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Digital it's part one of our razor Suite coverage this is the general overview of

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the new stuff that they're showing off so there's of course their line of

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headphones and in ears so we have the creatively named in ears these ones

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actually go up your butt no no I'm just kidding they go in your ears if you put

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them up your butt not only will they not sound very good but they will be

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seriously not green anymore which is a real problem so these are aimed more for

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um not necessarily just Gamers but also music enthusiasts and that's where

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you'll get into the naming of some of these other products as well so they're

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going to have a DJ model that's not here so obviously that's not just aimed at

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Gamers unless you all happen to Moonlight as a DJ as well so the idea

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behind those is they're extremely comfortable they isolate noise so

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obviously there's some overlap between the needs of Gamers and the needs of DJs

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so it's a bit of a natural move for them but unfortunately we can't show you that

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right now but what we do have are the adaro stereos so these are a lightweight

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um twos speaker system based on the name once again very very creative razor

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thank you very much for that as always they're lightweight beautiful robust

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feeling and these guys are just masters of industrial design in spite of the

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fact that the headband is a little bit on the thin side for me the fact that it

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has nice Supple cushioning and the fact that they're so lightweight means that

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they're not uncomfortable next up we've got the Bluetooth which creatively

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named spove because it has Bluetooth so that that that is once again uh them

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just really going out on a limb trying to confuse their customers making it as

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difficult as possible to find exactly the right these are very similar

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looking to the adaro stereo but the key difference here is they are of course

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Bluetooth controlled and wireless so they feature an onboard battery once

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again beautiful industrial design and considering the fact that they're battery powered they're really not that

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much heavier than the regular stereo skew which is impressive that's one of

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the problems that I've personally had with Bluetooth headphones in the past uh

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most notably the parrot zeks which are incredibly cool and a great piece of

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technology but unfortunately are extremely heavy next up we've got

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something that I have been asked to say this okay so I have to be very clear it

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is not a smart watch it is not a fitness band it is a smart band and I promise to

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say that as unironically as possible but I don't think I got away with it anyway

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this is the nabo and it's a fairly uniquely positioned product hence the

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reason that they're saying it's not a smart watch and it's not a fitness band

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what it is is it is a bit of a communication device it could be a

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gaming device in the future you could play you could play tag with it you

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could use it to integrate with something like Facebook for example share contact

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information with people when you meet them because it does have an accelerometer as we might expect from

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something that's expected to act as you know a sleep monitor a fitness tracker

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and all those usual things you might expect from a fitness band but it's a

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little bit smarter than your typical fitness band hence the smart in the name

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and I'm not being ironic this time in that it has a couple of displays that

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allow you to see notifications much like you would with a smartwatch and of

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course you can read the time on it as well but again you know we don't want to get stuck in this this Smartwatch

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functionality thing so it has one on the top and the idea behind it is whether

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it's for gaming and you're trying to slip away from the table because you

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just got a message on comms or an email or a text or whatever else it's about

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subtlety so you get one notification on the top which might be in the form of a

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little envelope for an email for example then you have an additional screen on

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the bottom so you'd flip your wrist around and you'd be able to read your

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text get your message and then finish your food quickly and get away to your

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gaming PC where it's time to join a League of Legends match or whatever else

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the case may be so it's going to come in two different sizes Each of which

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includes a spacer so the idea is that even though this very obviously

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engineering sample one that I'm wearing uh which is you know hideous and

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obviously too big for me so even though this one's too big don't worry guys

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there will be different sizes and it's not expected to be a one- siiz fit all

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now the reason again that it's not being positioned as a smartwatch is that not

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everyone wants a smartwatch some people want a watch as a fashion accessory and

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this is meant to coexist with a watch as opposed to replace it even though once

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again it has the functionality of being able to tell time if you so desired now

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we don't have an MSRP for it yet but we're expecting a $49.99 developer kit

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to be available at sometime in the near future here so I think especially at

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that price point it's going to be worthwhile for folks to get their hands on it and why would they need a

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developer kit you might ask well because there's already a rudimentary app that

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allows you to see things like your uh you can see the device you can see your

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notifications your Fitness and all that stuff but ah yes an app marketplace

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where there's Twitter and Facebook as some suggested apps but Razer is leaving

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things very open to other folks to develop new functionality for their

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Smart Band so thank you very much for checking out this video in razor Suite

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