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hey everyone this is steve from gamers nexus donna and we are in the Corsair suite here at CES 2014 we are looking at a new keyboard here today it is a Corsair MX RGB working name there will be a full name coming out soon we will let you know what that is i'm joined by jason christian and he's going to tell us about this new keyboard so for starters obviously we've got all this crazy lighting going on so let's start with the obvious what can you tell me about that okay I mean from when we first launched the k70 in a single color LED people have always asked us you know when are you guys going to come out with a RGB mechanical switch so in a partnership with cherry we were able to work with them and get an exclusive on a Corsair MX RGB cherry switch and that's what's going to be featured in this keyboard so every single key on the keyboard will be able to be programmed for 16.8 million colors pulsing and brightness control so the the customizability is going to be pretty much endless anything you can think of that you'd want to do you're going to be able to do this with this backlighting awesome and in terms of switches what are we looking at so right out of the gate we're going to have the cherry MX RGB blues Browns and reds okay and so there's a lot of logic going on here yes what do we have controlling everything so what we have controlling is we've we've worked with Panasonic to develop a display controller and this controller is just pretty much straight from Japan that's really bit never used in a in a consumer application it's usually in commercial for billboards LED signs so we've taken that technology of course we've had to made it smaller and we're be able to put that in the keyboard to make sure that we can display the cherry switches to the fullest capability are there any other special features we've seen some reactive lighting stuff with other keyboards you guys doing any of that so I mean there's the we're going to release a brand new software package with this keyboard and what it's going to do is allow the user it's gonna be very intuitive and very high-level customizability but then if people really want to dig in and customize it like you mentioned the one of the features is going to be the reactive typing ripple you're going to be able to set the ripple to be different speeds different colors different intensities and you'll be able to select the the motion of the ripple if it goes up down if it comes in if it comes out so it's just in the software is going to be totally open architecture as well so you'll be able to do with that two ways it's going to be Lua scripting language being used so you can integrate scripts if your friend creates a script you create a script you can share it and then also it's totally open if for whatever reason you don't want to use the corsair software and you want to build your own you know the hardcore enthusiast guy on the forums he may have his own idea we're going to leave it totally open for the people to do that just that added level of customizability again awesome and finally do we have any information on expected release date targets tentative right now as will be mid-2014 okay MSRP no information yet yet undecided so there you have it check out the full article in the description below and we will see you all next time