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So this year at CES, the RGB craze was in full swing.

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Two years ago, it was keyboards.

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Last year, it was motherboards.

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This year, if you could hold it down long enough

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to slap an LED on it, it was RGB.

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Memory, SSDs.

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Someone's probably making RGB cables at this point.

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But the thing about the RGB craze

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is that it's very polarizing.

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Some people love it and some people hate it,

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which got me thinking,

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what if there was some way

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that we could tastefully improve RGB products

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so that nobody could dislike them?

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And then it came to me.

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More bling.

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If you haven't seen Nerd Sports yet, check it out.

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All the episodes are available now for free

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over at youtube.com slash channelsuperfun.

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So for those of you who watched the intro

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and were wondering, what the hell is that thing?

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I've got the answer for you.

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It is the...

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Mechanical keyboard with LED backlight.

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Made in China.

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Though the manufacturer seems to be a little bit confused

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because this is clearly not a keyboard.

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What it actually is is a set of key caps

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for a mechanical keyboard.

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So we're gonna have to go to the Amazon page

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to get a little bit more detail here.

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Ah, here we go.

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Okay, so it's the E-Element PBT

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double shot injection key cap set.

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And it's available in the gold I showed you already,

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or, and yes, we bought both of them,

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this flashy silver set.

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And I gotta say, I was pretty impressed.

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I mean, PBT double shot injection.

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These are good quality key caps, at least on the surface.

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We haven't opened the box yet.

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And as long as you can get over the aesthetic

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for a full set, 25 bucks, that's a pretty good value.

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But of course, like fine wine,

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if you don't pair it with the right food,

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then you're just getting wasted in your sister's basement,

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complaining about whatever.

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Whatever it is that's hard in your life.

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So we needed to find ourselves a keyboard.

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And this one from G.Skill looks like a pretty good fit.

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This is the KM570.

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It's got Cherry MX switches, in this case, browns,

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because yeah, dog, we're going for brown switches.

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It's got RGB backlighting on each key individually,

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and you can customize the lighting effects

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and all of that stuff.

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Oh yeah, did I mention these key caps do have Windows?

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So they have a lighting pass-through for the letters.

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And finally, it features a completely bog standard layout.

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Which is not great,

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if you like something customized

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about your keyboard experience,

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like macro keys or like, oh, I don't know.

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I can't think of too many things

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that I actually like changed about my keyboard.

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So if you really like short shifts or something like that,

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then it's not great for that.

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But it is good for being able to buy

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cheap key cap replacement sets

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and have some hope of them actually fitting.

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Okay, so all that's left now then

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is to open one of these bad boys up.

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Here's my knife.

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And wait, we still have to choose which one, gold or silver.

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So you guys let me know in the comments below

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which one you want me to put on.

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Quick, you've got five seconds, go vote.

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Who are we kidding?

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There's no way to vote, this isn't live.

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All right, let's go ahead and open up the gold one here.

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I realize I'm risking accidentally slashing

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our dbrand skinned gold background,

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but I don't think we've ever been tempted

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to use it before anyway.

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So I'm not gonna stress you.

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Oh wow, this would have been a lot better

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to keep in the plastic than I would have been able to.

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That would have been faster, yep.

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No one gets mad at me for cutting towards myself.

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You realize that yes, I am under the knife,

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but the force is being applied in this direction.

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See, now I'm cutting towards myself.

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Totally different.

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Okay, so here we go.

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And we're done.

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You hear that sound?

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That's the sound of a knife.

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That's the sound of a knife.

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That's the sound of a knife.

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That's the sound of a knife.

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That's the sound of an upgraded keyboard.

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Now, there are a few things we still need.

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I overlooked that this keyboard does actually have

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four extra keys in the top right,

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but I had a brilliant idea.

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At least I think it was brilliant.

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I'm gonna grab the arrow keys from the silver one

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and add just a little bit more flare.

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So mute can be volume down.

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That's right.

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Volume down can be left arrow, which is here.

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Oh, man.

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Yes.

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Volume up can be right arrow, which is here.

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No, which is here.

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Yes.

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And memory, because this keyboard is programmable,

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can be this bad boy right here.

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Volume up, which I think I said before.

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Okay, so last two things we're gonna need then

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are a keyboard or a computer to plug this bad boy into

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and this cloth, which you'll be keeping next to your keyboard,

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which you'll be keeping next to your keyboard,

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from now until forever,

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if you want it to retain its gorgeous, like new shine.

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Here we go, moment of truth time.

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Is it going to be beautiful?

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Oh, oh, oh, it's awful.

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If that is not the world's most amazing keyboard,

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I really and truly do not know what is.

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Holy Christ.

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Crap.

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Oh, man, let's get it all dark and intimate in here.

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Oh, okay, well, now it's just completely dark.

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Okay, how about that?

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How's that?

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Okay, so now we've got the software installed

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and we'll have some footage overlaid

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of all the different profiles you can do.

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You can do solid colors.

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They've got some different effects.

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There's like a raining effect, ripple effect, wave effect,

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all kinds of good stuff.

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And you know what the most amazing part of all of this is?

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All this, this can be yours for less than $100.

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How long it'll last, that we don't know.

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Theoretically, double shot keycaps last pretty much forever.

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But what I noticed is that, well, what Luke noticed,

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he's actually our keycap expert,

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is that the thin foil coating over the top

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is actually not that durable.

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So it might not last for that long,

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but it'll look amazing in the meantime.

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Actually, Luke, come on over here.

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Thoughts?

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Perfect.

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Other than the scratches,

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I actually don't think that they could have made

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better looking keycaps.

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And the fact that they made it

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so the light comes through, impeccable.

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They're being completely sarcastic, right?

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Yes, I actually hate it.

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Those are actually the worst looking keycaps

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I've ever seen in my entire life.

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Okay, Ed?

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They are amazing.

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Okay, so there you have it.

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Have we achieved our goal of making RGB less polarizing?

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No.

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No, we have not.

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But we had an awful lot of fun doing it.

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So thanks for watching, guys.

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If you just liked this video, hit that button.

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If you liked it, hit the like button, get subscribed,

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maybe even consider checking out where to buy.

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I mean, you don't have to buy this.

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You could buy something else.

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The keyboard's really nice.

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I don't know about the key caps.

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That's on you, but some people will like it.

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We've got that linked in the video description.

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You can buy it on Amazon.

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Also linked down there is where you can buy cool shirts,

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like the one that I'm wearing,

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as well as our community forum,

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which you should totally join.

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Now that you're done doing all those things,

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you should probably watch Luke's

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ultimate key cap replacement guide,

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where he goes through in much more detail

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how to find not just shiny gold ones

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for just standard layout keyboards,

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but all kinds of different types of key caps

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to change your typing experience,

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as well as to change the aesthetics of your keyboard

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in a way that you personally will find pleasing,

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because I'll admit, this is not for everyone.