WEBVTT 00:00:00.260 --> 00:00:05.770 - Am HATSU, its future art community because it comes with an NFT, I guess. 00:00:05.770 --> 00:00:10.870 It's $1,600. Am intrigued, probably gonna be so stupid, but okay, 00:00:10.870 --> 00:00:15.790 I'll check it out. I really liked the little high-fiving paw thing from the company, what's it called? 00:00:15.790 --> 00:00:18.950 Something miao, term miao. - [Jono] Angry Miao. - Angry Miao. 00:00:18.950 --> 00:00:25.610 Okay, I went to their website, tried to scope this thing out ahead of time. There was nothing, there was barely anything on the website. 00:00:25.610 --> 00:00:29.020 So let's just look at it. I bet this is actually the case you get, 00:00:29.020 --> 00:00:34.170 not just like a reviewer case. Squishy, cool, fragrant, 00:00:34.170 --> 00:00:39.515 but in an off gassy kind of way. It's a split key ergonomic keyboard. 00:00:39.515 --> 00:00:43.160 And now this is garbage, thanks. 00:00:43.160 --> 00:00:46.997 Angry Miao. (James purring) 00:00:46.997 --> 00:00:51.333 To get these open a bit and then your generic plastic on the inside. 00:00:52.270 --> 00:00:55.533 They had to, to keep it food safe. They're kind of heavy, 00:00:55.533 --> 00:00:59.360 I was hoping they would be even heavier. Oh, it's kind of white. 00:00:59.360 --> 00:01:02.710 So they made this with a 5-axis CNC machine 00:01:02.710 --> 00:01:05.770 and they think they're pretty cool for doing that. 00:01:05.770 --> 00:01:11.120 No one's ever done it before. Lots of thoughts immediately looking at this, but let's take our time here. 00:01:11.120 --> 00:01:15.339 Let's not get ahead of ourselves, David. What is going on, 00:01:15.339 --> 00:01:19.910 there's a bunch of weird stuff happening. Like what are these? Is that gonna be RGB? 00:01:19.910 --> 00:01:23.250 This looks badass. You will be cool if you have this, 00:01:24.160 --> 00:01:27.820 I didn't see an option on the website for choosing different key caps. 00:01:27.820 --> 00:01:32.000 I'm not sure everybody will like this kind of P green, 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:37.970 depending on the color of your P. The legend actually is, has two colors. 00:01:37.970 --> 00:01:42.970 If you see the bottom of the key caps, there's some extra, 00:01:43.260 --> 00:01:47.770 there's an extra legend for secondary functions, which is great, which is cool, it's subtle. 00:01:47.770 --> 00:01:53.690 Are these non-skid? Yeah, there's some feet. So even off of the LTT Store desk mat there's, 00:01:53.690 --> 00:01:59.240 yeah, sufficiently non-skid, how about that? Basically the only criteria my wife was interested in 00:01:59.240 --> 00:02:01.840 when I proposed to her, is he sufficiently non-skid? 00:02:03.620 --> 00:02:07.340 No, I'm a skid. Whoa, I haven't actually touched these yet 00:02:07.340 --> 00:02:12.880 and they feel super like lacquered. They feel as shiny as they look, I'll say that. 00:02:12.880 --> 00:02:17.960 You kind of got this keywell thing going on where it's concave in both dimensions, 00:02:17.960 --> 00:02:21.590 which reminds me of the Kinesis Advantage2 Ergonomic Keyboard 00:02:21.590 --> 00:02:25.770 which itself was what $350 and that was expensive. 00:02:25.770 --> 00:02:29.600 This feels like it's heavier, it's metal and stuff. 00:02:29.600 --> 00:02:34.440 So it's maybe higher quality than that, or at least more premium looking 00:02:34.440 --> 00:02:37.490 but I'm not convinced yet that this is like more ergonomic solution 00:02:37.490 --> 00:02:42.608 or that they did more research than those other guys. Take note of this, what do you call this bed 00:02:42.608 --> 00:02:45.800 that they're all on? It's so cool and contoured, 00:02:45.800 --> 00:02:49.440 it's definitely all 3D printed and that looks really badass. 00:02:49.440 --> 00:02:52.490 This is a beautiful keywell, I'll say that. 00:02:52.490 --> 00:02:56.960 Now the reason this is split is so that your shoulders can be ergonomically placed. 00:02:56.960 --> 00:03:02.470 You can be out like this or in, you don't have to be like this or your mouse ARM 00:03:02.470 --> 00:03:05.840 doesn't have to be way over here. So that's the deal with split. 