Atomic Keyboard has offered 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 worth: a whopping $599 for early adopters, and an eye-widening $899 retail worth. And that doesn’t embody a waffle celebration.
Nevertheless, the MDR Dasher Keyboard isn’t any odd keyboard. Apart from being impressed by the hit Apple TV+ present (Severance bought 27 Emmy nominations), Atomic Keyboard appears to have taken the shopper suggestions to coronary heart, and so they created one thing very distinctive. The primary characteristic is that it has a swappable structure. It provides three of them:
- Innie Format: that is the structure that finest resembles the one utilized by the Macrodata Refinement division in Severance. It lacks an Escape button, Choice button, and Management button. (In case you watch the present, then you’ll be able to’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 p.c keyboard structure that you simply’d use repeatedly.
- Dasher Layout: this structure is similar because the one on the Information Normal Dasher 200, the keyboard that’s the inspiration for the MDR Dasher Keyboard.
The keyboard has a magnetic mid-frame that permits for the structure swapping, which Atomic Keyboard says might be executed “in seconds.”
within the keyboard? Atomic Keyboard is accepting reservations for $10, which is able to lock within the $599 worth as soon as the Kickstarter occasion goes reside, and also you’ll additionally get a free deskmat. After the early adopter, the tier 1 Kickstarter worth is $649, the tier 2 Kickstarter in $699, and the retail worth is $899. The keyboard is predicted to begin transport in November.
