Logitech’s new K980 wireless, light-powered keyboard is now available
Logitech has left solar energy keyboards in darkness for more than a decade, but he launches a new one today. Like the K760 before him, his new Slim Solar Plus K980 at $ 99.99 can only be powered with light. There is no USB port or swapple batteries. Instead, it has a cell which can convert solar or artificial light – at least 200 lux – in power to load its battery, which, depending on the company, will last up to 10 years. Once fully billed, the company says that the K980 can be used in total darkness up to four months.
I asked Logitech if the K980 battery was replaceable by the user, and the spokesman Melvin Dilandian said The penis That it is “in complete revolutionary security (because it is locked in a plastic case), with spare parts provided by Ifixit”.
Beyond its solar load capacities, the K980 has a fairly standard full-size arrangement, with Windows and MacOS key labels, directional keys and a Numpad. Its function line is preprogrammed to control the supports, screen brightness and volume, although you can personalize their secondary functionality (or completely deactivate secondary features) in the Logi Options Plus application for Mac or Windows. The K980 also includes a Mic Mute key, a drop / deactivation of the camera and an action key along the upper line that can be programmed, but you prefer in the application. It also offers a new addition: an AI launch key.
The key to AI is what you think it is; It is by default on Windows PCs at the launch of Copilot (default chromeos is gemini), although it can be personalized in the logitech application to open Chatgpt or an AI prompt manufacturer. Alternatively, you can assign one of the smart actions of Logitech to the key to, for example, ask perplexity an answer to your request in your browser. Or, you can simply define it to be correct CTRL. The action key (the key to the upper row that looks like a large O) and several others can also be scheduled to execute these macros, whether you use one of the Logitech presets or create yours via the application.
The K980 supports being associated with up to three Bluetooth devices, allowing you to exchange with each other with a button. It can also be connected to a computer that has a Bolt Logitech USB transmitter, although you are not included in the box (would have been good!). A previous logitech model had fun integrated LED indicators that would warn you when the ambient light was not sufficient to load the keyboard, but the K980 power LED simply goes from green to red if it needs more loads. This is how Logitech leads you to install its Options Plus application. The application has an indicator that says if there is enough light.
2025 seems to be the year when the companies decided that the sun was again cool, because Lenovo recently launched the self-reloadable wireless keyboard of $ 99.99 that he first showed in January at CES 2025. I think I dig it more than the K980, although I have not yet tried it and that does not seem to include as much personalization. However, he has things that I like in a keyboard that is missing in K980, like the adjustable legs that can give him a certain inclination and a design resistant to spills. In addition, it has a USB-C load port, just in case.