00:03:05.840 --> 00:03:09.550 It also reduces ulnar deviation, which is when your arms go like that, 00:03:09.550 --> 00:03:14.430 because you don't have to, if this was super close together you might be like this, but you don't have to be. 00:03:14.430 --> 00:03:18.740 You can just go like this and be super ergo. 00:03:18.740 --> 00:03:23.530 The website said nothing about what key switches this thing comes with. 00:03:23.530 --> 00:03:27.841 It's a bit weird to begin with because your pinky is higher up than your, than I'm used to. 00:03:27.841 --> 00:03:32.295 You can see that even on the home row, these keys are at different levels. 00:03:32.295 --> 00:03:35.720 The K key is lower, it's sunken deeper 00:03:35.720 --> 00:03:41.060 than the J and L keys and that's because your middle finger typically is longer 00:03:41.060 --> 00:03:44.630 unless you're a psychopath or a genius. I don't know, I think there's a thing. 00:03:44.630 --> 00:03:47.910 Maybe women have different lengths or is it just the length of the ring finger? 00:03:47.910 --> 00:03:51.840 I don't know, I'm not an astrologer. Alls I know is my middle finger is longer 00:03:51.840 --> 00:03:56.240 so that key is farther away. And then when you, by the time you get to the pinky, 00:03:56.240 --> 00:04:00.707 that will, the semi-colon key there is even higher. So it's a bit of a weird feeling. 00:04:00.707 --> 00:04:03.884 There is a little notch on the J key for home row, 00:04:03.884 --> 00:04:07.280 which is nice to have, 'cause I wouldn't be lost on this thing. 00:04:07.280 --> 00:04:10.307 Feel a little foreign. The idea on this dimension though, 00:04:10.307 --> 00:04:16.820 the keys are all the same height basically and that's so when you, when your finger sweeps like that, 00:04:16.820 --> 00:04:21.330 you're reaching up, you're going back down, the key should be kind of within the same reach 00:04:21.330 --> 00:04:24.440 which is why they're curved like that. Next there's these thumb clusters. 00:04:24.440 --> 00:04:28.892 I'm a huge fan of thumb clusters on my keyboard, on my desk, I have all the thumbs doing 00:04:28.892 --> 00:04:32.510 all sorts of different things. And it's actually not that different 00:04:32.510 --> 00:04:36.120 from what they've set up here. So they have for, I would say the main, 00:04:36.120 --> 00:04:40.640 where would your thumb go by default. I guess they want your thumb to go here by default 00:04:40.640 --> 00:04:45.590 which is Space and Enter. I personally would do Space and Backspace 00:04:45.590 --> 00:04:48.810 'cause I just backspace more than I Enter, 00:04:48.810 --> 00:04:52.773 but it's nice to have Enter. They do have both my main squad keys right here 00:04:52.773 --> 00:04:57.750 which I like, but then I don't really care about Control and Alt, those are a little farther away. 00:04:57.750 --> 00:05:01.920 System, Delete these dot buttons, who knows what they do. 00:05:01.920 --> 00:05:05.269 They're all here. The thumb buttons are really nice because you do a lot of work with your thumbs 00:05:05.269 --> 00:05:09.487 and you should be able to split them out rather than just having your like one buttoned 00:05:09.487 --> 00:05:13.570 space bar down there, just doesn't make any sense like we have a normal keyboards. 00:05:13.570 --> 00:05:17.581 These are linear switches. - [Jono] They're called Icy Silver Switches. 00:05:17.581 --> 00:05:22.205 - Icy Silver Switches, it says right on here TTC. 00:05:22.205 --> 00:05:26.690 - [Jono] Along with TTC's technical support. - Yeah, okay, they're TTC switches. 00:05:26.690 --> 00:05:29.937 They're linear, I don't know why. This isn't a gaming keyboard 00:05:29.937 --> 00:05:35.420 as far as I can tell, it's an ergo keyboard. I would think tactile or clicky would be better. 00:05:35.420 --> 00:05:39.070 Although as far as like RSIs go, I guess linear is kind of better. 00:05:39.070 --> 00:05:43.190 I don't know for pure typist, linear is not usually the way they go, but they still okay. 00:05:43.190 --> 00:05:47.500 They drop that easy to press down. I'm gonna pretend that this Enter button is a space. 00:05:47.500 --> 00:05:48.333 How about that? 00:05:51.810 --> 00:05:55.450 Wow, the pinky, you could get used to this pretty quick. 00:05:55.450 --> 00:05:59.760 I think within a few days, you'd be pretty much up to speed. 