QUOTE(quovadis123 @ Dec 4 2013, 06:06 PM)
More bling bling..
The key casing from current black to transparent.
The LED capable cycling about 16.7M color.
MX RGB available in 4 types switches; blue , brown, red, black.
So, current MX Blue, MX Brown, MX Red, MX Black naming will turn to MX RGB Blue, MX RGB Brown, MX RGB Red, MX RGB Black with added LED and transparent case.
So, just add some eye candy.
Nothing innovate here. Just follow the normal trends of LED era.
They replaced single color with cycling color LED
https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11452LOL, I am expecting some working prototype, but all I saw are just some rendered image...
Am interested to know what changes they had done to allow RGB led to be mounted onto a new switches which look like having a similar dimension as old one. If want controllable RGB LED, the minimum no of pins is 4 pins, which is a little too compacted on the small MX switches. Most existing RGB LED is 5mm (too fat for cherry MX), 4 pins and not all color can work at the same time.
BTW, again, Plum seems to be more fast poke here with the RGB led nano 75 (using their own switches though).
1. Plum 96 come out a tad earlier than CM QF TK.
2. Plum capacitive switches come out a tad earlier than CM Topre Switches with Cherry MX compatible stem.
3. RGB LED switches on nano75 come out a tad earlier than the corsair cherry RGB MX.
There must be some conspiracy behind all these coincident, LOL.
p/s: I think I found the keywords - surface-mount RGB LED
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2013...cherry-mx-rgb/1This post has been edited by Human10: Dec 4 2013, 07:29 PM