1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,580 Boasting infinite customizability, the Flux keyboard is finally the answer 2 00:00:05,580 --> 00:00:09,340 to what would happen if you made it a keyboard and a display. 3 00:00:09,340 --> 00:00:12,580 It's a keysplay, a discord? 4 00:00:12,580 --> 00:00:15,820 Whatever it is, this is just about the coolest thing 5 00:00:15,820 --> 00:00:19,860 that I have ever seen. In addition to allowing the display 6 00:00:19,860 --> 00:00:25,700 to be used for dynamic macro assignments, language switching, or just sick vibes, 7 00:00:25,700 --> 00:00:30,260 it boasts top tier keyboard specs too, including a 1,000 Hertz polling rate 8 00:00:30,260 --> 00:00:33,300 with a claimed 1.2 milliseconds input delay 9 00:00:33,300 --> 00:00:36,380 and adjustable actuation points 10 00:00:36,380 --> 00:00:41,580 thanks to its analog hall effect switches. Oh, and did I mention that the force of those switches 11 00:00:41,580 --> 00:00:46,580 can be changed by swapping out magnets and that the entire key frame can be taken off 12 00:00:46,580 --> 00:00:51,880 and switched to go between linear and tactile feel in just seconds, not sold yet? 13 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:56,460 The software allows your key maps to change according to the application you're using 14 00:00:56,460 --> 00:00:59,660 and Flux even offers an ecosystem of accessories, 15 00:00:59,660 --> 00:01:03,220 including extra buttons, extra dials, and even more extra dials 16 00:01:03,220 --> 00:01:08,820 for your gaming and productivity pleasure. It even works across Windows, Mac, and mobile OSes 17 00:01:08,820 --> 00:01:12,580 with Linux planned for the future. Wait, already available? 18 00:01:12,580 --> 00:01:16,180 Can anything possibly live up to all of these promises? 19 00:01:16,180 --> 00:01:21,340 Maybe, but it won't be the Flux keyboard because we found some stuff that they claimed 20 00:01:21,340 --> 00:01:25,140 that wasn't quite true, but there's still a lot to love here. 21 00:01:25,140 --> 00:01:28,860 I mean, look at it and look at these great new colors of polos 22 00:01:28,860 --> 00:01:32,820 available at ltsdstore.com and look at this segue to our sponsor. 23 00:01:41,700 --> 00:01:47,420 The story of how I got my hands on this thing is actually kind of funny. Reddit user FrancineGosBoom posted that finally 24 00:01:47,420 --> 00:01:50,940 after backing this thing ages ago, his Flux keyboard arrived. 25 00:01:50,940 --> 00:01:55,860 So I slid into his DMs and I said, hey, can I borrow that to make a video? 26 00:01:55,860 --> 00:01:59,780 And he was like, sure. Said the story was funny, I didn't say it was long. 27 00:01:59,780 --> 00:02:02,620 The base is a solid chunk of machined aluminum. 28 00:02:04,140 --> 00:02:09,380 Does that get across the weight? Good, gravy, you could kill a man with it. 29 00:02:09,380 --> 00:02:13,540 On the bottom, you'll find two-stage angled feet depending on your preference, 30 00:02:13,540 --> 00:02:18,580 as well as the latch mechanism for the key frame, which is the piece that goes on top 31 00:02:18,580 --> 00:02:23,660 and is the frame that holds the keys. Over on the top, we've got our main USB-C port, 32 00:02:23,660 --> 00:02:29,260 then on both the left and on the right, we've got past reports for peripherals, storage drives, 33 00:02:29,260 --> 00:02:32,300 whatever the case may be. And then in terms of other accessories, 34 00:02:32,300 --> 00:02:39,580 we've got a dual-headed one here, USB type A for data, USB type C for another 35 00:02:39,580 --> 00:02:43,740 greater than 30 watts of recommended power, 36 00:02:43,740 --> 00:02:47,220 and then a right-angled USB-C to go into the keyboard itself 37 00:02:47,220 --> 00:02:50,420 because it's got a power not just a keyboard, 38 00:02:50,420 --> 00:02:52,820 but also a flipping display. 