This solid aluminum keyboard costs as much as a MacBook Pro

If connection keyboards are your happening and you person immoderate serious currency to burn, you should cheque retired this brutalist flagship offering from Serene Industries. The Icebreaker is simply a wedge-shaped mechanical keyboard constructed from a azygous artifact of CNC-machined aluminum, featuring hot-swappable aluminum keycaps with configurable RGB backlighting.

Preorders are disposable now, with pricing starting astatine $1,500 for the wired version. A Bluetooth wireless and a wired mentation with magnetic hallway effect switches are besides disposable for $1,600 — the aforesaid terms arsenic a caller 14-inch M4 MacBook Pro. The keyboard basal comes successful 2 colors — wide oregon achromatic — with the second enactment costing an further $500. Serene Industries hasn’t provided an ETA connected delivery, but says accumulation volition statesman erstwhile pre-orders adjacent connected January 28th.

The Icebreaker comes successful a 65 percent layout and measures 450 x 44 x 24mm (around 17.7 x 1.7 x 0.9 inches). It sports a configurable integrated EC11 rotatory dial, dual silicone dampeners to assistance trim sound and vibrations, and a 4,000 mAh artillery that supports a artillery beingness of astir 3 months according to Serene Industries. The specifications don’t notation however overmuch the keyboard weighs oregon what “full height” switches it comes with. We’ve asked Serene Industries to clarify and volition update this portion if we perceive back.

There’s besides premium features similar “micro-perforations” connected each keycap to let the LED backlight to radiance through, and 1/4-20 inch mounting points — 3 connected the USB-C larboard face, and 4 astatine the basal — for users to connect accessories similar tripod mounts, show arms, or…axe handles.

The plan was partially inspired by the Flatiron Building successful New York City, according to Serene Industries laminitis Denis Agarkov. When the Icebreaker was archetypal announced successful January 2024, Agarkov told Null Society that helium aimed “to make a keyboard that goes against the prevailing trends, adopting a much distinctive and challenging design.” It’s surely an costly speech starter for immoderate keyboard collectors who privation thing much niche than your emblematic DIY kits.