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it feels like every part of the average desk is stuck in its own Universe with

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little thought put into how it all goes together I mean look myself and many of

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you spend more time than we'd like to admit at a desk using a computer yet the

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chair and desk with a monitor has been basically exactly the same for decades

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that is until I saw this and admittedly other similar products The Cooler Master

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orvex is a fifteen thousand dollar 700

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pound computer desk egg cockpit thing

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that's on a mission to perfect and enhance the computer user experience and

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I kind of like it the tagline for the orbex is where luxury meets technology

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and on first glance I kind of think they nailed that this thing looks like a

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captain's chair in a freaking spaceship now I mean that in a good way just look

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at all this addressable RGB I got the remote here because I'm ready

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but right now this is in its closed form but with the push of a button

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the motorized shuttle Dome as they're calling it opens right up

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and we can get inside as soon as you sit down and get the seat adjusted more on

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that later it feels very immersive but

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not like in a claustrophobic way I mean it's tight but it's also very open air

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and kind of comfortable at the same time you know you got a breeze going through

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it feels pretty good and I don't feel like I'm trapped in this thing despite a

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large percentage of my field of view being occupied by both the top the

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monitor the desk everything I still feel like I could I could jump out if I had

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to and as somebody with ADHD the way that it does take up so much of your

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field of view and kind of prevents you from looking at what's behind you in an

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office space or even at home when I was gaming I feel like if I put noise

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canceling headphones on I would get lost in this thing in its current

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configuration here at CES 2023 they have a 34 inch high refresh rate Cooler

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Master Ultra wide but you can also configure it with three 27-inch monitors

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and Surround if you want and while they don't officially list it as supported I

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talk to the people here and they set a 49 inch super ultra wide like the

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Samsung to see can mount up to it it's just maybe a little too close for that

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at least when you have the discrete monitors you can kind of put them at an

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angle right above the monitors you can see the stereo part of the 2.1 Channel

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spatial audio setup they have in here they're they're kind of up here angled

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to bounce off and kind of surround you in audio it's not like technically true

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surround sound there's also a sub underneath the seat so the small drivers

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in here have a little bit of help giving you that extra oomph and bass and let's

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hear how they sound with their everybody's favorite crab rave

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it's truly the Pinnacle of audio testing

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okay don't get me wrong it's not the Pinnacle of audio listening experience

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it's not the best speakers you can have on a PC but the spatial effect really

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does make it feel like it belongs in this setup they're definitely good

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enough I'm not wanting more specifically with the speakers there's three modes

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there's a gaming mode a theater mode which is like for movies and a music

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mode most of the sound difference I noticed between them is more to do with

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like how much bass there is so you're probably just gonna pick one you like

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and stick to it but you know maybe some people like choosing but there's also a

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lot of other buttons over here we should check out in terms of audio control

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there's an on and off button for the speakers the mode selector for those

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three different modes I talked about earlier a volume switch and a toggle that switches between Optical and

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Bluetooth audio so if you had your phone and you wanted to connect it to this thing and have your computer connected

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with Optical you can totally do that or even have your computer on Bluetooth if you're crazy and like latency the last

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button other than the power button is a memory feature so when you get your

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chair exactly how you like it you hold

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the memory button I didn't hold it long enough and now it's going back to the default

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whatever you get the point just like in a car where you can save your seat's

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position you can do it on this thing I would like to see maybe the option to

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have like three saved modes especially if they're pitching this as like a business device you might have multiple

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people that use the desk and only being able to save one position seems a bit

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short-sighted speaking of the seat there are a few things we can talk about there

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the headrest is adjustable manually as

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well as the lumbar support down here which goes again up and down in terms of

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the rest of the seat the back moves forward and back with the fancy little

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remote here try that

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oh there we go these seat slides forward and back

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there we go pressing the wrong buttons don't mind me

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they did mention to me on this one they think the foot rest is a little bit

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short especially for tall people I would concur but they already are aware of

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that and are thinking about fixing it and in terms of comfort honestly aside

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from the footrest being a bit short it's a pretty comfy chair it's very firmly

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padded but that's actually a good thing because people are going to be sitting in something like this for a long time

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and you don't want to be sitting in a chair and after an hour you start to

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feel the plywood under I don't think that's going to be a problem in this

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thing I would maybe like to see adjustable armrests but it's hard to say

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how they would do that when you have a big desk that slides back and forth

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might kind of get in the way but realistically you're using this as a

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desk your arms are going to be up here anyways our sponsor for CES 2023

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actually dropped out but dbrand footed the bill the only catches they want me

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to come out onto the streets and offer Tech tips to random people for free it's

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I I'm not optimistic for how this is

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gonna go is that an iPhone it is it's an old one

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it's an old one yeah that's okay do you want a tech tip Giver have you ever

