WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.750 (case clicking) 00:00:05.207 --> 00:00:10.207 - We have got the Cyber Board R3 from Angry Miao. 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. 00:00:18.370 --> 00:00:21.960 It's one of the most expensive keyboards I've ever touched personally, 00:00:21.960 --> 00:00:25.370 it goes for between I think 400 and 600 US Dollars 00:00:25.370 --> 00:00:31.610 something around there. It's pretty sweet, it's got this huge LED screen. 00:00:31.610 --> 00:00:36.070 I admittedly have looked at it already very briefly. 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 00:00:40.760 --> 00:00:44.883 I looked at it, I pressed a key. That's it, but I'm sorry. 00:00:46.000 --> 00:00:49.559 Let's check it out. (case clicking) Comes in an amazing case. 00:00:49.559 --> 00:00:52.763 Like you're paying 400 plus dollars so I hope it's nice. 00:00:54.463 --> 00:00:58.690 Wow. Check this out. You see this, nice foam. 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, 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. 00:01:09.050 --> 00:01:13.700 So if you wanna put it together yourself, you can totally do that. 00:01:13.700 --> 00:01:18.700 If I recall correctly, it's all hot swap and 75% layout. 00:01:18.740 --> 00:01:22.661 I don't know. Let's take a look. This thing's heavy. Oh men. 00:01:22.661 --> 00:01:26.420 (keyboard bangs table) (man laughs) Bonged as soon as I dropped it. 00:01:26.420 --> 00:01:30.460 Honestly, part of the appeal to this 00:01:30.460 --> 00:01:34.170 isn't even the keyboard itself, it's... 00:01:34.170 --> 00:01:40.110 Jesus hurts just picking it up. It's this guy, right here. 00:01:40.110 --> 00:01:43.470 Oh, there are stickers. Okay. Sweet. I'm already totally fine with this. 00:01:43.470 --> 00:01:47.097 I guess my only complaint is I don't see any sort of 00:01:47.097 --> 00:01:50.840 like key cap puller or switch puller. That being said, honestly, 00:01:50.840 --> 00:01:54.940 if you're buying like a $500 keyboard, you probably have those already. 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. 00:02:00.420 --> 00:02:02.970 I think I'm still mostly impressed by the newbie 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, 00:02:08.670 --> 00:02:13.500 except for the screen, you just pop those off and then pull the back off. 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 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. 00:02:23.110 --> 00:02:27.290 - [Jamie] Wrists hurt yet? - No, but I'm very curious to see, 00:02:27.290 --> 00:02:30.313 like just how bad 10 degrees is. Mine is... 00:02:30.313 --> 00:02:33.520 Most of my keyboards are like five degrees tops actually 00:02:33.520 --> 00:02:37.320 kinda like a flat keyboard so I am excited though. 00:02:37.320 --> 00:02:40.890 Yeah, it feels pretty good to type. I really like this thing already, 00:02:40.890 --> 00:02:45.620 but what I wanna check out is the screen on this thing. 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. 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. 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. 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, 00:03:06.690 --> 00:03:11.870 including carbon fiber and Burt titanium. Save 10% and get free worldwide shipping at ridge wallet 00:03:11.870 --> 00:03:15.280 by using offer code circuit @ ridge.com/circuit 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. 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. 00:03:26.157 --> 00:03:29.373 USB must be connected on first boot. Okay. That's fine. Yeah. 00:03:29.373 --> 00:03:34.300 It's wireless. So part of this is the battery, but you can use a wired, 00:03:34.300 --> 00:03:36.350 like most keyboards with the USB-C cable. 00:03:42.219 --> 00:03:45.890 (laughs) I hope that once you put it down, somewhere, 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 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. 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 00:03:58.950 --> 00:04:04.090 not going anywhere, which is great. We have got the West Henderson inspired color styles. 00:04:04.090 --> 00:04:07.990 So it comes in three different ones. There's the white and black versions 00:04:07.990 --> 00:04:11.910 that are still available, but they made three new ones that are all kind of pastels. 00:04:11.910 --> 00:04:15.610 The other cool thing is this actually has like an anti counterfeiting feature. 00:04:15.610 --> 00:04:19.510 So once you've got your board set up, 00:04:19.510 --> 00:04:23.667 register it and then that way, if you ever buy a new one kind of... 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 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 00:04:34.110 --> 00:04:39.113 have the numbers on them and stuff. Yeah. This feels great. Sounds amazing. 00:04:40.100 --> 00:04:44.660 The stabs are decent, even pushing on the outside there's 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 00:04:49.700 --> 00:04:52.883 do some measurements to check the weight and the size of it. 00:04:54.100 --> 00:04:58.490 I, once again, as much as I love this aesthetically, 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 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 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 00:05:12.030 --> 00:05:15.870 because it's just so tightly in there. It looks amazing. 00:05:15.870 --> 00:05:20.410 It's kind of a pain to swap stuff. The reds though, so they are linear. 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. 00:05:24.400 --> 00:05:27.553 These look kinda cool though, they've got like a, like an orange bottom. 00:05:29.940 --> 00:05:33.470 Sorry. These switch pullers kinda suck. Yeah, this is gorgeous. 00:05:33.470 --> 00:05:37.870 So they've got these reds with this orange bottom. 