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Western Digital. Hey guys, we're here at the Rocket Suite and the first thing they wanted to show me was the Riyos TKL
Pro or 10 keyless Pro. And right away, you can notice it has a fixed wrist
rest, a really big fixed wrist rest. You don't see that very often, especially in
that large form format. I like this a lot because you can see it actually is
able to work for my hand. my hand actually positions properly on WD with
my hand still on the wrist rest which is not super common. I have to use
detachable ones usually um but not the detachable one that comes with the
keyboard so I can leave it on my desk shifted down away from the keyboard so
it's proper positioning. So that's actually pretty cool to see. Not a ton of people are doing fixed wrist wraps
for 10 keyboards. But reasoning for this is a lot of keyless keyboards it's it's
people buying it because they're gaming and they don't need the numpad. It's not necessarily people buying it because
they have this tiny little miniature desk that can't fit it. So they're
they're not super worried about saving space in this way. It's just there so
that they can save space so that your your shoulder width is more natural
because a lot of people find with really wide keyboards with macro keys on it and
all that kind of stuff, you end up doing a spread eagle formation with your hands. Whereas if you could have it
straight in line, it's a little bit more ergonomic. Next, we come to the Cone
XTD, which is an optical mouse. And if you're wondering about optical versus
laser, you can check out our techquicky video on that subject, and that should explain what's actually going on. Um,
but it's quite interesting because it has something pretty unique. You can change the liftoff distance in the
software on your computer, which is pretty unique to this mouse. Another
nice thing that it has is in the bottom where your waiting system is, they
responded to some customer feedback about the waiting system rattling around
and making some noise. So, they put a rubber pad in there to stop that, which
is which is nice because the waiting system isn't moving and it's nice because it's not annoying you with the
audio. And finally, we come to the Cave XTD 5.1 analog. First look at this
headphone. You can see that it's quite deep in the cans and I noticed that it's
actually nice. There's a few headphones I think you've if you watch the W show,
you've heard me complain about my my ears will touch the inside and it
becomes quite uncomfortable with extended use and my ears do not touch
the inside of these. These have quite a few unique features as well. As you
already heard, they're 5.1 and they have actually angled drivers on the inside. A
lot of 5.1 headphones, it's just a flat surface where all the drivers are and
this is a much different way of doing that. I'm excited to try it out in a
more extended use environment to see exactly how I feel about it. But it is
very cool to see them innovating in that way. Another cool thing they have with
these headphones, if I can plug this guy or pick this guy up right here, is they
have movie and game settings. Traditionally, when you see this, you automatically assume equalizer, and
you're pretty much always right. But not in this case. What it's actually doing
is it's changing where the vocal channels coming through. So, if you go to movie, it'll move it to the front and
rear speakers instead of just the center speaker. And if you go to game, it sits
on uh where it is trying to naturally come from. That way, it's not screwing
with you if you're in a game and putting voices where they're not supposed to be. But then, if you're in a movie, you can
more easily hear the vocal channels. I'd like to thank our sponsors, NCX, WD, and
Corsair for sending us here in the first place. And as always, if you want to see
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