WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.100 Everyone knows I only love two things in this world, displays and keyboards. 00:00:05.120 --> 00:00:09.400 So when the DS Pixel Key Pro was being showcased all over the internet, 00:00:09.400 --> 00:00:12.600 I just had to have it. And it's finally here. 00:00:12.600 --> 00:00:18.240 Wow. So we've got this giant keypad that rests on top 00:00:18.240 --> 00:00:24.200 because this is all capacitive touch. And so theoretically, once I turn this on, 00:00:24.200 --> 00:00:27.900 I could type directly on the screen. Do I want to? 00:00:27.900 --> 00:00:32.460 No, it's probably going to be a very bad experience. As for what this experience is going to be like, 00:00:32.460 --> 00:00:36.700 I don't know. Cause this feels honestly worse than like 00:00:36.700 --> 00:00:38.580 your regular membrane keyboard. 00:00:40.140 --> 00:00:44.180 It actually feels really bad. I was not expecting it to be that bad. 00:00:44.180 --> 00:00:48.860 But before we get to it, let's take a look at the rest of this thing. It's got two ports and a switch. 00:00:48.860 --> 00:00:54.180 And those are for data and power. So if you want to charge this thing, 00:00:54.180 --> 00:00:58.460 you have to leave it plugged into power. And if you want to actually use it with your computer, 00:00:58.460 --> 00:01:02.740 you have to also leave it plugged into data or use the wireless mode. 00:01:02.740 --> 00:01:05.980 And it's got these other weird little plates. They look like Christmas ornaments. 00:01:05.980 --> 00:01:09.580 I think you can, there it goes. Yeah, they're just held on magnetically. 00:01:09.580 --> 00:01:12.540 Oh, a little nice gold color. And then here, 00:01:14.700 --> 00:01:17.940 we've got an HDMI port because yes, 00:01:17.940 --> 00:01:21.580 you can absolutely use this not only as your keyboard, 00:01:21.580 --> 00:01:24.860 but as a secondary display. Do I want to? 00:01:24.860 --> 00:01:30.060 Probably not. Will I do it for you today? Absolutely. But now I got to turn it on because like, 00:01:30.060 --> 00:01:35.660 I don't know, there's a switch. Does that work? Oh, okay, there's lights down here. 00:01:35.660 --> 00:01:39.420 DS pixel key. Oh, and there's side RGB too. 00:01:41.140 --> 00:01:44.580 Rattles around. There's something sliding ever so slightly. 00:01:44.580 --> 00:01:50.980 I got so excited. I forgot about what else comes in the box. We've just got a pretty typical USB cable. 00:01:50.980 --> 00:01:54.460 I would have loved anything with any kind of sleeving. Considering the price of this, 00:01:54.460 --> 00:01:58.860 because it's expensive, we'll get to that later. And then we've got what, some extra screws or something. 00:01:58.860 --> 00:02:02.060 Oh, a USB dongle. Right, because this guy is wireless. 00:02:02.060 --> 00:02:06.340 It'll do either Bluetooth or 2.4 gigahertz. Also, this is a very minor complaint, 00:02:06.340 --> 00:02:09.620 but when you order really expensive boutique boards, 00:02:09.620 --> 00:02:13.820 they tend to come in a nicely designed box. And I understand that this is probably 00:02:13.820 --> 00:02:19.980 a bit of a limited product run and everything, but I would love if this was just slightly more 00:02:19.980 --> 00:02:23.860 than brown box with DS pixel key.com 00:02:23.860 --> 00:02:30.580 and MW parts at Gmail at the back. As for this keypad thing, I'm really excited to try it out 00:02:30.580 --> 00:02:35.060 because it seems terrible. By the way, if you don't like a split space bar, 00:02:35.060 --> 00:02:39.660 good luck, because this uses a split space bar and I don't know how you're gonna ever switch that. 00:02:39.660 --> 00:02:44.660 As bad as it might feel, I'm actually genuinely impressed that they've managed to come up with something like this. 00:02:44.660 --> 00:02:47.780 It's pretty cool. Kind of a major complaint actually, I guess, 00:02:48.540 --> 00:02:52.060 I'm pretty sure that screw rattling around was supposed to be right here. 00:02:52.060 --> 00:02:55.900 Yeah, this one's clearly there. That one is clearly missing. 