Like any normal geek, I prefer a darker environment to a brightly lit office environment. Anyone who has seen my office in my last apartment or my current room sees that I take great care in blocking the evil day moon’s eminations from entering my abode. Thankfully I’m of hispanic/asian descent, and not always so photophobic, so I am not deathly pale.

Despite having forced myself to touch type to a very high level, I still ocassionally look at the keyboard. In a darkened room, this is difficult as the keys are going to appear black, or just hard to see if the game I’m playing is not a brightly lit paradise. So, armed with Best Buy gift certificates, I bought the Logitech Illuminated Keyboard.

If any of you have used a really thin keyboard, such as the new Apple keyboards, or most laptop keyboards, the feel can be described as mostly similar. There isn’t a lot of travel in the keys but they took the effort to lengthen them so they do move more than a standard laptop keyboard. After a bit of adjustment, I was typing on it at my normal pace. The characters on the keys were lit up bright and crisp. I believe each key has an individual LED under it, and the characters are laser-cut.

I’m not using it right now because its going to go to HTPC use once I set that up, and I prefer the Logitech Cordless Wave keyboard I have for my desktop for everyday typing.

Overall, however, its a really nice keyboard, I’m just not the exact target audience I guess.