and I shouldn't say point because in Europe they use a
comma so we're going to go ahead and open this bad boy I think I gave away
the secret but this is the couch master
and the couchmaster is intended to be
the ultimate gaming station designed to
be used on your couch by Masters uh right here is a usb3 5 m
active extension cable repeater that's actually the awesomest thing ever
especially cuz it's USB 3 which means that you can plug this into a hub and
you'll have full speed with no signal degradation at like 5 m which for you
Yanks out there is 15 ft um which is
freaking awesome it's a big old thick cable that's like that's worth the value
of like um at least a few dollars right there I wonder if that was on their
itemized list all right so we got the
orange one there's a bunch of different colors red uh whatever that is black blue green
yellow orange purple and they
say San don't cut so I don't know what
accent that was but I was trying really hard to make it a good one and we're
going to go ahead and cut but we're just going to be really careful about the way
that we cut the tape all right find out what's inside
here this is why they don't want you to just kind of dig in there with the knife
because that is the couch Master itself
right there so we're going to again be very very careful with our knife just
cutting the packing tape and not going any deeper than that and it looks like
it comes in a sort of wide variety of
different pieces here all of which are
helpfully um valued at a particular
value and I'm running out of things to say about it so why don't I explain a
little bit about what You' want to use this for so if you are the ultimate
anticon gamer and you insist on using a PC
whether it's for your sort of big screen what is it called big screen valves
thing big screen big box I don't know big
something big gaming big picture that's the one big picture gaming experience
whether you want to use it with those optimized games with a controller or
whether you actually want to sit on your couch with a mouse and keyboard and play
hardcore PC titles um
this will pretty much allow you to do it so guys I'm not going to take away any
of the unpacking experience from this video I want you to experience the whole
thing because from what I can see so far
it is going to be quite a treat to uh to
reveal sort of every look at that they include two active extension cables they
want you to have the true pure PC gaming
experience where you do not as a PC
Gamer have to use a hub you are are going to use a dedicated Dam cable for
your mouse and a dedicated Dam cable for your keyboard and that is the way it's
going to be and Slick point three no
this is something else oh they include a hub too they include a four-port USB 3
Hub okay so at your desk you will have I
mean this is just ludicrous so you'll have a hub and you'll have two full 5
gabit per second connections all right
so this right here is a little pocket for uh putting hanging your mouse in I
believe it's also used for cable management or something like that although I'll have to double check what
exactly they want that pocket to be used for they also include an ample supply of
velcro tape so this is like a double-sided uh tape velcro thing so you
can go ahead and uh get everything all stuck together real good they've got a
bunch of cushions so these are uh uh wrist cushions that you can go ahead and
position wherever you want you can stick them down however you want you got got a
few of those and these right here are the main cushions themselves so we're
obviously not going to be able to finish this video here since I clearly don't
have an adequate couch but basically the couch Master sits on either side of you
with a table that goes across the entire top these are soft like these are sule
cushions check this out let's see if he hits me
back no he's not going to do it he's not going to do it okay so uh here I
actually have no idea where my switcher is between the two cameras but I'll let
I'll let Diesel have some fun with his camera for a change here well I show you
guys the uh the surface itself that
actually here we go oh okay so there's
some cable management compartment action going on down there so this thing's
freaking awesome this is like a Geeks wet dream here so it's got ah here
whoops okay I popped that out but there's Cable Management holes that come
through the top there's actually four of them them and then you can go ahead and
either leave them in or take them out then you've got these little SP okay
well that's not staying in for me there but let's go ahead and sort of is there
like is there like an angle that it goes in at yeah there that's a thing okay so
then you manage the cables here then when you're done managing the cables you
close up that bottom compartment like that then you have cable management
holes on the other side two more cable management holes here that you can go
ahead and cover up with another compartment made out of a stiff material
feels like uh feels like some sort of particle board or something like that
not too heavy or anything though and then this guy right here seems to be oh
I don't think you're supposed to peel that up that's not really a thing okay
so the angle of it is such that it is inclined for optimal PC sort of keyboard
and mouse use so you can see it has uh a bit of a a bit of a slope to it so you
can go ahead and you stick down your wrist rests so that you can comfortably
use your keyboard and mouse guys we got to set this up on the couch we're going
to have to we're going to be back this is amazing so just for the laws we had to
set up the couchmaster in its uh Native
environment so I've got my media PC over
there we actually only had to run one of the active USB 3 cables so I'm just
running that to the keyboard itself and then I'm running the G9 mouse off of the
keyboard since I happen to already have wireless headphones um I mean honestly
though if I'm going to play on a media PC I might as well you know use my full
size speakers in this case I'm just playing audio surf so we could uh we
could easily run other games but honestly my media PC is kind of anemic
it's optimized more for silence versus uh being optimized for sheer horsepower
but uh when I'm done playing video games here which is going to be at the end of
my actually you know what I already hit a wall anyway so I guess it doesn't really matter so I'm going to show you
guys how we did get it set up for optimal use here so number one is I'd
like to show you guys the convenient baby pouch here on your lap where you
can have your baby sitting with you while you play video games um second I'd
like to show you guys how we did set up the velcro so we made it so that you can
kind of disassemble it but you can also get the couch Master set up really
really quickly with the wrist rest the wrist rests are extremely comfortable so
what you do is you when you want to get deified you can see the keyboard and all
the wrist rests are actually velcroed down if I had a hard mouse pad I would
probably also velcro down the mouse pad itself so I could take the whole thing
and lift it off me it's some heft to it because it does use wood for the
construction if I want to put my mouse away though uh oh did you guys take that
off oh slick apparently took off the see there's a this is a mouse pouch so you
just go ahead and tuck your mouse in there so it doesn't get scratched or
lost or whatever else and then you can clip it to the front of the couch Master
right here um I'm not going to sort of work too hard at this though honestly I
don't know that the well no actually I'd probably use that for when I put the
couch Master away it's the kind of thing that like when your great ant comes to
visit you don't necessarily want to have it sitting on your couch not not that I'm saying you should be embarrassed to
be nerdy enough to have a couch master I'm just saying that your great ant
probably doesn't need to know about it so Cable Management wise on the bottom
there's plenty of room for that uh USB 3
Hub that's included as well as the active cables and whatever else not only
that but aside from the four Cable Management holes that allow you to run
wires up to the top of the unit there's also a pass through right here so you
can actually go between the two compartments giving you a ton of
flexibility in terms of cable management space and even these covers here are
extremely rugged made out of some kind of wood with like a pley coating on top
of them looks like a laminate actually looks like a laminate floorboard to be
perfectly honest I'm not sure what they actually made it out of but uh but there
you go uh very comfortable very comfortable overall I've seen demos on
their site of it being used on the armrests but I'd say it's actually best
used on a couch as opposed to on an easy
chair with these cushions on the armrest I guess what you could also do though if
you had two cushions that were closed together is you could just use the board
itself because we were we were discussing this off camera the cushions
aren't really where the magic happens I mean yeah you've got your integrated
drink holder do that or whatever else you want to put in there but you can buy
a cushion like this at sort of any furniture store the magic piece is this
guy with the correctly inclined piece here the integrated Cable Management as
well as the well mostly that the the sturdy construction the wrist
rests is the couch Master worth your money I guess it depends on how much
time you expect to spend sort of playing video games on the couch with a keyboard
and mouse versus using a controller um if it was me I definitely prefer a
controller to a keyboard and mouse I was even talking to Slick about whether or
not you could potentially hook up like a racing wheel to this thing it's quite
wellb built so we haven't tried it of course but uh hey there's options there
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