April Fools’ is a bizarre day for anybody who covers PC gaming {hardware}. We get slammed with press releases and trailers for joke merchandise and video games. The strangest factor is that typically I will see a joke product and assume, “Damnit, I might really purchase that.” Properly, Corsair determined to ship over its April Fools joke to me, and I am a little bit relieved that nobody really sells these items.
Corsair calls the FT 100 Keycaps ‘elite tactile distractors,’ which can exchange your extra ineffective keys (taking a look at you, SCRLK) with one thing extra sensible like a full-sized fidget spinner, a knob, or a dial.
Contained in the bundle are 5 fidget-friendly keycaps, which embrace a fidget spinner, a small dial, an on/off change, a trackball, and a really clicky button. So, after all, I would not be a {hardware} author price my salt if I did not check out these foolish keys, jokes or not.
I believed I had moved on from fidget spinners years in the past (opens in new tab), however I will admit having one on the keyboard feels sort of nice, particularly throughout lengthy conferences. I put the massive spinner on my ESC, and whereas the construct high quality of the keycaps appears okay, I did have issues with the fidget spinner flying off the keyboard often after extra intense spins. What can I say? I am an excessive fidgeter.
I like the texture of the tiny trackball keycap in opposition to my fingertip in addition to flicking the sunshine change on and off. The dial and clicky button keycap are the weaker keys and do not ship the identical degree of satisfaction as the opposite keycaps. Although in case you plan to harass folks, the clicky keycap is good and loud, and the fidget spinner has a extremely good obnoxious hum to it on actually massive spins.
The FT 100 keycaps won’t really be on the market, and that may be a great factor since if I needed to sit close to a co-worker utilizing these they would not be my coworker anymore as a result of I might have murdered them.
Nonetheless, I am nonetheless irritated Corsair by no means bought these large followers they made for Fan Week (opens in new tab).