A Star Wars Keyboard With LCD Touchpad
If you are in need of the perfect keyboard for playing Star Wars: The Old Republic, or if you are just a fan of Star Wars anyway, this may be the keyboard to own.
Thinkgeek is selling the keyboard, which includes a multi-touch screen an ten configurable tactile keys. According to the site, the track-panel can be set to either respond to direct gesture input or display interactive information. You can even outsource your IM chat to the display, preventing it from taking up valuable screen real estate on your main display.
The device was designed in keeping with "Star Wars themed aesthetics," and comes with gold-backlit key illumination. It even has a gamification item as players can unlock a "unique color crystal" that changes the lightsaber blade and blaster bolts in Star Wars: The Old Republic.
And yes, the keyboard has a price and it is not cheap at $260.

Might as well buy a better graphics card to play the game!
This looks like it will feel terrible to type with and even worse to game with.
Might as well buy a better graphics card to play the game!
This looks like it will feel terrible to type with and even worse to game with.
You can buy a fully customized WASD keyboard for $100 less.
And it's kiddie "pew pew lasers!" crap too.
...my cat!
Maybe next week he'll introduce an article to Tom's about the overpriced SWTOR mouse and headset; also made by Razer.
Still the most comfortable keyboard I have ever used in my IT career.
>: )
I was thinking this EXACT SAME thing. this came out like days after the game actually launched.
as for the mouse it isn't that overpriced compared to a regular razer naga which is what it is a version of if I remember correctly. (not saying it doesn't cost plenty) and I actually got the mouse for a Christmas present and didn't receive it until after Christmas. I believe it was even after the 1st of the year which was definitely after the game launch.
the color crystal code is junk and cheesy and only good for a few levels before you'd want to upgrade it. it would be good for like level 1 but of course you don't have anything until level 8 to 10ish before you can use it.
the mouse itself is responsive and has a ton of buttons I will never master the use of I'm sure. However the new razer synapse 2.0 software sort of stinks because of the fact it occasionally auto-updates itself and reboots your system without asking and provides no setting in the software for disabling this. I will say it hasn't done this in a while so maybe they fixed that issue (*knocking on some wood*) also if you are using it as a wired mouse it occasionally just stops responding and you have to disconnect the charging connector (this acts as your mouse wire) and reconnect it which is annoying. lastly, the mouse has a lighted symbol on the back (Republic or Empire) and lighting on the scroll wheel. you would think you could adjust the lighting of both in the software settings but as it turns out you can really only adjust that tiny bit of lighting on either side of the scroll wheel. sort of a let down when you find out.
and there is your SWTOR Razer mouse review