WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.580 Boasting infinite customizability, the Flux keyboard is finally the answer 00:00:05.580 --> 00:00:09.340 to what would happen if you made it a keyboard and a display. 00:00:09.340 --> 00:00:12.580 It's a keysplay, a discord? 00:00:12.580 --> 00:00:15.820 Whatever it is, this is just about the coolest thing 00:00:15.820 --> 00:00:19.860 that I have ever seen. In addition to allowing the display 00:00:19.860 --> 00:00:25.700 to be used for dynamic macro assignments, language switching, or just sick vibes, 00:00:25.700 --> 00:00:30.260 it boasts top tier keyboard specs too, including a 1,000 Hertz polling rate 00:00:30.260 --> 00:00:33.300 with a claimed 1.2 milliseconds input delay 00:00:33.300 --> 00:00:36.380 and adjustable actuation points 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 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 00:00:46.580 --> 00:00:51.880 and switched to go between linear and tactile feel in just seconds, not sold yet? 00:00:51.880 --> 00:00:56.460 The software allows your key maps to change according to the application you're using 00:00:56.460 --> 00:00:59.660 and Flux even offers an ecosystem of accessories, 00:00:59.660 --> 00:01:03.220 including extra buttons, extra dials, and even more extra dials 00:01:03.220 --> 00:01:08.820 for your gaming and productivity pleasure. It even works across Windows, Mac, and mobile OSes 00:01:08.820 --> 00:01:12.580 with Linux planned for the future. Wait, already available? 00:01:12.580 --> 00:01:16.180 Can anything possibly live up to all of these promises? 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 00:01:21.340 --> 00:01:25.140 that wasn't quite true, but there's still a lot to love here. 00:01:25.140 --> 00:01:28.860 I mean, look at it and look at these great new colors of polos 00:01:28.860 --> 00:01:32.820 available at ltsdstore.com and look at this segue to our sponsor. 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 00:01:47.420 --> 00:01:50.940 after backing this thing ages ago, his Flux keyboard arrived. 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? 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. 00:01:59.780 --> 00:02:02.620 The base is a solid chunk of machined aluminum. 00:02:04.140 --> 00:02:09.380 Does that get across the weight? Good, gravy, you could kill a man with it. 00:02:09.380 --> 00:02:13.540 On the bottom, you'll find two-stage angled feet depending on your preference, 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 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, 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, 00:02:29.260 --> 00:02:32.300 whatever the case may be. And then in terms of other accessories, 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 00:02:39.580 --> 00:02:43.740 greater than 30 watts of recommended power, 00:02:43.740 --> 00:02:47.220 and then a right-angled USB-C to go into the keyboard itself 00:02:47.220 --> 00:02:50.420 because it's got a power not just a keyboard, 00:02:50.420 --> 00:02:52.820 but also a flipping display. 00:02:53.780 --> 00:02:58.180 Well, it doesn't flip, unless you flip it. 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 00:03:04.620 --> 00:03:09.620 to achieve 97% transparency and, wow, 00:03:10.580 --> 00:03:16.580 that is really clear, but more importantly has magnets 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 00:03:22.020 --> 00:03:26.740 like a spring to provide the spring force that lifts the keys back up. 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 00:03:31.780 --> 00:03:34.900 or with a different type of key switch. This is a linear one, 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 00:03:40.380 --> 00:03:43.820 at any time because, I mean, getting fingerprints off of that 00:03:43.820 --> 00:03:49.100 would be an absolute nightmare, and also advises against using any chemical cleaners, 00:03:49.100 --> 00:03:53.300 even things like alcohol that you might normally use to clean something like a keyboard 00:03:53.300 --> 00:03:57.180 because this is acrylic, and that's gonna be a really bad time. 00:03:57.180 --> 00:04:00.900 Hey, how's the feel, ooh. Because there's no stem, 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, 00:04:04.140 --> 00:04:09.940 which normally wouldn't really matter, except that if you accidentally press them off center, 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 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. 00:04:20.060 --> 00:04:23.140 With that said, you might not need to press it very far. 00:04:23.140 --> 00:04:26.780 Flux offers the ability to change the actuation point 00:04:26.780 --> 00:04:31.100 from anywhere from 0.4 millimeters to 2.8 millimeters 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 00:04:35.820 --> 00:04:40.820 as you're typing or as you're gaming. And finally, the passive module, 00:04:40.820 --> 00:04:45.820 which seems to be basically just a window into the screen. 00:04:47.900 --> 00:04:49.620 Ooh, magnets. 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, 00:04:59.460 --> 00:05:02.460 like their three button module, their single dial module, 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. 