00:05:37.870 --> 00:05:41.660 ShortCircuit banana for scale and it's like one 00:05:41.660 --> 00:05:44.433 and normally these are about one and a third long. 00:05:46.180 --> 00:05:49.770 This guy's a little more like one and a half. My only issue is like, 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, 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 00:05:58.870 --> 00:06:02.760 and then I know like myself, I have my desk up against the wall, 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. 00:06:07.590 --> 00:06:10.620 So it feels a bit wasted, but I haven't turned it on yet 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 00:06:15.180 --> 00:06:21.040 this didn't come with a cable and I'm a little disappointed 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. 00:06:29.040 --> 00:06:32.580 It's like a $500 board so I guess they're assuming that you have 00:06:33.620 --> 00:06:38.090 your own custom cable at this point. And that's probably a pretty fair assumption, 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. 00:06:45.200 --> 00:06:49.233 Because like, for instance, right now I've got to go and grab a cable. 00:06:50.699 --> 00:06:54.040 (melancholic music) 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. 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 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, 00:07:09.430 --> 00:07:13.210 press a button and then it's like, spells my name pixel by pixel. 00:07:13.210 --> 00:07:16.563 It's not pixels, but you know what I mean, cell by cell. 00:07:16.563 --> 00:07:20.160 Super cool. I'm not gonna sit here and configure it for like a half hour, 00:07:20.160 --> 00:07:24.110 but I will check it out. Oh, that's RGB. Oh, okay. 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, 00:07:27.970 --> 00:07:33.440 there's lights under here on the, on the board and it looks really nice actually. 00:07:33.440 --> 00:07:38.420 Like it could shine through more. You're seeing it mostly in the gaps here. 00:07:38.420 --> 00:07:43.200 F10, oh F10. Ah, okay. So F10 turns this panel on or off 00:07:43.200 --> 00:07:45.050 and then you can configure it online. 00:07:46.630 --> 00:07:51.640 I don't know what else we can do though. Oh, F12. 00:07:51.640 --> 00:07:55.170 Oh my God. Sorry I'm gonna change the keys in a sec. 00:07:55.170 --> 00:07:59.010 I finally found the function change the panel. 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. 00:08:07.050 --> 00:08:08.543 Like this is so (beep) cool. 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. 00:08:17.010 --> 00:08:20.390 You can... And then, like I said, you can make custom ones as well. 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. 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 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. 00:08:35.460 --> 00:08:40.070 This would be amazing. And I am tempted to buy this board for this feature alone, 00:08:40.070 --> 00:08:42.163 which is stupid, but I love it. 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, 00:08:48.770 --> 00:08:52.570 this feels so good and it sounds so good. I'm making all these errors. 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 00:08:56.050 --> 00:08:59.711 and just try to be objective about it. Oh man. 00:09:00.578 --> 00:09:06.720 Yeah. It's, it's garbage but this thing. It just feels and sounds so good. 00:09:06.720 --> 00:09:10.840 Oh my God. I think that this is the nicest keyboard I've ever typed on. 00:09:12.210 --> 00:09:17.438 And I really want one now, and... (laughs) 00:09:17.438 --> 00:09:20.203 I don't even know what else to say I just want this thing. 00:09:21.851 --> 00:09:26.410 - I know. There's probably nicer keyboards to like, 00:09:26.410 --> 00:09:29.630 this thing is for me. And I was really worried about the 10 degree typing angle, 00:09:29.630 --> 00:09:33.960 that's probably part of why I'm not going as fast as I normally can. 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, 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, 00:09:40.750 --> 00:09:45.310 on the desk right now and that's not ideal. It's like 7.015 pounds. 00:09:45.310 --> 00:09:48.380 I'm just going to unplug it. And then yeah, that's the, 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, 00:09:53.750 --> 00:09:56.980 but you still want like a crazy expensive, 00:09:56.980 --> 00:10:00.707 decently high end board, this is a good option. 00:10:00.707 --> 00:10:04.230 I think they're starting at 400 and then they're selling later 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. 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, 00:10:13.070 --> 00:10:16.350 but it's not that like 70% or 80% compact 00:10:16.350 --> 00:10:20.420 where there's no space like here, we've got a nice separation at the top 00:10:20.420 --> 00:10:23.670 between the F keys and the rest, even in the rows of F keys 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. 00:10:28.290 --> 00:10:32.510 So this thing also comes with a charging mat 00:10:32.510 --> 00:10:36.520 and I'm pretty sure, let me peel this. 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 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 00:10:47.890 --> 00:10:51.100 and so you can get both of them and then put it on your desk. 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, 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, 00:11:00.550 --> 00:11:03.710 indefinitely. Right? 00:11:03.710 --> 00:11:08.710 I still don't know what this LED is here for, but whatever. 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. 00:11:15.720 --> 00:11:20.720 Do I want to spend 600 US Dollars on a keyboard? 00:11:21.157 --> 00:11:27.573 Yes. Should I spend $600 on a keyboard? 00:11:28.450 --> 00:11:32.340 No, but man if you want something nice 00:11:32.340 --> 00:11:36.130 and you've been waiting for a board that's like a statement piece. 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. 00:11:40.991 --> 00:11:45.160 If you enjoyed this ShortCircuit, maybe check out some of our other keyboard short circuits. 00:11:45.160 --> 00:11:50.160 I unboxed the Vessels 85 recently. So thin. 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. 00:11:55.650 --> 00:11:58.050 Thanks for watching. Subscribe to ShortCircuit.