Tt esports Headsets & BMW Mouse Showcase Linus Tech Tips CES 2013
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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2,326 words · ~11 min read
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welcome to lonus Tech tips at CES 2013 our trip to the show this year is
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powered by Corsair maker of quality PC components and peripherals our trusted
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linkis okay very competitive for a backl keyboard all right moving on you brought
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up the headphone amp and all these headphones earlier and you seemed really excited so let's go over these yes I'm
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okay I'm going to try not to get too excited about the one I'm going to try to go through all of them right I get
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yeah I'm more excited about some products than others just because you know like I love playing and testing
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them but up at the top we have our shock
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um these are actually just more color options for the shock headset so no
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nothing has really changed we have improved upon um I would say the quality
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you know we've got some feedback on what people wanted more of the cups you know the the the material stuff like that so
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so we had a little a little bit change you know but the features are all the
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same it's very cool people like customizing all their peripherals to go
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with the color of their system and you know what it is it's most people have
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like the standard red blue and black and white but a lot of teams now like Pro
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Gamers have a lot of different colors like especially gamma Bears we we just
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picked them up like you know the yellows and orange so more vibrant stuff yeah so
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we're trying to make sure that we cover as many colors as possible um and then
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if there's a color that people really like you know we might we might have it come out like rainbow or something
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rainbow that would be interesting yeah so this is our Bahamut our Bahamut is
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our new and first and only external sound card we really want to get into
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this field yeah uh we think that there's not really a lot out there offered I
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mean there there are some great ones out there but um it can't hurt to have more
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oh yeah definitely not yeah so our Bahamut is actually going to be
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available probably by the end of this month it's by USB and the MSRP is
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$49.99 cool very cool so you can plug whatever you want here that takes a mic
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input as well yep very
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cool here you go and do this like you
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know like and B show the input and then
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here show me that input very nice I like the the inscription right
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around the outs side tte Esports gaming very cool T ESP Sports all right I don't
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know what accent that is okay so AIA stuffs just really quickly because this
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is you know uh pretty much the same as our other aeras we did change the cable
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so that's it's a flat cable very nice I love flat cable I know cuz I hate when
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they I hate when they tangle piss me off uh so the reason why we're still pushing
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towards earbuds or we really want to push towards is because and we've been
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talking a lot about Starcraft 2o so it seems like you're familiar with that very well so have you noed and Diesel
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are actually I didn't notice this until someone else in the company told me this
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I was like I like I like headphones but they're like you know what a lot of
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Starcraft 2 players have the in earbuds have you noticed like and then they wear
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headphones they wear noise cing and I was like wait a second they do yeah so I
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was like oh yeah and he's like yeah we're gonna try to offer more of that to Gamers who kind of want an alternative
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to uh headphones you know cuz a lot of Gamers actually do want that so we're
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pushing towards that so we still have that we're going to be we're going to be
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trying to offer more of those um and then last not not last actually I want
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to save that for last but you know what let's do this the Kronos headset is the one that I'm most excited for it's a new
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headset and the Kronos headset right now comes in white and black with the red
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the red accent TT Sports go inside that looks awesome yeah I love outside like I
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really like it maybe I don't know I'm crazy but I don't really like it so
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these ones are a lot I would say they're for fashionable but yeah yeah and those
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ones glow as well you can see that so when they're plugged in they glow and
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these ones the the cable comes out it comes out of Leo Leo uh do they go the
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exact same red as these ones yeah yeah they're both they're both red these ones are we wanted to make them kind of
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fashionable easy to uh carry with you you know they collapse you can wear them
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on your shoulders like this okay so yeah it's like the fashion of gamer
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I don't know I keep saying look throw them on throw on throw them on we'll see how they fit ow the fashion of gamer and
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then you're like this you're like I glow
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I glow I can Rave with these if you have
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something to plug it in too right um so these also they're they're mobile ready
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which means you can actually we we have a cable for you can plug it into your
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phone and you can talk in the mic for
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your phone and listen to music so instead of a Bluetooth you can do the
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complete opposite and be like yo I'm cool I'm a pilot I'm driving my car so
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it's got a 4.35 plug yes shock One
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console shock One console was recently announced and it's our shock one headset
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except it's multiplatform you can play it on the Xbox PS3 Xbox 360 if I need to
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say the whole thing Xbox 360 and the PS3 and the PC so for people who really like
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the shock one um but they also play console and they're like well I want to
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use it for all this is a good upgrade for it you can play it on all and it's
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priced at 99 99 MSRP nice so you can take it to every single platform you
