Product design studio Higround and streetwear label PRIX Workshop have joined forces to create a nostalgic translucent mechanical keyboard paying homage to childhood-favorite clear Playstation and Xbox consoles.
Looking to create a broader set of choices which might be style-forward and expressive for a culturally various viewers, Higround was based by Rustin Sotoodeh and Kha Lu in 2020 to ship high-quality modifiable keyboards and different pc peripherals for avid gamers. After partnering with manufacturers exterior of the gaming trade similar to Beats by Dre, StockX and Attack on Titan, the model now works with PRIX to type a pure bridge between trend and gaming.
“This is the proper time to point out our dimensionality, as a product design studio past graphics,” Higround co-founder Rustin Sotoodeh says of the discharge.
Under the slogan “Engineered and Tested,” PRIX Workshop founder Esther Ng attracts inspiration from her time and expertise at YEEZY, alongside along with her private pursuits together with retro video video games, basic JDM sports activities automobiles, and anime. As an avid gamer, Ng has skilled challenges first-hand associated to limitations within the gaming trade primarily based on her pursuits and gender. Through this collaboration, she hopes that everybody will really feel welcomed and comfy within the house with the instruments to match.
“I’ve all the time been intrigued by pc {hardware} and the interconnectedness of all of it, for so long as I’ve been constructing PCs I’ve puzzled what it’d be prefer to see every little thing working in its uncooked magnificence whereas additionally being protected and as sensible as attainable — I assumed it was a disgrace that the majority corporations conceal these parts to realize mass-market attraction. Higround has given me the chance to share that thought with everybody with this new keyboard,” Ng stated of the collaboration.
The Higround x PRIX Workshop keyboard will likely be out there on the Higround web site on June 24 at 12 p.m. PT (3 p.m. ET).
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