[Giveaway]- GH Exclusive - Win a Glorious Modular Gaming Mechanical Keyboard!

[xtrafrood]

Winners will be announced November 12 on this thread and contacted via e-mail.

Who won ??

On the 11th The giveaway was changed from 11 hours to 21 days. /shrug. I guess 31 entries wasn't enough

[Glorious]

Yes increased the time frame a bit as there are very few entries.

[Aiwanei]

I think that Mechanical Keyboards are heading towards more mass market adoption.  The number of companies producing them is exploding right now, and prices are going down, so the barrier to entry is much lower.  High end options will continue to revolutionize such as the way the Glorious Modular Gaming Mechanical Keyboard is, but I also imagine other types of Modular systems to develop, maybe keyboards that come in parts, to do custom layouts/key placement that can be snapped together.

[huyserk1]

alternate materials is where i believe the market will get to next, it may not be the best place for it to go but it will be interesting.

[RELLIK]

I want to believe we'll be seeing the form factor change and numpads on the left side. Most people use their left to type more and mouse pads are only getting bigger.

[boTy]

Nice giveaway, entering!

I think we will be seeing a few more analog switch keyboards later on, and I would hope for more reprogramability with more "mainstream" keyboards, but that probably won't happen.

[henrebotha]

Long time lurker, first time poster. 

I think the trend is starting to move away from "accepted wisdom" such as "everyone needs a numpad" and towards more bleedover from the enthusiast market to the mainstream. CM Storm is leading the charge here, with releases that start to look less like Fisher Price rave toys and more like serious tools.

[harjoat]

:O awesome, want to win this give away

[AKmalamute]

 Posting this without reading any of the others so maybe I'll be treading oft-repeated comments.

"where the market is headed" seems to be 'mainstream' as not just mass-drop, but ICW (I think that's the company? Where my work buys all their vaguely technical odds & ends) and other normal-people-see-them outlets list mechanical keyboards (with kailh or gateron brows but still). Even the oddity of the 87-key is not considered so odd by my coworkers (of course, I talked the boss into buying my desk a QFR)

With the M-D run of hall-effect in three different sizes, and Ellipse' run of model-F keyboards, in addition to the many Cherry clones I think that the 'enthusiast' market has grown enough to throw the kind of money needed at all the known ways of registering a key-click.

What I don't see, much to my chagrin, is much at all outside the serious enthusiasts corner of layouts that aren't ANSI-125. I want to see more vertical stagger, more two handed keyboards. Or at least ANSI-150, or better yet 3x spacebars but no,, that's still too weird for everyone. Which I guess I can understand, but maybe as keyboards like in this giveaway gain traction, those control freaks out there will begin to realize they aren't tied to "what the store sells them."

A coworker likes to point out a discussion once held in a programming class, about GUIs and other interface choices. How many of the programming students drove a stick shift car? (8/10 IIRC) What do the students think is generally more popular "out there" (close to a 50/50 split). The truth of the sales records is that automatics are, and have always been more popular.

The lesson, then, is "know your audience. ... And your audience is not [like] you."

So, where the market is going, is wherever resides the most efficacy with the least amount of thought. Given the proliferation of tablets, and people who think a laptop, or a tablet, or their wii, is a suitable replacement for playing the upgrade game (IE they don't have a computer just a phone) Bluetooth adapters are probably the next big thing.

[AKmalamute]

alternate materials is where i believe the market will get to next, it may not be the best place for it to go but it will be interesting.

So first of all this isn't an entry; that's above me. Second of all, I want to build an ergodox in T-1. I think that would be massively cool.

Or I guess I could shorten that, to say the keyboard would be massive
[sunglasses+music cue]

[Modder]

Different kind of form factors

[iamtootallforthis]

Hall effect switch boards will become more common. Increase in different types of switches being made and hopefully cheaper thick ABS sets like the ones from JTK.

I am hoping there will be heavier Topre options and heavier MX silent options.

[Chau]

Not sure where it's headed but prices of decent mechs definitely have to come down so the masses can get a taste, and once that happens few will ever go back to rubber domes.

[hestar69]

Eventually the prices will be way down and everyone and their mom will have one probably...Then something else will come along like a keyboard that's all touch screen and futuristic!

[calavera]

I think we'll see more boards offered with different switches.. like the ones made in China and Korea. I wouldn't be surprised if we see more ergonomic layouts offered in the future. Right now it's just a handful of custom boards. What I hope for is for alps to make a come back. Matias was one step in the right direction but it's a niche market so I doubt it will ever become mainstream. But you never know..

[gqpb]

Hello, I think the future of the mechanical keyboard will continue to trend toward a customizable and modular design. Also, a cool idea I have is customizing the sound they make -- this could be through a mechanism or virtually reproducing different clicking sounds. The sound plays a huge role for me, and tweaking it would be valuable!

[gqpb]

Hello, I think the future of the mechanical keyboard will continue to trend toward a customizable and modular design. Also, a cool idea I have is customizing the sound they make -- this could be through a mechanism or virtually reproducing different clicking sounds. The sound plays a huge role for me, and tweaking it would be valuable!

