luxeed led rainbow keyboard: disco on your desk

August 12th, 2007 post a comment (38) stumble it! by: technabob

Is that drab old monochromatic keyboard getting you down? This keyboard from Korea’s Luxeed features color changing LEDs under each and every key.

Luxeed LED Keyboard

While it can certainly be used to produce seizure-inducing displays of blinking color, the keyboard comes with software that lets you do more subtle things, like just set the keyboard to a light up with a single hue that strikes your mood, or create intricate patterns of color.

Luxeed Programmable Keyboard Interface

Luxeed’s USB keyboards are available in a white backlit version (KRW 118,800 / $127 USD) and a sleek black backlit version (KRW 125,600 / $134 USD), where the keys stay black and only the letters change colors.

Luxeed LED Keyboard

The keyboards have started to trickle out in their native land of Korea, but hopefully somebody will see fit to import these into the U.S. and Europe soon.

August 12th, 2007 post a comment (38) stumble it! by: technabob

38 comments post a comment

1. GeekAlerts | August 12th, 2007 at 2:14 pm

Looks awesome! I’d go for the white one.
2. the scholar | August 12th, 2007 at 2:43 pm

well isn’t that a rainbow of fun! what a great thing to sit down to everyday to blog, and, er, work!
3. Newlaunches.com&hellip | August 13th, 2007 at 6:04 am

Luxeed Colorful LED keyboard…

Here is cheap alternative to the super expensive Optimus keyboard, the Colorful LED keyboard from Luxeed Korea. Availableisin two different versions; the white one featured above ($127) where the whole the key will light up, and a black version ($134) …
4. Piratex | August 16th, 2007 at 3:34 pm

EXCELLENT ! this one with the OLED keyboard are …. so great
5. Dvad78 | August 22nd, 2007 at 8:35 pm

This is not an alternative to the Optimus. OLED and LED are very different things. OLED is a type of screen, capable of displaying graphics while LED is a simple light. Though it is still a pretty cool keyboard.
6. technabob | August 22nd, 2007 at 10:46 pm

Yeah, I never said it was like the Optimus, nor that it was OLED. But then again, it doesn’t cost $1500 and it actually does exist. Art Lebedev is still working out the kinks in the Optimus, so it’s still vaporware in my book.
7. Matthew | August 24th, 2007 at 12:42 pm

This looks really neat, I do hope that someone imports them soon. I’d buy the black one and set it to alternate between my favorite colors.
8. anthony | August 29th, 2007 at 12:00 am

hmmmm a neat keyboard with glowing letters or one that glows and shifts from lower to upper case and from numbers to symbols.
$1400 price difference. Since I don’t READ my keyboard and need to see if I am typing an uppercase A or lowercase a, I can’t see spending 1500 on a keyboard that really is boring.
Now $150 on one that puts on a mini light show, WOW
9. Russel | August 31st, 2007 at 7:27 am

I believe these are being used in Korea to teach touch typing
10. Websenat&hellip | September 2nd, 2007 at 7:42 am

günstige LED-Tastatur…

Also, wenn Preis (ca. 130 $) von dieser Tastatur (Luxeed) bleibt, dann ist diese einfach unschlagbar. Es gibt dieser in weiss und in schwarz (die würde ich nehmen). Allerdings ist das natürlich nichts gegen die Optimus Maximus (kleine organische, s…
11. thatguy | September 2nd, 2007 at 9:20 am

Rainbows are ghey
12. Matt Ellsworth | September 3rd, 2007 at 9:06 am

crazy - just crazy. I still like my bland old keyboard…
13. Andy Hogg | September 5th, 2007 at 9:37 am

wow! where do I get one
14. technabob | September 5th, 2007 at 11:27 am

They’ve popped up on eBay a few times (search for “Luxeed”) but every time I try to buy one, I get sniped at 3:00am, because that’s when the auction ends in Korea.
15. technabob | September 5th, 2007 at 11:30 am

It looks like Luxeed is getting ready to sell these to english-speaking folks soon:

http://www.luxeed.com/shopping_main_e.php

You can’t buy yet, but they’ve definitely added that part of the site recently.
16. martinsc | September 14th, 2007 at 7:57 am

awesome keyboard!
17. Malfist | September 16th, 2007 at 10:49 pm

Personally, I’ll just stick with my Eclipse II from Saitek, it glows a nice, soft blue.
18. emily | November 9th, 2007 at 4:46 am

what are the keys made out of?
19. technabob | November 9th, 2007 at 8:10 am

Plastic, I believe.
20. Jason | November 12th, 2007 at 12:59 am

Has anybody purcahsed one of these yet?
21. Jason | November 12th, 2007 at 1:00 am

purchased that is
22. leo arce | November 29th, 2007 at 8:03 pm

indeed. has anyone gotten one or more in america. a representative from luxeed has told me they don’t ship to america unless you are a business. and then, probably only in bulk, i don’t know. price also has went up to $149USD for the white one and $159USD for the black one. if some person or company other than luxeed is willing to ship anywhere let me know where your shopping cart or paypal button is located so i can buy one. contact me via my web form (http://www.wreckbarcrew.com/contact/contacts/war.html) thanks.
23. Keiichi | December 8th, 2007 at 1:53 pm

Want… SO… Bad…
24. rosana | December 8th, 2007 at 2:57 pm

yes l wanna to buy one now please please please
25. technabob | December 8th, 2007 at 3:01 pm

Good luck finding one in the U.S. I got in a bidding war for one on eBay a while back, but that was the only time I’ve seen one around these parts.
26. Keiichi | December 8th, 2007 at 4:28 pm

http://www.coolglowythings.com

£140. Bollocks with that! That’s almost a 100% markup!
27. technabob | December 8th, 2007 at 5:51 pm

Yikes. That is quite a markup. But then again, they’re so hard to find, what else can you do? Let’s hope that someone like ThinkGeek will pick them up at some point.
28. Cerbura | December 18th, 2007 at 4:34 am

100% markup? Did you factor in import duty and shipping from Korea? That can’t be a small addition to the cost.

£140 is a bit much tho.. Maybe you should look again, the price might have changed
29. Keiichi | December 20th, 2007 at 9:13 am

Ooo. £130. Ten quid. Whoopee-freaking-doo.

Bearing in mind that’s just the keyboard and doesn’t include the numeric keypad, CGT.com can go get stuffed.
30. samoo | January 11th, 2008 at 6:30 am

wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow
na!c
31. Kenneth Jakobsen | March 10th, 2008 at 10:44 am

Does somebody know where or when its able to buy?
32. technabob | March 22nd, 2008 at 3:12 pm

Looks like you can buy these in the UK now from eBuyer:

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/140119

I still don’t see a U.S. Distributor, but the UK is good for many of our readers.
33. milky joe | March 28th, 2008 at 11:37 am

Ebuyer has got the white version in stock!!!
34. motherkeyboards | May 19th, 2008 at 7:25 pm

are we in 6901?
35. Karthikvel | June 15th, 2008 at 9:47 am

Really the keybord is very smart
May i know this price
36. Miguel Sloan | June 17th, 2008 at 9:37 am

This would be great for logical grouping of shortcut keys in applications!
37. Kristelle | July 16th, 2008 at 9:27 pm

I. want. one.

I cant believe nobody in the US has made an imitation yet! Grrrr.
38. technabob | August 4th, 2008 at 9:44 pm

Now available in the U.S. Finally…

http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/a85c/