The modern gamer's lair is a radical departure from the rumpled, cheeto-dusted squalor of yesteryear. At least, it is if advertisers and social media influencers can be believed. Today's gamer, we're led to believe, demands an LED-highlighted person-cave, a water-cooled PC with more dazzling LEDs dancing through the case, LED backlighting behind the monitors, LED-lit keyboards ... Basically, if it's not screaming neon colors at you harder than a Tokyo alleyway, it's not cool.
In this context, Finalmouse's Centerpiece keyboard is clearly the new king of the playground. Within an anodized aluminum case, engraved to look like something an elf might've handed down to humanity if Middle Earth made it as far as the information age, sits a fully transparent set of keys. And beneath these keys lies a full color screen, driven by a built-in computer and graphics processor. This screen runs interactive visuals developed in Unreal Engine 5, so you can have little koi fish swimming under your keyboard and running away from your fingers. Or the keys can explode dramatically as you type; that's got to inspire you to choose your keystrokes carefully. Or, well, you can pretty much have whatever you want going on in there, if you design it yourself and upload it to the Steam app.
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