Keychron introduces world-first all-ceramic mechanical keyboard

Keyboards have gotten form of loopy recently, because the mechanical pattern extends to each aspect of the area of interest and corporations seek for some form of edge. Keychron, one of the crucial seen specialists, shouldn’t be immune from the hunt for the following massive factor—which seems to be ceramics. Certainly, the brand new Q16 HE keyboard is all ceramic, on a regular basis.

In the event you haven’t been exhaustively wanting on the developments within the keyboard area of interest, ceramic materials for keycaps is form of a giant deal. It’s precisely what it feels like: heavy, clay-based materials coated in a layer of clean polish, which affords a clean really feel that’s not like even probably the most premium plastic. It’s additionally loud, with a definite “clack” that comes with each keypress. (Possibly don’t deliver it into the workplace or espresso store.)

Keychron is doubling down on the pattern with its Q16 HE keyboard (noticed by KitGuru), making each the keycaps and the physique of the keyboard itself out of ceramic materials.

The remainder of the 65% board is fairly commonplace for the corporate’s high-end Q sequence, together with Corridor impact linear switches with adjustable actuation, hot-swap change sockets, RGB lighting, and programmable choices with the web-based Keychron launcher. It’ll are available white and black choices.

Regardless of the adjustable actuation, “speedy set off” perform, and spectacular 8,000Hz polling, this isn’t branded as a gaming board by way of Keychron’s Lemokey sublabel. It’s additionally not wi-fi. Maybe Keychron thought these magnetic switches would take an excessive amount of battery energy, or the ceramic physique would intrude with wi-fi indicators.

Keychron has not introduced when the Q16 HE will launch, although it’ll hit Kickstarter first when it does, as is common for the corporate. There’s additionally no worth hooked up. Contemplating that ceramic keycaps alone can value $100 or extra, anticipate it to be very excessive certainly.