There are only two things I love in this world, displays and keyboards. So, when
we saw the Kickstarter for uh the portable keyboard monitor, we had to get
it. It seems like the obvious decision. It's got 10 years of craftsmanship. It's
a classic release. I don't know if it's
classic, but you know what you can do on it? Work, entertainment, and gaming. All
of it. all of it in this one package. That only cost us, I think, around $250,
which seems reasonable. However, if you're buying this now,
it's a lot more than that. I'll get to the price later, but it's it's a lot
more. Um, I like the packaging so far, although they're using this uh foam that
I'm not crazy about. This is slim.
Okay. Is there anything else in here? We've got our user manual. And the nice
thing is, if you're on Mac, you don't require a driver. If you're on desktop,
uh, you have to get the display link driver. We also got
a nice USBC cable. USBC to A. They've
also included a USBC to C cable. No idea
what the rating is on it cuz it's not printed on here. You want a good USB
cable? LTOre.com. We got true spec cables. They're very nice. You guys
bought them all, so I don't have any. I'm upset. That's okay. I'll get some
later. Let's take this thing out of the packaging. I still have yet to see it.
It's pretty hefty, but it also is very slim.
AND OH, like all good things in life, it folds.
Wow, that's actually pretty sick. Is there a little screen protector on here
that I can peel off? Yes, there is.
>> I'm kind of amazed that it just like unfolds. This basically is a laptop.
Like honestly, if this thing if you could fit a power brick, like if you
could put a battery maybe in this top half here or like maybe extend it just a
little bit, it's going to be a pretty sweet little laptop. I don't understand why more people don't do this. All
right, let's weigh this bad boy.
2.5 lb. Honestly, yeah, it's about right.
There's a couple of feet on the back here
there. you know, since it doesn't have some in the front, it's probably going
to move around on you a little bit. Um, the hinge is actually
pretty good. And it goes flat. Okay. Hell yeah. Or pretty close to flat.
Yeah, I do worry that without those extra feet, it could might move around a
little bit. I would like some uh just on the front here as well. Um or maybe do a
full bar across the back instead of just these two little guys here. Uh, as for
screws though, you know, they're all visible, but they're all sunk nice and deep, so they're not going to jut out
anywhere. It seems very uh put together. There's no major cracks or anything
else.
Imagine if your phone was this big. Hell
yeah. [laughter] >> Try sitting down.
>> That hurts. Hold on. Hold on.
Hello. One thing that I'm kind of concerned about is we've got two USB
ports here. One looks like power and one
is USB 3.0, I'm guessing, for data, for
the screen or something maybe. I'm not sure. I kind of wish the screen was like
its own separate entity that you could then fully detach and put it somewhere
else and you just get the two of them as a package and you can attach it on the hinge if you want to. Um, but I don't
think that's the case. Uh, so far just from handling it a bit,
my fingerprints are not really being left here, which is great. I got some
greasy mits and they're Yeah, they're really not doing anything. Like, this looks pretty clean still, no matter what
way you shine the light on. It's not perfect. It is smudging up, but like that's a worst case scenario with the
light on it like that. I'm looking at the top down right now and yeah, look, that looks okay. Back also looks great.
I think it would look cooler personally if it was all just like, you know, two
pieces and that's it. But right now, it looks like kind of three pieces. Uh, one
thing I also like is that it's got some nice little feet here on the bottom to
make sure that you're not going to crush your screen into anything. The switches
are just pretty typical scissor switches.
It feels okay, honestly. I like little chicklet style keyboards. This thing is
a little small though, I will say. Like, we'll do the typing test in a bit, but
um I've got a feeling I'm going to make a bunch of mistakes cuz yeah, it does
feel a little cramped. So going from
here to here is 1 2 3 4 5 cm. And then if
[music] we check our Logitech keyboard, 1 2 3 4 5 6 and a
bit. So an extra centimeter and a bit. So call me crazy, but it is a little
smaller and so that might be a bit more cramped for your fingies as you're
trying to type hastily. Uh, but we'll settle that with the typing test once we
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or click our link below. Okay, so that's power. Don't want that. USB3 into
computer. It detected it like right away. Okay, so it detects that there's a
screen and it gave me power. Yo. Uh
yeah, it's a 1920x 720p display. We
[music] got that 8x3 aspect ratio. Let's
do the old crab rave. I don't think it has any speakers on it. I just want to
like see a YouTube video that I know and love. They say that this is a prograde
screen with crisp clarity. And uh
honestly, it is like 160 PPI, so you
know, it could be higher, but that's more than most displays people are
looking at, even at 4K. So yeah, this is like honestly pretty sick. They're
advertising 72% of NTSC coverage, which
isn't really a thing over here anymore. It's kind of about 100% sRGB, but like
not really because color spaces, you know, they don't really always fit
perfectly into each other. Um, but it's similar to that. It's close enough. So,
yeah, overall it actually looks pretty good. It's also a 10finger touch screen,
so yeah, it is sick. Okay, I can pause. Wait, can I pause? Pause. My controls
down here are like super cut off, so using it for YouTube is actually kind of
tough. Like, I don't I can't hit the pause button no matter how hard I may
try. There's no brightness claim on their website, but like honestly, this
is getting bright enough for me to use as a second screen. But let's get to
what you guys really crave. We're going to do the typing test, and I'm going to do it on this screen. Okay, gamers. Now,
you can see and I can see. Uh, time to
try this thing. I am terrified it's going to be really bad because even like
even the spacing between my hands, like between where F and J go, I feel like
there should be a whole extra key there. This [music] F and K feels like a lot more
comfortable for home rope for me. So, I don't expect this to go very well, but
here we go.
