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peripheral that you need I think need is a pretty strong word especially
considering the fact that it costs over $100 so if that scares you off then
Now's the Time to go but this is my unboxing and overview of the stinky foot
board the name it stinks um but the
product itself actually is outstanding
all right so let's see what's inside the Box I've been informed I have 80
salesman hair but I actually kind of like it so maybe I'll maybe I'll stick
with this look let me know in the comments if you think that I should I should stick with this or just get a
haircut you hippie that's fine too so once we open it up we find the stinky
footboard which is a four button foot pedal so this differs from the more
traditional foot pedals in that it has four buttons as opposed to a single Le
button we also find some Springs that
are colorcoded they have different tensions so the blue one is actually the
lightest one with the red one and the green one being the uh yes the middle
and then the hardest one nonresective cuz I said them in the wrong order also
inside we're going to find a detachable USB cable this is actually quite
important for a product like this more on that in a moment that plugs into the
bottom of the unit and last but not least the Allen key that will allow us
to swap out these Springs should we so
desire so let's talk construction guys if this is something that you're
expected to put your foot on or basically stomp on it's going to have to
be well built now I'm informed that the one that I was jumping on at packs had
actually been run over by a car and was still functioning so how do they achieve
that well it's got a T6 aluminum top plate it has a stainless steel Center
pivot bearing and a steel internal brace so the plastic that you're seeing here
isn't all that there is to it it uses a custom PCV on the bottom and even down
to things like the switches that they're using at all four corners I hope I can
show you guys this get you an angle on it there you go oh yeah that's Cherry MX
Blue so you're going to get a 50 million actuation cycle out of each Direction on
the stinky footboard another durability feature we find on the bottom is that
detachable cord I talked about before this is important for a couple of
reasons number one is this thing lives under your desk so the odds of this cord
getting destroyed are much higher than something else number two is is because
it lives under your desk and we don't know exactly where your PC might be
being able to replace the standard length cable with something that's
longer or shorter might help it fit in better with your cable management
strategy now they don't rely just on the detachable cable to save it in the event
of you know a cat or a foot accidentally catching on it and there's actually a
little cable routing c-shape here that will keep it from putting tension on the
connector at a weird awkward angle no matter what you do to the wire also on
the bottom we find the adjustable spring Springs so we found those tension Springs Inside the Box you actually get
10 Springs Total which was a little odd to me because I would have thought they
would just include four of each but you can see the stock load out has Blue
Springs on the sides so remember those are slightly lighter tension and Green
Springs on the ends so this can be adjusted to your heart's content the
only configuration you can't have is four of the heaviest Springs the red
ones so it looks like the way they expect you to use it is heavier ones in
the front and back because you're going to have more leverage when you're pressing down and then lighter springs
on the sides so this adjustability is great because you might want to use it a
number of different ways whether it's putting your foot on it this way putting
your foot on it this way leaning to the sides that way you want to be able to
adjust it to whatever suits you best now
what is the functionality of this thing exactly well it's different from other
foot pedals in that there's four different ways you can go with the buttons so this just gives you more
functionality than just binding something to push to talk or binding
something to close all your Windows when someone
opens up the door behind you or whatever else you might have bound to a foot
pedal no this is more for if you need additional modifiers or additional hot
keys so here's a great example is people will say well okay I've already got six
buttons or 12 buttons or 16 buttons on the side of my mouse why do I need
another four buttons and the answer is because however many buttons you might
have accessible to your thumb you still only have one thumb so this is another
function that you can enable at the same time as your thumb so the ways that I
see it being most useful are for things where your your your finger that would
otherwise be executing that action could be tied up so if I'm strafing to the
right and I need to reload and I don't necessarily want to stop strafing to the
right if I bind my reload here boom I can reload without ever taking a break
without ever stopping moving another great example push to talk if I don't
want to hold down my left thumb which is what I used to bind it to left thumb if
I don't want to hold that down while I'm talking to my teammates and I don't
believe in using voice detection because you know who knows what I might be
saying to the people around me that I don't want all my gaming buddies hearing
or who knows who might walk into my room and be inappropriate then what I can do
is I can just bind it here so I can just step and do that and not have it
interrupt my gameplay even when I'm speaking and there's endless
opportunities for bindings like this that are different than what you would
otherwise have access to so for example it supports four modifiers Keys now so
that's Control Alt shift and the Windows key giving you up to 16 functions down
here and you can do all kinds of crazy stuff like you could bind diagonal
movement is another thing that it does now or you could bind uh different
potions or different spells instead of using I mean I have small hands so
reaching up to the number keys for my tool belt actually isn't always
necessarily that convenient so having something like even two of these under
my feet and having them B to the first eight slots there would be much more
efficient than me taking taking my fingers off of the movement keys and then potentially not even finding my way
back so the functionality is all configurable within the driver which
they're constantly updating and I think it's really cool not only for your
typical gamer but also for people with disabilities as well so they have one
testimonial on their site that I think is really cool so the guy has it bound
to WD for his feet and then he doesn't have a left ARM so he uses his right
hand and then I guess you combind all those you know Fancy Pants extra Mouse
buttons you have to all the other things you need to do and enjoy a experience
that you otherwise couldn't if you were limited to only being able to control
your games with your hands so I think that's really cool it's not cheap it's
120 bucks um they asked me to mention that it's available at Future Shop and
Best Buy although I should also probably mention that my affiliate link is under
the video in the description so if you want to help us out then you can order
there as well if you're interested in it if you're not interested in it I think I
have a pretty good idea what your objections going to be it's really expensive it's over $100 for what is
effectively four buttons so if you were to just evaluate the cost of your
Hardware like per button with a keyboard you could spend over $100 on a
mechanical keyboard and get over a 100 buttons but it's not necessarily that
simple they're a startup company they have to have money to repay whatever
loans they've incurred up until now they have to have money to reinvest and make
new products especially if you want to see maybe a lower cost version in the
future or you know maybe like a tongue controller so that you can use your
mouth to issue additional commands I mean that could be very cool the more
ways we have to interface with our computer the better and I personally am
willing to help them out with that now I mean I mean think about it I was even
talking about a USB butt plug not that long ago imagine that as a control
device clench for push to talk like clinch to prone every time someone jumps
out from a corner and you get all tents you just automatically prone that's
amazing that's great functionality I that that is a million dooll idea right
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