News Logitech announces solar-powered keyboard

Logitech has launched a solar-powered wireless keyboard that never needs new batteries.

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2011/06/22/logitech-announces-solar-powered-keyboard/1

 

I thought you had covered this a month or so ago, or have I just read it elsewhere before now.

Anyhoo, would make a great HTPC keyboard.

 

'Launched' is a little OTT. I have been using one of these since December.

I am really quite impressed with it. It is quite thin but doesn't suffer from flexing. It is also a decent weight so it doesn't feel like its going to slide all over the desk.
The included utility that lets you know the battery charge and the amount of energy being produced to recharge from the solar cells is neat and useful for letting me know if I need to open the blinds a bit for the day!

The only gripe I have with it is removing the standard applications key to include a function key so that you have to use a key combination to open the applications menu. As I tend to use the keyboard a lot more than my mouse this gets a bit annoying. Especially as the same function is carried out with shift + f10 anyway negating the need to include it as a function key.

In the vain hope that Logitech reads this, why cant a single press on the function key carry out the default application key function and only perform the function key features when used in conjunction with another key?

 

but... there's no sunlight in my basement...

 

Sorry gang; my mistake here, this product did indeed launch a while ago.

As I'm such a muppet, we're removing the news story from the FP.

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