeed-U5-Clavier-PC-personnalisable