CES: The Das Keyboard 5Q doubles as a light-up notification board

I think one can do this with current keyboard with individual-key backlighting.

I have a Logitech G710 (with a community-made Linux driver) and I can control the backlighting on some of the keys by passing a bitmask to something in /sys/bus/hid. A simple daemonized python script linked to this would replicate such behavior.

When the original Indiegogo campaign launched I was sold, and it has been a pleasant ride since. I have funded a couple crowd-source campaigns, and several have been alarmingly stale in their updates - while the Daskeyboard team has provided routine updates, previews, and expectations.