
It has a magnetic strip on the bottom that allows you to slap on a slight riser.
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It features built in volume and audio controls as well as a “Das” button that mimics either the Apple or the Windows key. This new Das Keyboard is the fourth generation and connects to your computer via USB 3.0. And so I kept going, using my keyboard and after about a year, I had so many requests from people asking me, “Hey, where did you buy that keyboard? We want to buy one because it’s so cool,” he said. “So there was this cool factor I didn’t know about before people told me, that it really looked bad ass. I interviewed Guermeur last year about his company and he said he created the first unmarked Das Keyboard after realized he might be able to type faster with a better board. Das Keyboard originally created clones of these keyboards and then went so far as to create a similar “noiseless” model as well as a completely unmarked model for true haX0rs. Beloved by programmers for the key travel and sound, these dense slabs of I/O power originally shipped with the original IBM PCs. Created by the folks who brought us the original Das Keyboard, this new, ultra-thin, ultra-clicky keyboard is a cyberpunk’s best friend.įirst, what is a Das Keyboard? Founded in 2005 by Daniel Guermeur, the company’s goal was to reproduce the old “clicky” IBM Modem M keyboards of yesteryear. That’s why the Das Keyboard 4 is so exciting. I obviously didn’t have a lot of friends. I remember running around in my parents’ basement with my unplugged Atari 800XL (which was about the size and shape of a thick Ono-Sendai) pretending to be a cyberhacker making a run on the House Of Blue Lights. Although never explicitly described, they seemed to be something like a self-contained keyboard with electrode leads hanging off and a sometimes unmarked keyboard that hackers used to jack into the Matrix. One of the defining images of the cyberpunk movement of the 1980s and 90s was William Gibson’s cyberspace decks.