00:02:55.900 --> 00:03:00.420 And then this guy has some give to it. 00:03:00.420 --> 00:03:05.340 So I don't know if it's just not screwed down all the way or whatever, but this is how it showed up 00:03:05.340 --> 00:03:10.260 and I'm a little disappointed that it's not better connected. But enough of that, let's hook it up to our laptop 00:03:10.260 --> 00:03:13.540 and see what this typing experience is actually all about. 00:03:13.540 --> 00:03:17.180 We've also got their Ergo version that isn't released yet. That one's still kick starting. 00:03:17.180 --> 00:03:20.500 So I'll take a look at that bad boy in a second here. 00:03:20.500 --> 00:03:23.900 All right, we've got two cables plugged into this bad boy. 00:03:23.900 --> 00:03:29.620 It was a little dead, so we're charging it. I'm gonna turn it back on, plugged into our laptop as well. 00:03:29.620 --> 00:03:32.860 Super cool novelty. Really don't like that they couldn't figure out 00:03:32.860 --> 00:03:36.300 a single cable solution. So our computer detected it, no problem. 00:03:36.300 --> 00:03:39.940 It's got this sick animation and like the keys are displayed here. Okay, okay, okay. 00:03:39.940 --> 00:03:43.260 Win, okay, win, N-O-T-E. 00:03:43.260 --> 00:03:46.500 What, they play these little animations as I type too? 00:03:46.500 --> 00:03:49.540 Okay, this is incredible. I don't care how much I don't like this thing. 00:03:49.540 --> 00:03:53.620 I love it now. Oh, space is a, okay, okay. 00:03:53.620 --> 00:03:58.620 I actually really wish that this was just raised more 00:03:58.960 --> 00:04:02.480 because I have a major hard time hitting the space bar 00:04:02.480 --> 00:04:08.140 with my thumb and then probably any of the other like alt FN menu control, all those with my thumb 00:04:08.140 --> 00:04:13.140 because there's a giant like quarter inch gap from here. 00:04:13.420 --> 00:04:18.180 So it's gonna hit there and it makes it hard to hit space. But other than that, I think typing with your fingers 00:04:18.180 --> 00:04:22.980 is actually totally viable. Quick, I'm not fast and I'm not accurate, 00:04:22.980 --> 00:04:30.340 but like this is so cool. Brown, talk, this is, you know what? 00:04:30.900 --> 00:04:36.200 I drew quick, that actually, that turned out okay. Okay, now I'll try the thing that I am terrified of. 00:04:36.200 --> 00:04:39.780 So what this should do is essentially take your inputs 00:04:39.780 --> 00:04:43.540 up top here and translate them through capacitive touch. 00:04:43.540 --> 00:04:49.100 Oh, come on. Oh, so there's these little nubbins on the bottom here 00:04:49.100 --> 00:04:52.420 and then you slot those into these holes. Oh, there we go. 00:04:52.420 --> 00:04:57.620 All right, it's a little finicky to get the pad on top, but it works. The only other complaint I have is I actually, you know, 00:04:57.620 --> 00:05:04.560 it's already hard enough to kind of type on this thing. I wish it had bumps on the home row indicators on F and J. 00:05:05.300 --> 00:05:10.140 It's pretty standard on a lot of key cap sets or just like, I don't know, any other keyboard. 00:05:10.140 --> 00:05:13.940 So I'd like to see it here because it's already a weird experience, but hey, it works. 00:05:13.980 --> 00:05:17.620 Hit space, the animation plays. Okay, sick, let's do, okay. 00:05:17.620 --> 00:05:21.980 Quick, brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 00:05:21.980 --> 00:05:27.420 All right, that's it, that's my practice. It's time to go to monkey type and try to actually do a typing test on this thing. 