This may very well be the perfect gaming keyboard

By Darren Allan

We’ve seen a lot of mechanical keyboards pop up lately, but here’s something completely different: an analog and compact, ten-keyless (i.e. sans number pad) effort from Dutch hardware maker Wooting.

The Wooting One is an analog keyboard as opposed to a traditional digital keyboard. With the latter, you press a key and it registers, and that’s that – it has two states, either being pressed or not.

However, an analog keyboard registers how far down you press the key in increments. This could vastly improve some PC game experiences.

For example, a racing game: the further down you press the key, the faster you’ll accelerate – or the harder you turn the steering wheel – just like when using a controller.

How about a shooter? With this keyboard, you could fine tune your actions, like strafe very slowly or peek out around a corner stealthily, if you depressing the relevant key slightly.

No numpad, no nonsense

Again, the Wooting One is tenkeyless, meaning they’ve ditched the number pad to make it far more compact. That’s handy for portability and fitting onto small desks at LAN parties.

Furthermore, it brings your left hand on the keys and your right hand on the mouse closer together for …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components