gHacks technology news » hardware annoyances http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:24:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Annoying Blinking LED Lights http://www.ghacks.net/2009/03/27/annoying-blinking-led-lights/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/03/27/annoying-blinking-led-lights/#comments Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:45:04 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=11492 Hardware devices that I buy seem to come quite frequently with annoying blinking led lights that cannot be turned off. The first device that made use of a bright blue LED was the Nokia N73 cell phone that I purchased about 2 years ago. The blue light was automatically turned on when the cell phone entered sleep mode without the possibility to turn it off. Well that was not entirely correct. Turning off sleep mode, and therefor reducing the power of the battery faster was a possibility. There was however no way to turn of the light without disabling sleep mode.

The light was that bright that I had to turn the N73 before going to sleep because of the distraction by that light. My next purchase was the Razer Arctosa gaming keyboard which uses one ultra bright white LED in the top left corner of the computer keyboard. And guess what; It is not possible to turn off that light either.

Now I’m no expert when it comes to usability and quality control but I’m beginning to wonder if I’m overly sensitive to LED lights or if the manufacturer’s quality control fails big time.

The only working way of dimming down those bright LED lights was to use – preferably black – tape placed directly over the light. Do you know of other devices that have annoying blinking LED lights that cannot be turned off?

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