00:05:07.260 --> 00:05:09.380 It would allow you to kind of put one of those over there, 00:05:10.380 --> 00:05:14.340 or whatever works for you. I'm gonna put this over here. 00:05:14.340 --> 00:05:18.220 That is so freaking cool. 00:05:18.220 --> 00:05:20.020 The possibilities are endless. 00:05:25.540 --> 00:05:30.900 Ooh. Acrylic is not a great material for a keycap. 00:05:30.900 --> 00:05:34.460 So it's not objectively terrible to type on, 00:05:34.460 --> 00:05:39.260 but it's not comfortable. It's like kind of almost sticky 00:05:39.260 --> 00:05:44.300 as you go across it because it's so smooth it almost like grabs you. 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? 00:05:51.580 --> 00:05:55.700 Pepperidge Farm remembers. All right, here we go. 00:05:55.700 --> 00:05:59.980 Whoa, hotkeys for changing my actuation modes. 00:05:59.980 --> 00:06:04.500 So here, we go into actuation, and then I can just change anything I want. 00:06:04.500 --> 00:06:08.800 Oh, I want a really light WASD, for instance. 00:06:09.740 --> 00:06:12.780 Boom. Save to keyboard. 00:06:14.260 --> 00:06:16.460 Oh, they already had one like that, 00:06:17.420 --> 00:06:20.420 with really light WASD and fairly light everything else. 00:06:20.420 --> 00:06:23.940 Okay, so we're on the same wavelength flux. This is cool. 00:06:23.940 --> 00:06:27.100 You can take your profiles with you from one system to another. 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 00:06:32.340 --> 00:06:35.700 to DaVinci Resolve hotkeys on a non-supported system, 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 00:06:41.980 --> 00:06:48.140 that you need onto the keyboard itself. I am loving the configurability for this. 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. 00:06:54.140 --> 00:07:01.780 We can fix this. Oh, I had to, oh, that is so freaking cool. 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 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. 00:07:15.100 --> 00:07:18.380 Realistically, though, that probably has more to do with my skill than it does to do 00:07:18.380 --> 00:07:22.620 with the quality of this keyboard. The Labs team found that while they claim 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 00:07:26.980 --> 00:07:30.100 on average, not an incredible result. 00:07:30.100 --> 00:07:33.340 But can your gaming keyboard do this? 00:07:34.420 --> 00:07:37.900 Huh? Ooh, clock. 00:07:37.900 --> 00:07:43.340 Oh, wait, I already have clock. Ooh, analog clock. Ooh, flip clock. 00:07:43.340 --> 00:07:47.020 But wait, there's more. You can upload videos to it. 00:07:47.020 --> 00:07:50.540 Apparently it has eight gigabytes of onboard storage. 00:07:50.540 --> 00:07:54.380 So they claim multiple 1080p movies even. 00:07:54.380 --> 00:07:57.940 I just wanna see the jellyfish now. I just wanna play with it. 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. 00:08:05.540 --> 00:08:09.620 I don't even care that it's kind of a bad keyboard. 00:08:10.580 --> 00:08:16.500 Oh, oh, that's cool. And like it's not like a crappy display even. 00:08:16.500 --> 00:08:20.140 It's not the world's greatest display, but it's decent. 00:08:20.140 --> 00:08:24.340 They claim 300 nits peak brightness. We actually measured a little higher than that. 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. 00:08:28.900 --> 00:08:34.260 We found it was about 280 nits. And it's about 170 pixels per inch. 00:08:34.260 --> 00:08:41.260 I mean, this is a 1080p display. So it looks like, it looks really good. 00:08:41.260 --> 00:08:45.700 I'm watching me manhandle a keyboard. Well, I manhandle my keyboard. 00:08:45.700 --> 00:08:49.580 It's like having an out of body experience or something. This is so trippy. 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 00:08:53.420 --> 00:09:00.500 and see what we get in terms of shortcuts here. DaVinci Resolve and Create and Save. 00:09:00.620 --> 00:09:06.660 So I'm here in my DaVinci Resolve. All right, in marker, out marker. 00:09:06.660 --> 00:09:12.260 Don't have to think about that. Blade, boom, boom. 00:09:12.260 --> 00:09:15.620 Delet, ah, dude. 00:09:15.620 --> 00:09:19.980 There's people I've met. Let's put it that way that would love this. 00:09:19.980 --> 00:09:23.340 Their only complaint would be, but why not more though? 00:09:23.340 --> 00:09:27.380 Oh, and this effect is so cool. I didn't even notice this before. 00:09:27.380 --> 00:09:30.860 If at this point you're thinking, what's the catch? 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. 00:09:36.380 --> 00:09:41.380 $530 US dollars gets you just the keyboard, no extra modules. 00:09:43.060 --> 00:09:46.460 So if you can see yourself getting more than $500 00:09:46.460 --> 00:09:49.820 of extra productivity, or if you just plain need 00:09:49.820 --> 00:09:53.540 to have that swag on your desk, it does what it says on the tin. 00:09:53.540 --> 00:09:58.060 If you're quite literally anyone else, it's a little tougher to recommend. 00:09:58.060 --> 00:10:01.700 But what I can recommend is checking out our sponsor. 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? 00:10:05.980 --> 00:10:09.820 It's a classic, the world's ugliest keyboard. 00:10:09.820 --> 00:10:12.180 I don't know why I've had that hockey footage in it.