00:05:27.420 --> 00:05:31.540 Okay, this is going to be a nightmare and it's probably gonna be my absolute worst time ever. 00:05:31.540 --> 00:05:37.380 Ready? Let's go both space against, I have to look type. 00:05:37.500 --> 00:05:41.940 I can't do this by memory. These, oh, I already made a mistake. 00:05:41.940 --> 00:05:44.280 All open. 00:05:45.460 --> 00:05:49.060 Oh, that's one other problem. I'm starting to rest my fingers. 00:05:49.060 --> 00:05:51.220 I'm already done, 22 words a minute, 83 seconds. 00:05:53.460 --> 00:05:56.700 I went to rest my fingers as I was like in between words 00:05:56.700 --> 00:06:00.460 and it actioned, but with this guy, no, no, no. 00:06:00.460 --> 00:06:04.900 All right, now let's try it with whatever they're calling this, the key cap frame or whatever. 00:06:07.540 --> 00:06:12.500 Hardly likes the sound. Okay, 84 words a minute, 91% actually, pretty bad, 00:06:12.500 --> 00:06:19.260 but I bet you with a bit more practice I could actually get used to it. It sounds like when you're playing a video game 00:06:19.260 --> 00:06:22.900 and some giant bug monster creature thing 00:06:22.900 --> 00:06:27.100 starts like chittering or chattering to its friends. 00:06:27.100 --> 00:06:27.940 I don't know, like, 00:06:30.700 --> 00:06:34.380 it's that 1% battery by the way already. This thing just eats battery. 00:06:34.380 --> 00:06:38.980 And it makes sense because it's like, it's a giant ass screen 00:06:38.980 --> 00:06:43.620 at a pretty reasonable brightness too. It's not necessarily a good outdoor keyboard, 00:06:43.620 --> 00:06:46.800 but it does hit 300 nits, which is very respectable. 00:06:46.800 --> 00:06:51.100 We swapped cables because the other one was going through USB-A and I don't think it was charging it enough. 00:06:51.100 --> 00:06:54.300 Now we're at still at 1%. I love the little monster guy 00:06:54.300 --> 00:06:58.420 that appears when you touch keys, this is sick. And if you don't love these little animations 00:06:58.420 --> 00:07:02.220 that they're doing, you can actually make your own and upload them as individual files 00:07:02.260 --> 00:07:05.860 and then customize each individual key as well at, well, not key. 00:07:05.860 --> 00:07:11.180 We looked it up and it's a little tedious. You're gonna have to rename basically every single file 00:07:11.180 --> 00:07:15.940 and there's 74 or so of them. We also accidentally set it to Arabic 00:07:15.940 --> 00:07:21.140 and we don't know how to change it back. So far, it's pretty in line with my expectations 00:07:21.140 --> 00:07:25.020 with custom keyboard software. Not very good. 00:07:25.020 --> 00:07:31.620 Just waiting on Reese to bring us our HDMI cable so that we can plug one cable into the laptop for data. 00:07:31.660 --> 00:07:36.260 We're gonna plug one into our power so that we can still charge it, still at 1%, 00:07:36.260 --> 00:07:40.540 really hoping this thing doesn't die on me. And then we're gonna plug another through HDMI 00:07:40.540 --> 00:07:43.820 to try to output the screen onto here. 00:07:43.820 --> 00:07:48.380 I have no idea how that's gonna go, but we'll find out. I love how after you don't type on it for a while too, 00:07:48.380 --> 00:07:52.420 it takes away the black background and starts playing this animation. You can put whatever video you want. 00:07:52.420 --> 00:07:56.700 And the screen itself is actually pretty decent. It's IPS and reasonably high PPI. 00:07:56.700 --> 00:08:00.860 We've got a 3840 by 1100 across a 14-inch display. 00:08:00.900 --> 00:08:06.740 HDMI going in. Oh, whoa, okay. 00:08:06.740 --> 00:08:11.540 The aspect ratio is way off on the laptop, but yeah, as you can see, 00:08:11.540 --> 00:08:17.540 if you really wanted to use this as an external 16 by nine display, you could. 00:08:17.540 --> 00:08:22.540 I don't know why you'd want to. 00:08:23.180 --> 00:08:26.740 Full screen, if I, does this, oh, it stretches it. That's awesome. 