Phosphorescent Keyboard Stickers ?

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Phosphorescent Keyboard Stickers ?

#1 Post by chocorem » Thu Apr 24, 2008 5:56 am

Everything in the title ...

I often use my x61t in the dark and Laptop mode, and the Lack of think light is very disturbing for me !

The would be some phosphorescent stickers, so the letters could be seen in the dark ...

Does it exist ?
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#2 Post by Harryc » Thu Apr 24, 2008 5:59 am

Kensington FlyLight 3.0 - USB 2.0 powered
http://us.kensington.com/html/6359.html

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#3 Post by chocorem » Thu Apr 24, 2008 6:04 am

so I answer the Question myself, http://www.latkey.com They have some, but nothing in French Layout !
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Re: Phosphorescent Keyboard Stickers ?

#4 Post by mgo » Thu Apr 24, 2008 6:14 am

chocorem wrote:Everything in the title ...

I often use my x61t in the dark and Laptop mode, and the Lack of think light is very disturbing for me !

The would be some phosphorescent stickers, so the letters could be seen in the dark ...

Does it exist ?
I put a tiny piece of black electrical tape across part of the top of the Thinklight to act as a hood. This keeps the light out of my eyes, but still illiminates the keyboard.

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Re: Phosphorescent Keyboard Stickers ?

#5 Post by chocorem » Thu Apr 24, 2008 6:19 am

mgo wrote:
chocorem wrote:Everything in the title ...

I often use my x61t in the dark and Laptop mode, and the Lack of think light is very disturbing for me !

The would be some phosphorescent stickers, so the letters could be seen in the dark ...

Does it exist ?
I put a tiny piece of black electrical tape across part of the top of the Thinklight to act as a hood. This keeps the light out of my eyes, but still illiminates the keyboard.
Tablet do not have Thinklight ! That's the problem
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R51 - 1829R6G
T43p - 2668G4G
X61t - 7764CTO
t410s - 2901CTO

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Re: Phosphorescent Keyboard Stickers ?

#6 Post by mgo » Thu Apr 24, 2008 8:48 am

chocorem wrote:
mgo wrote: I put a tiny piece of black electrical tape across part of the top of the Thinklight to act as a hood. This keeps the light out of my eyes, but still illiminates the keyboard.
Tablet do not have Thinklight ! That's the problem
Oh, I misread the post. Sorry about the mistake...

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#7 Post by jketzetera » Thu Apr 24, 2008 10:45 am

This made me think of when I went to high school (ages ago .. when dinosaurs roamed the earth).

I recall a class in physics regarding radiation when we were given a Geiger counter to play around with and measure radioactivity.

I remember that we used the Geiger counter on a watch that had dials with glow-in-the-dark paint. The Geiger counter indicated a significant increase in radioactivity, compared to the background radiation.

I sure hope that those fluorescent keys are safe ;-)

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#8 Post by qviri » Thu Apr 24, 2008 2:49 pm

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jketzetera wrote:This made me think of when I went to high school (ages ago .. when dinosaurs roamed the earth).

I recall a class in physics regarding radiation when we were given a Geiger counter to play around with and measure radioactivity.

I remember that we used the Geiger counter on a watch that had dials with glow-in-the-dark paint. The Geiger counter indicated a significant increase in radioactivity, compared to the background radiation.

I sure hope that those fluorescent keys are safe ;-)
Those old watches used radium powder painted onto the watch face to achieve luminescence. It's not used anymore.
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#9 Post by rkawakami » Thu Apr 24, 2008 3:51 pm

This only took one minute to find with Google:

http://www.glowing-keyboards.com/

edit: ACK!, never mind... they're "fluorescent" so they don't actually glow in the dark... the search continues.

edit2: Here's another company which makes glowing stickers for keycaps but no French layout: http://www.myglowkeys.com/ Their FAQ says that they can do custom layouts so that means extra $$$$ .
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#10 Post by j-dawg » Thu Apr 24, 2008 8:42 pm

qviri wrote:In before the lock...
jketzetera wrote:This made me think of when I went to high school (ages ago .. when dinosaurs roamed the earth).

I recall a class in physics regarding radiation when we were given a Geiger counter to play around with and measure radioactivity.

I remember that we used the Geiger counter on a watch that had dials with glow-in-the-dark paint. The Geiger counter indicated a significant increase in radioactivity, compared to the background radiation.

I sure hope that those fluorescent keys are safe ;-)
Those old watches used radium powder painted onto the watch face to achieve luminescence. It's not used anymore.
Not to change the subject, but that's an interesting story..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls
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