1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,750 (case clicking) 2 00:00:05,207 --> 00:00:10,207 - We have got the Cyber Board R3 from Angry Miao. 3 00:00:11,220 --> 00:00:18,370 I think it's Angry Miao, that's what Andy told me. This thing is supposed to be pretty nice. 4 00:00:18,370 --> 00:00:21,960 It's one of the most expensive keyboards I've ever touched personally, 5 00:00:21,960 --> 00:00:25,370 it goes for between I think 400 and 600 US Dollars 6 00:00:25,370 --> 00:00:31,610 something around there. It's pretty sweet, it's got this huge LED screen. 7 00:00:31,610 --> 00:00:36,070 I admittedly have looked at it already very briefly. 8 00:00:36,070 --> 00:00:40,760 I just... I heard we got it in and I couldn't help myself. I raced down a logistics, I opened the case 9 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:44,883 I looked at it, I pressed a key. That's it, but I'm sorry. 10 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:49,559 Let's check it out. (case clicking) Comes in an amazing case. 11 00:00:49,559 --> 00:00:52,763 Like you're paying 400 plus dollars so I hope it's nice. 12 00:00:54,463 --> 00:00:58,690 Wow. Check this out. You see this, nice foam. 13 00:00:59,773 --> 00:01:04,250 I mean, when I buy a premium keyboard, this is kinda, I don't really expect this every time, 14 00:01:04,250 --> 00:01:09,050 but if it's like pre-built for you, at least you can get this in a base kit as well. 15 00:01:09,050 --> 00:01:13,700 So if you wanna put it together yourself, you can totally do that. 16 00:01:13,700 --> 00:01:18,700 If I recall correctly, it's all hot swap and 75% layout. 17 00:01:18,740 --> 00:01:22,661 I don't know. Let's take a look. This thing's heavy. Oh men. 18 00:01:22,661 --> 00:01:26,420 (keyboard bangs table) (man laughs) Bonged as soon as I dropped it. 19 00:01:26,420 --> 00:01:30,460 Honestly, part of the appeal to this 20 00:01:30,460 --> 00:01:34,170 isn't even the keyboard itself, it's... 21 00:01:34,170 --> 00:01:40,110 Jesus hurts just picking it up. It's this guy, right here. 22 00:01:40,110 --> 00:01:43,470 Oh, there are stickers. Okay. Sweet. I'm already totally fine with this. 23 00:01:43,470 --> 00:01:47,097 I guess my only complaint is I don't see any sort of 24 00:01:47,097 --> 00:01:50,840 like key cap puller or switch puller. That being said, honestly, 25 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:54,940 if you're buying like a $500 keyboard, you probably have those already. 26 00:01:54,940 --> 00:02:00,420 So it's not the end of the world. This isn't really entry-level, nothing too extravagant. 27 00:02:00,420 --> 00:02:02,970 I think I'm still mostly impressed by the newbie 28 00:02:03,830 --> 00:02:08,670 Wi-Fi stickers, but that's okay. And so if you want to take this thing apart, which you can, 29 00:02:08,670 --> 00:02:13,500 except for the screen, you just pop those off and then pull the back off. 30 00:02:13,500 --> 00:02:17,720 Oh man. What's on the bottom there. Oh, that's huge. I don't know what that is in the center 31 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:23,110 it looks kind of just like a weight or something. This thing it's like a 10 degree typing angle. 32 00:02:23,110 --> 00:02:27,290 - [Jamie] Wrists hurt yet? - No, but I'm very curious to see, 33 00:02:27,290 --> 00:02:30,313 like just how bad 10 degrees is. Mine is... 34 00:02:30,313 --> 00:02:33,520 Most of my keyboards are like five degrees tops actually 35 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:37,320 kinda like a flat keyboard so I am excited though. 36 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:40,890 Yeah, it feels pretty good to type. I really like this thing already, 37 00:02:40,890 --> 00:02:45,620 but what I wanna check out is the screen on this thing. 38 00:02:45,620 --> 00:02:52,610 I want to find out what switches they sent it to us with. It feels like just some linear, don't know what. 39 00:02:52,610 --> 00:02:56,740 So let's take a look at the screen, but not until a word from our sponsors Ridge Wallet. 