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Digital it's part one of our razor Suite coverage this is the general overview of
the new stuff that they're showing off so there's of course their line of
headphones and in ears so we have the creatively named in ears these ones
actually go up your butt no no I'm just kidding they go in your ears if you put
them up your butt not only will they not sound very good but they will be
seriously not green anymore which is a real problem so these are aimed more for
um not necessarily just Gamers but also music enthusiasts and that's where
you'll get into the naming of some of these other products as well so they're
going to have a DJ model that's not here so obviously that's not just aimed at
Gamers unless you all happen to Moonlight as a DJ as well so the idea
behind those is they're extremely comfortable they isolate noise so
obviously there's some overlap between the needs of Gamers and the needs of DJs
so it's a bit of a natural move for them but unfortunately we can't show you that
right now but what we do have are the adaro stereos so these are a lightweight
um twos speaker system based on the name once again very very creative razor
thank you very much for that as always they're lightweight beautiful robust
feeling and these guys are just masters of industrial design in spite of the
fact that the headband is a little bit on the thin side for me the fact that it
has nice Supple cushioning and the fact that they're so lightweight means that
they're not uncomfortable next up we've got the Bluetooth which creatively
named spove because it has Bluetooth so that that that is once again uh them
just really going out on a limb trying to confuse their customers making it as
difficult as possible to find exactly the right these are very similar
looking to the adaro stereo but the key difference here is they are of course
Bluetooth controlled and wireless so they feature an onboard battery once
again beautiful industrial design and considering the fact that they're battery powered they're really not that
much heavier than the regular stereo skew which is impressive that's one of
the problems that I've personally had with Bluetooth headphones in the past uh
most notably the parrot zeks which are incredibly cool and a great piece of
technology but unfortunately are extremely heavy next up we've got
something that I have been asked to say this okay so I have to be very clear it
is not a smart watch it is not a fitness band it is a smart band and I promise to
say that as unironically as possible but I don't think I got away with it anyway
this is the nabo and it's a fairly uniquely positioned product hence the
reason that they're saying it's not a smart watch and it's not a fitness band
what it is is it is a bit of a communication device it could be a
gaming device in the future you could play you could play tag with it you
could use it to integrate with something like Facebook for example share contact
information with people when you meet them because it does have an accelerometer as we might expect from
something that's expected to act as you know a sleep monitor a fitness tracker
and all those usual things you might expect from a fitness band but it's a
little bit smarter than your typical fitness band hence the smart in the name
and I'm not being ironic this time in that it has a couple of displays that
allow you to see notifications much like you would with a smartwatch and of
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
functionality thing so it has one on the top and the idea behind it is whether
it's for gaming and you're trying to slip away from the table because you
just got a message on comms or an email or a text or whatever else it's about
subtlety so you get one notification on the top which might be in the form of a
little envelope for an email for example then you have an additional screen on
the bottom so you'd flip your wrist around and you'd be able to read your
text get your message and then finish your food quickly and get away to your
gaming PC where it's time to join a League of Legends match or whatever else
the case may be so it's going to come in two different sizes Each of which
includes a spacer so the idea is that even though this very obviously
engineering sample one that I'm wearing uh which is you know hideous and
obviously too big for me so even though this one's too big don't worry guys
there will be different sizes and it's not expected to be a one- siiz fit all
now the reason again that it's not being positioned as a smartwatch is that not
everyone wants a smartwatch some people want a watch as a fashion accessory and
this is meant to coexist with a watch as opposed to replace it even though once
again it has the functionality of being able to tell time if you so desired now
we don't have an MSRP for it yet but we're expecting a $49.99 developer kit
to be available at sometime in the near future here so I think especially at
that price point it's going to be worthwhile for folks to get their hands on it and why would they need a
developer kit you might ask well because there's already a rudimentary app that
allows you to see things like your uh you can see the device you can see your
notifications your Fitness and all that stuff but ah yes an app marketplace
where there's Twitter and Facebook as some suggested apps but Razer is leaving
things very open to other folks to develop new functionality for their
Smart Band so thank you very much for checking out this video in razor Suite
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