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Now it's time to open another, oh, 00:06:35.060 --> 00:06:39.230 I was gonna do this with one hand but (James grunting) another box that I have. 00:06:39.230 --> 00:06:43.837 This is just a whole other ball of wax. Oh, it's actually just more keys guys. 00:06:43.837 --> 00:06:47.330 (people laughing) Just joking, oh, warning. 00:06:47.330 --> 00:06:50.253 This is also very fragrant in an off gassy way. 00:06:51.180 --> 00:06:56.180 It's a tablet, a mouse pad, desk mat, desk pad. 00:06:58.590 --> 00:07:00.363 First let's see the competition. 00:07:02.970 --> 00:07:06.530 This is a very basic desk pad 00:07:06.530 --> 00:07:11.230 with some cool blueprint looking schematics on it 00:07:11.230 --> 00:07:14.780 telling me where to place my key modules 00:07:14.780 --> 00:07:19.470 as well as the wireless charging area. So, it looks like they give you some latitude 00:07:19.470 --> 00:07:23.430 and being able to put your key modules along this axis 00:07:23.430 --> 00:07:27.720 and still have them wirelessly charge, which I guess makes the portal on the underside 00:07:27.720 --> 00:07:31.420 a little more accessible, but still kind of lame. 00:07:31.420 --> 00:07:34.880 That's where they go. Then there's these over here. 00:07:34.880 --> 00:07:38.573 I believe these are, hold on. Let's put this pip aside. 00:07:39.460 --> 00:07:43.829 Oh my God, (upbeat music) 00:07:45.810 --> 00:07:49.540 this obviously is meant to go on top of this, but it kind of just looks cooler without it, 00:07:49.540 --> 00:07:54.710 'cause this is almost like a, it's almost like a leather phone case. You got some doohickey at the top here 00:07:54.710 --> 00:07:58.270 and this would be where you would plug into your machine 00:07:58.270 --> 00:08:02.180 with a USB-C port. Non-skid bottom like the whole way. 00:08:02.180 --> 00:08:08.103 Yeah, that thing is pretty stable. And then a couple of peels, like these are basically the nipples of the product. 00:08:09.210 --> 00:08:12.957 Ooh, oh, what we're the only cable company in town? 00:08:12.957 --> 00:08:17.610 "South Park" guys. Did this even, I don't think it's, 00:08:17.610 --> 00:08:21.500 (James laughing) I don't think this even came with a cable, didn't even come with the charging cable. 00:08:21.500 --> 00:08:25.530 - [David] Are you kidding me? - Hold on, did I miss it? 00:08:25.530 --> 00:08:27.780 This is, this smells like an old banana peel. 00:08:29.030 --> 00:08:32.800 That is crazy. - [David] They're trying to be eco-friendly. - Activate, look at the lights. 00:08:32.800 --> 00:08:37.060 Did you see that? - [David] I did. - There's a flourish? Does that mean I can just start wireless charging right now? 00:08:37.060 --> 00:08:42.390 'Cause my phone supports it. Boom! - [Jono] More light came on. 00:08:42.390 --> 00:08:45.987 - Over here? Ooh. - [Jono] It's on the other side. - Oh wow, this is (indistinct). 00:08:47.770 --> 00:08:52.130 So what's gonna happen to these little, I think these are light bars and I'm hoping 00:08:52.130 --> 00:08:56.050 they light up when I put this on here. Good, give me the RGB. 00:08:56.050 --> 00:09:00.350 Okay, you got some activity there. Oh, sick, there's like an under-glow. 00:09:00.350 --> 00:09:05.410 It's not, the light's not coming from where I thought, but right there that looks cool. 00:09:05.410 --> 00:09:08.630 So now we're charging. 5,000 milliampere-hours in each one. 00:09:08.630 --> 00:09:14.010 If I wanna extend the lifespan of those, I might unplug this mat once in a while 00:09:14.010 --> 00:09:17.130 because you don't wanna keep these charged at all times, 00:09:17.130 --> 00:09:20.390 but there's no switch on here, is there? Is there an off switch? 00:09:20.390 --> 00:09:25.293 If you want these to discharge, you have to just slide them off I guess, 00:09:26.170 --> 00:09:34.030 or unplug the whole thing. Currently there's another aspect of this which is these pucks, Cyber Coin designed by Angry Miao. 00:09:36.030 --> 00:09:41.660 No wire, yeah, we know you didn't even put it in the box. So that's gonna put it in this. 00:09:41.660 --> 00:09:45.100 Logitech Mouse sold separately. So that pops out. 00:09:45.100 --> 00:09:49.840 This goes in and now you, boom red. 00:09:49.840 --> 00:09:53.200 Ah, she dead, she's dead, Jim. Now we know that these change color according 00:09:53.200 --> 00:09:58.350 to battery life, that's nice. Can I just, how do I pair this thing? 