Logitech Launches Neat Solar-Powered Keyboard

If Darkness could power this, it would have enough power to power my house. But its completely useless since it is powered by something nonexistent in my room. I prefer gaming in Darkness as well as all my "other" personal activities.

Looks pretty slick, but $80 is a bit steep considering there aren't any multimedia or gaming controls. Also, that glossy finish is nothing but a magnet for fingerprints and scratches.

Sorry I let you down, team. A random cloud turned off my keyboard for a second.

It would be nice, if I had a hole in middle of my roof.

Not made for nighttime playing I guess...

Please people. Read the entire post before writing something idiotic. It...works...in...the...dark.

For the people who say "I game in the dark"....does that mean you have no monitor on whatsoever, and therefore game in complete darkness? Seriously, the light from a LCD and any other light should be enough to give it some juice.


Sounds like a sweet product. I would complain, but the batteries in this keyboard literally last like 1 year, even when I was gaming.

Yeah...thats not happening.

Question, where will the sun come into my house. If my gaming is during the night time?

Love it! I have light where I use my PC plenty enough of the time to keep this thing running. How many people use calculators that don't have a solar panel other than high end graphing calculators?

i'm betting osama bin laden would have killed for this thing 7-8 years ago.

alright, honestly this is a great idea, we have so much of those damn pessimists in this community that it's almost becoming like yahoo news.

READ THE FULL F*CKING STORY BEFORE POSTING BS!!!

If you surf, or just a normal ordinary stuff - wireless mouse is for you.

I don't know about you guys, but even though I game in the dark, and there isn't much ambient light in the space genre games I play, the pr0n I watch is filmed during the day, so the monitor is pretty bright in a dark room. There usually isn't much key clicking involved then, so if the keyboard dies, I simply need to watch more pr0n to game longer. See honey, pr0n *is* necessary. That, or hold my flashlight more often and I'll need to watch less pr0n. (Take that how you will)

Pr0n Powered. Best Keyboard evar.

That's actually pretty nice looking.

I like it, and might get it later on. And people really do need to learn to read. And maybe look up what ambient light means.

Wow so many people thinking they're "clever" whom didn't even RTFA.

I want to see a test Claims are one thing, energy saving florescent bulbs another. I know those old solar powered calculators don't work so good with energy saving bulbs.
Will it hold a charge all night? Will it power up and reconnect to my PC when I turn on the light?

Me. I want one.

To all naysayers, as had been said before me: read the whole damn story! This thing can last for a month on a single charge.

And to those who are skeptic about late-night gaming sessions, there were (still)some days between nights, last time I checked. So, unless you live in a cave or under a rock, the keyboard is bound to get some juice.

When is a keyboard coming that uses the kinetic energy from the keys to charge the thing? =)

really a good approach might buy one of these.

The batteries on a keyboard usually lasts a long time. Optical / laser mouses are the ones that are overkill to batteries.

I wonder what the latency is for gaming. I would love to get rid of the rats nest but not if it affects my APM

Guys, this thing will charge during daytime I suppose and night time with ambient light. It has batteries I guess.

The only disadvantage is that you can't install windowsXP using this keyboard

It's pretty cool from the solar charging perspective, but I think it's appearance and complete lack of ergonomic considerations kill it for me.

I've used wireless keyboards exclusively for at least the past 5 years now. You only have to change the batteries every 4 months or so on any that I've used, and you get ample warning (several weeks worth) that batts are low prior to them dying.

It would be a great way to "go green" if they'd offer this as a feature on some of their nicer keyboards.

I really like the idea, but I'm not a fan of this particular design. Still, if the idea catches on and the product live to it's promises, they will eventually release a keyboard that I will buy.

Also, they should put in a little LCD on it. It already does look like an oversize calculator.

MS needs to get on this and make their wireless natural keyboards have solar panels too. Or Logitech needs to make an ergonomic model as good as MS. Then I'll get one.

Being so close to my monitor and the amount of light my monitor gives off might be enough to power this on its own.

On another note, is this wired or wireless? needs to transfer data to computer somehow and $80 seems a little cheap to be wireless AND solar powered.