39 00:02:53,780 --> 00:02:58,180 Well, it doesn't flip, unless you flip it. 40 00:02:58,180 --> 00:03:04,620 Now for the part that's really exciting for me, according to Flux, their key frame uses acrylic 41 00:03:04,620 --> 00:03:09,620 to achieve 97% transparency and, wow, 42 00:03:10,580 --> 00:03:16,580 that is really clear, but more importantly has magnets 43 00:03:16,580 --> 00:03:22,020 on the side of each key switch that it uses in place of a more traditional method 44 00:03:22,020 --> 00:03:26,740 like a spring to provide the spring force that lifts the keys back up. 45 00:03:26,740 --> 00:03:31,780 Because of that, you might use the quick swap mechanism to change it out for one with different force 46 00:03:31,780 --> 00:03:34,900 or with a different type of key switch. This is a linear one, 47 00:03:34,900 --> 00:03:40,380 but they have a tactile key frame as well. Flux advises against touching the bottom of the key frame 48 00:03:40,380 --> 00:03:43,820 at any time because, I mean, getting fingerprints off of that 49 00:03:43,820 --> 00:03:49,100 would be an absolute nightmare, and also advises against using any chemical cleaners, 50 00:03:49,100 --> 00:03:53,300 even things like alcohol that you might normally use to clean something like a keyboard 51 00:03:53,300 --> 00:03:57,180 because this is acrylic, and that's gonna be a really bad time. 52 00:03:57,180 --> 00:04:00,900 Hey, how's the feel, ooh. Because there's no stem, 53 00:04:00,900 --> 00:04:04,140 you do end up with a little bit of side to side play on the key switches, 54 00:04:04,140 --> 00:04:09,940 which normally wouldn't really matter, except that if you accidentally press them off center, 55 00:04:09,940 --> 00:04:15,540 it can cause them to sit a little bit off kilter, which can lead to it taking quite a bit more force 56 00:04:15,540 --> 00:04:20,060 to press them versus if you press them in the middle. It's not the most forgiving design. 57 00:04:20,060 --> 00:04:23,140 With that said, you might not need to press it very far. 58 00:04:23,140 --> 00:04:26,780 Flux offers the ability to change the actuation point 59 00:04:26,780 --> 00:04:31,100 from anywhere from 0.4 millimeters to 2.8 millimeters 60 00:04:31,100 --> 00:04:35,820 out of the total four millimeter travel. So you can have it be more like a hair trigger 61 00:04:35,820 --> 00:04:40,820 as you're typing or as you're gaming. And finally, the passive module, 62 00:04:40,820 --> 00:04:45,820 which seems to be basically just a window into the screen. 63 00:04:47,900 --> 00:04:49,620 Ooh, magnets. 64 00:04:55,900 --> 00:04:59,460 This isn't needed today, but if you wanted to put on any of their other modules, 65 00:04:59,460 --> 00:05:02,460 like their three button module, their single dial module, 66 00:05:02,460 --> 00:05:07,260 which can be either clicky or smooth, or their three dial module, then this would be great. 67 00:05:07,260 --> 00:05:09,380 It would allow you to kind of put one of those over there, 68 00:05:10,380 --> 00:05:14,340 or whatever works for you. I'm gonna put this over here. 69 00:05:14,340 --> 00:05:18,220 That is so freaking cool. 70 00:05:18,220 --> 00:05:20,020 The possibilities are endless. 71 00:05:25,540 --> 00:05:30,900 Ooh. Acrylic is not a great material for a keycap. 72 00:05:30,900 --> 00:05:34,460 So it's not objectively terrible to type on, 73 00:05:34,460 --> 00:05:39,260 but it's not comfortable. It's like kind of almost sticky 74 00:05:39,260 --> 00:05:44,300 as you go across it because it's so smooth it almost like grabs you. 75 00:05:44,300 --> 00:05:50,700 Okay, all right, okay. Let's get the software. Let's get the software. Remember when 600 megabytes was a lot for a GPU driver? 76 00:05:51,580 --> 00:05:55,700 Pepperidge Farm remembers. All right, here we go. 77 00:05:55,700 --> 00:05:59,980 Whoa, hotkeys for changing my actuation modes. 78 00:05:59,980 --> 00:06:04,500 So here, we go into actuation, and then I can just change anything I want. 79 00:06:04,500 --> 00:06:08,800 Oh, I want a really light WASD, for instance. 80 00:06:09,740 --> 00:06:12,780 Boom. Save to keyboard. 81 00:06:14,260 --> 00:06:16,460 Oh, they already had one like that, 82 00:06:17,420 --> 00:06:20,420 with really light WASD and fairly light everything else. 83 00:06:20,420 --> 00:06:23,940 Okay, so we're on the same wavelength flux. This is cool. 84 00:06:23,940 --> 00:06:27,100 You can take your profiles with you from one system to another. 85 00:06:27,100 --> 00:06:32,340 You won't get the detection of your active application, so it won't be able to like automatically switch 86 00:06:32,340 --> 00:06:35,700 to DaVinci Resolve hotkeys on a non-supported system, 87 00:06:35,700 --> 00:06:41,980 or when their Polymath software isn't running, but at least you can load up most of the stuff 88 00:06:41,980 --> 00:06:48,140 that you need onto the keyboard itself. I am loving the configurability for this. 89 00:06:48,140 --> 00:06:54,140 Would I actually love gaming on it, though? Wait, no, I have no style right now, though. 