00:08:26.740 --> 00:08:32.380 This is wild. Can I still type on it now? I don't think so. It feels like the whole keyboard aspect of it is gone now. 00:08:32.380 --> 00:08:36.340 No dice. So unfortunately, if you really want to use it as both a keyboard and a display, 00:08:36.340 --> 00:08:41.100 you can't do that at the same time, which seems obvious in hindsight. 00:08:41.100 --> 00:08:44.380 Of course you can't do that. Now I got so excited about the rest of this thing 00:08:44.380 --> 00:08:47.820 that I completely forgot to talk about like the case and the chassis. 00:08:47.820 --> 00:08:52.700 It's heavy. It's a full aluminum build, pretty good diffuse RGB 00:08:52.700 --> 00:08:58.860 on the sides. And then on this neat little pattern they've got on the front, cool little DS badge on the top. 00:08:58.980 --> 00:09:03.940 Be cool if this was interchangeable, just like the Christmassy plates back here. 00:09:03.940 --> 00:09:07.140 And then if you want to go out, I used at least three fingers. 00:09:07.140 --> 00:09:10.980 One was not doing it, but then you swipe down and it goes away. So pretty cool. 00:09:10.980 --> 00:09:12.620 You can leave your HDMI, can I? 00:09:24.120 --> 00:09:29.420 Amazing. I don't care what it costs. 00:09:30.680 --> 00:09:35.060 I love it. It's so dumb. One final note though, 00:09:35.060 --> 00:09:38.980 this one is the eight kilohertz version. You can buy it in one kilohertz or eight kilohertz. 00:09:38.980 --> 00:09:43.020 And we measured around 30 milliseconds of latency, 00:09:43.020 --> 00:09:46.020 which is really bad. This thing is expensive. 00:09:46.020 --> 00:09:50.900 It is $6.59 on sale. It used to be more like $1,000. 00:09:50.900 --> 00:09:54.420 And it's a keyboard all right. I don't... 00:09:56.260 --> 00:09:59.500 All right, well, that was super cool, but I got to take a look at the Ergo version 00:09:59.500 --> 00:10:02.700 that's coming out soon, but not before word from our sponsor. 00:10:04.020 --> 00:10:07.940 Now we've got the DS Pixel Pro. Their naming scheme isn't ideal, 00:10:08.900 --> 00:10:12.420 because the other one can also be the DS Pixel Pro, but this is the Ergo version. 00:10:12.420 --> 00:10:15.900 So I'm already a lot happier with this. When you're spending this much money, 00:10:15.900 --> 00:10:20.700 you should get a little carry case with your keyboard. The cable looks also bad still, 00:10:20.700 --> 00:10:24.220 but whatever, I'm a lot more lenient on the terrible cable 00:10:24.220 --> 00:10:27.340 when it's got a really nice soft... 00:10:27.340 --> 00:10:30.580 Actually, I got a really nice case. Felt comes with a little cloth. 00:10:30.580 --> 00:10:36.300 That's always handy. And then it's in a little plastic bag with a buckle. 00:10:36.300 --> 00:10:40.140 I like that buckle a lot. Ooh, I like the blue too. 00:10:40.140 --> 00:10:40.980 This is nice. 00:10:45.540 --> 00:10:49.500 Magnificent. They've upgraded their system here. 00:10:49.500 --> 00:10:53.500 So this one isn't capacitive anymore. It's actually Hall Effect, and it's using magnets. 00:10:53.500 --> 00:10:57.140 So these are all programmable switches that you can change the actuation force on and whatnot. 00:10:57.140 --> 00:11:02.020 And this one's also eight kilohertz. And unlike the other one, we tested a pretty reasonable one millisecond 00:11:02.020 --> 00:11:06.540 of latency with that. It's a pretty typical split Alice kind of layout. 00:11:06.540 --> 00:11:09.540 We've again got our switch and two ports. 