thanks to Corsair for sponsoring our trip to ces 2019 the Corsair one is
their new super powerful water cooled gaming and or workstation system you can
check it out at the link below so Corsair is no stranger to launching
new RGB products at trade shows but this time really i swear it's actually
different so this isn't just more RGB
leds with more animation patterns or
anything like that no okay actually that's exactly what it is but i swear
it's different like get over here so this right here is a demo of what
Corsair has been working with with a company called primax and they're
calling it capelix and what it essentially is is a method of mounting
leds and not like not like this entire surface mount like blocky square white
thing but actually the diode itself just the little dot in the middle that
actually emits the light mounting leds directly to a pcb and this is important
for a number of reasons it increases power efficiency which in turn can
actually increase the maximum brightness of the leds and it dramatically
increases their density so in the past if they wanted to do let's say an RGB
memory module they would have been stuck with like basically this kind of spacing
there's only so much granularity you can get to the animations that you can build
into the product well now they can achieve density of like
i mean what do you what even is this this is like a hundred leds or 80 leds
looks like a hundred and it's like under my pinky and i have i have very
small hands folks very very small fingers uh so
right now there's only one product that is going to contain this new technology
and it's their new dominator platinum RGB you can actually see they've got
like a history of dominator platinum here and they haven't gone that crazy so
they've only got 12 of these uh capellix
leds mounted to it but what they're talking about sounds pretty incredible
because not only can they mount these things to a rigid pcb they can even
mount them to a flexible pcb so even some of their most RGB out products like
some of their fans with 16 leds built into them
i mean this is a whole new level they could put hundreds of leds into a fan
and do like i mean they could even display something when you think about
it this is fundamentally a small led
display it's absolutely incredible now they're going to need some software
upgrades because at the current time a single channel off of i believe it's
their node pro controller does that sound right aaron node pro single
channel 100 leds at a time right now yeah
they're so a single channel can only support 100 leds which is like
i'd have to do this so those guys have some work to do to catch up to this but
this enables all kinds of new possibilities for led lighting you could
conceivably have a system with thousands or tens of thousands of leds so in a
nutshell more compact more power efficient or brighter so they could do
something like a wireless uh backlit keyboard for
example and just generally more possibilities because they can put them
anywhere like that look at the difference in profile here
it's crazy speaking of peripherals they're stepping up their game there as
well so we've had range issues actually with our dark core RGB
wireless mouse and our new employee lounge and i was so thrilled to see the
harpoon RGB wireless so the incredible thing about this is
twofold number one is the wireless technology that they've built into it so
Corsair says that with a single device connected to a dongle they've achieved
500 microseconds so that is about half
of a millisecond of latency on this thing and with two devices connected
like if you had a harpoon RGB wireless and then a future keyboard that
presumably they're working on you could get one millisecond on each and that's
with a micro dongle so this is a new technology they're calling slipstream
and the second really cool thing about it is the price
so they're not holding back on us and launching this with a hundred and fifty
dollar mouse they want slipstream freaking everywhere in their lineup and
they went well uh this mouse is the one that's currently uh most ready for production
so we're gonna put it in there boom let's go 50 bucks it's super light it's just
under 100 grams and the range is actually really impressive so it's
running off of that system over there one of the Corsair one i-140s
but that's not the crazy thing that's not really that far it's that they're doing
it at ces so part of their slipstream technology is that they're able to
straddle two frequencies at a time for a very short period and decide on which
one is the best in order to maintain that latency and showing it off working
at a trade show like ces without any hitching is either brave or foolish so
far it's actually been working really well for most of our time with it so i'm
leaning towards brave but i mean there's still plenty of time for
them to regret this it's just looking pretty darn good at the moment they're
boasting 30 hours of battery life using slipstream or up to 60 using bluetooth
le although of course there is a latency disadvantage there and it comes with a
little compartment on the bottom for the dongle as well as a switch so you can go
between 2.4 gigahertz slipstream and bluetooth this puppy is available uh hey
hey harry when's the harpoon available
now okay you can buy it today so you can go check
it out at the link in the video description
speaking of the link in the video description this video is brought to you by the Corsair one the lineup goes all
the way from the i-140 which has an rtx 2080 and an eight core processor all the
way up to the i-180 pro which is really closer to workstation than it is to game
ring with 12 cores uh 32 gigs of RAM an
rtx 2080 ti a 750 watt power supply and
this is all in the same slim form factor as the original Corsair one so you can
check that out at the link in the video description thanks to Corsair for sponsoring this video and thanks to you
guys for watching don't miss any of our ces content we will see you guys at the
next move oh by the way the elgato guys here at Corsair were going to be super
sad if i didn't mention their key light so you can control it so check this out
you can adjust color temperature and brightness and stuff with your stream
deck it's like wi-fi connected if you're a streamer it's pretty sick if you're
not a streamer then maybe you just really like having like a
light um on your desk but that's cool too