Gadgetoid

gadg-et-oid [gaj-it-oid]

-adjective

1. having the characteristics or form of a gadget;
resembling a mechanical contrivance or device.
Chilkey Slice75 HE – Hall-effect Mechanical Keyboard Reviewed

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Wobkey Rainy75 Pro Mechanical Keyboard Reviewed

Wobkey Rainy75 Pro Mechanical Keyboard Reviewed

I promised Wobkey I’d get weird with the Rainy 75, and as I begin to pen this review I don’t…

IQUNIX Magi75 Pro ISO UK Mechanical Keyboard Reviewed

IQUNIX Magi75 Pro ISO UK Mechanical Keyboard Reviewed

IQUNIX is neither a brand I had heard of, nor expected terribly much from. It came as a surprise, then,…

Meletrix Zoom65 V2 Mechanical Keyboard Kit Reviewed

Meletrix Zoom65 V2 Mechanical Keyboard Kit Reviewed

After building the Chilkey ND75, and trying the Slice75 and Slice68 I figured it was time to graduate to something…

Womier SK75 TMR Hybrid Mechanical/Magnetic Keyboard

Womier SK75 TMR Hybrid Mechanical/Magnetic Keyboard

Wow. Sometimes a board comes along that just recontextualises how you think about keyboards. Womier’s SK75 TMR is a glorious,…

Chilkey ND104 full-sized mechanical keyboard

Chilkey ND104 full-sized mechanical keyboard

I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve tested a full-sized mechanical keyboard. The reasons for this…

Redragon FIZZ (Black) K617M 60% Hall-Effect Mechanical Keyboard

Redragon FIZZ (Black) K617M 60% Hall-Effect Mechanical Keyboard

Every time I relent to testing a “cheap” keyboard I expect to get off scott free with five hundred words…

KiiBOOM Cybrix29 – 29-key Hall-Effect, left-hand-only gaming keyboard

KiiBOOM Cybrix29 – 29-key Hall-Effect, left-hand-only gaming keyboard

I was interested in the Cybrix29 mainly for one reason- to make fun of a quirky half keyboard that makes…

KBDCraft Lilith Q 60% ISO Keyboard Reviewed

KBDCraft Lilith Q 60% ISO Keyboard Reviewed

My second KBDCraft build, and more months overdue than I’d care to even think about, the Lilith 60% ISO brings…

NuPhy Halo75 V2 IO Edition Reviewed

NuPhy Halo75 V2 IO Edition Reviewed

Finally NuPhy have succumb to my tirade of increasingly bizarre emails and sent me a keyboard. Truly this is a…

Chilkey Slice68 HE 65% Mechanical Keyboard

Chilkey Slice68 HE 65% Mechanical Keyboard

First teased way back in July 2023 at an MKB Convention, Chilkey’s Slice 68 – not that you would tell…

Cerakey Thocky Blank Crazed Ceramic Keycaps

Cerakey Thocky Blank Crazed Ceramic Keycaps

If you read my review of Cerakey’s Nada65 Panda, you’ll know that I love the idea of ceramic caps –…

Lofree Flow 2 68 – 65%, low profile mechanical keyboard – reviewed

Lofree Flow 2 68 – 65%, low profile mechanical keyboard – reviewed

Lofree’s Flow 2 is the sort of keyboard I would have loved before I fell deep, deep into the rabbit…

KiiBOOM Phantom 81 Lite

KiiBOOM Phantom 81 Lite

KiiBOOM’s Phantom 81 Lite is an interesting beast. At a glance it looks like a wild detraction from the unique…

Epomaker Hack59 HHKB-inspired Mechanical Keyboard

Epomaker Hack59 HHKB-inspired Mechanical Keyboard

Epomaker’s Hack59 is one of three in a recent lapse of judgement where I request-all-the-cute-small-keyboards-from-Epomaker. It is the second of…

Wuque Studio Flux Hall-Effect Switches

Wuque Studio Flux Hall-Effect Switches

Wuque Studio’s Flux hall-effect switches arrived a little too late to find their way into my Slice 75 HE. Thankfully…

KiiBOOM Jade75 White Resin Mechanical Keyboard

KiiBOOM Jade75 White Resin Mechanical Keyboard

Let’s be honest, I picked this keyboard not because I thought I’d love it, but because it’s so deeply weird…

Chilkey Slice75 HE – Hall-effect Mechanical Keyboard Reviewed

Chilkey Slice75 HE – Hall-effect Mechanical Keyboard Reviewed

The Slice 75 is, in spirit, a hall-effect version of the ND75 I’ve just tested. While you could – at…

Epomaker HE68 Lite Hall-effect Keyboard Reviewed

Epomaker HE68 Lite Hall-effect Keyboard Reviewed

Try as I might, I can’t resist the allure of Epomaker’s boards. A handful of especially compact and keenly priced…

PBS Aperture Priority Keycaps

PBS Aperture Priority Keycaps

I look for three things in a keycap shape – low profile, curvaceous and uniform. PBS (Penguin Belly Slide, no…

Chilkey ND75 ISO Mechanical Keyboard

Chilkey ND75 ISO Mechanical Keyboard

As I gradually immersed myself in the shallow end of the deep, deep, custom mechanical keyboard ocean one particular board…