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'Glowing' Stickers Illuminate Your Keyboard For Cheap

by Matthew Zuras on September 27, 2009 at 01:12 PM


According to legend, John Milton lost his sight while struggling to write the epic 'Paradise Lost' under incredibly dim candlelight. While it's more likely that he went totally blind nearly four years before he even put quill to parchment, nighttime typists take heed! Wacky gift-purveyor Baron Bob has a $10 solution in the form of glow-in-the-dark keyboard stickers, for those of us who couldn't afford to hop on the MacBook Pro bandwagon with its snazzy keyboard backlights.

While the ad copy says the stickers are reflective, it also claims that your keyboard "literally glows in the dark." We're not totally sure whether the stickers actually contain light-gulping phosphors like bona fide glow-in-the-dark items -- but for $10, does it really matter? As long as they prevent your midnight chat room rendezvous from being completely typo-ridden and blindness-inducing (well, there is that other urban legend to deal with...ahem), they sound like a win. As for poor Milton, were he still alive he might better benefit from Braille on his iPhone. Paradise Regained! [From Baron Bob, via Wired]

Tags: blindness, cheap, glow in the dark, GlowInTheDark, keyboards, top

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