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Linus Tech tips coverage of PS 2013 is brought to you by Western Digital Intel

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and steel Series this is Luke liser and

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this is his stinky foot maybe if he wore socks with his sandals he wouldn't have

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that problem I love the name of the product we walked by the booth and I was

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like you've got to be freaking kidding me what is this thing so uh basically

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it's a d-pad for your feet that you can uh bind any action to uh it's four ways

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your foot rests on it all the time so you don't have to look for the button

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you don't have to hover over the button uh it works with any game any game that

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has uh modifiers as well like such as shift control and ALT uh It'll recognize

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it so for games like that that's 16 functions under your foot you can also

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adjust the tension and the resistance of the board we give you Springs so that uh

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you can modify the feel of it some people like a heavier feel or a lighter

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feel um what else why why why why did

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you make this because there were foot paddles available or foot pedals

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available for PC already

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so so the main reason why I I made this

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is because I tried other pedals and I was hovering my foot over them or I was

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looking and fiddling around the desk looking for them I wanted something that

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I knew where my foot was at all times and uh I wanted more buttons that's how

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it came about now we usually don't talk MSRP on our Channel because the the

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usual procedure is click the link in the video description but I think based on I

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mean this is gorgeous the aluminum construction here for a first run

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attempt at building PC Hardware this is

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very very nice you guys know a thing or two about what you're doing here how

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much does it cost to get one of these it's $119.99 and during the show right now

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actually here's just a couple other things I want to mention I love this detachable cable folks detachable cable

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if it's something lying around under your desk you want that to be detachable

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so you can move it around or if you accidentally kick it and whatever it's

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not going to break it not only that but they've got a nice little s-shape or

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c-shape to the router for the cable so that

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means that even if you do pull on it pretty hard there's a very slim chance

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it's even going to come detached accidentally it's got nice rubber feet

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on the bottom so it's not going to move around whatever kind of surface you have

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on it um I mean this this thing looks outstanding what are people saying about

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it cuz you got a bunch of machines set up here oh they're loving it they're

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they're really liking it it's it's something that they've never really thought about most gamers are like oh my

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God I can use my feet while I'm gaming well yeah you can and it's funny because

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there's those there's Gamers with disabilities who don't have use of their

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hands that game with their feet and yet we never thought of this just for a

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mainstream gamer um is there any reason why you could only use one of these at a

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time like is there a software limitation no not at all actually our software

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recognizes two boards or more um we have

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DJs using five of them uh guitar uh guys

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who use guitars they use them as a four-way uh guitar effect pedal people

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use them in Photoshop illustrator sky the limit that is absolutely

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outstanding so guys huge thanks to Luke for doing this interview with us and

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well bringing this to the market I'm pretty excited about it don't miss any

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of our packs Prime coverage remember guys we're powered here at the show by Western Digital Intel and steel Series

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so a big thanks to them for making it possible for us to be here and thanks

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thanks a lot so there are a few things that actually really weren't covered in

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the interview but I've had a chance to try it now it's awesome it's as good as

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you might think it is so there's a bunch of stuff like the springs that can be

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adjusted in the bottom not only can they be adjusted they can be adjusted per

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spring so you can actually have different tensions for the different

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directions of the d-pad that you might want to go in it's super easy to do so

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there's an allen key you just pop it out swap the spring pop it back in um it's

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more intuitive than you might think I was only sitting in front of it for about 5 minutes but if you bind it to

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things like uh melee that might be

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inconvenient to reach or things like push to talk or things like um Crouch or

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prone or even WD it's totally up to you

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and the flexibility is incredible I mean even if you're just doing work if you

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were to bind like copy and paste or

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something like that you're going to be saving yourself keystrokes and hand

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movements with something that your feet would be resting on anyway it's very

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cool they also mentioned that the aluminum plate here on the top is so

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thick that you can't bend it by hand even when it's not attached to the rest

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of the board and they have a unit that they've driven over seven times with a

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car that is still in use right now so my feeble stomp test here isn't going to

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look that impressive