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The minute you get your hands on this wonderful portable, you find yourself with an urge to express yourself
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Now that can be mighty important, not only in school, but in later life too
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So I've made videos on many unusual, crazy keyboards, computer keyboards, Bluetooth keyboards, wireless keyboards, wired keyboards, touch keyboards, laser keyboards
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If there's a keyboard, I'm probably going to look at it. It's very surprising how diverse the world of keyboards is
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It, to me, seems to indicate that people have a very particular taste when it comes to their choice in keyboard
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What I'm going to show you today, possibly the craziest keyboard that I've ever featured
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It also might be the most expensive. I can't remember. Will, it's 300 bucks
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This thing is expensive, and I have to tell you that. It's called the Quirky Writer S, a typewriter-inspired mechanical keyboard
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This embraces a different mindset, a different time period. The click and the clack, the war and the peace
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To Kill a Mockingbird Brave New World Lord of the Flies The company is called Quirky Toys There a picture of what it looks like That an attention thing You put that in the den a glass of cognac next to it fine wood grain and the smell of leather
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Let's take a closer look at this thing Does look cool feel like I'm about to crack the code this thing is heavy Heavy
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Oh boy. Look. Woo! It's a real typewriter feel. Now the switches are Cherry MX Blue
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that little plaque to it. Bam! This tray is if you want to use iPad or a phone
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This apparently is programmable, but that's a throwback. Sets and clears, stops in front
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makes indenting easier. To typewriter days as well. Same with these knobs on the side
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LEDs along the top that I can see another button USB connector to use it in a wired fashion a
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Traditional style power switch on this side braided style USB cable, but that's micro USB though
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Oh it is a micro USB connector so it more secure Look at that That in there This will be cool as like a volume knob Maybe it is So this thing will work on PC Mac Android and iOS Got it connected to this MacBook Pro over here My intuition was to test this knob for volume
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That's exactly what it does. That is cool. What is this side supposed to do
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I don't know maybe nothing. Now this what does this do? No, it's enter. It acts as enter. Test to
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Wow, I kind of like it. The quick brown fox jumped over Jack. What? Vertical scroll. Let's just fill this up. He's right
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Ooh, that's kind of nice. So you do a little webpage scroll in there. Now you probably have
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a scroll wheel on your mouse, but they're trying to market the idea of using this with your iPad
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You don't want to reach up and it's annoying because you're busy. How about that? Well
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You're sitting over there yelling, yelling and screaming, and the truth of the matter is, you didn't do your research
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I wanted to be Tom Cruise against Matt Lauer. I'm not out here trying to prescribe Ritalin
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I am not gonna go out and say get your kids on Ritalin it the cure and the end Matt but here the point Matt don be glib Matt you don even you glib Can you explain to me Will what this 10M 20M 30M
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situation is? This is mapped to brightness. Oh, they're macros. Are we talking macros? Are we
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talking macaroni? I saw a channel the other day, OnTrending, which is a guy who specializes in
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living like it's 200 or 300 years ago. Have you seen this guy? Welcome to 18th century
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cooking I'm John Townsend and we're doing macaroni or we might call it today macaroni and cheese
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All right so listen there's obviously a massive novelty factor here there is spectacle here but
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they didn't skimp on the functionality you've got Cherry MX blue switches the thing is made out of
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metal it can pair to three separate bluetooth devices you can use it wired if you choose to
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so if you're about this style if you look at this and you feel inspired it could be the next Harry
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Potter and I think she's doing alright for herself. How many books did she sell
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Willy do. 450 million half a billion Harry Potter books and she owes it all to the
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QWERTY writer S. You need to know about it! Kaboom
