326: Quantumly Entangled Keyboard Switches

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🗓️ 15 February 2026

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Magnets have been replacing potentiometers in a variety of places for a while now, especially as Hall effect and TMR joysticks have started popping up in fancy game controllers. Now magnetic switches are becoming more common in mice and mechanical keyboards, and Will has spent some time with new products in both of those categories, so we figured it was a good time to lay out how these kinds of switches work, how resistant to wear and electrical "bouncing" they are, what the heck a transducer is, whether there's quantum mechanics involved or not, and what effect these new switches are going to have on the input devices of the future.

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0:00.0	Brad, I love it when technology is fun.
0:02.7	Yeah, that's nice as opposed to the alternatives, which are many. I mean, look, there's a lot of alternatives, you know, when ring camera is like, hey, man, we can, you know, turn over your footage to help people find lost dogs and also, you know, help ice. That's, that's bad. But, you know, sometimes technology is good. I was watching the
0:21.7	Olympics. You know, I like to see how things change every four years. And, you know, the Winter
0:27.1	Olympics are always good because it's, you know, it's the death sport Olympics, not the like, you know,
0:31.3	who can go faster and jump higher Olympics. Going faster and jumping higher can also be a death
0:36.3	sport. I mean, for what's worth, but fair. but one of the things that's happened over the last like two or three Olympics is, is that drones have gotten real good. So, you know, we used to cover drones over tested and, and I spent a fair amount of time with them over the years. And they started out as a thing that people would use instead of like boom shots.
0:55.7	So they used them like instead of crane shots and stuff like that that were relatively static.
0:59.6	I want you to watch this video I just sent over.
1:02.3	It is footage of people barreling down the mountain at 100 kilometers an hour in the alpine downhill.
1:09.2	The death sportiest of snow skiing races, I think.
1:13.4	And they have little micro drones that have really good 4K cameras.
1:19.3	The video quality on this particular one is bad.
1:21.5	When you watch it on the broadcast, it looks fabulous.
1:24.0	Of the drones just tracking the racers as they're going 100 kilometers an hour down the hill.
1:30.5	And it's kind of incredible.
1:32.7	They're using them all over the place.
1:34.1	I was watching the luge yesterday.
1:36.0	And the drone operators are flying the drones down the luge track just behind the racers.
1:42.4	So you get like an over the shoulder third person video game view of people going
1:48.6	to Luz track at 100 miles an hour.
1:50.5	Do you think this is definitely human operated?
1:52.2	It's not some kind of computer vision motion tracking image tracking thing.
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