Chill out to the sounds of an expert typing on a variety of mechanical keyboards
[…] thanks to custom keyboard guru Taeha “Nathan” Kim and weirdo label Trunk Records, you can relax to 43 minutes and 24 seconds of soothing sounds from 13 rare and limited-edition mechanical keyboards.
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Mechanical Keyboard Sounds: Recordings Of Bespoke And Customised Mechanical Keyboards is available on vinyl (naturally), but you can also listen on Spotify.
Check it out. Initially, we mocked, but in fact we found it to be an ASMR joy from beginning to end. If this is your sort of thing, Taeha also has a YouTube channel where he does the occasional “typing sounds” video.
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Of course, these are non-standard units. The Register Standards Soviet decreed back in the mists of time that length is to be measured in the approved unit of linguine, brontosauruses, double-decker buses or Devon fatbergs; thus we must correctly describe the rusty steel Gormley as measuring just under six double-decker buses, meaning it’s over two-and-a-half standardised brontosauruses high.
But what of the asteroid, which according to NASA will be back for an even closer (1.6 million km) and similarly uneventful encounter in 2046? We’re told it’s 430ft high, which in proper units is 936.2073 linguine, or two Devon fatbergs if you’re struggling with that visualisation.
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Nice, but kind of a shame to sacrifice the original for yet another web browser box. What it needs is a suite of software tuned for tiny computer on the go usage.
… but for a far less interesting job.
