The Ever-Humble 'Genius' Releases Fancy Keyboard

By Steve Burke Published February 29, 2012 at 3:07 pm

Hardware

Following up with their rumble-pack headset, Genius has now announced their "Imperator Pro" gaming keyboard that's spec'd primarily for MMO and RTS gamers; as a new add-on to their existing GX series keyboard, the newest keyboard includes three gaming profiles, six programmable macro keys, and this is the cool part, has a fully customizable RGB backlight system that has varying levels of brightness and color coordination. Although primarily meant for looks, these color selections could certainly aid visually when you fall off your primary keyset.

These backlights can also be set to pulse, sort of like the old Dell XPS laptops, and are available in a few different speed settings.

The keyboard also includes a convenient "gaming mode," which disables the Windows key (granted, many modern games have started ignoring this key). Genius' Imperator Pro also has a sizable on-board cache that will prevent command overflow.

Also included in this package are six "media keys," effectively made to control multimedia programs like Windows Media Player without tabbing to the program.

As a whole, it's very similar to the old Logitech G11, albeit a bit newer and with cooler lighting schematics.

The Imperator Pro is available here: http://www.geniusnet.com/wSite/ct?xItem=51777&ctNode=3606&mp=1

-Steve

Last modified on February 29, 2012 at 3:07 pm

Steve Burke

Steve started GamersNexus back when it was just a cool name, and now it's grown into an expansive website with an overwhelming amount of features. He recalls his first difficult decision with GN's direction: "I didn't know whether or not I wanted 'Gamers' to have a possessive apostrophe -- I mean, grammatically it should, but I didn't like it in the name. It was ugly. I also had people who were typing apostrophes into the address bar - sigh. It made sense to just leave it as 'Gamers.'"

First world problems, Steve. First world problems.

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