Glow in the dark keyboard stickers

dculberson

#1 – 11:23 AM September 22, 2009

Our independent contractors spent a bunch of money developing lighted keyboards then sold them at a reasonable price to the government. Ha! In your face imaginary glowy sticker proletariat!

muteboy

#2 – 12:02 PM September 22, 2009

You're not referring to that old "NASA Space Pen / Russian Space Pencil" trope, are you? I thought NASA went with the pen because they didn't want graphite fragments floating around in the electronics...

pmhparis

#3 – 1:43 PM September 22, 2009

Talk about being easily impressed...

This uses the same glow in the dark material that my kids used to put stars up on their ceiling so you'll have to shine a really bright light on it for 5 minutes (killing any night adaptation your eyes would have), then it'll last for at most 5 minutes.

Now gimme back my macbook pro with a working backlight system that works & that sexy multitouch trackpad.

dculberson

#4 – 4:12 PM September 22, 2009

Muteboy, and NASA didn't actually spend a dime developing the Space Pen - Fisher developed it then asked NASA to use it.

And the Russians used it as well. It is a good pen.

mykie

#5 – 6:54 PM September 22, 2009

It just seems like Philip takes the NASA route almost every time.

Agies

#6 – 5:48 AM September 23, 2009

The design looks a hell of a lot like the backlit keyboard I have now.

Halloween Jack

#7 – 12:17 PM September 23, 2009

Snopes, people.

Also, those frugal Russkies are the creators of this long-overdue bit of gear. You'll be the belle of every LAN party until someone spills a Mountain Dew on it and then says, "You spent how much on that thing?"

pelrun

#8 – 6:51 AM September 24, 2009

@pmhparis, glow-in-the-dark materials have come a long way in the past twenty years.

Your argument is rather equivalent to complaining about how computers have to spend half an hour loading a game off tape, and the printers are ridiculously noisy and the ribbons dry out all the time.

an irish doctor

#9 – 11:22 PM September 26, 2009

@Halloween Jack:

To the wealthy and powerful, the drink you know as "Mountain Dew" is a joke.

It is a weak imitation of a rare and exquisite liquor distilled from the berries of the near extinct Extremus bush.

The remaining bushes are carefully tended by an elite corps of caretakers and guards, on an ever moving, untraceable gilded train car.

They sell True Dew in small batches only to those who are rich enough to know when the train will be nearby.

The men not owning Optimus Prime keyboards are not wealthy, and not powerful, and shouldn't even know that the gilded mountain dew distillery car EXISTS.