40 00:02:56,740 --> 00:03:01,320 Thanks Ridge Wallet for sponsoring today's video. They've a compact wallet to keep your pant bulged down. 41 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:06,690 They've got RFID blocking plates to keep thieves from stealing your info, they come in over 30 colors and styles, 42 00:03:06,690 --> 00:03:11,870 including carbon fiber and Burt titanium. Save 10% and get free worldwide shipping at ridge wallet 43 00:03:11,870 --> 00:03:15,280 by using offer code circuit @ ridge.com/circuit 44 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:20,440 Okay, so actually before I peel this off, I'm gonna read all of it. It's got DIY LED effects. 45 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:26,157 Oh, it's actually got all the little hot key presses. It's got... You press and hold for three seconds to turn it on and off. 46 00:03:26,157 --> 00:03:29,373 USB must be connected on first boot. Okay. That's fine. Yeah. 47 00:03:29,373 --> 00:03:34,300 It's wireless. So part of this is the battery, but you can use a wired, 48 00:03:34,300 --> 00:03:36,350 like most keyboards with the USB-C cable. 49 00:03:42,219 --> 00:03:45,890 (laughs) I hope that once you put it down, somewhere, 50 00:03:45,890 --> 00:03:50,480 it staying there 'cause good luck moving it. There's no, there's not much for feed on the bottom 51 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:55,110 so it's hard to even get your fingers underneath it. That being said, the feet grip pretty good. 52 00:03:55,110 --> 00:03:58,950 Like this thing, I mean the weight of it, coupled with the feet make sure that it's 53 00:03:58,950 --> 00:04:04,090 not going anywhere, which is great. We have got the West Henderson inspired color styles. 54 00:04:04,090 --> 00:04:07,990 So it comes in three different ones. There's the white and black versions 55 00:04:07,990 --> 00:04:11,910 that are still available, but they made three new ones that are all kind of pastels. 56 00:04:11,910 --> 00:04:15,610 The other cool thing is this actually has like an anti counterfeiting feature. 57 00:04:15,610 --> 00:04:19,510 So once you've got your board set up, 58 00:04:19,510 --> 00:04:23,667 register it and then that way, if you ever buy a new one kind of... 59 00:04:23,667 --> 00:04:29,900 I hate NFTs, but kinda like NFTs, it'll be in the database and you can basically look up if 60 00:04:29,900 --> 00:04:34,110 you ever buy one secondhand, whether it's counterfeited or not. It's kind of like how Rolexes all 61 00:04:34,110 --> 00:04:39,113 have the numbers on them and stuff. Yeah. This feels great. Sounds amazing. 62 00:04:40,100 --> 00:04:44,660 The stabs are decent, even pushing on the outside there's 63 00:04:45,890 --> 00:04:49,700 not a lot of wiggler rattle. So first I want to see what's underneath this and then we'll 64 00:04:49,700 --> 00:04:52,883 do some measurements to check the weight and the size of it. 65 00:04:54,100 --> 00:04:58,490 I, once again, as much as I love this aesthetically, 66 00:04:58,490 --> 00:05:03,070 and it's not too hard if you start from like a different key cap that's not the inside 67 00:05:03,070 --> 00:05:07,650 or that's not the outside, but I like starting from the outside and then going around 68 00:05:07,650 --> 00:05:12,030 and then even this escape key, like this is going to be kind of a pain, to get this out 69 00:05:12,030 --> 00:05:15,870 because it's just so tightly in there. It looks amazing. 70 00:05:15,870 --> 00:05:20,410 It's kind of a pain to swap stuff. The reds though, so they are linear. 71 00:05:20,410 --> 00:05:24,400 I don't know if they're just cherry reds or what, we can find that out later. 72 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:27,553 These look kinda cool though, they've got like a, like an orange bottom. 73 00:05:29,940 --> 00:05:33,470 Sorry. These switch pullers kinda suck. Yeah, this is gorgeous. 74 00:05:33,470 --> 00:05:37,870 So they've got these reds with this orange bottom. 