WEBVTT 00:00:00.030 --> 00:00:07.109 I'm in a mood today look at this thing it's a little suitcase you can travel 00:00:04.859 --> 00:00:11.969 with it it's hard kind of like a head phone case and what do you get inside a 00:00:10.849 --> 00:00:18.900 keyboard not just any keyboard a compact gaming 00:00:16.770 --> 00:00:24.300 keyboard that splits in half it's an ergonomic gaming keyboard get 00:00:22.500 --> 00:00:28.199 used to it this is the world we live in now you also get big my stickers I'm 00:00:27.000 --> 00:00:33.270 gonna probably stick this to the back of Jake's chair later a combined key cap 00:00:30.570 --> 00:00:37.200 puller and key switch puller oh and it's branded - that's cool little jelly logo 00:00:35.610 --> 00:00:41.579 in there more about this thing later wrist pads they look like they're 00:00:39.239 --> 00:00:44.730 adhesive the website says these are removable and washable 00:00:42.989 --> 00:00:49.879 I don't know how removable they're gonna be if they adhesive but we can try we 00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:55.050 got a bunch of tester key switches because this puppy not only comes in one 00:00:53.129 --> 00:00:58.829 of seven different key switch varieties but also has removable key switches I 00:00:57.120 --> 00:01:03.180 don't really get why they included these though because as far as I can tell they 00:01:00.719 --> 00:01:08.840 don't sell key switches on their own and if you're testing these you already 00:01:05.280 --> 00:01:11.640 ordered one and kind of committed so 00:01:08.840 --> 00:01:14.760 whatever it's still nice maybe they just put it in there for symmetry 00:01:12.869 --> 00:01:21.240 I don't know then you've got the cables there USBC they're braided the reason 00:01:19.229 --> 00:01:28.310 there's so many is because you get one per side then you connect each of those 00:01:25.259 --> 00:01:32.430 to this little thing which they call the 00:01:28.310 --> 00:01:35.340 neuron which I love I love when products 00:01:32.430 --> 00:01:41.030 have like lore that's sick so it's basic a little splitter it's USBC on all sides 00:01:37.850 --> 00:01:43.200 this is a pretty decent case and it's 00:01:41.030 --> 00:01:48.390 it's easy enough to use I might actually use this if I was on the go back to the 00:01:45.090 --> 00:01:51.750 neuron you connect the keyboard boy I 00:01:48.390 --> 00:01:55.680 did wrong thusly then you've got a USBC 00:01:51.750 --> 00:01:58.409 to type a cable and I mean sees great 00:01:55.680 --> 00:02:02.969 but your PC probably doesn't have that many seaports so it's probably good that 00:02:00.869 --> 00:02:08.099 this is a if you wanted this to be a CDC cable then why not just swap it out 00:02:06.000 --> 00:02:13.000 since this whole thing is modular oh and it's RGB I'll tell you about that right 00:02:10.619 --> 00:02:17.650 after this message from our sponsor now the manscaped haha manscape created the 00:02:15.700 --> 00:02:22.420 world's first all-in-one manscaping kit that 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00:03:05.590 can cycle through different effects using this branded button over here and 00:03:02.739 --> 00:03:10.540 the sickest thing I love that can you see this the neuron changes color to it 00:03:08.680 --> 00:03:15.430 isn't that great that is just one of those nice touches you know thank you 00:03:13.690 --> 00:03:21.640 attention to detail you can operate this keyboard either as a conventional QWERTY 00:03:18.610 --> 00:03:24.040 like that or split apart or more 00:03:21.640 --> 00:03:29.590 ergonomics so you can have it tilted like this so that you reduce what's 00:03:27.280 --> 00:03:34.630 called ulnar deviation in the ergonomic keyboard world there's basically three 00:03:30.989 --> 00:03:36.519 three or four kind of nemec's that 00:03:34.630 --> 00:03:39.400 you're trying to squash one of them being ulnar deviation which is when 00:03:37.959 --> 00:03:43.060 you're risking like that a lot of keyboards you'll find yourself kind of 00:03:41.100 --> 00:03:47.680 kind of ended up going like that a little bit so splitting that apart 00:03:45.400 --> 00:03:52.090 totally reduces that you can angle them if you want which is what I do a little 00:03:49.150 --> 00:03:55.630 bit it also gets your arms to be in line with your shoulders more so instead