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Deck LED-Backlit Keyboard
Juniper Foo | Aug 30, 2005
Ever since The Fast And The Furious revved its way onto big screens with cool-sounding stuff like Nitrox and undercar neon lights that make your vehicle's undercarriage glow in the dark, it's been nifty to own a piece of modified hardware that says individuality. Here's one that won't bust your pocket but looks just as cool as those undercarriage neon accents. Each key, frame and gap on this keyboard is backlit, and claims to be good for 200,000 hours or about 22 years of non-stop usage. Cooler still in the dark.
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Price: US$99.99 - US$119.99
Availability: Think Geek
Device: Keyboard
Basic specs: 82-key layout with individually backlit keys, switchable to 7 layers of brightness, support for WinXP/2000/ME/98, Mac OS9 and OSX, choice of four colors
AquaPoint Waterproof Optical Mouse
Juniper Foo | Aug 16, 2005
iKey has been making a splash in the news recently with its new industrial-grade waterproof mouse, the AquaPoint, which simply loves water. Which is all well and good, save that it's rather fruitless without a waterproof laptop to go with this. But for those with ultra sweaty palms or who desire a rodent that's able to take on all kinds of Chinese water torture, this mouse will assuredly never squeal. The AquaPoint is said to be impervious to splashing, spraying, corrosive liquids and a flat-out soak in the tub. Now that's what we call a Mighty Mouse.
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Price: N.A.
Availability: Check out the Web site
Device: Mouse
Basic specs: Sealed silicone overlay, polycarbonate frame, choice of USB or PS/2 cable mode, optical tracking technology, smooth-surface buttons, 6ft cable, 180g
Mus Computer Mouse
Juniper Foo | Jul 25, 2005
Repetitive stress disorder? What's that? Just too bad the cursor-looking Mus, designed with only one button, is clearly aimed at Mac users. When there's another button and wheel thrown in for Win users, sign us up.
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Check out FUNkey which utilizes well-known computer icons
Via Akihabara News
Price: N.A.
Availability: Industrial design by artlebedev.com
Device: Mouse
Basic specs: For Macintosh, one button
Optimus Keyboard
Juniper Foo | Jul 19, 2005
Watch out, Microsoft. Here comes the Optimus Keyboard. Or rather, it's coming, barring patent approval. Designed by Moscow's Art Lebedev Studio, every key is like a mini OLED display lighting up to indicate languages, numbers, symbols or functions. They may even be configurable. And it all sits on a sleek metallic frame. About time someone finally jazzed up the keyboard for some serious eye candy.
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[Thanks to readers Yong and Jasmine for this news]
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Availability: 2006
Device: OS-independent keyboard
Basic specs: Likely to use OLED technology, wireless
Pocket Mice
Juniper Foo | Jun 29, 2005
Nearly everyone with a notebook's packing one of these portable mice with retractable cables these days. But the pocket rodents here go one step further, retracting turtle-style into the bottom half of their housing. Only in Japan, folks.
Do your mousercise with: The Cool Fan Mouse | Perific Wireless Dual Mouse
Via Akihabara
Price: N.A.
Availability: Japan
Device: Notebook mouse
Basic specs: N.A.
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