Two weeks in the past, we realized about Atomic Keyboard’s MDR Dasher Keyboard, a keyboard primarily based on the Lumon Terminal Professional terminals used within the Apple TV+ present Severance. The corporate plans to promote it, and you’ll join extra info, although pricing and availability have but to be decided.
However Atomic Keyboard is tough at work on the venture. This week, they’ve launched a few movies the place you may see the keyboard up shut. The primary video was posted a number of days in the past and exhibits the keyboard structure and somebody utilizing the keys and trackball. Activate the amount, and you’ll hear the important thing switches in motion.
The second video posted on Wednesday, and it’s from Atomic Keyboard’s sales space on the ZFX Shanghai Keyboard Meetup (TIL: individuals collect at occasions particularly for keyboards). You may get one other shut take a look at the product and see individuals utilizing it.
If these two movies have captured your curiosity, you may let Atomic Keyboard know by filling out the MDR Dasher Keyboard Curiosity Examine kind. Atomic Keyboard needs your enter (excuse the pun) on what options the MDR Dasher ought to have. For instance, ought to or not it’s wired or wi-fi> Would you like the Severance key structure (and keep true to the present), or a Commonplace structure (and really be capable of do work)? It’s a two-minute kind, so in the event you actually need this, fill it out.
One attention-grabbing factor revealed by the shape is considerably obscure pricing info. Whereas the value has but to be finalized, the shape states that “the early fowl worth shall be not more than $399 (with tiered pricing as much as $699).” Not more than $399? Yikes, even underneath that, it’s an costly keyboard. To high it off, the shape states that the entire tariff drama may have an effect on the value, for the reason that keyboard shall be made in China.
In accordance with Atomic Keyboard, the MDR Dasher Keyboard is impressed by the Knowledge Basic Dasher 200, a pc terminal from the Nineteen Seventies. Atomic Keyboard initially posted that the MDR Dasher “boasts a singular 73-key, 70% structure with no Escape, no Management, and no Choices keys” however that would change if sufficient individuals inform the corporate {that a} Commonplace structure is preferable.
The MDR Dasher Keyboard shall be obtainable for macOS, Home windows, and Linux. If the MDR Dasher Keyboard isn’t for you, take a look at our finest Mac keyboards.
