Azio KB505U LARGE Print Backlit Keyboard Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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this is actually kind of a cool product this is an AO keyboard the KB 505 U it
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is a large print tricolor backlight keyboard I think that is about as
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self-explanatory as a keyboard could possibly be it has a threeyear limited
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warranty with lifetime support by phone live chat email and warranty um that's
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fascinating so three-year limited lifetime support warranty I don't know
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what that means um let's assume a threeyear warranty easy to read Keys
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large print keys to reduce ey strain and promote productivity try color backlight
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select between red blue or purple backlight illuminations and quick access
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Keys built-in multimedia and quick access hot keys so this is great for
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people who don't see that well like if you have some kind of a visual uh visual
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disability or I don't remember what they call it now I think it's like
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differently abled um sorry I guys I
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cannot remember the correct PC term for
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like a visual impairment I know it's not correct to say impairment but I'm sorry
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um so if you have uh like a visual
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inability to see things that are small and hard to see um this would be super
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handy because the backlight is not just necessarily
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for uh for use when it's dark you know in a gaming scenario like I think there
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I think someone told me it was a gaming keyboard it doesn't look like it's for
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gaming at all but I can see it would be fine for gaming because again you know
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having that uh having that visibility of the keys is certainly something that you
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know Gamers would appreciate so I'm just going to plug this in so you guys can see it um not only that but I mean for
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someone like my mom who is uh who's hit
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that uh that 50-year-old Mark where
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she's starting to not be able to see quite as well up close anymore something
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like this would be really handy for her so I mean she's a touch typist so maybe
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less for her but especially like for your grandparents or people who who are
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are are getting to be a little bit nearsighted and uh and they don't
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necessarily touch type or know the keyboard layout well this kind of thing
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is awesome because you can much more easily and more quickly find exactly
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what you're looking for so let's just go ahead and figure out how to there we go
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oh nice there we go I think the red
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one's probably the big winner in terms of the like the contrast the richness of
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the color and the uh and the readability of it what do you think yeah looks sort
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of nodding in agreement but sort of his boss so he kind of has to nod in
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agreement when I talk about things um so we're going to leave it on red while we
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have a look at the general layout so it's a very very standard looking layout
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you got your long shifts long enter and long backspace which is great because if
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it didn't have that I'd be very very sad you also have a lot of pretty different
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buttons on this one so up to here it's all completely standard up to here
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insert and Dell delete are also very standard and is standard but then we get
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the indecisive button the Poo button and
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the um the uh postcript button so this
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is when you're not finished writing your email and uh you you want to press that
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button to automatically enter down a couple times and type PS the Poo button
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is actually there's there's a smell emitter on the bottom of the board and
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when you press that button you'll actually get an Al Factory Sensation
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that wafts to your nose and will like no I'm just kidding okay so uh this is
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um shoot what is this print screen right
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okay this is scroll lock this is uh
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shoot I don't even know what that is pause and break okay um so this is the
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part where it gets more confusing than a regular keyboard home end page up page
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down number lock and other than that everything is pretty standard so you got
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all your typical media Keys your play pause back forward and a stop Button as
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well as your email home and favorites uh audio controls launching a media player
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whatever that does and oh launching the calculator app I love dedicated
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calculator buttons that's awesome I think that pretty much covers
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it so inexpensive back lit nice big Keys
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actually has kind of a nice aesthetic to it as well don't forget to subscribe to
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