{"video_id":"fLFn4Z9Cerc","title":"Zowie Gear Hammer Gaming Headset and G-TF Cloth Mouse Pad Unboxing Linus Tech Tips","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2010-05-08T14:53:29Z","duration_s":308,"segments":[{"start_s":0.8,"end_s":6.72,"text":"okay so today i'm unboxing a couple of zowie gear products as you can see i'm","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":4.96,"end_s":11.759,"text":"in the cameraman's office so i am finally back at work after my boat with","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":8.88,"end_s":16.32,"text":"the swine flu um honestly i know nothing about zowie as a company except that","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":14.16,"end_s":20.32,"text":"they make gaming peripherals we don't actually carry them yet however i'm","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":18.56,"end_s":23.68,"text":"going to have a look at these evaluation products and check out what i think 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the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":286.4,"end_s":292.16,"text":"back of a mouse pad never do that it's stupid but i'm putting a mouse on the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":290.479,"end_s":296.32,"text":"back of it so that i can demonstrate it's quite grippy when you put it down","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":294.08,"end_s":300.16,"text":"on the desk and it's not going to move if even if you lift your mouse and kind","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":298.08,"end_s":305.6,"text":"of do that sort of thing anyway thank you for checking out my unboxing of the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":302.479,"end_s":308.919,"text":"zowie gear hammer and two face","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":305.6,"end_s":308.919,"text":"mouse pad","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"okay so today i'm unboxing a couple of zowie gear products as you can see i'm in the cameraman's office so i am finally back at work after my boat with the swine flu um honestly i know nothing about zowie as a company except that they make gaming peripherals we don't actually carry them yet however i'm going to have a look at these evaluation products and check out what i think of them so this headset is called the hammer it should fall around like a 69.99 79.99 sort of price range it has uh some guy on it who says it's really good and then it has another guy who also says it's really good okay so it's designed for esports so that means it's designed for sports that you do not leave your armchair in order to do the very best kinds of sports obviously okay so we'll start with the headset and they also have a mouse pad which is the g tf or two face okay so headset here the build quality actually there's nothing particularly exceptional about it but it feels like it's going to be pretty comfortable when i go ahead and put this on my head so i'm just going to figure out which way okay so the ARM here is a little bit stiff for the huge huge microphone which looks like it should be pretty good it's like an enormous microphone in there i don't know why you would need that but either way that's pretty cool so this is the left ear so i should probably be putting the uh this turns all the way around okay so i should probably put that over there so i'm gonna check out the uh comfort level here how do i look cameraman is making kind of like a weird face at me this isn't actually flexible which is something i don't really like so you can't adjust how far the mic sits away from your head however they're incredibly light which i guess is one huge advantage of such a such a slim design and another thing that i've noticed about them as i had them on is that they are using a closed design so that means that sound is going to be a little bit more tinny you're going to get a little bit less bass but the advantage is going to be that directionality is much better other people can't hear what you're listening to and you can't hear any outside noises like i can hardly hear myself talk when i have these on much like the sennheiser pc350s okay so it also comes with uh what do we got here oh okay we've got an on on the on the cable we have a switch for the mic as well as a volume control this feels pretty cheap and cheesy but uh i don't think the clip is going anywhere anytime soon so it should be durable enough from that perspective then we have let's see pretty short cable but it looks like this little accessory package here comes with an extension cable so that you can either plug into the back of a keyboard on your desk or you can reach around all the way and reach around or you can reach around all the way to the back of the case okay it also comes with a couple of foam ear pads so you can actually replace the pleathery ones that come with it and it looks like oh this is actually really easy to do with foam ones should you prefer that feel on your ears of velour or whatever you want to call this material okay let's move on to the mouse pad i'm just going to cough once here sorry about that okay i'm not still not feeling 100 quite yet okay so this is the g tfs or the two face it is a spawn okay whatever that means it has this badass looking guy on it all right and it says okay what is unique about this mouse pad is that it is a hundred percent cloth but it is as fast as plastic because it actually uses a plastic coating over top so that's kind of like the steel series 5l which is a cloth pad with a plastic layer on top except that this is not a hard pad this is actually still a rollable sort of actual cloth pad whereas the 5l sips on like a plastic back substrate sort of thing so this is a quite a large mouse pad as you can see here with it in front of me so i've got the cameraman's like ghetto mouse here which totally sucks but in terms of in terms of glide actually i can't really see it being any faster than the qck that i'm using at home but i do like the rough textured feel quite a lot if you can i don't know how the cameraman is going to sort of capture that but have a look and i also really like how thick it is this is quite a thick mouse pad and it has nice nice woven edges which is something that i've noticed about my qck is the edges are getting quite frayed and i can see that this would cause that to not happen the back is a rubberized very grippy i'm just obviously you'd never use a mouse on the back of a mouse pad never do that it's stupid but i'm putting a mouse on the back of it so that i can demonstrate it's quite grippy when you put it down on the desk and it's not going to move if even if you lift your mouse and kind of do that sort of thing anyway thank you for checking out my unboxing of the zowie gear hammer and two face mouse pad"}