Keyboards

First came the KC 200. Now, Cherry is announcing its new MX 3.1 keyboard featuring its overhauled MX2A mechanical keyboard switches at CES 2024. It’ll be available to buy later this year for $129, when it’ll be joined by Cherry’s new M64 Pro Wireless and M68 Pro Wireless mice with responsive 8,000Hz polling rates and $139 price tags.

I’ve been mechanical keyboard-curious for a long time. Not because I’ve never used one. I’m old; of course I have.

Realforce keyboards — the only full-sized and tenkeyless Topre boards — are on sale at PFU America, which will no longer carry them after the end of the year. Instead it’ll focus on the iconic Happy Hacking keyboard, including the new HHKB Studio.

That’s Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan, introducing the company’s new flagship Huntsman V3 Pro gaming keyboards. They’ve got a second-gen optical switch that can still reset instantly after you press — now with adjustable actuation as little as 0.1mm (down from 1.2mm), and lighter at 40g (down from 45g). See them in the gallery below.

This incredible 58-key split ergo wireless keyboard by FlatFootFox runs on Game Boy Advance cartridges. Excellent concept, great execution, and no vintage carts were harmed in the process. Do yourself a favor and read the build log.

The keyboards are getting a new Rapid Trigger feature, which makes use of their magnetic analogue switches to register keypresses quicker when you press the same key multiple times. It’s a feature that’s made other hall effect keyboards like the Wooting 60HE so popular for gamers looking for the speediest response times.

Angry Miao’s new AM AFA R2 Alice-layout mechanical keyboard looks like something Purah from The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom would type on. It’s a lot like the original I tried last year, but with easier access to its internal adjustable leaf springs.