Drop XDA Versa Keycaps Are Subtle yet Colorful

Gaming keyboards in the 1990s didn’t have all the RGB lighting, macro keys, and other cool (albeit arguably unnecessary) design elements found in many gaming keyboards produced today. If you want to return to simpler times with a retro classic style — without giving up the superior comfort and responsiveness of a modern keyboard — the Drop XDA Versa Keycaps Set is a stylish blast from the past, featuring light gray alpha coloring and a few pastel-colored keys to mix things up.

Designer: Drop

As long as your keyboard is equipped with Cherry MX switches or clones, you can stick pretty much any compatible keycap set onto your keyboard. You can even mix and match the Drop XDA Versa keys with festive kits like Dwarf Factory’s ArtiSANTA. The former is no different, and depending on your needs, you can get the perfect layout across Drop XDA Versa’s three different kits: the Base, Mini Base, and Novelties kits. At a distance, the Base kit seems fashioned toward full-sized and TKL keyboards whereas the Mini Base kit is made for compact 60% keyboards.

Both the Base and Mini Base kits come with every keycap you’ll need for a complete set, though the Novelties kit expands your color palette with a slew of pastel-colored keycaps with unique functions. Each keycap is “made from durable, dye-sublimated PBT and shaped in the short, uniform, and ultra-navigable XDA profile.”

That means this XDA keycap set is excellent for gamers who want a solid sense of feedback and an overall consistent feel between the keys. These keycaps are made for comfort just as much as they’re made for retro style that’s a bit more low-key than many of the stock keycaps shipping in gaming keyboards these days.

You can buy the Drop XDA Versa Keycap Set for a sizable discount. Right now, the Base kit costs $49 (down from $69), the Mini Base kit $39 (down from $59) and the Novelties kit $29 (down from $35). Given that these make a fantastic stocking stuffer for any PC gamer in your life, you may want to take this opportunity to grab these low-key keycaps before the sale ends.

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Stack Overflow ‘The Key’ Macropad makes copying and pasting tasks as simple as hitting one button

Created originally as an April Fool’s Day Joke, the Stack Overflow prank keyboard actually turned out to be a pretty great product idea! Turns out, roughly one-fourth of Stack Overflow’s 15 million developers/users even tries to copy and paste code within five minutes of visiting the site… so Stack Overflow decided to promote a ‘fake product’ as an April Fool’s joke, hardly anticipating that it would end up becoming such a crowd favorite! The now-released tiny keyboard gives you instant shortcuts like copying and pasting right under your fingertips, allowing developers to streamline their work and reduce time spent typing or scanning through code.

Some say a programmer’s best solution is a simple two-step process: copy and paste – two things the Stack Overflow ‘The Key’ was designed to practically excel at! The tiny USB-C peripheral sits right beside your keyboard, giving you access to simple commands with the press of a mere button. The 3-key device lets you instantly open Stack Overflow and copy + paste lines of code, practically halving your work time so you can zip through projects. Fully programmable, these three keys can do much more than copy and paste. In fact, you can configure them to perform virtually any key command you want, making them useful to not just developers but to all kinds of creatives.

Click Here to Pre-Order: $29

The keyboard’s design is courtesy of avid-coder Cassidy, who was especially blown away by how simple and useful the product idea was. Cassidy worked closely with the folks at Stack Overflow to develop the product to perfection. Each ‘The Key’ macropad comes with Kailh Box Black switches for a smooth clicking experience and features swappable keycaps, allowing you to customize your little peripheral with keycaps of your own. The entire apparatus sits within a slick black, CNC-machined aluminum case, with rubberized feet to make sure the keyboard doesn’t slip around while you hit the keys. ‘The Key’ connects to devices via USB-C, using a coiled cable that ships along with the little gadget.

‘The Key’ is available for pre-order exclusively on Drop for $29. A portion of the proceeds from sales will go to digitalundivided to support their cause to catalyze economic growth in Black and Latinx communities.

Designers: Cassidy and Drop (in collaboration with Stack Overflow)

Click Here to Pre-Order: $29

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