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is nc.com hey guys I'm here at the ducky Booth I know a lot of you that know me
who's watched the live stream who's been on the Forum should have probably expected this I was pretty excited I
heard they were here at C at 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 their site so we got up here and there's some
really coolu 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 um believe more than that
more than that so you can get tons of different back liting colors that's awesome we're not going to spend too
much time on that though because it's very pre-production sample what I was really really excited for is the ducky
shine 3 this is the aluminium body one 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 uh
keyboard this thing is awesome it feels great it's got nice nice weight to it
because it does have aluminium body um this is their current stock space bar
although it might be changing as this is a very very early sample I not going to
spend too much time on this one because like I just said very very early sample
slide down here we get to again ducky shine 3 although with the year of the
snake space bar I'm going to kind of skip over this really really quickly
jump off to the year of the snake keyboard this one has a stock space bar
they're still not sure what space bar they're going to go for they have these
three more year the snake stylized ones that we saw here there isn't huge
differences between them this one's my current favorite um but they're just
totally awesome again comment here slam their Facebook page tell them which one
you want these are great great looking space bars great great looking keyboard
it's got the camo color all over it and
just looks absolutely awesome if that's the style of keyboard you want if you've
got a C70 or any military styled case like that that would go amazingly
amazingly well with your build nice Green Key caps back lit all the fixing
uh if we jump down here again to the ducky shine 3 as a lot of you are
probably waiting to see don't spend too much times on these they're custom caps
I just wanted to show them off because they're awesome hey guys sorry about that we're going to just jump right into
the lighting modes here so right now we're basically off then we go to the
next lighting mode gets to 60% go to the next lighting mode we get 100% full
keyboard back lighting 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 paste go all the way back up to
disco level speed and just watch it go absolutely
crazy okay we're going to switch lighting modes again this is reactive
typing mode give me one second
here there we go sorry about that so this will make it bright uh 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 to 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 is very cool I'm obviously typing
just complete gibberish right now as I'm doing it with my left hand but that's
awesome the only complaint I've ever heard about reactive typing mode is it goes too quickly so they address that
problem very very well we going to 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 we're going to switch the next mode this is snake mode it reminds
me a lot of their key 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 would be hilarious although it's not practical at all and makes no
real sense I think it would be hilarious then we come back and we're back to off
so basically with shine 3 they tried to pick every single possible lighting mode
you could ever imagine actually one thing that I Mi missed was the uh 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 ethical 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
letting 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 know me know I'm completely nerding
out here another thing that I forgot to mention is there's a new uh wrist rest
that they're not sure if they're going to release as well but this looks really sharp personally I like their older
leather models more but just if you want the more plexiglass 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 uh orange blue and orange okay so you have blue and orange back
light zero it's only slightly more expensive as their previous zero that
wasn't back lit 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
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