Ducky Year of the Dragon!

[ekw808]

Does anybody have any information on this?? Imsto has a picture of this keyboard on his taobao website, but there isn't any additional information for this keyboard anywhere else. Can anyone shed some light on this?? We all know this keyboard is coming.. its inevitable.

[ekw808]

Gung Hay Fat Choy.

I hear the Year of Water Dragon edition eats the Year of The Rabbit edition.

To bad there is no Year Of The Ducky.

Thanks, you too.

I hope they make a nice jade colored one, that could be pretty sweet.

[Henry Allen Venture]

I hope they make a nice jade colored one, that could be pretty sweet.

Yeah, that would be pretty awesome. I'll have to keep an eye out.
It'd have to be great looking to make me buy another Ducky, though.
Thats not to say that they're bad, its just I wanted my next keyboard to be a Topre or Model M13.

[ekw808]

Nobody knows?

[Henry Allen Venture]

It will probably be better than Filcos half-assed effort.

Agreed. That thing looked stupid.

[thegunner100]

Could you provide a link to the taobao page that you are refering to?

[jefferysanders]

There is no official word.  If you want to communicate with Ducky directly use their Facebook, I talk with them all the time we are great friends now 80).

[Human]

Gung Hay Fat Choy.

I hear the Year of Water Dragon edition eats the Year of The Rabbit edition.

To bad there is no Year Of The Ducky.

Just some irrelevant fix.
The one you wrote is Cantonese.
The correct one in Mandarin should be "Gong Xi Fa Cai"

[laffindude]

Not like ripster will know the proper pronunciation for PinYin anyways. Then again, typhoon Long Wang did provide endless amount of laughter for those that don't.

[ekw808]

http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=11020d_c.1-2L9BX.4-4FPsOC&id=13735665386

Imsto refuses to say anything about it though...

[ekw808]

I was actually watching Lethal Weapon 4 last night as I was going to sleep, and one of the last lines I heard was, "In Hong Kong, you'd already be dead."

Ducky did confirm that there was a keyboard, and that they have a working prototype, and they said they were on the next step of the production process, but no information about the specifications of the keyboard were given.

[laffindude]

http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=11020d_c.1-2L9BX.4-4FPsOC&id=13735665386

Imsto refuses to say anything about it though...

Hmm. Picture 3 is Ducky Shining. It'll be based on that? Makes sense.

[laffindude]

Hanamichi is awesome. I still have the whole comic collection somewhere.

[devouringone3]

A LEDed Limited Year Edition by Ducky, sweet... I'm still searching for the Year of the Ox. It has to be the less documented Year edition of all the four (Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon). I know that it comes with ABS caps and a redder plate mount (redder next to a Rabbit Ducky which looks pale and pinkish in comparison). Redder kind of like under the keys of the Gtune Realforces.

[Kamikaze K]

If it's still going then... come 2014, I'll be on the Year of the Horse Edition like a fat kid on fried food!  

[devouringone3]

Yeah they have released so many "Year of the" keyboards in about only two years.

Kind of like Topre celebrating their "tenth" (Japanese?) anniversary twice, in 2011 and in 2012.

[ryan92084]

There is money in dying your keys and marking up the price.  The McKEYmouse Effect.

Maybe it will the Songs of Fire And Ice keyboard?
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Please don't report me for posting Lego pics.  I don't want to be banned.

WARNING: Reporting these Lego pics may result in waking the dragon.

[devouringone3]

I like your Lego pictures.

The Leopold Topre with blue-grey and grey caps doesn't cost that much more than a Topre tenkeyless on Elitekeyboards.com. For someone who lives in Korea it might even me cheaper than EK.com.

This one though is a more expensive than the 103U models at EK.



http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=15003240097

Google:

1 951.14 (min) Chinese yuan = 309.759084 U.S. dollars
2 198.00 (max) Chinese yuan = 348.950084 U.S. dollars


But it has has special feature, its Pro mode, which transform right alt into ctrl + alt and right ctrl to ctrl + shift.

It comes to the cost of the right Winkey and the scroll lock LED... it's still a bit better than not having a pro mode, lol.



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And one or two oddities that I think high of and the main reasons why I purchased this keyboard are that it's a "104U" (instead of a 103U) and it has 30 g uniformly partitioned key weighting. Both are good to have but the combination I think is great!

[ekw808]

I just spoke with Attarian who has the website: http://ohmykb.com/ and he told me that the ducky year of the dragon is going to be a backlit keyboard and should be released in may-june.

That is all.

[CaiSter21]

wonder if they are finally gonna be pbt backlit keys...

[tp4tissue]

wonder if they are finally gonna be pbt backlit keys...

won't matter what they make the keys out of, if it isn't double shot, it'll wear off eventually.. and you WONT" be able to find replacements, since its a limited edition board to begin with .

backlit is fail,, always.

[ekw808]

^Man this guy is spewing cold hard facts up in here I hope my teachers will let me use him as a source; I don't know how you conclude from non ds = backlit fail. Don't like gay marriage? Don't get gay married....same concept. But I know that site does ship to US it just costs around 20 bucks. But I am not sure about ww I would assume that it ships to EU being in France and all but AU is questionable.

[laffindude]

I don't know where I read this, so considering it hearsay. I read that Dragon Year edition would feature an entirely new case. Not sure what this means. Could it finally be a 9000 series tenkeyless?

[devouringone3]

Found this, via Ducky Keyboards' Facebook.

[video=youtube;h-ES7Hzd6iY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-ES7Hzd6iY#![/video]

Video is super lame, but that blink mode is kind of cool... but only cool because it's not really a practical use for LEDs on a keyboard.

Would be better to have all LED lit up and a "negative" blink upon key press.

[laffindude]

Uh... So it would light up under your fingers.... where you can't see. After glow woulda been cool.

[FoxWolf1]

That flashy mode would be pretty neat with some translucent caps, so that you get circles of light around your fingers wherever you press.

[Exort]

Uh... So it would light up under your fingers.... where you can't see. After glow woulda been cool.

Same thought.
But you can see some light around the keycap.
Then all type of backlit is pretty useless, who buy a mech board yet can't touch type anyways.

[laffindude]

Same thought.
But you can see some light around the keycap.
Then all type of backlit is pretty useless, who buy a mech board yet can't touch type anyways.

Reminds me of this:
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[ShakeR]

That flashy mode would be pretty neat with some translucent caps, so that you get circles of light around your fingers wherever you press.

+1

[feng]

Haven't tried Ducky's keyboard for such a long time since I sold my Ducky 108 black switch. It's really not as good as Filco's. Maybe I should try them again since they've made many changes on their keyboards.