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Let’s suspect you’re the hard-core PERSONAL COMPUTER gamer, though 1) you’re similarly clinging to the LOT of different games, or 2) you don’t want your set of keys to ALWAYS look similar to you’re battling a Lich King. Like if the lady comes over. You need a chameleon keyboard, ready to do (and look similar to whatever you need it to.

SteelSeries makes keyboards for gamers which do this, with law keysets for World of Warcraft, Starcraft II, and Aion. The hardware lets you barter a entire keyset for different games; the program lets you map every pass, record macros on-the-fly, as well as switch in between different law pass layers. The initial iteration was a ZBoard; a brand-new Shift indication boasts revamped hardware as well as a some-more absolute as well as intuitive program engine.

I have to declare which I’m substantially not the aim marketplace for these keysets — as the writer, I have to do the lot of typing in a hurry, though it’s in all not quite reacting by instinct — but I’m obsessed with keyboards, both physical and program, and I do adore a little of a concepts upon arrangement here. For instance, a Shift offers “Fine-Tuned Hot Spots”:

Some keys are used more often than others, both when gaming and typing. The keys you make use of a many, similar to WASD for First Person Shooters, need reduction force than a keys you don’t make use of as mostly.

I consider my laptop’s spacebar could essentially make use of the conflicting of which, to mount up to my thundrous thumbs. The undo pass, as well, as I heatedly backspace by typos or (even more mostly self-inflected stupidity. Maybe they need “journalist” as well as “fanboy” key sets for the web — a latter could have built-in macros for “You’re as well reticent to understand why [Company X] sucks and [Company Y] is a future of [industry Z].”

In a art studio next, check out how the SteelSeries Shift functions, with close-ups of a dissimilar branded keysets accessible from SteelSeries (The image quality upon a keysets is honestly not good.

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SteelSeries Shift: The Swiss Army Knife of Keyboards [Techland]