Angry Miao Relic 80 Mechanical Keyboard Review: Inspired By Art

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Angry Miao, makers of popular custom keyboards like the Cyberboard and AM Compact touch, is back known for combining modern art with mechanical keyboards. It’s back with its latest entry, the Relic 80, a tenkeyless keyboard with the company’s most tame design yet, but a renewed focus on sound. Find out what makes it special — and there’s always something special with an Angry Miao keyboard — in this review.

In some ways, the Angry Miao Relic 80 is the most tame keyboard the company has ever made. The company has become synonymous with boundary pushing designs that blend modern art with practical peripherals. The results are wholly unique. 

Its best known product, the Cyberboard , is the perfect example of this ethos. Its large, angular design would already have garnered attention but Angry Miao went multiple steps further, adding a full dot-matrix display on the top of the keyboard, a 10,000mAh battery, and a wireless charging coil. The AFA R2 , taking a pretty traditional alice layout and turning it into something that looked closer to a spaceship but was almost achingly cool to behold.

The Relic 80 carries through many of the features found in Angry Miao’s previous keyboards and is a clear demonstration of the lessons the designers have learned over their prior releases. The layout, however, is entirely traditional. It’s a standard tenkeyless keyboard without any extragent spacing or layout changes. The biggest difference is that it features an programmable F13 key, which is perfect for Mute.

That isn’t to say the Relic is tame; it’s anything but. Inspired by the artist, David Arsham, and his Brillo Box sculpture, the keyboard features “eroded” corners, revealing diamond-like structures beneath, lit by RGB LEDs. While