75 00:05:37,870 --> 00:05:41,660 ShortCircuit banana for scale and it's like one 76 00:05:41,660 --> 00:05:44,433 and normally these are about one and a third long. 77 00:05:46,180 --> 00:05:49,770 This guy's a little more like one and a half. My only issue is like, 78 00:05:49,770 --> 00:05:55,000 I haven't really looked at the LED panel yet, but I'm worried that since it's sitting in front, right, 79 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:58,870 like this, you're not actually going to see it all that much when you're using it 80 00:05:58,870 --> 00:06:02,760 and then I know like myself, I have my desk up against the wall, 81 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:07,590 so no one's gonna be, you know, in front of my monitor, looking at my desktop like that. 82 00:06:07,590 --> 00:06:10,620 So it feels a bit wasted, but I haven't turned it on yet 83 00:06:10,620 --> 00:06:15,180 so let's take a look. So actually one thing that I'm kinda complaining about right now is 84 00:06:15,180 --> 00:06:21,040 this didn't come with a cable and I'm a little disappointed 85 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:28,970 because you can't even turn it on the first time without being plugged in. Luckily I bought some cable mind cables and they're here. 86 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:32,580 It's like a $500 board so I guess they're assuming that you have 87 00:06:33,620 --> 00:06:38,090 your own custom cable at this point. And that's probably a pretty fair assumption, 88 00:06:38,090 --> 00:06:45,200 but it's still incredibly disappointing that you don't get even just a cheap C to A or C to C cable here. 89 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:49,233 Because like, for instance, right now I've got to go and grab a cable. 90 00:06:50,699 --> 00:06:54,040 (melancholic music) 91 00:06:54,040 --> 00:07:00,000 So check this out. So yeah, each of these... maybe it is like an LCD and those are just configurable. 92 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:04,130 I'm not sure, either way there's like a whole website where you can basically make your own 93 00:07:04,130 --> 00:07:09,430 patterns for this thing and you can have it. You can set up key frames and stuff too, so it can be like, 94 00:07:09,430 --> 00:07:13,210 press a button and then it's like, spells my name pixel by pixel. 95 00:07:13,210 --> 00:07:16,563 It's not pixels, but you know what I mean, cell by cell. 96 00:07:16,563 --> 00:07:20,160 Super cool. I'm not gonna sit here and configure it for like a half hour, 97 00:07:20,160 --> 00:07:24,110 but I will check it out. Oh, that's RGB. Oh, okay. 98 00:07:24,110 --> 00:07:27,970 So now I've got RGB underneath. Yeah. That's the other thing that's on top of this panel, 99 00:07:27,970 --> 00:07:33,440 there's lights under here on the, on the board and it looks really nice actually. 100 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:38,420 Like it could shine through more. You're seeing it mostly in the gaps here. 101 00:07:38,420 --> 00:07:43,200 F10, oh F10. Ah, okay. So F10 turns this panel on or off 102 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:45,050 and then you can configure it online. 103 00:07:46,630 --> 00:07:51,640 I don't know what else we can do though. Oh, F12. 104 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:55,170 Oh my God. Sorry I'm gonna change the keys in a sec. 105 00:07:55,170 --> 00:07:59,010 I finally found the function change the panel. 106 00:07:59,010 --> 00:08:06,960 Oh, this is amazing. Is it worth $500? I don't know, but it's really sweet. 107 00:08:07,050 --> 00:08:08,543 Like this is so (beep) cool. 108 00:08:10,260 --> 00:08:15,420 Yeah. And so there's like... There's a bunch of different patterns. It'll show you your battery, how far it's charged. 109 00:08:17,010 --> 00:08:20,390 You can... And then, like I said, you can make custom ones as well. 110 00:08:20,390 --> 00:08:25,430 I'm gonna go with the car. You know what? I actually can see that pretty well. 111 00:08:25,430 --> 00:08:30,760 Just from sitting down and with Windows 11, moving your clock to the wrong part of the screen 112 00:08:30,760 --> 00:08:35,460 while it moves it to the other display. It's on your main display, you can't see while gaming it's frustrating. 113 00:08:35,460 --> 00:08:40,070 This would be amazing. And I am tempted to buy this board for this feature alone, 114 00:08:40,070 --> 00:08:42,163 which is stupid, but I love it. 115 00:08:44,110 --> 00:08:48,770 I, I can't even, I can't even type properly because I'm so like, oh my God, 116 00:08:48,770 --> 00:08:52,570 this feels so good and it sounds so good. I'm making all these errors. 