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and steel Series this is Luke liser and
this is his stinky foot maybe if he wore socks with his sandals he wouldn't have
that problem I love the name of the product we walked by the booth and I was
like you've got to be freaking kidding me what is this thing so uh basically
it's a d-pad for your feet that you can uh bind any action to uh it's four ways
your foot rests on it all the time so you don't have to look for the button
you don't have to hover over the button uh it works with any game any game that
has uh modifiers as well like such as shift control and ALT uh It'll recognize
it so for games like that that's 16 functions under your foot you can also
adjust the tension and the resistance of the board we give you Springs so that uh
you can modify the feel of it some people like a heavier feel or a lighter
feel um what else why why why why did
you make this because there were foot paddles available or foot pedals
available for PC already
so so the main reason why I I made this
is because I tried other pedals and I was hovering my foot over them or I was
looking and fiddling around the desk looking for them I wanted something that
I knew where my foot was at all times and uh I wanted more buttons that's how
it came about now we usually don't talk MSRP on our Channel because the the
usual procedure is click the link in the video description but I think based on I
mean this is gorgeous the aluminum construction here for a first run
attempt at building PC Hardware this is
very very nice you guys know a thing or two about what you're doing here how
much does it cost to get one of these it's $119.99 and during the show right now
actually here's just a couple other things I want to mention I love this detachable cable folks detachable cable
if it's something lying around under your desk you want that to be detachable
so you can move it around or if you accidentally kick it and whatever it's
not going to break it not only that but they've got a nice little s-shape or
c-shape to the router for the cable so that
means that even if you do pull on it pretty hard there's a very slim chance
it's even going to come detached accidentally it's got nice rubber feet
on the bottom so it's not going to move around whatever kind of surface you have
on it um I mean this this thing looks outstanding what are people saying about
it cuz you got a bunch of machines set up here oh they're loving it they're
they're really liking it it's it's something that they've never really thought about most gamers are like oh my
God I can use my feet while I'm gaming well yeah you can and it's funny because
there's those there's Gamers with disabilities who don't have use of their
hands that game with their feet and yet we never thought of this just for a
mainstream gamer um is there any reason why you could only use one of these at a
time like is there a software limitation no not at all actually our software
recognizes two boards or more um we have
DJs using five of them uh guitar uh guys
who use guitars they use them as a four-way uh guitar effect pedal people
use them in Photoshop illustrator sky the limit that is absolutely
outstanding so guys huge thanks to Luke for doing this interview with us and
well bringing this to the market I'm pretty excited about it don't miss any
of our packs Prime coverage remember guys we're powered here at the show by Western Digital Intel and steel Series
so a big thanks to them for making it possible for us to be here and thanks
thanks a lot so there are a few things that actually really weren't covered in
the interview but I've had a chance to try it now it's awesome it's as good as
you might think it is so there's a bunch of stuff like the springs that can be
adjusted in the bottom not only can they be adjusted they can be adjusted per
spring so you can actually have different tensions for the different
directions of the d-pad that you might want to go in it's super easy to do so
there's an allen key you just pop it out swap the spring pop it back in um it's
more intuitive than you might think I was only sitting in front of it for about 5 minutes but if you bind it to
things like uh melee that might be
inconvenient to reach or things like push to talk or things like um Crouch or
prone or even WD it's totally up to you
and the flexibility is incredible I mean even if you're just doing work if you
were to bind like copy and paste or
something like that you're going to be saving yourself keystrokes and hand
movements with something that your feet would be resting on anyway it's very
cool they also mentioned that the aluminum plate here on the top is so
thick that you can't bend it by hand even when it's not attached to the rest
of the board and they have a unit that they've driven over seven times with a
car that is still in use right now so my feeble stomp test here isn't going to
look that impressive