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Care more about the stabilizers in your mechanical keyboard–here's why


Don’t know what a keyboard stabilizer is? You’re about to find out.

Even if you have the fanciest switches and a monolithic aluminum case, bad stabilizers can make a keyboard feel and sound like garbage. Luckily, there's a growing ecosystem of weirdly fancy stabilizers that can upgrade your typing experience, packing an impressive amount of innovation into a few tiny bits of plastic and metal. Swagkeys Knight stabilizers(top image) use a double-shot mold to offer polycarbonate plastic on the exterior with a softer silicone internal surface where the wires touch.

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