Wireless Mechanical Keyboard - Roccat Sova at E3 2014
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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Linus Tech tips coverage of E3 2014 is brought to you by hyperx Fury series
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high performance ssds the Corsair Vengeance k70 and k90 RGB mechanical
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keyboards and nc.com our trusted
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retailer for high performance gaming PCs everyone's in a while I get a question
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from one of you guys ask me where you can get a wireless mechanical keyboard
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and I can never usually properly answer because most of the places that I know
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of are always out of stock that brings in the rockat Sova I hope I'm saying
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that correctly sorry if I'm not but this Wireless mechanical keyboard and many
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other things or the mod Wireless modular gaming board as they call it has a
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cherry mechanical keyboard on it in various possible colors we're not
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entirely sure yet this is their day one of release and there's tons of things that are up in the air this one
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particularly has Cherry MX blacks but again we're not sure what it's going to
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have on it when it's released on the left side here you can see there's two
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full-size USB a ports and one micro b these are for the micro Beast for
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charging the wireless modular boort and the two as sizee ports are for one
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having a mouse on this board which you can have any Mouse you want that'll come
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in later though and possibly charging another device this board has a very
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interesting feature where you can see I can slide the mouse pad back and forth
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but then the rail goes even further it goes above where the keyboard is right
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here might be wondering why well hopefully later on not entirely sure
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you'll be able to attach your own things here like maybe a mount for your phone
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or tablet because this device can be used on Android phones and Windows
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mobile OS which is is actually fairly interesting but also he was talking to
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me you can 3D print whatever the heck you want and put a rail on here if you want so you could 3D print a cup holder
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and have a cup holder on your keyboard because why not 3D printing that's
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basically all I had to say about that and then if you see along the top rail
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here there's also actually cable management for your mouse and all that
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really comes in for the mouse because you can just plug it in through USB it's not a proprietary Mouse you can have
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whatever you want the only thing that that will really affect is the battery
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life this wireless device will have a battery life of around 8 to 12 hours
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depending on how you have it set up if you have all the LEDs on the keyboard
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and a crazy Mouse with a ton of different functions on it and LEDs all
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over the place maybe on the lower end of the 8 to the 12 hours if you have all
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the LEDs off on the keyboard and a very low power Mouse maybe on the higher end
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of the 8 to 12 hours now I told you guys this can be used on a Android device or
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a Windows mobile OS it can also be used on micro consoles or say the Alienware
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Alpha or uh a steam machine OS box and
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any of that kind of stuff you want if you're plugging into a PC it'll go in through a USB dongle mobile devices will
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figure it out their own way the USB dongle that they have here is fantastic
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because it's in the shape of a couch for whatever reason they don't know if they're going to stick with that again
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this is day one of product announcement so all of this stuff is up in the air
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they're probably going to end up not having your USB dongle as a couch but
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who knows they're saying their Wireless connectivity standard is a patent
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pending as far as I can tell super secret cuz they won't tell me much about it th000 HZ polling rate 5 m standard so
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you can be 5 m away from the the dongle device it has 1,000 HZ pulling rate
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that's really all they're telling me about it now one of the things I was really worried about when I first saw
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this device was there's a fixed wrist rest and fixed mouse pad and that would
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be a big problem because you're investing what I'm assuming we don't have a price point yet would be a lot of
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money because it's a keyboard and it's all this other kind of stuff but rest
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assured both the wrist rest and mouse pad will be interchangeable swappable
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modular completely you can do whatever the heck you want you can change it to a soft service a hard surface completely
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different thing whatever you want to do very excited about that because that will massively increase the lifespan of
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this product and last but definitely not least is the cushions on the bottom we
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Gamers like our comfort we like our nice desktop chairs and we like being lazy so
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cushions on the bottom are fantastic these are actually really nice I hope
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these end up in the final version of this product because I do like them a lot I hope you guys liked watching this
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and I really hope it goes well