117 00:08:52,570 --> 00:08:56,050 This is going to be one of my worst typing tests. Okay. I got to redo this one 118 00:08:56,050 --> 00:08:59,711 and just try to be objective about it. Oh man. 119 00:09:00,578 --> 00:09:06,720 Yeah. It's, it's garbage but this thing. It just feels and sounds so good. 120 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:10,840 Oh my God. I think that this is the nicest keyboard I've ever typed on. 121 00:09:12,210 --> 00:09:17,438 And I really want one now, and... (laughs) 122 00:09:17,438 --> 00:09:20,203 I don't even know what else to say I just want this thing. 123 00:09:21,851 --> 00:09:26,410 - I know. There's probably nicer keyboards to like, 124 00:09:26,410 --> 00:09:29,630 this thing is for me. And I was really worried about the 10 degree typing angle, 125 00:09:29,630 --> 00:09:33,960 that's probably part of why I'm not going as fast as I normally can. 126 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:37,550 It's pretty steep, but you get used to it. And I think with a wrist rest, 127 00:09:37,550 --> 00:09:40,750 that would actually help a lot. Right now my wrists are just kind of sitting on the, 128 00:09:40,750 --> 00:09:45,310 on the desk right now and that's not ideal. It's like 7.015 pounds. 129 00:09:45,310 --> 00:09:48,380 I'm just going to unplug it. And then yeah, that's the, 130 00:09:48,380 --> 00:09:53,750 that's the beauty of it is too is it's wireless. So if you need a wireless solution, 131 00:09:53,750 --> 00:09:56,980 but you still want like a crazy expensive, 132 00:09:56,980 --> 00:10:00,707 decently high end board, this is a good option. 133 00:10:00,707 --> 00:10:04,230 I think they're starting at 400 and then they're selling later 134 00:10:04,230 --> 00:10:08,770 for like 600 or something like that. I just looked it up quickly before coming down here so I could be wrong. 135 00:10:08,770 --> 00:10:13,070 You've got all your F keys, you've got your Arrow keys and there's a bit of a divide, but it's not huge, 136 00:10:13,070 --> 00:10:16,350 but it's not that like 70% or 80% compact 137 00:10:16,350 --> 00:10:20,420 where there's no space like here, we've got a nice separation at the top 138 00:10:20,420 --> 00:10:23,670 between the F keys and the rest, even in the rows of F keys 139 00:10:23,670 --> 00:10:28,290 there's that separation that you'd see in a normal layout, but the bottom, I figured this out. 140 00:10:28,290 --> 00:10:32,510 So this thing also comes with a charging mat 141 00:10:32,510 --> 00:10:36,520 and I'm pretty sure, let me peel this. 142 00:10:36,520 --> 00:10:41,820 I'm pretty sure that if you want to stay wireless, this is actually the like magnet 143 00:10:41,820 --> 00:10:47,890 and induction stuff for wireless charging. So they sell like a cyber mat or something like that too 144 00:10:47,890 --> 00:10:51,100 and so you can get both of them and then put it on your desk. 145 00:10:51,100 --> 00:10:54,543 I think you have to plug it in the first time it's connected , but after that, 146 00:10:54,543 --> 00:11:00,550 I mean maybe that's why they didn't send us a cable is because this thing can just sit on your desk wirelessly, 147 00:11:00,550 --> 00:11:03,710 indefinitely. Right? 148 00:11:03,710 --> 00:11:08,710 I still don't know what this LED is here for, but whatever. 149 00:11:09,490 --> 00:11:15,720 I don't even care. I just love this thing. I want to keep this at my desk forever and ever. 150 00:11:15,720 --> 00:11:20,720 Do I want to spend 600 US Dollars on a keyboard? 151 00:11:21,157 --> 00:11:27,573 Yes. Should I spend $600 on a keyboard? 152 00:11:28,450 --> 00:11:32,340 No, but man if you want something nice 153 00:11:32,340 --> 00:11:36,130 and you've been waiting for a board that's like a statement piece. 154 00:11:36,130 --> 00:11:40,991 I think you've kind of found it in this thing here. Yeah, that is the Cyber Board R3. 155 00:11:40,991 --> 00:11:45,160 If you enjoyed this ShortCircuit, maybe check out some of our other keyboard short circuits. 156 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:50,160 I unboxed the Vessels 85 recently. So thin. 157 00:11:50,330 --> 00:11:54,520 I think it was a thin mechanical keyboard with like low-profile getter on switches in it. That was fun. 158 00:11:55,650 --> 00:11:58,050 Thanks for watching. Subscribe to ShortCircuit.