00:11:09.540 --> 00:11:13.220 So I'm actually going to plug it into charge pretty soon here. And then on the back, 00:11:13.220 --> 00:11:16.700 we've just got a couple raised feet. 00:11:16.700 --> 00:11:20.060 I absolutely love the black and blue colorway design, 00:11:20.060 --> 00:11:24.380 but I've noticed that there are some big gaps. So I don't know how good the tolerances are, 00:11:24.380 --> 00:11:27.500 but if you look here, I don't know how much you can see that on camera, 00:11:27.500 --> 00:11:31.140 but there's a gap in between there. And then up at the top as well. 00:11:31.140 --> 00:11:35.420 It's a really minor complaint. Like you're never going to see that when you're kind of just staring at it like this. 00:11:35.420 --> 00:11:39.740 This one also probably will cost a lot. There's currently not pricing up for it. 00:11:39.740 --> 00:11:43.100 But if the other one's anything to go by, then yeah. And yet again, 00:11:43.100 --> 00:11:48.780 I'm going to complain a little bit about the construction because it looks like all these screws. 00:11:48.820 --> 00:11:52.260 I can't tell if they're loose or if the tolerances are bad or whatever. 00:11:52.260 --> 00:11:57.260 So we're just going to, they're in. I'm really not making them go much deeper. 00:11:57.260 --> 00:12:00.300 In that case, I'm going to once again complain about the tolerances 00:12:00.300 --> 00:12:05.540 because the screws don't look flush with the rest of the board. Like I can feel them as I move my finger 00:12:05.540 --> 00:12:08.980 over a bunch of them, which again, you're going to have this down 00:12:08.980 --> 00:12:15.620 and it's not a big deal, but it's these small tensions to detail when you're spending over $500 on a keyboard 00:12:15.620 --> 00:12:17.820 that you kind of expected to be a little bit, 00:12:18.900 --> 00:12:21.820 more put together. DS pixel key. 00:12:22.900 --> 00:12:26.260 That's one screen. Where's the second? Oh, there, DS pixel key. 00:12:26.260 --> 00:12:29.300 I like how it's like, okay, turn the first one on. 00:12:29.300 --> 00:12:33.500 Hold up. Okay, turn the second one on. Okay, now what's the next stage 00:12:33.500 --> 00:12:36.780 in the rocket launch procedure? Hey, the keyboard turns on. 00:12:36.780 --> 00:12:40.060 This is wild. So now we've got two screens 00:12:40.060 --> 00:12:43.100 in a split Alice kind of layout. And it's got, 00:12:43.100 --> 00:12:46.540 it's already got an animation playing. No speakers on this one, 00:12:46.540 --> 00:12:49.620 which is a bit of a bummer, but whatever, 00:12:49.620 --> 00:12:57.580 I think you can live without it. Oh, why are these animations coming up as they touch it? 00:12:57.860 --> 00:13:01.780 I don't know what's happening. Okay, it's not capacitive. So I don't even know how that's working. 00:13:01.780 --> 00:13:05.540 Maybe it's capacitive and Hall effect. I'm not sure. It shouldn't be. 00:13:05.540 --> 00:13:10.860 Let's pop these bad boys on here. Wow, look at this. 00:13:10.860 --> 00:13:14.060 It basically ruins the screen. I will say, 00:13:14.060 --> 00:13:18.500 I hope you can touch type because it is almost impossible to read what the keys are 00:13:18.500 --> 00:13:22.060 with the crystal clear plastic switches that they've got here. 00:13:22.060 --> 00:13:25.860 The nice thing about these is that they actually do have little home row indicators. 00:13:25.860 --> 00:13:30.860 So brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 00:13:31.460 --> 00:13:34.620 Let's see if we can beat 84 words for a minute, 91% accuracy. 00:13:39.020 --> 00:13:44.300 Okay, 106, 97% accuracy. This is definitely a more pleasing typing experience. 00:13:44.300 --> 00:13:48.340 And I really actually wish that they basically had the original version 00:13:48.340 --> 00:13:51.340 in a normal layout with this system 00:13:51.340 --> 00:13:54.820 instead of the previous system 00:13:54.820 --> 00:13:58.180 because it just didn't feel good. This one actually like feels fine. 00:13:58.180 --> 00:14:02.260 Like this, you know, I'm not gonna say it feels amazing and it doesn't sound amazing 00:14:02.260 --> 00:14:06.020 because all these switches are like, they're outside of everything. Like they're just sitting here, see? 00:14:06.020 --> 00:14:10.220 It doesn't feel right to cover it up. Like it feels like this should be how it is. 00:14:10.220 --> 00:14:13.900 And then you don't use these. You don't use these visual aids. So you know what? 00:14:13.900 --> 00:14:16.940 Enough with the visual aids. And they say it's capacitive 00:14:16.940 --> 00:14:22.060 and it obviously is like it's detecting me but I can't seem to type like this, unfortunately. 