00:09:58.350 --> 00:10:02.720 It doesn't come with a dongle. - [Jono] Bluetooth only I think. - Bluetooth only. 00:10:02.720 --> 00:10:09.060 They talked about it being super low latency though. Hold Circle button + Tab for three seconds 00:10:09.060 --> 00:10:12.704 to start pairing. I don't know if it means any Circle button 00:10:12.704 --> 00:10:15.504 or we gonna see it blinking blue or something like that. 00:10:16.630 --> 00:10:20.830 Something's happening. They got a light down here. Oh, there it is, HATSU. 00:10:20.830 --> 00:10:24.231 Yeah, we're in baby, I'm in. Control + Tab, ah, new tab. 00:10:24.231 --> 00:10:28.180 (James laughing) I'm Pickle Rick. This might actually be easier for someone coming 00:10:28.180 --> 00:10:32.100 from a QWERTY keyboard 'cause I have like all sorts of raw muscle memory. 00:10:32.100 --> 00:10:35.260 I don't know if I wanna learn it. I don't love the feeling of this. 00:10:35.260 --> 00:10:38.950 Like these are very heavy so they, they have a decisive like bottoming out, 00:10:38.950 --> 00:10:42.803 that aspect of is pretty nice. I would like to have different switches on here. 00:10:42.803 --> 00:10:47.213 Is this thing hot-swappable? Can I pull that switch out. But look how wiggly that is. 00:10:47.213 --> 00:10:53.720 My God, they're all lighting up. Stop it James. I must've put it into like reprogram mode or something. 00:10:53.720 --> 00:10:57.090 One thing that I don't like about ergo keyboards is that they're always so minimal. 00:10:57.090 --> 00:11:00.844 They don't have the F keys or a number pad often. 00:11:00.844 --> 00:11:05.160 And I'm not screwing around trying to learn how to go to the second function row. 00:11:05.160 --> 00:11:08.670 I'm not pulling out Alt and going into here. I'm not doing that. 00:11:08.670 --> 00:11:13.490 So that is why I use the one that I have at my desk. It's like the only ergo keyboard I know of 00:11:13.490 --> 00:11:17.700 that has thumb clusters and a bunch of extra keys. So I guess it's not RGB. 00:11:17.700 --> 00:11:21.670 There's just this white backlight. Do I have any options for turning it up and down 00:11:21.670 --> 00:11:26.000 and changing the pattern? Is there a Function key, function? 00:11:26.000 --> 00:11:29.000 Something I, look at that, 00:11:29.000 --> 00:11:32.663 you wanna light up this half the keyboard, you got to press the Function key. 00:11:33.536 --> 00:11:36.800 (James vocalizing) Output power three watts, 00:11:36.800 --> 00:11:39.870 wireless charging turns on when the battery is less than 85% 00:11:39.870 --> 00:11:43.930 and turns off when fully charged. There you go. You don't need to switch on here. 00:11:43.930 --> 00:11:49.520 All user input is error. It charges these when they're below 85, that's too much. 00:11:49.520 --> 00:11:53.720 It should kick in at like 40, but and then stop at 75, that'd be better, but whatever. 00:11:53.720 --> 00:11:58.040 I guess that's to make the compromise. So what if you don't wanna use this mat, you wanna charge them up and then peace out? 00:11:58.040 --> 00:12:02.050 Well then you'd use a cable. Yeah, I stand by my earlier assessment. 00:12:02.050 --> 00:12:05.310 Long press the left Circle SKP for five seconds 00:12:05.310 --> 00:12:11.050 to turn off both sides. (upbeat music) 00:12:11.050 --> 00:12:14.910 No, that wouldn't turn it off. It says both sides. 00:12:14.910 --> 00:12:18.290 All right, whatever, moving on, you can turn off one side. 00:12:18.290 --> 00:12:22.273 Circle + P to view the current battery level on the side of the light bar. 00:12:24.470 --> 00:12:29.690 Right, is this even on right now? (James grunting) 00:12:29.690 --> 00:12:33.190 Why is this blinking? I can't type though. 00:12:33.190 --> 00:12:36.390 It's like you have to have them both on to work. 00:12:36.390 --> 00:12:41.270 I guess it's not paired anymore. It says it's connected. It has 65% battery life 00:12:41.270 --> 00:12:45.920 but she do not type, no. Well, I can't really get it working. 00:12:45.920 --> 00:12:50.320 So I'm sorry. Wasn't gonna recommend you buy it anyway. 