you want to add some balls to your gaming have you ever gamed and thought
man i need more balls do you need some balls in your gaming
i'm excited because today we are going to unbox another weird gaming product
this is the game ball what they tell to be the world's first gaming trackball
what does that mean does that just mean it's a bad trackball because gaming
products kind of suck maybe let's start with just the unboxing i actually kind
of like the simplicity of this box you gotta know when a roll
okay game your way this is not my way but uh i'll game your way today oh wow
they really recommend watching the quick start guide because they highlighted it
i'm actually a big fan of products that come like this no bs
just cardboard cardboard paper one plastic bag which is fair do
you want this to arrive like looking pretty pristine you might wonder why
would you use a trackball not a mouse there's a lot of reasons there's actually a lot of people out there that
use trackballs in their daily life not mice it's usually for like video editing
or cad it's way better for reducing like
rsi because like you think about a mouse you have to like really swing here
you're just like swinging this little ball around and if you get good you can have like a little dpi switch so you can
change your sensitivity so you really don't have to work much and for precision stuff once you get used to it
it can actually be pretty amazing it's actually great if you don't have a big
desk do you think about a mouse you really need a lot of inches
i need a lot of inches the dorm room students sure yeah who has a good tiny
little desk or you're someone who has not a lot of room in their place uh this
is actually a great way because it's stationary you just move this first
thing that i do not like although it's kind of fair is the build quality
of this cable it's a kind of a cheap feeling plastic cable and because it's a
trackball it's not really moving around so it doesn't have to be as durable as a
mouse but i think when you're paying for a gaming product you're paying for
aesthetics this is kind of a bit of a bummer before we actually go too much
further this is actually the special edition one the black and red color it
seems to be sold out on their website so let's also compare it to
the regular one the gray wow this really doesn't
look gaming in any way shape or form
i love the the way that the finish is on these you can see like there's like a
glitter layer but it's just below the kind of coating so it has almost
that car finish which i think is a really attractive look i think i like
the red better but i think the blue would probably hold up a little bit
better to like fading and scratches on the rest of the build of the mouse
i'm a little less impressed this product
is coming in at 148 usd
i almost think that it's unfortunate that it's gaming branded although it
doesn't strike me as particularly
gamey except the like lobster tail shape
it's just a lobster it says game ball yeah and i'm guessing there's a little
bit of RGB going on you know for that gamer the wheel has ceramic bearings it
doesn't feel like it's as smooth as i want it to be it's not bad you rarely
with the trackball are like outside of that there's these little
touch bars ambidextrous shape and ambidextrous buttons which is going to
be interesting uh it's all customizable which is great it's got a pixar optical
sensor it doesn't say which one that it is so pixar makes good sensors so i'm
not too too worried it's got omron switches for the buttons again they
don't specify which ones they come in high end and low end ones i'm guessing
it's somewhere uh in the middle it's fairly large which i find interesting
it's not a shape that i think will work for everyone it actually doesn't feel
great for me this big palm rest is nice
but it also kind of forces your hand into one way and i don't have like
medium sized hands it'd be better fit for big hands if you had little hands
this would not work it's about uh 0.75 of a banana in length the lobster
tail is like 70 of the radius of the inner radius of the banana the balls are
about the size of i don't know a small
jawbreaker you could get for what used to be 25 cents i don't even know what
jawbreakers go for anymore uh yeah
oh it just comes out okay great so we get a look inside little trackball or
the little ceramic bearings which is nice but then there's the optical sensor
at the bottom but at least it comes out really easily it's easier than even an
old ball mouse we had to like unscrew a thing and then pull it out and it's also
not touching the ground so it's gonna get a little bit less dust than those
would have tracked in the plastic it's kind of like that rubbery plastic feel
it's not bad um it's not like top end quality
the buttons feel pretty good i like the shapes quite a bit because it's very
clear which one i'm about to press there's good distinction and like even
on the different parts of the button it's very clear where my thumb is where
my fourth or like pinky finger would be i think that's actually a very good
design for six buttons all within reach it has a thousand hertz polling rate
which is good any less i'd imagine is is
garbage it's the same as a mouse they advertise
that it's also fully capable as a daily trackball mouse this probably
wouldn't be your preferred choice just because i think that it's unless you like the shape there's other options out
there i have a weird thing i don't think things branded as gaming
are uh generally better like there's some stuff yes like
you want a gaming monitor if you're playing like competitive games you want the high
refresh rate you want the low pixel response times you want like the clarity
the ulmb or the black insertion you want
the gaming features same with the mouse you want thousand hertz polling rate you
want a great sensor you want reliability you want a good shape light so like
there is stuff where gaming matters but i feel like a trackball i don't really
know what it offers over another regular