of 00:03:53.470 --> 00:04:01.750 being really together you can go wide like that which is sweet you could even 00:03:58.750 --> 00:04:04.410 be gaming and just pull one of these out 00:04:01.750 --> 00:04:09.130 of the equation and just have your mouse wide-open death space and your keyboard 00:04:07.030 --> 00:04:15.070 like that this okay I think this is a table issue this isn't keyboard issue the other 00:04:12.220 --> 00:04:17.769 enemy of ergonomics is extension which is when your wrist goes up like that 00:04:16.120 --> 00:04:22.030 that would be flexion this is extension this is neutral that's what you want so 00:04:19.989 --> 00:04:24.039 that's where wrist pads come in oh yeah that's cool it says dig marae's right on 00:04:23.740 --> 00:04:31.360 it did I say this thing's name it's the dig morees keyboard yeah welcome to the show ah get 00:04:28.900 --> 00:04:37.000 those boarders lined up it's a nice kind of leatherette very firm I don't see how 00:04:34.120 --> 00:04:40.600 this is removable like oh yeah I'm sure I could remove it but could I put it 00:04:38.290 --> 00:04:44.680 back on and still be sticky out this keyboard is also available in silver or 00:04:42.639 --> 00:04:51.130 white so as far as extension goes this is a really low profile keyboard it's 00:04:47.230 --> 00:04:52.780 not very tall on the side so especially 00:04:51.130 --> 00:04:58.960 especially with the wrist pads on my wrist is pretty much totally neutral so 00:04:56.710 --> 00:05:03.160 that's nice the third enemy of ergonomics is pronation and this 00:05:01.570 --> 00:05:06.490 keyboard doesn't really address that at all so what pronation is this is 00:05:05.740 --> 00:05:11.470 supination this is pronation when you pronate your 00:05:09.070 --> 00:05:15.669 hand like this you've got two bones in your ARM the radius and the ulna when 00:05:13.720 --> 00:05:19.930 you pronate they actually criss cross each other they scissor each other when 00:05:17.530 --> 00:05:23.970 they do that they pinch tissue in your forearm and that can kind of make blood 00:05:21.970 --> 00:05:28.300 not go into it as easily so you can get allegedly some kind of our sis from 00:05:26.229 --> 00:05:32.650 pronation I find that now that I do use a keyboard solution where I'm not 00:05:29.919 --> 00:05:37.960 pronated when I go back I actually feel it pretty soon pretty quickly so what 00:05:35.890 --> 00:05:42.070 other keyboards of this design do is they'll have like a tenting kit some 00:05:40.390 --> 00:05:47.350 kind of legs on them either built-in or screw it on where you can adjust the 00:05:44.140 --> 00:05:49.300 height this way this doesn't have 00:05:47.350 --> 00:05:52.510 anything integrated into it and as far as I can tell there's nothing sold 00:05:50.560 --> 00:05:56.890 separately so you are left with flat that is kind of the spirit of this thing 00:05:54.430 --> 00:06:02.020 it's not a full-on ergonomic keyboard it is a gaming keyboard with economic 00:05:59.229 --> 00:06:07.229 features built into it so for example another thing that you don't see on this 00:06:04.120 --> 00:06:09.820 keyboard is an ortho linear layout 00:06:07.229 --> 00:06:13.270 instead you have the regular layout for the keys that are staggered this is just 00:06:11.770 --> 00:06:17.410 looks like a regular keyboard right on a lots of economic boards these rows of 00:06:15.220 --> 00:06:21.520 keys would be completely vertical it's again a portable keyboard so you don't 00:06:19.570 --> 00:06:25.900 have any F keys which is kind of the pain for me you don't have any arrow 00:06:23.260 --> 00:06:29.500 keys some ergonomic keyboards will have arrow keys but they'll be split up 00:06:27.430 --> 00:06:33.580 that's annoying to me I want them all in one spot cuz I've got years and years of 00:06:31.330 --> 00:06:37.990 training maybe you worked in retail and you're used to just going bump up on it 00:06:35.650 --> 00:06:41.620 on the arrow keys like an excel you don't want to lose that on this if you 00:06:40.210 --> 00:06:45.130 want to maintain that you're gonna have to just use a different layer and 00:06:43.810 --> 00:06:50.229 probably them on I'll talk about their keys which we will talk about later there's these thumb buttons over here 00:06:48.760 --> 00:06:55.330 there are eight thumb buttons I love organ AMA