{"id":1518,"date":"2018-04-23T02:12:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T02:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlinegaminggear.com\/kira-is-a-classic-feel-mechanical-keyboard-arted-up-with-trippy-rgb-backlighting-keyboards-mice\/"},"modified":"2018-04-23T02:12:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T02:12:00","slug":"kira-is-a-classic-feel-mechanical-keyboard-arted-up-with-trippy-rgb-backlighting-keyboards-mice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlinegaminggear.com\/kira-is-a-classic-feel-mechanical-keyboard-arted-up-with-trippy-rgb-backlighting-keyboards-mice\/","title":{"rendered":"Kira is a classic-feel mechanical keyboard \u2018arted up\u2019 with trippy RGB backlighting &#8211; Keyboards &#038; Mice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<h2 id=\"article-intro\" itemprop=\"description\">Keys are good.<\/h2>\n<p>If you consider the typing experience on modern notebooks an insult to your fingers, you might like the sound of Kira (<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/kira.click\/kickstarter-stufftv\" target=\"_blank\">$179 \u2013 or $259 for the metal-framed version<\/a><\/strong>) \u2013 and we mean that literally. Closer in nature to a typewriter than a MacBook keyboard, Kira\u2019s chunky keys use a range of hot-swappable switch types, from the \u2018sharp, heavy and clicky\u2019 Novelkeys Box Pale Blue to the \u2018light and airy tactile\u2019 Hako Violet.<\/p>\n<p>But Kira marries its retro feel with a dash of modern \u2013\u00a0it\u2019s open source and customisable, so you can turn any key into a multi-function macro. And there\u2019s fully programmable RGB under-lighting, too. The keyboard\u2019s creators argue this makes the Kira a \u201cwork of functional art\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We\u00a0mostly\u00a0like\u00a0the idea of being bathed in multicoloured light, imagining we\u2019re starring in a trashy sci-fi flick\u00a0while smashing out a masterpiece.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keys are good. If you consider the typing experience on modern notebooks an insult to your fingers, you might like the sound of Kira ($179 \u2013 or $259 for the metal-framed version) \u2013 and we mean that literally. Closer in nature to a typewriter than a MacBook keyboard, Kira\u2019s chunky keys use a range of [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinegaminggear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinegaminggear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinegaminggear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinegaminggear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinegaminggear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/onlinegaminggear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinegaminggear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinegaminggear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinegaminggear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinegaminggear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}