Nope. AH, NO. I SCREWED THE WHOLE THING. H
backspace is like this tiny little button over here, and it's
69 words per minute, 87%. I want to try it one more time.
Okay, 10590. That's fine. I'm not going to do a third time. I like condensed
layouts a little bit. Like KBD19X is one
of my favorite keyboards of all time. And um I hate really tiny back spaces.
It's one thing I just I know muscle memory will probably fix that over time,
but I just I struggle with it so much. I'm trying to press over here and then I
press there and it's not good in terms of type feel and how it, you know, just
[music] sounds and feels to type on. It's fine.
It's like a It's basically like a little chicklet keyboard um with scissor
switches and like I don't hate it. But as a full package, it just seems like
like why, you know? I if you're getting
this, why not just get a laptop at that point? Maybe I'm crazy. Maybe this isn't
for this, you know, maybe this is like your main keyboard [music] and then this
is hooked up to a desktop and then you've got like this little screen here and then you've got a big monitor here.
That's kind of cool and I could see that as like a really interesting [music] use
case. And then hey, you want to pack this up and take it somewhere. Well,
it's easy. You close it, you unplug it, and you take it away. Um, but little
screens about this aspect ratio and size already exist. And you know, they're
already they're on their own, too. they're not stuck on this hinge and you can take them off and put them wherever
you want. So, if you want to do that setup, why don't you just buy a
keyboard, buy one of those little screens and then have your monitor and
everything like, I don't know. You know what? Maybe I'm an idiot and maybe that's just not the right use case and
maybe it's really for like gamers. All right, we've got our Xbox Ally X. Uh,
they did show someone doing something like this in their promotional material
on the Kickstarter web page. Yo, it actually worked just fine. didn't have
to install that display driver at all. It's almost the same size.
[laughter] Like, yeah, it's bigger for sure. For
sure it's bigger, but like it's not it's not that much bigger. I don't know. I
don't know if I'd bother with this system either. I guess it makes things a
little easier. Like I can, you know, hit here and then I can search for like uh
Final Fantasy and, you know, that's easier than if I tried to like touch
type away at some stupid uh set of letters. So, that's kind of nice. But, I
mean, I don't know. Do I like I could just plug a keyboard into this thing. I
don't need a whole second screen to do that. If you don't have either of these
plugged into a separate power source now, you're going to drain your battery
on your handheld even faster because you're hooked up to a keyboard and a
screen, and both of those are going to suck back some juice. So, um I don't
know, guys. We call this series kick farted for a reason. It's so cool in
theory, and like it's not even a bad product, honestly. Like, the screen
looks decent enough. The keyboard felt okay to type on. Um the construction is
like pretty solid. Honestly, it feels good. And um I I don't think they've
made any mistakes. I just [music] I don't understand who it's for. You know,
it's like one of those things where like people get in their mind like, "Oh, I want this use case. Like I have this use
case for this thing and I want a product. Other people must have that as
well. I'm going to build this product." Okay. I'm not using it. I am just
playing Hades on it to, you know, give you guys a good view here.
Yeah. Yeah, you really see the reflections. There is like zero anti-lare.
So, okay, one advantage, you know, [music] say you've got a handheld um
that plays a lot better with keyboard and mouse. You could plug a keyboard and
mouse into this thing and then boom, you've got your own little like [music]
laptop except it's powered by a handheld now. But then just get a keyboard and
mouse for your handheld and then like, okay, sure, the angle's a little off,
but do you need to pay the money to get like an extra? I don't know, guys. I
don't know. There's, you know, I love novelty. I really do. Like, there's a
lot of keyboards that I probably shouldn't have liked as much as I did,
but they did something refreshing or they did something interesting to me or
they looked really cool or they used a neat material or whatever.
I just don't understand who this is for. And maybe it's just because it's not for
me. I guess my real problem with it is, you know, we paid about $270, which I
guess is reasonable for like a portable keyboard with a screen attached. Um, but
the problem is if you don't get it on Kickstarter, it's going to retail for
more like $535, which at that point I just no, I don't
think you should do this. I think you should buy a portable monitor and a portable keyboard unless you're really
looking for like the all-in-one device. Uh, but I just I don't know. I don't
know if it's for me. [music] 6 and how many? 693 backers uh raised a
lot of money for this thing and I really hope that everyone who gets it likes it
cuz I'll say it's a quality little device. It's just confusing and it's not
for me. But you know what? I'm poof and this is just ShortCircuit. And if you
want to watch other short circuits, um maybe look at the one where I checked
out uh not the Flux but a different keyboard that had a screen built in.
That was also a very questionable uh
purchase and experience.
Goodbye. This is me typing on the Keo.
Wow. Keo, more like Higgo. See you
later.