90 00:06:54,140 --> 00:07:01,780 We can fix this. Oh, I had to, oh, that is so freaking cool. 91 00:07:05,380 --> 00:07:10,260 What is the point of guns if they don't kill people? I can't say there's anything special feeling 92 00:07:10,260 --> 00:07:15,100 about it from a gaming standpoint, but I also wouldn't say that it takes anything away. 93 00:07:15,100 --> 00:07:18,380 Realistically, though, that probably has more to do with my skill than it does to do 94 00:07:18,380 --> 00:07:22,620 with the quality of this keyboard. The Labs team found that while they claim 95 00:07:22,620 --> 00:07:26,980 one to two milliseconds of input lag, we actually found that it was more like 10 milliseconds 96 00:07:26,980 --> 00:07:30,100 on average, not an incredible result. 97 00:07:30,100 --> 00:07:33,340 But can your gaming keyboard do this? 98 00:07:34,420 --> 00:07:37,900 Huh? Ooh, clock. 99 00:07:37,900 --> 00:07:43,340 Oh, wait, I already have clock. Ooh, analog clock. Ooh, flip clock. 100 00:07:43,340 --> 00:07:47,020 But wait, there's more. You can upload videos to it. 101 00:07:47,020 --> 00:07:50,540 Apparently it has eight gigabytes of onboard storage. 102 00:07:50,540 --> 00:07:54,380 So they claim multiple 1080p movies even. 103 00:07:54,380 --> 00:07:57,940 I just wanna see the jellyfish now. I just wanna play with it. 104 00:07:57,940 --> 00:08:04,540 Sorry, sorry, I'm getting distracted. For the first time ever. Linus Texas coming at you from a keyboard. 105 00:08:05,540 --> 00:08:09,620 I don't even care that it's kind of a bad keyboard. 106 00:08:10,580 --> 00:08:16,500 Oh, oh, that's cool. And like it's not like a crappy display even. 107 00:08:16,500 --> 00:08:20,140 It's not the world's greatest display, but it's decent. 108 00:08:20,140 --> 00:08:24,340 They claim 300 nits peak brightness. We actually measured a little higher than that. 109 00:08:24,340 --> 00:08:28,900 So maybe they're talking more like how much is left after it comes through the keycaps. 110 00:08:28,900 --> 00:08:34,260 We found it was about 280 nits. And it's about 170 pixels per inch. 111 00:08:34,260 --> 00:08:41,260 I mean, this is a 1080p display. So it looks like, it looks really good. 112 00:08:41,260 --> 00:08:45,700 I'm watching me manhandle a keyboard. Well, I manhandle my keyboard. 113 00:08:45,700 --> 00:08:49,580 It's like having an out of body experience or something. This is so trippy. 114 00:08:49,580 --> 00:08:53,420 Okay, enough of that. They have a handful of supported applications. So let's fire one of these up 115 00:08:53,420 --> 00:09:00,500 and see what we get in terms of shortcuts here. DaVinci Resolve and Create and Save. 116 00:09:00,620 --> 00:09:06,660 So I'm here in my DaVinci Resolve. All right, in marker, out marker. 117 00:09:06,660 --> 00:09:12,260 Don't have to think about that. Blade, boom, boom. 118 00:09:12,260 --> 00:09:15,620 Delet, ah, dude. 119 00:09:15,620 --> 00:09:19,980 There's people I've met. Let's put it that way that would love this. 120 00:09:19,980 --> 00:09:23,340 Their only complaint would be, but why not more though? 121 00:09:23,340 --> 00:09:27,380 Oh, and this effect is so cool. I didn't even notice this before. 122 00:09:27,380 --> 00:09:30,860 If at this point you're thinking, what's the catch? 123 00:09:30,860 --> 00:09:36,380 Boy, do I ever have one for you. The price is a pretty tough pill to swallow. 124 00:09:36,380 --> 00:09:41,380 $530 US dollars gets you just the keyboard, no extra modules. 125 00:09:43,060 --> 00:09:46,460 So if you can see yourself getting more than $500 126 00:09:46,460 --> 00:09:49,820 of extra productivity, or if you just plain need 127 00:09:49,820 --> 00:09:53,540 to have that swag on your desk, it does what it says on the tin. 128 00:09:53,540 --> 00:09:58,060 If you're quite literally anyone else, it's a little tougher to recommend. 129 00:09:58,060 --> 00:10:01,700 But what I can recommend is checking out our sponsor. 130 00:10:01,700 --> 00:10:05,980 Did you guys enjoy this video? Why not watch the one that I'm playing right now? 131 00:10:05,980 --> 00:10:09,820 It's a classic, the world's ugliest keyboard. 132 00:10:09,820 --> 00:10:12,180 I don't know why I've had that hockey footage in it.