00:14:22.060 --> 00:14:25.700 So we're not gonna do that second capacitive typing test. 00:14:25.700 --> 00:14:29.460 It's customizable. They're using a branch of VIA and it's QMK compatible. 00:14:29.460 --> 00:14:32.860 So you can kind of do whatever you want. I'm gonna take this to take the peel off. 00:14:32.860 --> 00:14:36.060 I got to take all the switches out. It's also hot swappable actually. 00:14:36.060 --> 00:14:41.180 That's something I could probably show you guys. Oh, you just pop that guy out. 00:14:42.740 --> 00:14:46.300 And then obviously, you know, if you don't like the clear caps, like those are just key caps. 00:14:46.300 --> 00:14:50.100 You just pop them off and pop them back on. 00:14:50.100 --> 00:14:53.220 We took the peel off and it looks slightly better. 00:14:53.220 --> 00:14:56.940 It's more clear but the switches are still getting in the way and it completely kind of ruins 00:14:56.940 --> 00:15:00.300 the whole picture effect here. And as for the other keyboard, 00:15:00.300 --> 00:15:04.660 there is no layer to take off. It's just this rubber or something 00:15:04.660 --> 00:15:08.140 in between the two plastic layers that makes it look all foggy. 00:15:08.140 --> 00:15:14.420 I want them both combined. I want this system on this keyboard 00:15:14.500 --> 00:15:18.740 but at the same time, like I don't want this either because I want to see the screen. 00:15:18.740 --> 00:15:22.060 It just, it feels like it's trying to do all these things 00:15:22.060 --> 00:15:25.100 but it doesn't do any of them super well. 00:15:25.100 --> 00:15:29.180 But at the same time, it's probably the coolest keyboard 00:15:29.180 --> 00:15:34.500 I've ever used in my entire life. And I kind of want it just because, you know, 00:15:34.500 --> 00:15:39.060 it's historical most. No matter which version of the DS Pixel you get, 00:15:39.060 --> 00:15:43.260 I think it's sick. I don't necessarily think it's a good keyboard 00:15:43.300 --> 00:15:48.900 but I think it's a super cool one. I don't know if you're willing to pay the price for it. 00:15:48.900 --> 00:15:51.940 Even on sale, it's still very expensive 00:15:51.940 --> 00:15:56.060 and the Alice doesn't even have a price yet. It's just up on Kickstarter. 00:15:56.060 --> 00:15:59.740 I don't know how I feel about it and I can't recommend it 00:15:59.740 --> 00:16:03.700 because I can't even give you a price for it. So it's such a tough call. 00:16:03.700 --> 00:16:07.700 I think it's an incredible experience. And if you ever get the opportunity 00:16:07.700 --> 00:16:11.420 to try either of these, 100% you should do it. 00:16:11.420 --> 00:16:15.980 I can't tell you to buy it. I think they're so cool and I want to like, I want to get one for myself 00:16:15.980 --> 00:16:20.100 but I can't even justify spending this much money on it. Well, there you have it folks. 00:16:20.100 --> 00:16:24.140 Love it or hate it. This is the DS Pixel multiple versions. 00:16:24.980 --> 00:16:28.980 This one is expensive but on sale, on sale. 00:16:28.980 --> 00:16:32.060 This one is on Kickstarter but there's no price yet 00:16:32.060 --> 00:16:36.660 so I can't exactly recommend either of them. I think they're super cool though. 00:16:36.660 --> 00:16:40.940 And if you want to check out another super cool keyboard, check out the AM Neon 80. 00:16:40.940 --> 00:16:44.060 That one had like 3000 holes milled into it 00:16:44.060 --> 00:16:47.780 and then it used RGB to make a pseudo screen kind of. 00:16:47.780 --> 00:16:51.060 Very cool. Not quite as cool as this guy though.