{"video_id":"DJCaFZPP4q8","title":"Zowie Gear Swift Blue Gaming Plastic Mouse Pad Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2010-05-08T14:53:29Z","duration_s":282,"segments":[{"start_s":0.799,"end_s":7.399,"text":"well it's been a little while since I've had a look at a zoi gear product but","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":4.08,"end_s":9.24,"text":"today I have the zoi gear Swift it is a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":7.399,"end_s":13.88,"text":"genuine gaming surface and I'm going to zoom in on that so you can see exactly","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":11.12,"end_s":18.32,"text":"how genuine it is uh I don't know if you can actually read that let's get even","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":15.639,"end_s":22.56,"text":"closer zoi gear Swift genuine gaming surface so if you are a genuine gamer","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":20.08,"end_s":25.56,"text":"this is 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blue gaming mouse pad endorsed","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":262.68,"end_s":267.72,"text":"by spawn the gamer and I'm looking for","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":265.88,"end_s":272.8,"text":"my remote and this is not happening for me here so I'll just pretend cck","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"well it's been a little while since I've had a look at a zoi gear product but today I have the zoi gear Swift it is a genuine gaming surface and I'm going to zoom in on that so you can see exactly how genuine it is uh I don't know if you can actually read that let's get even closer zoi gear Swift genuine gaming surface so if you are a genuine gamer this is probably your surface all right why don't we go around to the back of the box where we will discover more about it um it is made of a complex plastic compound so as you may or may not have gathered already this is a plastic mouse pad okay the next thing about it of note is the fact that it is textured so it combines speed precision and control it is a fast mouse pad hence the name Swift okay it has a rubber base so it doesn't move you can refresh it with water so you can clean it with water and rounded edges for a higher level of comfort so it's not going to like cut your wrists while you're moving your mouse around and it is tested and approved for all types of mice and I was actually I I did a zoi gear unboxing a little while back and I was criticized for not knowing who this guy is uh I said that he looked like some random guy he's a dude he had a backwards cap or something along those lines and uh this is apparently abdisamad spawn Muhammad and he wants to use his gaming experience to develop products for all the different types of Gamers he has tested it with Optical and Laser mice and finds it to be up to his meticulous standards so I apologize for not knowing who that that was before now I know he's a professional gamer all right so why don't I get this uh seal broken and we'll get this thing out of the box because that's what this is it is an unboxing this is the box and this is it un goodbye all right so then we have a piece of paper covering the back of the mouse pad all right and ooh this is actually a lot nicer looking in person than uh than it was through a box so that's why unboxing is so important because you can actually see it better you know what I've actually got a mouse kicking around here somewhere where is it oh yeah okay I've actually got a um here's a steel series what is this this is a 5 L and then I've got a Logitech G7 so you can see for size comparison the Swift is a little bit taller than a 5l but also not quite as wide okay so you can see the 5 L sticks out behind but the Swift is a little bit taller um and let's have a look at the at the rubber material on the bottom so the 5l uses steel series trademarked um like random splashes of rubber on the back which is quite effective and the Swift uses oh this is this is kind of clever too they've got their um their logo kind of all over the place and it's in little thin thin bits of rubberized this so you see once I put this down you see once I put this down there is like no way it's going to move terribly important wow it even like stuck to the table a little bit and you can refresh with water as they mentioned a couple times on the box all right so I'm going to do this and that should give you some idea that it is slippery my G7 Fe are in Fairly horrible condition so you know okay you know what just for the the heck of it because I don't really know how to compare a mouse and an unboxing or a mouse pad I should say there's the 5l I can't tell if there's a but I can tell you right now that based on just this uh this quick test I don't know what the tracking would be like but the 5l is a slightly slower mouse pad and uh I mean that makes sense given that it is actually a a plastic coated cloth surface whereas this is a pure plastic surface it's quite rigid okay so it's not all that flexible which is probably a good thing cuz I know my on my desk at work it drives me crazy uh there's actually like uh it's it's a plastic table it's like just a work table that sort of snagged at some point I don't remember how it happened and it's not quite even so if I use anything that's not a very hard mouse pad I actually use an SP at work um then it as I move my mouse across it goes wo and it's not not very nice anyway thank you for checking out my unboxing of the zoi Swift blue gaming mouse pad endorsed by spawn the gamer and I'm looking for my remote and this is not happening for me here so I'll just pretend cck"}