[Arm-netbook] Keyboard

Vincent Legoll vincent.legoll at gmail.com
Mon Aug 29 11:11:57 BST 2016


Hello,

On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 10:23 PM,  <sampablokuper at posteo.net> wrote:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_ThinkPad_ThinkLight
>
> http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkLight
>
> http://blog.lenovo.com/en/blog/keyboard-illumination-thinklight-or-backlight
>
> https://web.archive.org/web/20130307081645/http://blog.lenovo.com/design/shedding-light-on-innovation

Thanks for the links, they are useful

> I don't know if any aspect of the Thinklight concept or its implementation
> is patented or covered by design rights, etc. I would hope not - it's just a
> light with a switch! - but "Method of swinging on a swing", and all that...

Looks like HP & DELL also have that feature, so hopefully it is not patented.

In fact I've never used a backlit keyboard so I cannot compare the 2 solutions,
but the LED was very effective for such a simple thing.

-- 
Vincent Legoll



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