Atomic Keyboard has supplied an replace on the event of its MDR Dasher Keyboard–what most individuals may in any other case name the Severance keyboard–that was introduced again in April. After receiving enter from potential prospects, the corporate has revealed its value: a whopping $599 for early adopters, and an eye-widening $899 retail value. And that doesn’t embrace a waffle social gathering.
Nevertheless, the MDR Dasher Keyboard isn’t any atypical keyboard. In addition to being impressed by the hit Apple TV+ present (Severance obtained 27 Emmy nominations), Atomic Keyboard appears to have taken the shopper suggestions to coronary heart, and so they created one thing very distinctive. The principle function is that it has a swappable format. It presents three of them:
- Innie Format: that is the format that greatest resembles the one utilized by the Macrodata Refinement division in Severance. It lacks an Escape button, Possibility button, and Management button. (For those who watch the present, then you possibly can’t assist however see the symbolism in that.) It additionally has these six unusual buttons atop and beneath the arrow keys, and a trackball.
- Outie Format: A 60 % keyboard format that you simply’d use often.
- Dasher Layout: this format is similar because the one on the Knowledge Normal Dasher 200, the keyboard that’s the inspiration for the MDR Dasher Keyboard.
The keyboard has a magnetic mid-frame that enables for the format swapping, which Atomic Keyboard says could be achieved “in seconds.”
within the keyboard? Atomic Keyboard is accepting reservations for $10, which is able to lock within the $599 value as soon as the Kickstarter occasion goes stay, and also you’ll additionally get a free deskmat. After the early adopter, the tier 1 Kickstarter value is $649, the tier 2 Kickstarter in $699, and the retail value is $899. The keyboard is predicted to start out transport in November.