keyboards with thumb 00:06:53.020 --> 00:06:59.050 clusters that's probably the strength of this keyboard if it didn't have those 00:06:56.710 --> 00:07:02.680 rows if this was just a split spacebar this would this keyboard would be way 00:07:00.880 --> 00:07:07.240 less cool to me I like use the thumb clusters for backspace and delete which 00:07:05.380 --> 00:07:12.010 are normally you know back faces way up here deletes way over here instead on 00:07:10.270 --> 00:07:16.270 mine I just I allocate them both to a thumb I put and enter over here for my 00:07:14.289 --> 00:07:20.199 thumb so that I can be using my mouse and hit enter with my left hand without 00:07:18.789 --> 00:07:24.250 having to move my hand way over the keyboard that's awesome I found that 00:07:22.360 --> 00:07:28.360 when you split it up it takes longer to get accustomed to this keyboard and like 00:07:26.470 --> 00:07:32.740 you know grope your way around in the dark because these keyboard these keys 00:07:30.010 --> 00:07:36.610 are just not the same one's a little wider than the other one and I get why 00:07:34.600 --> 00:07:42.039 you've just got more buttons on this side than this side so they had to make 00:07:38.800 --> 00:07:46.660 up the room somewhere but a slight 00:07:42.039 --> 00:07:47.860 demerit 0.3 off for that you satisfied 00:07:46.660 --> 00:07:53.110 that David that makes sense to you and your rating system yes as far as the 00:07:50.710 --> 00:07:57.849 build quality goes you can kind of even see that this is very convenient and 00:07:54.910 --> 00:07:59.950 functional but it does sag however is that even a problem 00:07:58.930 --> 00:08:04.960 because when you put it on the table it's flat and the the downward force 00:08:02.139 --> 00:08:08.050 it's not sagging as I as I smashed the middle compared to the outside of it I 00:08:06.610 --> 00:08:14.020 think it's a non-issue normally I would pick up the keyboard you can go like this to test the deck flex the fact that 00:08:11.050 --> 00:08:17.919 it has this rail system is kind of known for the affair test and then if I was 00:08:16.479 --> 00:08:22.479 gonna test the deck flex of just one side now it's so small that again it's 00:08:20.050 --> 00:08:27.099 not very fair but it doesn't flex much anyway because it has this nice like 00:08:24.280 --> 00:08:31.660 double anodized faceplate which is pretty cool the back this is also metal 00:08:29.650 --> 00:08:37.060 so yeah this is gonna be a rigid port anyway the key caps are nice the light 00:08:34.599 --> 00:08:42.669 shines through web they appear to be yeah they're double-shot injected which 00:08:40.060 --> 00:08:46.320 means there's no way for this symbol to rub off because it's actually just a 00:08:44.320 --> 00:08:50.580 different layer of plastic it's not there or anything like that the switches 00:08:47.820 --> 00:08:55.290 are removable which is wicked because if you're not a fan of the three different 00:08:53.220 --> 00:08:59.610 varieties of cherry that they put this board with or the four kales that you 00:08:57.780 --> 00:09:03.870 options you can get you can put whatever you want in there you can put tea leo's 00:09:01.110 --> 00:09:07.410 in there tangerines or our halos or any of those other awesome 00:09:05.010 --> 00:09:12.600 key switches that we tried in our blind key switch challenge back at LTT that 00:09:09.630 --> 00:09:16.740 was sick but it comes with cherry Reds on our board which I mean makes it hard 00:09:14.760 --> 00:09:22.410 for me to test this to point out cus I don't like the videos key cap stability 00:09:20.040 --> 00:09:25.920 I mean when I look it doesn't feel too bad but when I look at it some of these 00:09:24.030 --> 00:09:31.680 ones especially these non-standard keys for which they probably had to build 00:09:27.360 --> 00:09:34.080 prepared for pride Terry jigs they look 00:09:31.680 --> 00:09:39.150 a little off-kilter some of them like it's not perfectly symmetrical now let's 00:09:36.960 --> 00:09:44.070 talk about software this is a big deal for atomic keyboards usually when I get 00:09:41.670 --> 00:09:48.120 a new keyboard like this I spend the first two days trying to figure out how 00:09:45.780 --> 00:09:51.960 I want to configured and so that means it's nice to have a tool that makes it 00:09:49.710 --> 00:09:55.110 easy