Gadgetory

what's up guys I'm Dimitri with how recognized as Computex comes to a close you can probably hear your a bunch of this assembly of all these boots a very interesting and unique product we count here at woulding the winning one mechanical analog keyboard huge thanks to our Computex sponsors for sending us out here shout out to nvidia fantex and cix and msi so this Wooding one witting whatever you want to call it we're going to stick with the slight D in there the winning one is using a new analog switch the flare tech switches which you have a pressure-sensitive activate activation that is recorded let's say in gameplay so depending on how far down you press the faster you move in game and if you press just the line tiny a little bit you're moving just just a little bit slowly like this or you know if I click it fast like here go back to the center so that's the whole idea of the switch maybe it's going to sort of revolutionize the way we think about the canticle keyboards but I'm happy that we get to try one so the way the switch works is we have a light sensor it's an infrared sensor going into a lens then it's bouncing back from this lens back into a different sensor and the depending on how far down you click the switch the reflection is then recorded by the circuit board and that returns how far the switch is down so that it doesn't record on and off it records the distance and therefore it's it's treating the keys as an analog joystick so that's the whole idea of needing to remap the keyboard and like your warzone or your arrow keys to the joystick controls because when you connect the keyboard to your computer it's not just detected as a keyboard it's detected as a keyboard as a controller and as a joystick right now the flare tech actuation is at 2 millimeters so you do have to quit press quite a bit down for the key to start to actuate and we have up to four millimeters where the switch sort of bottoms out so that's the range now the cool thing is because it's an analogue because it's an optical switch this lighting light readout you can adjust the sensitivity curve of the switch so for example if you want the key to not absorb 100% of the light you can set that and also you can set the flare tech switch to respond - how fast you actuate so let's say you do a slow tap that is aw but let's say you do a double tap and that activates like a shift W so there's multiple ways you can configure the switch and that supposed to be configured with the pressure of how far you down you press which is pretty awesome opens a ton of a new possibility that we never seen like that before the limitations here is that the flare tech of course there will be some needed support from the developers of the game so let's say if you have a double tap function it will enable some different things aside from the key and would be really cool to see sort of this type of implementation and support from the developers with the Wooding one the switch is MX compatible so you can replace the actual top switches since there is no mechanical contact you can replace the optical switch itself and you'll with the keyboard you'll have multiple optical switches provided just in case you need to replace one and also provide you with the different feeling switch so we have sort of the red flare tech switches which is a 45 grams switch and we have the flare tech blue which has a little bit of tactile bump which is 55 grams so that users can choose whichever they prefer is linear or a tactile the switch is rated at 100 million clicks because there is no contact versus 50 million on MX cherries and availability is July their Kickstarter right now about 130 US dollars and plus depending on the configuration so guys this has been the winning one in my experience I like it but you do have to adjust to it for example because of that 2 millimeter actuation distance which is which is a hardware limitation for the switch right now you do have to press the switch enough for it to start to actually go down and actuate otherwise it's been a quite cool to also play around with the switch without the key cap in there or without the switch itself so you can see I see the light and you can move your finger up and down to move your character and that's awesome but guys let us know what you think about this concept is it something that you would perhaps experiment with check them out with a link down below I'm Dimitri with harbor conducts thanks so much for watching and we'll see you in the next video