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Das Keyboard Launches Q-Series Cloud-Connected Smart Keyboards

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 09/06/2018 02:31 PM | source: | 8 comment(s)
Das Keyboard Launches Q-Series Cloud-Connected Smart Keyboards

The Das Keyboard 5Q is a cloud-enabled, open API, RGB mechanical keyboard that helps boost productivity through dazzling performance and the industry's fastest electronics. The X50Q is the company's edgy crossover keyboard designed to appeal to gamers and professionals alike. 

Both the 5Q and the X50Q introduce the market's most advanced mechanical switch-the new Gamma Zulu switch, available exclusively from Das Keyboard. Made by Omron (Japan) for Das Keyboard, the Gamma Zulu is a modern best-in-class, soft tactile key switch that provides users with faster, effortless typing and gaming sessions. Das Keyboard's Gamma Zulu switches have a 1.5mm actuation point, a total travel of 3.5 mm and can withstand an unsurpassed 100 million actuations-100 percent more durable than other standard mechanical switches.  With each Das Keyboard Q-series device, a user can color-code keys to display customized alerts such as:

  • Tracking the status of projects, pending deadlines and tasks over time
  • Notifications when someone tweets or makes other social media posts
  • Knowing when their favorite sports team has scored
  • Receiving weather updates
  • Tracking stock market activity
  • Receiving virtually any other kind of information they want to track without ever opening a browser through the Q keyboard's fully-customizable keys

"Since the Das Keyboard 5Q and X50Q are cloud-connected, users are able to do things they've never been able to do with a traditional input-only keyboard," said Daniel Guermeur, founder and CEO of Das Keyboard. "Receiving streaming information right there at their fingertips means individuals are able to be more productive whenever they're at their computers-whether a professional navigating the workday, or a gamer dominating their opponents."

The Das Keyboard Q-series has a connected software suite called Das Keyboard Q Software. It connects to IFTTT and Zapier to light up the 5Q and X50Q keyboards with notifications-all color-coded and displayed on keys determined by the user. All notifications are available right at a user's fingertips. Since they're happening in the periphery just outside the direct field of view, users are better able to stay focused on the task at hand. The Das Keyboard Q software includes:

  • A dashboard for real-time key color visualization of information coming from the Internet into the 5Q or X50Q, made possible by IFTTT, Zapier or any other cloud applications with a public API
  • Mode illumination, which allows the 5Q's and X50Q's LEDs to be individually controlled
  • User-defined lighting profiles
  • A desktop REST API that allows programmers to directly control the light colors with their own scripts

On the hardware side, both the Das Keyboard 5Q and the Das Keyboard X50Q offer industry-leading technologies including:

  • Extra-bright RGB backlighting electronics called Das Keyboard RGB+, along with custom surface-mount LEDs, optimized lens and ultra-clear light guide-making the 5Q keyboard many times brighter than any other RGB keyboard currently on the market
  • A 'Q button' for activating the Das Keyboard Q software, and also acts as a volume knob
  • Dedicated media keys located on the upper right corner
  • An extra set of silver keycaps for WASD (X50Q only)
  • Real-Time One (RTO) analog technology detects key presses in 0.4 milliseconds and reports it to the computer within 1 millisecond-up to 45 times faster than other keyboards (5Q only)
  • A full-size keyboard with a removable, customizable and swappable top plate design (X50Q only)

The Das Keyboard 5Q and X50Q are the inaugural Q-series keyboards, and are now available for purchase for $249 MSRP and $199 respectively at www.daskeyboard.com and leading online retailers. Both the 5Q and the X50Q with European layouts (DE, UK and NO) will be available in Europe from leading retailers for €249 MSRP and €199 respectively.



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cryohellinc
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#5581903 Posted on: 09/06/2018 03:20 PM
Font alone is an instant "no" for me. Hell for 200Euro you might as well grab Realforce Topre / HHKB / Leopold that will last you forever.

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#5581970 Posted on: 09/06/2018 06:21 PM
The heck is this?

No, seriously, what the heck is this. "Cloud" keyboard?

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#5581978 Posted on: 09/06/2018 06:56 PM
i owned a Das 4 professional mx.brown and it was by far the worst mechanical keyboard i owned, low quality, sharp edges, wobling keys.

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#5581979 Posted on: 09/06/2018 06:58 PM
The heck is this?

No, seriously, what the heck is this. "Cloud" keyboard?

Always online keyboards are the future duh. /s

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#5581981 Posted on: 09/06/2018 07:05 PM
The heck is this?

No, seriously, what the heck is this. "Cloud" keyboard?
From the product description it's a ridiculously over priced notification mode

And probably selling your private data too

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#5582052 Posted on: 09/06/2018 11:41 PM
Cloud keyboard :rolleyes: and that price no thanks think I'll stick with my Strafe MK.2 Silent.

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#5582111 Posted on: 09/07/2018 07:45 AM
From the product description it's a ridiculously over priced notification mode

And probably selling your private data too
A keyboard should be for typing, not distracting you with useless social media messages and RGB, unless you have a 3rd eye.

Brushed metal is HORRIBLE for a keyboard, it's a dust/fingerprint magnet. Only useful application for it is to bash people on some esports even.

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#5582550 Posted on: 09/08/2018 10:10 AM
G613 FTW!

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