trackball other than like the shape underneath we have these anti-glide pads
in fact called rubber pads where i just want to test it you know i just want to
plug it in you know like talk about what it's like when it's powered on you know
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out which buttons are which okay that's right click or left click this is
definitely going to be a bit of a struggle as i re-learn the muscle memory
this is a it's a good trackball it's smooth people who use trackballs this
section might be boring to you because you're like yeah i was a trackball i
don't know what i'm doing this is for you other people like me who use mice
okay this that is really telling of what
i think where i'm on a laptop like oh i'm gonna go control and get to my tab
then my first instinct was to get off of the game ball and go to the
trackpad which i hate so that tells you a little bit of my per my immediate
reaction that being said that's not fair because with things like this that are
such a departure from what you're used to you just have to get used to it
there's going to be an awkward learning period oh it's it's so important you've
used trackballs before right like cad and stuff a game bowl it's a game ball
yeah it's specifically targeted as the world's first gaming trackball which i
think is a mistake yeah look at this spin out oh yeah
it goes everywhere when you go fast yeah i could see why you'd want this on like
a plane yeah i think you're kind of we're coming to the issue is it's hard
to see why you would want it for gaming i want to
see let me see
we're gonna figure this out together you actually can't see it unless i turn it
sideways but there's actually RGB kind of shining through the cracks in the
button that's what they're just gonna say on my on my tombstone had RGB
shining through his crack you know what i threw this away but as
this is a product that i'm not super familiar with let's uh
rtfm yeah i generally must okay these are my
scrolls oh okay okay okay i could see
this being a problem so these little like capacitive pads or whatever that's your scroll one
is horizontal one is vertical i don't love dpi clutches on mice where you just
hit the button and it switches between like one mode and another like a sniper
mode you go from regular sensitivity to really low sensitivity for those fine
fine things but i actually could see a use on
this trackball let's watch this video david reacts baby
oh my god it's 40 minutes
quick start needs to be at most 10 minutes but it should be like four
minutes and 30 seconds okay so it's showing me
all this stuff showing me how to clean it oh you can change like the acceleration
that's cool we ain't gonna do that today we go on default baby we going raw i've
been a little bit hard on this as a gaming product i think there is games
that could could use it strategy games uh real time strategy games so you know
anything that's a little more casual that doesn't require quick reflexes and
precision but i want to find out for myself let's go buddy i think it's
interesting john that you got me a cheap mouse to compare with 150 dollar product
with the cheap mouse versus this we'll see it's gonna be a little bit closer this mouse isn't
particularly great but it's doing what i want you know my brain and my hand are
communicating they're working well together all right that's just like a
little warm up i probably could do better if i if i played it again but i'm very curious as to how this
mother lover feels let's go
game ball are you turning on oh yeah there we go
okay
come on hit up for sake oh my god
okay okay okay okay but the problem i'm feeling and it might
just be because i'm getting used to it my hand is so
tense right now i'm like hard as a freaking board and i'm like trying to
get like these tiny little my new changes yeah i feel like maybe low dpi
is the way the high dpi is definitely not the way oh
okay i definitely can see that it's mostly my inexperience i've got to get
used to it i don't even think if i use this for a thousand hours i would be better than i
am with a mouse one thing that i'm finding having used it the joint that you're
using with the trackball which is kind of this knuckle side to side that's not
something humans generally have a lot of precision or articulation with i think
in general my wrist hand and kind of ARM
i'm more used to having it be an expression a natural connection for my
brain to my hand that is definitely uh i'm used to this thing but i don't think
that this is the best joint for
like gaming i'd be interested to see you trackball users if you think that you
could get really good at gaming i think your thumb's probably better
be kind of curious i can i can immediately feel my tension
in my shoulder like i like as soon as i'm using my thumb i can feel
the muscle just like all the way up the more i'm using it the more
i like it this is immediately a better experience it's like yeah i'm
selecting these things i this is fine to play with a mouse but i could absolutely
see wanting to play this entire game with a trackball
the experience with a game like xcom immediately sells me more on this
product an interesting question is is this a good supplementary accessory
to your current setup is it something that if you do a lot of productivity
work you could have an addition to a mouse i think it actually would be a
great thing it's not cheap 150 us dollars like that's a lot of money for
an additional accessory i do think this has a place in a lot of people's gaming
setups a lot of people's setups some people's
gaming setups maybe if you're a big rts person and again you're feeling that rsi
and it's cool to support smaller companies upstarts i think that's neat
can i give it an unbridled recommendation no is it worth checking
out yeah for sure check it out at the link in the description below i think it's it's not a bad time thank you so
much for watching this ShortCircuit if you want to watch more mouse and other
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