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linkis okay very competitive for a backl keyboard all right moving on you brought
up the headphone amp and all these headphones earlier and you seemed really excited so let's go over these yes I'm
okay I'm going to try not to get too excited about the one I'm going to try to go through all of them right I get
yeah I'm more excited about some products than others just because you know like I love playing and testing
them but up at the top we have our shock
um these are actually just more color options for the shock headset so no
nothing has really changed we have improved upon um I would say the quality
you know we've got some feedback on what people wanted more of the cups you know the the the material stuff like that so
so we had a little a little bit change you know but the features are all the
same it's very cool people like customizing all their peripherals to go
with the color of their system and you know what it is it's most people have
like the standard red blue and black and white but a lot of teams now like Pro
Gamers have a lot of different colors like especially gamma Bears we we just
picked them up like you know the yellows and orange so more vibrant stuff yeah so
we're trying to make sure that we cover as many colors as possible um and then
if there's a color that people really like you know we might we might have it come out like rainbow or something
rainbow that would be interesting yeah so this is our Bahamut our Bahamut is
our new and first and only external sound card we really want to get into
this field yeah uh we think that there's not really a lot out there offered I
mean there there are some great ones out there but um it can't hurt to have more
oh yeah definitely not yeah so our Bahamut is actually going to be
available probably by the end of this month it's by USB and the MSRP is
$49.99 cool very cool so you can plug whatever you want here that takes a mic
input as well yep very
cool here you go and do this like you
know like and B show the input and then
here show me that input very nice I like the the inscription right
around the outs side tte Esports gaming very cool T ESP Sports all right I don't
know what accent that is okay so AIA stuffs just really quickly because this
is you know uh pretty much the same as our other aeras we did change the cable
so that's it's a flat cable very nice I love flat cable I know cuz I hate when
they I hate when they tangle piss me off uh so the reason why we're still pushing
towards earbuds or we really want to push towards is because and we've been
talking a lot about Starcraft 2o so it seems like you're familiar with that very well so have you noed and Diesel
are actually I didn't notice this until someone else in the company told me this
I was like I like I like headphones but they're like you know what a lot of
Starcraft 2 players have the in earbuds have you noticed like and then they wear
headphones they wear noise cing and I was like wait a second they do yeah so I
was like oh yeah and he's like yeah we're gonna try to offer more of that to Gamers who kind of want an alternative
to uh headphones you know cuz a lot of Gamers actually do want that so we're
pushing towards that so we still have that we're going to be we're going to be
trying to offer more of those um and then last not not last actually I want
to save that for last but you know what let's do this the Kronos headset is the one that I'm most excited for it's a new
headset and the Kronos headset right now comes in white and black with the red
the red accent TT Sports go inside that looks awesome yeah I love outside like I
really like it maybe I don't know I'm crazy but I don't really like it so
these ones are a lot I would say they're for fashionable but yeah yeah and those
ones glow as well you can see that so when they're plugged in they glow and
these ones the the cable comes out it comes out of Leo Leo uh do they go the
exact same red as these ones yeah yeah they're both they're both red these ones are we wanted to make them kind of
fashionable easy to uh carry with you you know they collapse you can wear them
on your shoulders like this okay so yeah it's like the fashion of gamer
I don't know I keep saying look throw them on throw on throw them on we'll see how they fit ow the fashion of gamer and
then you're like this you're like I glow
I glow I can Rave with these if you have
something to plug it in too right um so these also they're they're mobile ready
which means you can actually we we have a cable for you can plug it into your
phone and you can talk in the mic for
your phone and listen to music so instead of a Bluetooth you can do the
complete opposite and be like yo I'm cool I'm a pilot I'm driving my car so
it's got a 4.35 plug yes shock One
console shock One console was recently announced and it's our shock one headset
except it's multiplatform you can play it on the Xbox PS3 Xbox 360 if I need to
say the whole thing Xbox 360 and the PS3 and the PC so for people who really like
the shock one um but they also play console and they're like well I want to
use it for all this is a good upgrade for it you can play it on all and it's
priced at 99 99 MSRP nice so you can take it to every single platform you
want to on yeah very very cool all right guys thanks for checking
