Custom mechanical keyboards are expensive due to the use of premium materials and pricey components like switches and keycaps. Barebones kits offer a cheaper alternative to "true" custom builds, but ...

Building your first custom mechanical keyboard can be intimidating. Between all the parts and terminology involved, it’s hard to know where to start. Thankfully, it’s also never been easier to jump ...

Keychron is one of the best-known names in mainstream mechanical keyboards. It has a dozen keyboards to its name (including the Q1), so it’s safe to say they know a thing or two about designing a ...

If you take a $70 keyboard and fully supe it up, can it compete with a decked out $500 keyboard or is it doomed to fail from ...

In this guide, we'll show you how to make a custom keyboard. Rather than relying on a pre-built design, if you build your own DIY gaming keyboard you get an an endless amount of choice and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Technology journalist specializing in audio, computing and Apple Macs. NuPhy is rapidly gaining a reputation for making some of ...

Mechanical keyboards may seem like they've only been around for the past several years or so. In reality, their lineage goes back multiple decades, to early consumer PC icons like IBM's Model M ...

Before the 1990s, mechanical keyboards were the norm, and it wasn’t until after companies discovered membrane keyboards were cheaper to make that they became the new standard. Although cheaper, ...

The budget custom keyboard world is hotter than ever, and today we’re looking at one of the most unexpected and exciting releases so far this year: the JRIS65 from IRISLab. Starting at $150, this ...

The Clicks Power Keyboard is a QWERTY keyboard that snaps magnetically to the back of your phone giving you a slide-out keyboard that hides behind the phone when you’re not using it and snaps out when ...