Interview: ‘Razer’s Switchblade UI was ahead of its time, and we want to evolve it’

By Kane Fulton

Introduction

Razer has had a busy year, and it’s only halfway through. After getting off to a pretty much perfect start by winning the ‘Best in CES’ award for the sixth time in the row, the California, US-based gaming hardware company wasted no time in unveiling the Razer Blade Stealth. Arguably the company’s best designed (and sleekest) gaming laptop to date, the innovative machine connects to an external GPU enclosure called the Razer Core for an instant graphics boost.

The company hasn’t stood still in the peripherals space either, unveiling its stripped down BlackWidow X range of mechanical keyboards, and a new Razer Naga Hex V2 gaming mouse for MMO players, alongside a suite of peripherals designed to help gamers stream game footage that includes the Stargazer depth-sensing webcam and Ripsaw capture card. To find out more about what’s on the horizon for the company’s peripherals, TechRadar spoke to Ruben Mookerjee, GM and VP of User Interfaces at Razer.

TechRadar: Razer stripped away some of the excess that from its BlackWidow keyboard to create the BlackWidow X Chroma. What was the goal there?

Ruben Mookerjee: We wanted to take the Razer Green and Orange keyswitches that we’re very proud of, and …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Gaming