Vista's Ultimate Keyboard

In an effort of further promoting its new operating system Windows Vista, Microsoft will dedicate a keyboard specially created to suit the application. The hardware piece is designed to help users better integrate routine commands into Vista and to ease the interaction between the digital system and the user's analog environment. The dynamic computer interface from the Redmond Company aims at redefining concepts of work, play and style promoting features that blend design and performance.

Equipped with proximity sensors, the keyboard will detect the presence of the user as he enters or leaves the room in order to respond accordingly by adjusting the backlight, but it also will adjust the backlight settings in response to the intensity of light in the room. Designed to connect to the computer by means of Bluetooth technology, both the keyboard and the adjacent mouse have a 30-feet range, permitting the user to control his desktop in a manner similar to the flexibility offered by a remote control.

"Microsoft Hardware is pushing the innovation envelope and introducing industry firsts to help you move from work to play with cutting-edge performance and total style. Can a keyboard create its own mood lighting? Respond to you? Enlighten you? Move with you? The ultimate desktop can with ambient backlighting, proximity sensing and 30-feet of range," reads a message posted on Microsoft's Website.