thank you to groupernow for sponsoring this video at ces 2018 you can check out
their symbios concept car in the description down below we're checking
out the generation kb 170l and one other keyboard but you have to wait for that
this one as you can see immediately has 66 macro keys at the top of the keyboard
each one of those keys can take 220 character inputs you do that by
switching a switch just right here on the back of the keyboard from program
mode to keyboard mode and you can type all that kind of stuff in to program
those individual keys there's only one profile for these keys but you easily
switch to another mode by holding shift just like you would for any other key on
the keyboard to switch to essentially another set of 66 more macro
keys all of the keys at the top have these clear top covers on them so you
can print out little cards for each one of them insert it under the top cover
and then be able to reference what that's actually for in the future which
is really helpful because well they're programmable keys so they're what you
set them to not what they're pre-programmed for so they can't come with labels on them they are single shot
abs keycaps naturally due to the cap on top of them and the standard qwerty keys
are double shot keycaps and i want to show you guys something right here
this whole keyboard if i try to grab it pretty firmly on each side and try to
twist it it essentially doesn't twist at all and i'm giving it quite a bit of
force i have seen drastically more keyboard twist in 10 keyless keyboards
that don't have three rows of macro keys above it than this one does it's it's
built quite well there's a metal plate throughout the entire thing so it weighs
2.2 kilograms or 4.85 pounds that's a
lot for a keyboard good for bashing zombies with or just staying where it's
supposed to be on your desk they did however take some precautions in making
it as compact as they could you can see compared to a standard keyboard there
isn't this divide between the f keys and the normal qwerty keys they shrank that
down whether that's a positive or a negative i'm not entirely sure
personally i think my muscle memory would make it so that when i go to press
escape i would end up pressing this macro key in the corner but you know
making the macro keys at the very top actually more pressable it's probably a
benefit for that so depends on you in terms of usability the switches are
cherry mx blacks there's a usb pass-through port on the back of the
keyboard and when you're in program mode there is a little light just next to num
log caps lock and scroll lock so that you know that you're in program mode and
not typing mode this keyboard was just announced at the show and will probably
be available through amazon but just in case you can get it at dsi keyboards.com
the backlit version will cost 340. and the non-backlit version will
cost 280 290 around there next up we
have the langen gk358 which as you can see it's quite water resistant it's an
ip68 rated keyboard meaning that it can be submerged in up to 1.5 meters of
water for 30 minutes but they don't know the maximum depth that it could be
submerged for because it's made for like spills and stuff not
actually gaming underwater they did say however that it can be under water to
some degree for about up to a week which is pretty cool it's also only 30 bucks
and features double shot injected keycaps and backlighting the back
lighting is four different colors across the board not RGB leds but there is
different lighting modes as well so if you hold the function key and press scroll lock it will change what lighting
mode it's in we have experienced a couple glitches
while sitting here but it seems to be only if you like get water on it and
then lift it up vertically so the water goes up into the key caps that there is
any problem so if you spill stuff on your keyboard maybe don't like
pour the water into the top of the keycaps and you'll probably be fine it
does also feature an actually pretty nice colored metal top but there is a
little bit of flex actually a fair amount of flex it is a 30 dollar
keyboard so i maybe wouldn't worry about that too much if this is the price range
that you're shopping for it features an optical switch i have not personally
seen before manufactured by a taiwanese company called everlight other notable
features is that there's RGB lighting along the sides of the keyboards which
is pretty cool it's only two milliseconds of delay and this metal
plate comes in either black or blue it will be available on alibaba or
bbr86.com so cool there's a keyboard that you can
use literally underwater i'm typing right now and i can see it on the screen
over there pretty sweet if you're more interested in things outside of the water however i'm going to bring back
our sponsor group renault for sponsoring this video Linus went to go check out
their symbios car in france not that long ago and he was able to experience
level four automation that means he was able to sit in the driver's seat and not
drive he just used his laptop while he was sitting there and it drove him down
real roads in france with other cars on it really cool there's also tons of
other cool tech inside of the car so be sure to check that out up here or
possibly down in the link below i'll see you guys next time like this video if
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i already said i'll see you next time so i guess uh i don't really have anything else to
say bye