Backlit keyboard

Hi,

I'm doing my research for a NP8170 and wanted to know if there's any OEM or 3rd party backlit keyboard that I can use and swap it in?

I use my pc with lights off a lot of the time and really need to see my keys lol.

Thx

 

Nope, definitely not OEM. If there were, I'm sure every reseller would be jumping at the bit to offer it, as it seems to be an oft requested feature.

Can always get a $5 USB flexible light...

 

You could mod your keyboard by using glow-in-the-dark paint.

Or you could just paint it black and force yourself to memorize the keys

 

LOL

Maybe those stuff they use on bikes at night...

 

i was thinking about using thin el wire underneath the keys, i know it would light up the keys, but you could see where they are.

 

Also, On ASUS laptops with the backlit keyboards, they actually have transparent letters so the letters themselves light up. Sager keyboards aren't designed like that

 

Thinkpads don't use backlit keyboards, but have a small LED reading light that projects light on the keyboard and the surrounding area (the ThinkLight). It's not as "sexy" as a backlit keyboard, but it could work. And you could fashion your own with a cheap reading light clipped onto to the top of the screen lid, shining down towards the keyboard.

Or you could learn to touchtype

 

^ this lol

 

What if you took a dremel or razor knife and individually cut out the lettering on every single key on your keyboard (using a very small file to smooth the cuts) and the set them in something like polyurethane or rubber cement to create a translucent layer where the letters would have been. Then you took a light and attached some fiber-optic cables to it and strung them under all of the rows of keys. The light would have a USB end soldered to it for power....

(If this would actually work, I am a genius!)

Edit:
This may prevent your keys from pressing. But hey, you can see them!!! (Just a head up)

 

In my sixth-grade typing class, taught by a retired Marine Corps drill sergeant, we used manual typewriters where the lettering on the keys had all been scrubbed off. They were just rows of blank, black keys. We were also not allowed to backspace (hence the manual typewriter). We would transcribe blocks of text as fast as possible, competing for the fastest scores, with hefty penalties to our score for each typo.

Everybody should learn to type that way. The results were fantastic.

 

Amazing...I had a similar program like that back in middle school. If we finished early, we were allowed to play "Diamond Mine" (what bejeweled used to be called ) Now I have 128 wpm

 

Are you still using qwerty or have you moved on to something more streamlined like dvorak?

 

i have a dvorak touchstream, aka the first multi touch device ever, later apple bought the company that made it, but i still have keyboard, its pretty sick, and almost useless to me. it does gestures and such.

 

I would also really like to have the option of a backlit keyboard on these machines!

 

Nope, the 128 wpm was on a standard qwerty, laptop keyboard!

 

That's quite impressive! I can never get above 90 with qwerty. Then again, all of my keyboards have been cheap $10 plastic boards.

 

lol that finger stream has modes for first person shooters, like you use 3 wingers on the left pad to move and three on the right to aim, 2 on the right to shoot and so on. i tried to use it, but it was so hard, also the keyboard was dvorak so im not used to it.