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want to on yeah very very cool all right guys thanks for checking
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subscribe to lineus Tech tips back again guys I cut her off before she was done
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and we totally forgot to cover these awesome looking mice that were designed
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in collaboration with BMW Design Group so I'm going to get her to tell us about
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these really just kidding trying to do
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like Wonka um yeah um these are these are in collaboration with BMW design
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works so they design a mouse with us together that's you know combines the
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sleekness of a car and the awesome gaming qualities of a mouse uh we
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actually released this a while a little while ago but we just launched a couple
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new colors we have the new yellow the Hello Kitty pink that's for someone um
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and then we have our battle Edition green we did announce our red a little
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while ago but it hasn't been available so now you know we're displaying it um
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would you like me to tell you a little bit about the mouse yeah let's start with this awesome looking thing here on
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the side yes so so that really actually is
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um designed to kind of be like the overdrive or the the steering of a car
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so it really goes like in all directions and then you can hit down on it and what
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it does is it changes the profiles and it actually raises and lowers the DPI
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but you can change it to do other stuff but you know that's what it's originally
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for it's got two additional buttons up here on the side and then two on the
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right side right so that's actually pretty cool because depending on what
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game you're playing you might want different DPI levels like say you're
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playing Battlefield and you want to drive a tank instead of just running around you want different DBI level it
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actually goes up to 82 8200 well there's a software that can help you bring it up
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to that yeah so um what this mouse does in terms of customization is and okay so
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someone said it was something like it was like a steering more like the car
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like going back and forth so I was relating it to the seat you know when you can move the seat up and down so it
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actually comes with a screw and you can move you can change a degree
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of this back part right here um up or down depending on which way you tilt
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your hand tilts on top of the mouse and it also actually shifts left to right so
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this can actually be an ambidextrous Mouse so left-handed Gamers can use this
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you can shift it to the other side and then you can use since it's kind of like
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the shape is kind of symmetrical you can use the other direction the only
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difference is is that the buttons will be kind of different but you know you
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can that's that's the one thing the pro the actually you know it works this way
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the gamer will just have to get used to the preference of which buttons on what
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side that's really cool because a lot of ambidextrous mice are just too
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straightforward on the back and this one you can actually make it tilt probably
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that's really cool it tilts like degrees to the either to the left or the right
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direction so that's using that jobber right there and as you can see it's a
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full aluminum Bay so it's pretty sturdy that's very cool I personally like
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really heavy mice and through talking I figured out that you and Diesel also
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like really heavy mice so full aluminum base is a really really cool thing to
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have and it's definitely for people who like longterm and uh longterm gaming we
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we actually have these kind of bumpers for to help it Glide too but you know
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for people who have a habit actually kind of have a habit of when when it's
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more when I play FPS games uh I pick up like when I'm trying to turn around I
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kind of pick up the mouse and like I hit it back down but I have a mouse pad so
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at least it's softer but you know I definitely um the bottom of my mouse
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definitely takes some toll it's not just the top when I'm like clicking fiercely
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but the bottom because you you're rubbing it against the surface for
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that's like the probably the part that you want it to be the most durable so
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yeah so having a full aluminum bottom is actually really really good for
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durability we're playing with this one the most we're being so biased this the
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closest one but it's we'll pick up we'll pick up Diesel's favorite Mouse here so
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these LEDs on right here will show you different DPI levels very very cool and
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the MSRP is $999.99 sorry MSRP is $99.99 I'm trying
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to figure out what Diesel's telling me I think he's talking about the string
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relief right here so do you want to tell me about this I was going to say it's just
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because it's cool to represent DT Sport
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but you know I like you can cable coil
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in here but honestly it's it's it's just part of the design to have the logo up
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here as as far as I know there's not anything like too special it doesn't
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shoot lasers or anything but um if you want it to we'll we'll look into
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production for laser shooting at the top laser shooting well oh another thing I
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gu to feature is if you if you look inside it's kind of hollow so it's it's
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really great for airflow as you can see they have has the honeycomb kind of
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holes at the top so air flow is really important about this m since it's got
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It's got holes in all Direction so so so someone's got a serious sweaty sweaty
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hand problem it'll help so it's definitely good for for long-term use
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and ventilation so it doesn't heat up very very cool
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okay um yes thank you so much for checking us out at TT Sports the TT
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sports stuff sorry that I sound kind of crazy you know um but if you want to
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