Ducky Shine 3, Year of the Snake, Mini, and Backlit Zero - Computex 2013
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·2014-05-07
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Linus Tech tips coverage of computex 2013 is powered by Western Digital our
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trusted gaming gear partner is Corsair Vengeance and our trusted retail partner
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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
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who's watched the live stream who's been on the Forum should have probably expected this I was pretty excited I
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heard they were here at C at I almost just said CES at computex but I wasn't
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sure where because I couldn't find them on any of the actual convention floors
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but I hunted them down and found their site so we got up here and there's some
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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
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the ducky mini it's just the main typing Zone and it's very very cool for very
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portable users there's a detachable cable on the back green backlight but I
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believe you can get two different colors green and blue um believe more than that
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more than that so you can get tons of different back liting colors that's awesome we're not going to spend too
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much time on that though because it's very pre-production sample what I was really really excited for is the ducky
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shine 3 this is the aluminium body one which is what I really really want but
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they're not necessarily sure if they're going to release it make sure you comment in the comments and make sure
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you Hammer their Facebook with how much you actually want an aluminum body uh
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keyboard this thing is awesome it feels great it's got nice nice weight to it
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because it does have aluminium body um this is their current stock space bar
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although it might be changing as this is a very very early sample I not going to
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spend too much time on this one because like I just said very very early sample
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slide down here we get to again ducky shine 3 although with the year of the
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snake space bar I'm going to kind of skip over this really really quickly
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jump off to the year of the snake keyboard this one has a stock space bar
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they're still not sure what space bar they're going to go for they have these
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three more year the snake stylized ones that we saw here there isn't huge
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differences between them this one's my current favorite um but they're just
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totally awesome again comment here slam their Facebook page tell them which one
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you want these are great great looking space bars great great looking keyboard
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it's got the camo color all over it and
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just looks absolutely awesome if that's the style of keyboard you want if you've
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got a C70 or any military styled case like that that would go amazingly
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amazingly well with your build nice Green Key caps back lit all the fixing
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uh if we jump down here again to the ducky shine 3 as a lot of you are
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probably waiting to see don't spend too much times on these they're custom caps
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I just wanted to show them off because they're awesome hey guys sorry about that we're going to just jump right into
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the lighting modes here so right now we're basically off then we go to the
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next lighting mode gets to 60% go to the next lighting mode we get 100% full
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keyboard back lighting next lighting mode this is breathing you can see it's
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going quite quickly right now we can slow it all the way down to a nice
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smooth paste go all the way back up to
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disco level speed and just watch it go absolutely
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crazy okay we're going to switch lighting modes again this is reactive
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typing mode give me one second
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here there we go sorry about that so this will make it bright uh light up
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right away and then disappear right away this is a really cool mode I like this
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on my ducky dragon that I already have if we switch to the next mode you'll see
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it's very similar but now it takes a little bit of its own time to fade out
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which is just absolutely awesome the only problem I had with reactive typing
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mode was while you're typing by the time your finger moves away you can't
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actually see the light now it actually kind of stays there for a while so if
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you're typing up an absolute storm and someone's watching you you can actually
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see all the keys as you're typing which is is very cool I'm obviously typing
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just complete gibberish right now as I'm doing it with my left hand but that's
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awesome the only complaint I've ever heard about reactive typing mode is it goes too quickly so they address that
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problem very very well we going to switch here to wave mode which is also
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really cool I'm going to slow it down here so you can see it better but it
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just goes along the keyboard and just looks very very smooth we can make it go
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really really fast again you can have a disco in your room with this keyboard
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very easily we're going to switch the next mode this is snake mode it reminds
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me a lot of their key mode and it just goes across the keyboard I can slow it
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down again and when when the guy showing me these keyboards showed me this all I
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could think of was the actual game of snake I think it would be really really
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funny if they had randomly scattered lit up Keys along the keyboard and the snake
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could grow as it picked them up I just think that would be hilarious although it's not practical at all and makes no
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real sense I think it would be hilarious then we come back and we're back to off
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so basically with shine 3 they tried to pick every single possible lighting mode
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you could ever imagine actually one thing that I Mi missed was the uh delay
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and delay rate which makes it so that as you hold down a key depending on how you
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set it it will go up and down really really really quickly in the software so
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without you tapping like this if you just hold it down you can make it go
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insanely fast how ethical that is for gaming I'm not entirely sure because
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you're kind of taking a cheap Advantage but that's up to you you're buying a
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really nice keyboard maybe you should have that Advantage I'm not sure discuss
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that in comments if you want this is pretty nuts they put every single
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letting mode you could want as I said before you still have all the dip switch options you had with their previous
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keyboards this is crazy a lot of you that know me know I'm completely nerding
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out here another thing that I forgot to mention is there's a new uh wrist rest
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that they're not sure if they're going to release as well but this looks really sharp personally I like their older
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leather models more but just if you want the more plexiglass feel and you want
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their awesome logo on the side you can have that as well another thing is they
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now have a zero shine so basically it's a zero that comes in I believe blue and
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green blue and uh orange blue and orange okay so you have blue and orange back
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light zero it's only slightly more expensive as their previous zero that
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wasn't back lit so all you guys that want a cheap entry-level mechanical
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keyboard that has backlighting on it this is a great great option thank you
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