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subscribe to lineus Tech tips back again guys I cut her off before she was done
and we totally forgot to cover these awesome looking mice that were designed
in collaboration with BMW Design Group so I'm going to get her to tell us about
these really just kidding trying to do
like Wonka um yeah um these are these are in collaboration with BMW design
works so they design a mouse with us together that's you know combines the
sleekness of a car and the awesome gaming qualities of a mouse uh we
actually released this a while a little while ago but we just launched a couple
new colors we have the new yellow the Hello Kitty pink that's for someone um
and then we have our battle Edition green we did announce our red a little
while ago but it hasn't been available so now you know we're displaying it um
would you like me to tell you a little bit about the mouse yeah let's start with this awesome looking thing here on
the side yes so so that really actually is
um designed to kind of be like the overdrive or the the steering of a car
so it really goes like in all directions and then you can hit down on it and what
it does is it changes the profiles and it actually raises and lowers the DPI
but you can change it to do other stuff but you know that's what it's originally
for it's got two additional buttons up here on the side and then two on the
right side right so that's actually pretty cool because depending on what
game you're playing you might want different DPI levels like say you're
playing Battlefield and you want to drive a tank instead of just running around you want different DBI level it
actually goes up to 82 8200 well there's a software that can help you bring it up
to that yeah so um what this mouse does in terms of customization is and okay so
someone said it was something like it was like a steering more like the car
like going back and forth so I was relating it to the seat you know when you can move the seat up and down so it
actually comes with a screw and you can move you can change a degree
of this back part right here um up or down depending on which way you tilt
your hand tilts on top of the mouse and it also actually shifts left to right so
this can actually be an ambidextrous Mouse so left-handed Gamers can use this
you can shift it to the other side and then you can use since it's kind of like
the shape is kind of symmetrical you can use the other direction the only
difference is is that the buttons will be kind of different but you know you
can that's that's the one thing the pro the actually you know it works this way
the gamer will just have to get used to the preference of which buttons on what
side that's really cool because a lot of ambidextrous mice are just too
straightforward on the back and this one you can actually make it tilt probably
that's really cool it tilts like degrees to the either to the left or the right
direction so that's using that jobber right there and as you can see it's a
full aluminum Bay so it's pretty sturdy that's very cool I personally like
really heavy mice and through talking I figured out that you and Diesel also
like really heavy mice so full aluminum base is a really really cool thing to
have and it's definitely for people who like longterm and uh longterm gaming we
we actually have these kind of bumpers for to help it Glide too but you know
for people who have a habit actually kind of have a habit of when when it's
more when I play FPS games uh I pick up like when I'm trying to turn around I
kind of pick up the mouse and like I hit it back down but I have a mouse pad so
at least it's softer but you know I definitely um the bottom of my mouse
definitely takes some toll it's not just the top when I'm like clicking fiercely
but the bottom because you you're rubbing it against the surface for
that's like the probably the part that you want it to be the most durable so
yeah so having a full aluminum bottom is actually really really good for
durability we're playing with this one the most we're being so biased this the
closest one but it's we'll pick up we'll pick up Diesel's favorite Mouse here so
these LEDs on right here will show you different DPI levels very very cool and
the MSRP is $999.99 sorry MSRP is $99.99 I'm trying
to figure out what Diesel's telling me I think he's talking about the string
relief right here so do you want to tell me about this I was going to say it's just
because it's cool to represent DT Sport
but you know I like you can cable coil
in here but honestly it's it's it's just part of the design to have the logo up
here as as far as I know there's not anything like too special it doesn't
shoot lasers or anything but um if you want it to we'll we'll look into
production for laser shooting at the top laser shooting well oh another thing I
gu to feature is if you if you look inside it's kind of hollow so it's it's
really great for airflow as you can see they have has the honeycomb kind of
holes at the top so air flow is really important about this m since it's got
It's got holes in all Direction so so so someone's got a serious sweaty sweaty
hand problem it'll help so it's definitely good for for long-term use
and ventilation so it doesn't heat up very very cool
okay um yes thank you so much for checking us out at TT Sports the TT
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