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heard the that when you get a new electronic product you should let it

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drain completely before recharging it yeah I've heard that well it's wrong

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yeah I figured like plug them right in like gimbal that I have I plugged that

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right in when I got it new it was about half charged oh nice said not to do that

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and it's been working ever since so okay can you do one more thing for me what do

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you need go to www.shortlineus.com short Linus you

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don't have to do it right now but whatever I'll give her yeah don't worry nice awesome we're just talking about

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the cup holder unfortunately a water bottle like this doesn't work just yet

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but with a cup in there look at that fits like a glove speaking of desk let's

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talk about it now right off the bat it's a great size there's tons of room for

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peripherals and plenty of mousing real estate even enough that you can slide

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your keyboard all the way out of the way and kind of read a book or write

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something on paper it's covered by a nice custom mouse pad that feels pretty

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good but it is a specific size so if you wanted to replace it a couple years down

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the road you would need to Source it from Cooler Master directly they said

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they they will have replacement parts available but your mileage may vary you

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never know how long companies support things like this it even has a wireless charger for your phone which when we're

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talking about trying to build an integrated device like this is the

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perfect thing to include everybody has their phone on their desk why can't you

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just charge it in the desk now there is one little caveat I thought because the

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entire desk is on an adjustable ARM that rests in a few different spots you can

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see there's like a little ball bearing here now I thought initially that

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this movement was going to be a problem but actually when you're using it the

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pressure of your arms holds it in place and it does a pretty

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good job of that so much so that I think honestly after using it for about 20

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minutes I kind of forgot that the desk moved so I guess it's doing its job I

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would say that part of me still wants some sort of locking mechanism I don't

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know how they would do it maybe I'm not an engineer but I feel like there's got

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to be a way on the other side of the desk there is a few other things that

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are cool most notably a reading light which actually makes perfect sense if

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you're using your desk for you gotta sign a document or whatever works

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perfect for that there's also an integrated USB hub one of the ports even

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does 60 watt USB power delivery which is actually plenty enough to charge a

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laptop which is what I imagine most people would use it for and there's a

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headphone mic combo Port so if you want to wear headphones instead of using the speakers you can totally do that like I

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was you might be wondering where's the bloody computer it's not sitting right

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here it's not behind it but it's actually stored inside the orb X aha

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here it is look at that the lights they got a little contacts on there that's so

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cool now despite the price tag I mean it

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is an expensive thing think of it it's kind of like luxury Furniture it doesn't

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come with a computer you do have to provide your own or you can actually ask

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Cooler Master and they'll provide you a quote with one this is their q300l case

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fits in there pretty nicely it's not the smallest compartment ever but it also

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isn't going to fit a big case so you kind of have to keep that in mind the

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cables for the display are pre-run that would be part of the delivery service

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and there is as you'd guess from Cooler Master

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there's coolant there's three it looks like 120 mil fans on the bottom here and

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they blow a lot of air I actually I

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didn't notice it when I was in the front I didn't feel like that's this loud fan

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behind me I didn't hear the computer but there's lots of cooling down here there

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is also a vent at the top so some heat will come out of the top but most of it

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kind of is sucked out the bottom here so you shouldn't really feel any heat this

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system is equipped with a 4080 and a 13 700k and I didn't feel any heat in the

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front so I think that works pretty well this is a great way to do this a lot of

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solutions like this they think oh you just throw the computer behind the thing

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that's great it's supposed to be an integrated solution this is an

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integrated solution now there are some power restrictions because the power

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plugs in directly to the system down here along with the Ethernet you're only

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going to be able to run 1200 watts on the computer and 750 watts on the

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monitor those are the two limitations that I saw on the website I imagine

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there's probably some power use used by the machine so that's kind of the

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limitation you're at there but other than that 1200 watts for computers

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I'm gonna be honest when I first saw this thing and some of the other similar

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style computer immersion things I've always thought who would buy that thing

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it's so huge it's so much money but now

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I kind of want one like I want this in my house this is like everything I want

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in a computer desk and I didn't know I wanted it until I tried it which is

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pretty cool all of this might leave you with the question of why Cooler Master a

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company known for PC Hardware cases keyboards and mice is venturing into a

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fairly Boutique Market of luxury Furniture slash office equipment I guess

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well it's part of a bigger move to turn Cooler Master into more of a tech

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lifestyle company and less of a PC Hardware vendor and it does also have me

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wondering who would shell out for something like this you know I want it

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doesn't mean I would pay fifteen thousand dollars for something like this well I could definitely see employers

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who are trying to entice you know long-term work from home people back into the office or maybe it's just for a

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trust fund baby's gaming room but regardless I still want one can we have

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one all right if you like this video you

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might also like the time we looked at a similar concept from Acer back at CES

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2019 that was four years ago and also the last time I was at CES