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fully private click now to learn more this my friends is the next gaming

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peripheral that you need I think need is a pretty strong word especially

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considering the fact that it costs over $100 so if that scares you off then

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Now's the Time to go but this is my unboxing and overview of the stinky foot

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board the name it stinks um but the

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product itself actually is outstanding

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all right so let's see what's inside the Box I've been informed I have 80

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salesman hair but I actually kind of like it so maybe I'll maybe I'll stick

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with this look let me know in the comments if you think that I should I should stick with this or just get a

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haircut you hippie that's fine too so once we open it up we find the stinky

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footboard which is a four button foot pedal so this differs from the more

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traditional foot pedals in that it has four buttons as opposed to a single Le

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button we also find some Springs that

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are colorcoded they have different tensions so the blue one is actually the

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lightest one with the red one and the green one being the uh yes the middle

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and then the hardest one nonresective cuz I said them in the wrong order also

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inside we're going to find a detachable USB cable this is actually quite

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important for a product like this more on that in a moment that plugs into the

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bottom of the unit and last but not least the Allen key that will allow us

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to swap out these Springs should we so

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desire so let's talk construction guys if this is something that you're

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expected to put your foot on or basically stomp on it's going to have to

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be well built now I'm informed that the one that I was jumping on at packs had

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actually been run over by a car and was still functioning so how do they achieve

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that well it's got a T6 aluminum top plate it has a stainless steel Center

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pivot bearing and a steel internal brace so the plastic that you're seeing here

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isn't all that there is to it it uses a custom PCV on the bottom and even down

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to things like the switches that they're using at all four corners I hope I can

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show you guys this get you an angle on it there you go oh yeah that's Cherry MX

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Blue so you're going to get a 50 million actuation cycle out of each Direction on

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the stinky footboard another durability feature we find on the bottom is that

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detachable cord I talked about before this is important for a couple of

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reasons number one is this thing lives under your desk so the odds of this cord

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getting destroyed are much higher than something else number two is is because

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it lives under your desk and we don't know exactly where your PC might be

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being able to replace the standard length cable with something that's

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longer or shorter might help it fit in better with your cable management

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strategy now they don't rely just on the detachable cable to save it in the event

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of you know a cat or a foot accidentally catching on it and there's actually a

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little cable routing c-shape here that will keep it from putting tension on the

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connector at a weird awkward angle no matter what you do to the wire also on

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the bottom we find the adjustable spring Springs so we found those tension Springs Inside the Box you actually get

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10 Springs Total which was a little odd to me because I would have thought they

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would just include four of each but you can see the stock load out has Blue

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Springs on the sides so remember those are slightly lighter tension and Green

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Springs on the ends so this can be adjusted to your heart's content the

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only configuration you can't have is four of the heaviest Springs the red

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ones so it looks like the way they expect you to use it is heavier ones in

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the front and back because you're going to have more leverage when you're pressing down and then lighter springs

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on the sides so this adjustability is great because you might want to use it a

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number of different ways whether it's putting your foot on it this way putting

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your foot on it this way leaning to the sides that way you want to be able to

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adjust it to whatever suits you best now

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what is the functionality of this thing exactly well it's different from other

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foot pedals in that there's four different ways you can go with the buttons so this just gives you more

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functionality than just binding something to push to talk or binding

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something to close all your Windows when someone

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opens up the door behind you or whatever else you might have bound to a foot

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pedal no this is more for if you need additional modifiers or additional hot

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keys so here's a great example is people will say well okay I've already got six

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buttons or 12 buttons or 16 buttons on the side of my mouse why do I need

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another four buttons and the answer is because however many buttons you might

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have accessible to your thumb you still only have one thumb so this is another

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function that you can enable at the same time as your thumb so the ways that I

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see it being most useful are for things where your your your finger that would

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otherwise be executing that action could be tied up so if I'm strafing to the

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right and I need to reload and I don't necessarily want to stop strafing to the

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right if I bind my reload here boom I can reload without ever taking a break

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without ever stopping moving another great example push to talk if I don't

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want to hold down my left thumb which is what I used to bind it to left thumb if

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I don't want to hold that down while I'm talking to my teammates and I don't

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believe in using voice detection because you know who knows what I might be

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saying to the people around me that I don't want all my gaming buddies hearing

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or who knows who might walk into my room and be inappropriate then what I can do

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is I can just bind it here so I can just step and do that and not have it

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interrupt my gameplay even when I'm speaking and there's endless

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opportunities for bindings like this that are different than what you would

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otherwise have access to so for example it supports four modifiers Keys now so

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that's Control Alt shift and the Windows key giving you up to 16 functions down

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here and you can do all kinds of crazy stuff like you could bind diagonal

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movement is another thing that it does now or you could bind uh different

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potions or different spells instead of using I mean I have small hands so

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reaching up to the number keys for my tool belt actually isn't always

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necessarily that convenient so having something like even two of these under

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my feet and having them B to the first eight slots there would be much more

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efficient than me taking taking my fingers off of the movement keys and then potentially not even finding my way

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back so the functionality is all configurable within the driver which

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they're constantly updating and I think it's really cool not only for your

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typical gamer but also for people with disabilities as well so they have one

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testimonial on their site that I think is really cool so the guy has it bound

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to WD for his feet and then he doesn't have a left ARM so he uses his right

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hand and then I guess you combind all those you know Fancy Pants extra Mouse

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buttons you have to all the other things you need to do and enjoy a experience

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that you otherwise couldn't if you were limited to only being able to control

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your games with your hands so I think that's really cool it's not cheap it's

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120 bucks um they asked me to mention that it's available at Future Shop and

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Best Buy although I should also probably mention that my affiliate link is under

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the video in the description so if you want to help us out then you can order

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there as well if you're interested in it if you're not interested in it I think I

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have a pretty good idea what your objections going to be it's really expensive it's over $100 for what is

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effectively four buttons so if you were to just evaluate the cost of your

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Hardware like per button with a keyboard you could spend over $100 on a

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mechanical keyboard and get over a 100 buttons but it's not necessarily that

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simple they're a startup company they have to have money to repay whatever

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loans they've incurred up until now they have to have money to reinvest and make

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new products especially if you want to see maybe a lower cost version in the

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future or you know maybe like a tongue controller so that you can use your

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mouth to issue additional commands I mean that could be very cool the more

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ways we have to interface with our computer the better and I personally am

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willing to help them out with that now I mean I mean think about it I was even

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talking about a USB butt plug not that long ago imagine that as a control

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device clench for push to talk like clinch to prone every time someone jumps

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out from a corner and you get all tents you just automatically prone that's

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amazing that's great functionality I that that is a million dooll idea right

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there anyway press liked if you like the video press dislike if you dislike the

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video or if you felt very strongly about that inappropriate final comment there

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leave a comment on the video letting me know what you think of the stinky foot for what would you guys be willing to

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pay if you know you had to wait a year or something like that for a lower cost

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alternative or would you be willing to Pony up for this one right now and as

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