Ok, so you are a modder, you bought that shiny acrylic case, filled it with lights, round cables and every other flashing LED goodie that your dealer had listed in the modding section. After all this effort, perhaps your input devices feel a little bit too…mmm ordinary? Don’t fear because Revoltec can do something about that, since they produce all kinds of illuminated desktop devices. Today we will examine some of their products … to be exact, a keyboard, a mouse and a mousepad.

Revoltec is a German based company, subsidiary to Listan. They focus on producing computer hardware especially for modders, such as illuminated devices and cables. While not a very old company, they are one of the first companies to specifically aim towards the modders market.

Lightboard Advanced

The Lightboard Advanced is the third illuminated keyboard from Revoltec. It comes in a well designed and sturdy package, clear on top for you to examine the keyboard up close while browsing inside a store. The keyboard itself is silver colored and has clear plastic keys. While it does look like aluminum, it is simple plastic. Sturdy and feels nice, but plastic nonetheless.

The Lightboard advanced has 18 hot keys on top, which control multimedia and Windows functions. You will not require any specific software for them to work; they will simply function if you are using Windows XP. You can launch a number of applications, control multimedia functions and set your PC to sleep or turn it off if you want to.

The keyboard is using X-structured keys, much like those present on notebooks. This makes the keyboard very thin (as you can see, shorter than a single coin) and very comfortable to use. It is also very responsive, due to the short key travel. The keys are illuminated from the behind and make a nice effect, even during daytime. A small but nice detail is that the 3 keyboard LED lights (num lock, caps lock, scroll lock) are blue as well.