Corsair acquires Munich-based Elgato Gaming

[HEXUS]

Elgato Gaming is best known for its video game capture and streaming hardware products.

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[azrael-]

Slightly surprising aquisition since Elgato is mostly known for their Apple products.

[Ttaskmaster]

I think I may know where this is going...

I took one quick look at the Elgato page and, being a lover of weird peripheral stuff that most people consider junk, I immediately zeroed in on that Stream Deck.
It's a box of buttons, essentially. A TenKey pad, pretty much... but each key has a tiny LCD so you can customise it to show whatever you want. I've seen whole keyboards with this before, but they were insanely expensive.

It's meant to be a shortcut for functions used during streaming and the like, but my first thought was mapping ship functions in Elite: Dangerous... and it has easy to use software that you Drag-&-Drop the key icons with... and they also do an icon creator app...

So, I'm betting Corsair will start incorporating this into their keyboards, similar to how Logitech often had whole ranks of macro keys down the left side of theirs (still loving my old G19 keyboard!).

But in case that's not the plan and I've just given away loads of cool ideas - I'd appreciate some free products in recognition, or something, ya know...?

[chinf]

It would be good if this leads the market to grow up from obsessing with "more bling" to "more buttons".

It would also be good if bacon could fly straight to my door too.

[Ttaskmaster]

It would be good if this leads the market to grow up from obsessing with "more bling" to "more buttons".

I used to rock the whole 'more buttons' thing, but got accused of being a childish relic from the old days of gaming.... and then RGB came out and suddenly I was now a child who knew nothing of what real gaming used to be about....

Meanwhile, there's an overriding mindset that nothing is worth it unless it operates at, or has a response time, a hundred million bazillion times faster than any human being can make use of in the first place...!!

It would also be good if bacon could fly straight to my door too.

Shoot someone outside your house, then barricade yourself inside.
I guarantee there'll be bacon flying over your place within minutes!!!

[azrael-]

I think I may know where this is going...

I took one quick look at the Elgato page and, being a lover of weird peripheral stuff that most people consider junk, I immediately zeroed in on that Stream Deck.
It's a box of buttons, essentially. A TenKey pad, pretty much... but each key has a tiny LCD so you can customise it to show whatever you want. I've seen whole keyboards with this before, but they were insanely expensive.

It's meant to be a shortcut for functions used during streaming and the like, but my first thought was mapping ship functions in Elite: Dangerous... and it has easy to use software that you Drag-&-Drop the key icons with... and they also do an icon creator app...

So, I'm betting Corsair will start incorporating this into their keyboards, similar to how Logitech often had whole ranks of macro keys down the left side of theirs (still loving my old G19 keyboard!).

But in case that's not the plan and I've just given away loads of cool ideas - I'd appreciate some free products in recognition, or something, ya know...?

You're of course thinking about the Art Lebedev keyboards. Which are mostly vapourware...

[Ttaskmaster]

You're of course thinking about the Art Lebedev keyboards. Which are mostly vapourware...

Similar to, yes. The ones I saw looked somewhat different, and were available for sale at one stage in actual retailers, rather than just their own site, though.

[deepblue08]

It would be good if this leads the market to grow up from obsessing with "more bling" to "more buttons".

It would also be good if bacon could fly straight to my door too.

Just you wait, Amazon's drone delivery priority list looks like this:
1) Life Saving Drugs
2) Bacon
3) Essentials