00:12:50.320 --> 00:12:54.470 But here's a couple of other things to talk about. Why isn't there enough room for this mouse? 00:12:54.470 --> 00:12:57.950 You gotta have to go over here to have enough room for your mouse. 00:12:57.950 --> 00:13:01.100 That's not an issue but again, 00:13:01.100 --> 00:13:05.410 that means if you're gonna wanna charge it then you kind of have to do it while you're not using it. 00:13:05.410 --> 00:13:08.983 Unless I guess you can get as far as there, this is workable. 00:13:10.400 --> 00:13:14.470 It's just clearly they didn't, like they wanted symmetry instead of a good design 00:13:14.470 --> 00:13:18.870 that accommodated a mouse. I would've liked hot-swappable switches. I would've liked something that worked. 00:13:18.870 --> 00:13:25.010 I would've liked the ability to customize the keys, at this price point, an online configurator tool 00:13:25.010 --> 00:13:28.080 would have been nice like the ErgoDox has, that one's awesome. 00:13:28.080 --> 00:13:32.463 You wanna be able to customize this stuff, that's the thing with ergo and in wanting to be able to go as fast as you can. 00:13:32.463 --> 00:13:36.180 Like they've done an okay job with the basic layout 00:13:36.180 --> 00:13:39.900 they've given us, but it's kind of redundant. Why do we need so many Control and Alt on keys 00:13:39.900 --> 00:13:45.840 for the thumbs? We could have used those for some of the functions that instead are on second layers. 00:13:45.840 --> 00:13:50.649 Of course you can remap any keyboard using free online tools, 00:13:50.649 --> 00:13:55.760 but they should definitely provide one. RGB I think a little more would be better. 00:13:55.760 --> 00:13:59.461 These strips are cool, but I kind of wish it was over here as well and I thought those are gonna line up, they don't. 00:13:59.461 --> 00:14:03.070 I think that's just for connectivity. There's some kind of feature 00:14:03.070 --> 00:14:07.657 where you can have multiple Bluetooth devices connect to the thing. It's not clear to me how that works. 00:14:07.657 --> 00:14:12.730 There's no information in the guide about it. This thing shouldn't be $1,600. 00:14:12.730 --> 00:14:15.970 It should be like five to 600, even 600 I'd be like that's a lot. 00:14:15.970 --> 00:14:19.601 But ergo keyboards themselves are often three, $400. 00:14:19.601 --> 00:14:24.710 Then you've got this big charging mat. That's cool, that's like a power play in itself 00:14:24.710 --> 00:14:27.792 and those are a couple hundred dollars, aren't they? - [Jono] Yeah. - Like 150 or something. 00:14:27.792 --> 00:14:30.926 - [Jono] But it doesn't even come with a USB-C cable. - Doesn't even come with a USB-C cable, 00:14:30.926 --> 00:14:34.420 they forgot that, okay? They meant to. 00:14:34.420 --> 00:14:39.100 And then the NFT it's just like go away. I still think the makers of this keyboard 00:14:39.100 --> 00:14:43.012 will be happy with this review because I think the thing they care about the most is the artistry 00:14:43.012 --> 00:14:46.760 and precision with which this was cut and designed. 00:14:46.760 --> 00:14:49.850 And I think the CNC and metal aspect of it is really badass. 00:14:49.850 --> 00:14:53.800 I think it's beautiful. Apparently this is a "Westworld" inspired aesthetic. 00:14:53.800 --> 00:14:57.800 They'd have that like at least twice on the webpage, whatever. 00:14:57.800 --> 00:15:03.400 I don't like the color they went with for the legend. I think that kind of serves to erode 00:15:03.400 --> 00:15:06.440 a lot of the other kind of deposits 00:15:06.440 --> 00:15:10.580 in the beautiful bank account they made. They just, I just wish it works. 00:15:10.580 --> 00:15:13.590 (James laughing) But for this, that's it. 00:15:13.590 --> 00:15:20.910 Save your Christmas money, get something else. NFT stands for no fricking techomandation from James. 00:15:20.910 --> 00:15:25.180 Get that? That's a tech recommendation, not today. Thanks for watching "ShortCircuit." 00:15:25.180 --> 00:15:28.337 If you liked this video hit Like, if you hated it still hit Like 00:15:28.337 --> 00:15:32.890 but then yell at me in the comments and watch our other videos about keyboards. 00:15:32.890 --> 00:15:34.953 Bye. 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