for you to configure so that you can go through lots of iterations 00:09:53.100 --> 00:09:59.220 because it'll probably take it for me it takes like 10 different tries but dig ma 00:09:57.270 --> 00:10:04.080 makes it easy they have a graphical configurator tool you can go key config 00:10:02.700 --> 00:10:08.580 it shows you all the different options and they're all organized in a logical 00:10:05.880 --> 00:10:13.890 manner it's descriptive I know what it's all gonna do you can do all sorts of 00:10:10.800 --> 00:10:15.660 like there's a toggle switch to indicate 00:10:13.890 --> 00:10:19.430 whether or not you want this action to be something that toggles or has to be 00:10:17.430 --> 00:10:25.110 held you can do up to 10 different layers or profiles which are all saved 00:10:22.560 --> 00:10:28.110 on device so I even had this experience today I unplug this from my desktop 00:10:26.700 --> 00:10:31.560 we're doing most of my testing plugged into laptop my layout was still there 00:10:30.090 --> 00:10:34.440 and you really want all those layers especially on a compact board like this 00:10:33.210 --> 00:10:38.760 where you're gonna be putting the numpad or the arrow keys right underneath 00:10:36.750 --> 00:10:42.300 existing keys so it's nice to have the flexibility another thing that's cool is 00:10:40.470 --> 00:10:47.010 that you and I don't even know if I've seen this is there's RGB functionality 00:10:45.570 --> 00:10:52.380 in the configurator tool so you can actually click not only each key but 00:10:50.340 --> 00:10:57.390 also each one of these little segments of the underglow each one of these 00:10:54.150 --> 00:10:59.100 little puppies can be adjusted and you 00:10:57.390 --> 00:11:04.740 can pick any color from the rainbow of this color wheel over here or you can adjust them all globally 00:11:02.700 --> 00:11:09.600 and then when I cycle through my lights I have a new profile on here which I 00:11:07.650 --> 00:11:13.680 made that you can see where I did this half and half ago orange over here and 00:11:11.310 --> 00:11:20.100 purple over here pretty cool alright let's see how much this thing weighs 00:11:17.150 --> 00:11:24.990 eight hundred and twenty four grams it's not the heaviest thing out there it's 00:11:21.420 --> 00:11:26.760 not that light not bad so how much does 00:11:24.990 --> 00:11:32.390 it cost this thing is under three hundred ollars right now three dollars is a lot for keyboard it's 00:11:30.450 --> 00:11:36.510 not a lot for what you're getting here you're getting a pretty decent account 00:11:34.500 --> 00:11:41.790 for keyboard you're getting RGB you're getting this novel design you're getting 00:11:40.020 --> 00:11:46.860 a lot of flexibility with this board in terms of form factor in terms of 00:11:44.610 --> 00:11:53.070 configuration if you're the target customer of this board a gamer who moves 00:11:50.280 --> 00:11:57.360 desks at least once in a while and wants organ Amish stuff especially if you're 00:11:54.810 --> 00:12:02.820 if you get shoulder pain then this might be the board you've been waiting for 00:11:59.690 --> 00:12:05.490 there are other boards out there like 00:12:02.820 --> 00:12:09.240 this for example Kinesis has a splitview I think it's called the edge I don't 00:12:07.500 --> 00:12:13.680 think that one has thumb clusters to this extent and it's definitely not as 00:12:11.610 --> 00:12:18.570 cool and the fit and finish isn't as good their board so it's just a little 00:12:16.020 --> 00:12:25.020 more in the feeling even though they're a big company this this feels like a 00:12:21.450 --> 00:12:27.750 Corsair board you know pretty much there 00:12:25.020 --> 00:12:30.480 so I do recommend this board I think it's pretty cool I wouldn't use because 00:12:29.040 --> 00:12:35.610 I don't want the F keys and I use Excel I like to use the arrow keys but if I 00:12:33.840 --> 00:12:39.930 wanted a compact gaming board that I could take that eSports tournament I would get this board it's pretty sweet 00:12:38.370 --> 00:12:44.730 and it has a neuron you'd like this video hit subscribe check out our other 00:12:42.780 --> 00:12:47.550 keyboard videos like the one I did with that candy bar keyboard that really 00:12:46.440 --> 00:12:55.070 heavy pink keyboard so cool who doesn't want 00:12:52.950 --> 00:12:55.070 it