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- tech tips coverage of Computex 2013 is powered by Western Digital our trusted gaming gear partner is Corsair Vengeance and our trusted retail partner is NCI XCOM hey guys I'm here at the ducky booth I know a lot of you that know me who's watch the live stream who's been on the forum should have probably expected this I was pretty excited I heard they're here at sea I almost just said CES at Computex but I wasn't sure where because I couldn't find them on any of the actual convention floors but I hunted them down and found they're sweet so we got up here and there's some really cool stuff that I'm pretty excited for first I'm not going to go way too into depth of this but this is the ducky mini it's just the main typing zone and it's very very cool for very portable users there's a detachable cable on the back green backlight but I believe you can get two different colors green and blue more than that so you can get tons of different backlighting colors that's awesome we're not gonna spend too much time on that those very pre-production sample what I was really really excited for is the ducky shine 3 this is the aluminium body 1 which is what I really really want but they're not necessarily sure if they're going to release it make sure you comment in the comments and make sure you hammer their Facebook with how much you actually want an aluminum body keyboard this thing is awesome it feels great it's got nice nice weight to it because it does have an aluminum body this is their current stock spacebar although it might be changing as this is a very very early sample now I could spend too much time on this one because like I just said fairly sample slide down here we get to again ducky shine 3 although with the year of the snake space bar I'm gonna kind of skip over this really really quickly jump up to the year of the snake keyboard this one has a stock spacebar they're still not sure what space where they're going to go for they have these three more here the snake stylized ones that we saw here there isn't huge differences between them this one's my current favorite but they're just totally awesome again comment here slam their Facebook page tell them which one you want he's a great great looking space bars great great looking keyboard it's got the camo colour all over it and just looks absolutely awesome if that's a style keyboard you want if you've got a c7 T or any military scut styled case like that that would go amazingly amazingly well with your build nice green key caps backlit all the fixin's if we jump down here again the ducky shine 3 as a lot of you are probably waiting to see don't spend too much times on these their custom caps I just want to show them off because they're awesome hey guys sorry about that we're gonna just jump right into the lighting modes here so right now we're basically off then we go to the next lighting mode gets a 60% go the next lighting mode we get 100% full keyboard backlighting next lighting mode this is breathing you can see it's going quite quickly right now we can slow it all the way down to a nice smooth pace go all the way back up to disco level speed and just watch it go absolutely crazy okay we're gonna switch lighting once again this is reactive typing mode give me one second here there we go sorry about that so this will make it bright light up right away and then disappear right away this is a really cool mode I like this on my ducky dragon that I already have if we switch the next mode you'll see it's very similar but now it takes a little bit of its own time to fade out which is just absolutely awesome the only problem I had with reactive typing mode was while you're typing by the time your finger moves away you can't actually see the light now it actually kind of stays there for a while so if you're typing up an absolute storm and someone's watching you you can actually see all the keys as you're typing which is just very cool I'm obviously typing just complete gibberish right now as I'm doing with my left hand but that's awesome the only complaint I've ever heard about reactive typing mode as it goes too quickly so they addressed that problem very very well when we switch here to wave mode which is also really cool I'm going to slow it down here so you can see it better but it just goes along the keyboard and just looks very very smooth we can make it go really really fast again you can have a disco in your room with this keyboard very easily I'm gonna switch the next mode this is snake mode it reminds me a lot of their marquee mode and it just goes across the keyboard I can slow it down again and when when the guy showing me these keyboards showed me this all I could think of was the actual game of snake I think it would be really really funny if they had randomly scattered lit up keys along the keyboard and the snake could grow as it picked them up I just think that'd be hilarious although it's not practical at all and makes no real sense I think would be hilarious then we come back and we're back to off so basically with shine 3 they tried to pick every single oscillating mode you could ever imagine actually one thing that I mixed missed was the delay and delay rate which makes it so that as you hold down a key depending on how you set it it will go up and down really really really quickly in the software so without you tapping like this if you just hold it down you can make it go insanely fast how I think all that is for gaming I'm not entirely sure because you're kind of taking a cheap advantage but that's up to you you're buying a really nice keyboard maybe you should have that advantage I'm not sure discuss that in comments if you want this is pretty nuts they put every single lighting mode you could want as I said before you still have all the dip switch options you had with their previous keyboards this is crazy a lot of you that nobody noby I'm completely nerding out here another thing that I forgot to mention is there's a new wrist rest that they're not sure if they're gonna release as well but this looks really sharp personally I like their older leather models more but just if you want the more plexiglas feel and you want their awesome logo on the side you can have that as well another thing is they now have a zero shine so basically it's a zero that comes in I believe blue and green blue and orange okay so you have blue and orange backlight zero it's only slightly more expensive as the previous zero that wasn't backlit so all you guys that want a cheap entry-level mechanical keyboard that has backlighting on it this is a great great option thank you for joining me at the ducky booth and if you want to see all of our combi text content be sure to subscribe to Linus tech tips