[hking0036]

Posting this without reading any of the others so maybe I'll be treading oft-repeated comments.

"where the market is headed" seems to be 'mainstream' as not just mass-drop, but ICW (I think that's the company? Where my work buys all their vaguely technical odds & ends) and other normal-people-see-them outlets list mechanical keyboards (with kailh or gateron brows but still). Even the oddity of the 87-key is not considered so odd by my coworkers (of course, I talked the boss into buying my desk a QFR)

With the M-D run of hall-effect in three different sizes, and Ellipse' run of model-F keyboards, in addition to the many Cherry clones I think that the 'enthusiast' market has grown enough to throw the kind of money needed at all the known ways of registering a key-click.

What I don't see, much to my chagrin, is much at all outside the serious enthusiasts corner of layouts that aren't ANSI-125. I want to see more vertical stagger, more two handed keyboards. Or at least ANSI-150, or better yet 3x spacebars but no,, that's still too weird for everyone. Which I guess I can understand, but maybe as keyboards like in this giveaway gain traction, those control freaks out there will begin to realize they aren't tied to "what the store sells them."

A coworker likes to point out a discussion once held in a programming class, about GUIs and other interface choices. How many of the programming students drove a stick shift car? (8/10 IIRC) What do the students think is generally more popular "out there" (close to a 50/50 split). The truth of the sales records is that automatics are, and have always been more popular.

The lesson, then, is "know your audience. ... And your audience is not [like] you."

So, where the market is going, is wherever resides the most efficacy with the least amount of thought. Given the proliferation of tablets, and people who think a laptop, or a tablet, or their wii, is a suitable replacement for playing the upgrade game (IE they don't have a computer just a phone) Bluetooth adapters are probably the next big thing.

For an enthusiast's market it's better to have a standard layout than it is to be all over the place. I understand wanting it but keysets are already scattered to the wind with extra spacebars and ISO sets, mixing that even more (like logitech did with their weirdly shaped space bar) just ends up leaving some people behind. Maybe as it becomes larger it can take off but keysets would have to be super specific then and group buys would be nigh-on impossible if everyone has a non-standard bottom row wanting their own expansion set.

[Crapbag]

Going to Trump.

MAGA

[Prelim]

I see the "mech scene" in 2 different ways:

- Gaming/wannabe community: will always choose to buy the main brands, which will end up giving them the options for leds, cheap constructions and some marketing gimmick options such as macro keys etc.

- Mech addict/advance user: more options will arise for DIY kits, either from community GBs and maybe some brands which are more closely following our communities  (brands such as Vortex, KBParadise, Ducky etc).

I also think Cherry MX clones are stagnating and since the only viable option is Gateron ATM, a different switch design could be arising (even from Cherry). Some low profile switches (similar to ML) can also be a reality soon... I'm still a bit surprised to see why hasn't this already happened yet, since many people prefer typing in low profile caps DSA etc (maybe because the escalating laptop usage throughout the latest years)

Wherever happens, the mechanical keyboards are here to rule!!!

[dorkvader]

I see more innovation in modern keyboard designs. First you had the wild west, where every KB was different, then IBM enhanced keyboard came out and most people standardized on it. TKL's were around and then became popular. Once 2011 hit and mech keyboards started to become more popular, even more layouts came out. Poker 1 popularized the 60% then we had KBT Race and Noppoo with the 75% some custom keyboards experimented with other sizes (lightsaver eliminated the navcluster in favor of the tenkey, LZ made one with the tenkey on the left, etc) then 40% came out and I went away for a while. Now I come back and there's a bunch of different layouts for everyone!

So I now see the rise of ergo layouts. Once normal squared off layouts are saturated, more ergo layouts get made. Maltron -> kinesis -> ergodox -> keyboardio ->

The other thing I see is the rise of new switch technology. XMIT is helping china make hall effect great again, there are people working on inductive sensing, which was never common even though it has some interesting properties and modern inductive sensors are very impressive. I see contact switches start to be phased out, as it becomes cheaper to introduce other technologies that have less ringing problems (analog design + Schmitt trigger (aka hysteresis) = no ringing and potential for 100KHz+ scanrate ) and are better in other ways.

Finally, I'd like to see more discreet LEDs rather than the rave party showdown that computer peripherals have come to. I think it will become less popular and we co to more austere designs again like this one:

[Belfong]

I wish 60% keyboard become more mainstream. In the age of minimalism, the keyboard form factor in general public is still not at it's minimal yet. The 60% is such a great keyboard especially connected to a tablet - iPad or Surface. Hopefully it will see better adoption in future.

[serfeldon]

This keyboard is really great. It makes perfect sense for the pro gamer to customize different areas of the keyboard depending on common use. I like the quality and look of all aluminum construction. I would like to see the keys themselves offered in multiple color options, and maybe an optional lcd, or oled display.

[Glorious]

Closing contest due to lack of entries, and TONS of spam/invalid entries (less than 30 actual entries, and over 500 spam entries).