HyperX is Doing 3D Printed Keycaps Now

Want {custom} keycaps in your keyboard? Usually, you’d should scroll via Etsy outlets or purchase via specialist manufacturers like Drop. Especially if you need 3d keycaps—say, a little bit kitty cat that sits on prime of your Escape key. You can discover good and fairly priced outcomes this fashion, however the search could be time consuming and intimidating. Now, HP’s HyperX model is throwing its hat into the ring with its personalization initiative, HX3D.

There’s nonetheless a contact of specialty right here—HP’s 3D printed keycap collections will drop in particular, restricted version collections. It’s additionally not absolutely fleshed out but, beginning out the gate with only a single choice. But HP’s targets are bold, with plans set for a wider lineup of equipment down the road.

Essentially, what HP’s promising now is identical kind of 3D printing you would possibly get from an impartial artist on Etsy, however at scale and with supposedly greater high quality than what some impartial operators can present, with any cleanup work already completed for you. The ensuing 3D keycaps appear to be little collectible figurines, proper out of the field. The keycaps are nylon and include a one 12 months guarantee, and HyperX guarantees that they’re suitable with all of its keyboards and most different mechanical keyboards.

HP’s launching this system with one assortment, Cozy Cat Coco, which depicts a small brown calico cat sporting a shawl and beanie. But if that’s not your fashion, HP’s additionally promising “new collaborations and designs dropped every month.” I received to see a couple of alternate choices at a press occasion, the place there have been keycaps styled like geese, frogs, castles, and treasure chests.

But the press occasion additionally had different equipment deliberate for the personalization initiative, like a bunny figurine that holds your headphones or a toadstool that holds your microphone.

HP hasn’t instructed us a lot about how a lot a few of these will price (significantly the bigger statues), and even how a lot of what I noticed will make it to market. It has launched a sizzle reel teasing much more choices, although. As for the Cozy Cat Coco keycap, it’ll launch someday later this January at HyperX.com for $20 per cap.

I definitely know one other Gizmodo author (I hope you’re studying this, Flo) with a flare for keyboards and accessorizing who’s most likely going to be tenting out on the HX3D product web page as quickly as she reads this publish.