MAR.14.2026 - #62

Hi all 👋, this week while writing I've been turning my handwriting into a digital font (thanks to Chris from The Hiro Report), opening up Wikipedia articles like Pokémon packs, and watching someone port Ocarina of Time to an Apple Watch.

This week saw the return of a Godzilla artisan keycap I missed out on last time, Kinetic Labs just restocked all of their most popular PBT keycap sets, and Nuphy announced…a shirt and tie????

→ As an eyeglasses wearer, multiple pairs of specs are usually found floating around my workspace with no real rhyme or reason to their placement. I like to swap out daily wear ones, or switch to blue-light blocking for heavy computer use. My current storage solutions consist of keeping them in bulky cases or thrown freely across the desk. Neither are great—one takes up too much space, and the other lends to glasses being flung onto the ground. Enter Craighill, a design company that has mastered the art of obsessing over tiny trivial problems like this and solving them with super-functional, simple, premium tools. Their eyewear stand looks basic, solving the need of holding your glasses, but a quick look at their design process for this piece shows a deeper and more thoughtful iterative approach. All their products—from everyday carry tools, to desk accessories, and even fidget toys/games—are created in this same way. Their products do tend to be on the pricier end for accessories of this calibre, but I've always heard great recommendations and reviews from previous buyers.

→ After I created business cards for the c 'n c brand a few months back, I would occasionally forget to bring them on an outing, or run out of what I carry on hand. I was wishing there was a way—aside from just keeping a screenshot of the card and AirDropping it, which feels informal—to keep the cards digitally and still efficiently hand out my website, links, and contact info. This week I randomly stumbled upon Offset ID by Felipe Elioenay, an iPhone app that imports your business card and transforms it into an Apple wallet pass which anyone can scan using a created QR code. Doing so automatically adds all your predefined information into their contacts, and even provides you with a permanent shareable link to the card! This was an instant buy for me (one-time $5 for one card), and now I can super easily carry around my business card even when I forgetfully leave them all at home!

→ Gaming brand and hardware design company Arbiter Studio has a wide range of e-sports focused products including gaming mice, keyboards, IEMs, and mousepads. One of their newer products, the Z-Neo 8K USB hub, caught my eye recently after I found a user who custom 3D printed a desk stand for the device. It's packed with 4 USB-C inputs, one USB-A, power-delivery, and a screen to show off PC stats, wallpapers, or moving GIFs. The acrylic and screen-less variants are my favourites—could be a nifty addition to a desk setup to unify all peripherals.

→ CannonKeys is back at it again with a unique, bright, and full size keyboard inspired by Dutch art collective, De Stijl. Touchstone is available in 4 styles—one face plate for each primary colour (while the back of the board features the same geometric design), and a black, white, and grey monochrome variant. A feature I don't see often enough is on display here, with CannonKeys offering not only a solder or hotswap PCB, but also an optional southpaw arrangement! This places the numpad on the left side and give you a lot more flexibility to choose your favourite layout. CannonKeys also seems to be expanding international availability with this board, bringing the group buy to a handful of vendors worldwide—like RNDKBD in Canada!

→ Abstract Minimal is a new keycap set from WiredIn and Keyreative that is stunningly uncomplicated. It reminds me of retro Mac keyboard caps or some Teenage Engineering products with its subtle font/letter printing, off-grey and cyan tones, and marvelous contrasting dark modifier keys. Throw in a brand new artisan from MVKB, a few extra orange and black novelties to make it pop, a colour-matched cable, and this set is chock-full of goodies to make it a packed collection. I'm personally super happy that WiredIn is continuing to expand their product line and collaborations—my X-Ray cable from them is used constantly and the quality is superb.

→ After highlighting some ceramic boards (cough, cough, Keychron Q16) that sound…not so great, I thought I'd feature more of the good—like CeraKeys Zen75. The very first low-profile keyboard that comes prebuilt with ceramic keycaps. It's using the same hybrid PC/ceramic keycaps structure that makes their caps so good (as opposed to entirely ceramic, which we've seen can be finicky), and the rest of the board is an aluminum/plastic mix. From what I've heard, the sound tests coming from this are just as good as the rest of the CeraKey line-up—deep, muted tones with loads of thock. Also, with 8 different vibrant colourways for the Zen, there's a ceramic board for everyone's taste. My hope for the future is that CeraKey begins to sell the low-profile caps separately, as I would love to test them out on my own builds.

That’s all for this week! I hope you enjoyed it, and now it’s time to hear from YOU 🫵. I want to know your opinion—what you liked, what you loved, what you didn’t like, what you skipped. Email [email protected] (or reply to this issue!) and have a great weekend!!