Stinky Footboard Unboxing & Overview
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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fully private click now to learn more this my friends is the next gaming
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peripheral that you need I think need is a pretty strong word especially
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considering the fact that it costs over $100 so if that scares you off then
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Now's the Time to go but this is my unboxing and overview of the stinky foot
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board the name it stinks um but the
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product itself actually is outstanding
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all right so let's see what's inside the Box I've been informed I have 80
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salesman hair but I actually kind of like it so maybe I'll maybe I'll stick
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with this look let me know in the comments if you think that I should I should stick with this or just get a
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haircut you hippie that's fine too so once we open it up we find the stinky
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footboard which is a four button foot pedal so this differs from the more
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traditional foot pedals in that it has four buttons as opposed to a single Le
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button we also find some Springs that
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are colorcoded they have different tensions so the blue one is actually the
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lightest one with the red one and the green one being the uh yes the middle
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and then the hardest one nonresective cuz I said them in the wrong order also
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inside we're going to find a detachable USB cable this is actually quite
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important for a product like this more on that in a moment that plugs into the
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bottom of the unit and last but not least the Allen key that will allow us
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to swap out these Springs should we so
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desire so let's talk construction guys if this is something that you're
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expected to put your foot on or basically stomp on it's going to have to
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be well built now I'm informed that the one that I was jumping on at packs had
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actually been run over by a car and was still functioning so how do they achieve
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that well it's got a T6 aluminum top plate it has a stainless steel Center
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pivot bearing and a steel internal brace so the plastic that you're seeing here
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isn't all that there is to it it uses a custom PCV on the bottom and even down
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to things like the switches that they're using at all four corners I hope I can
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show you guys this get you an angle on it there you go oh yeah that's Cherry MX
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Blue so you're going to get a 50 million actuation cycle out of each Direction on
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the stinky footboard another durability feature we find on the bottom is that
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detachable cord I talked about before this is important for a couple of
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reasons number one is this thing lives under your desk so the odds of this cord
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getting destroyed are much higher than something else number two is is because
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it lives under your desk and we don't know exactly where your PC might be
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being able to replace the standard length cable with something that's
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longer or shorter might help it fit in better with your cable management
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strategy now they don't rely just on the detachable cable to save it in the event
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of you know a cat or a foot accidentally catching on it and there's actually a
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little cable routing c-shape here that will keep it from putting tension on the
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connector at a weird awkward angle no matter what you do to the wire also on
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the bottom we find the adjustable spring Springs so we found those tension Springs Inside the Box you actually get
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10 Springs Total which was a little odd to me because I would have thought they
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would just include four of each but you can see the stock load out has Blue
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Springs on the sides so remember those are slightly lighter tension and Green
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Springs on the ends so this can be adjusted to your heart's content the
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only configuration you can't have is four of the heaviest Springs the red
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ones so it looks like the way they expect you to use it is heavier ones in
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the front and back because you're going to have more leverage when you're pressing down and then lighter springs
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on the sides so this adjustability is great because you might want to use it a
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number of different ways whether it's putting your foot on it this way putting
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your foot on it this way leaning to the sides that way you want to be able to
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adjust it to whatever suits you best now
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what is the functionality of this thing exactly well it's different from other
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foot pedals in that there's four different ways you can go with the buttons so this just gives you more
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functionality than just binding something to push to talk or binding
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something to close all your Windows when someone
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opens up the door behind you or whatever else you might have bound to a foot
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pedal no this is more for if you need additional modifiers or additional hot
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keys so here's a great example is people will say well okay I've already got six
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buttons or 12 buttons or 16 buttons on the side of my mouse why do I need
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another four buttons and the answer is because however many buttons you might
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have accessible to your thumb you still only have one thumb so this is another
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function that you can enable at the same time as your thumb so the ways that I
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see it being most useful are for things where your your your finger that would
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otherwise be executing that action could be tied up so if I'm strafing to the
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right and I need to reload and I don't necessarily want to stop strafing to the
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right if I bind my reload here boom I can reload without ever taking a break
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without ever stopping moving another great example push to talk if I don't
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want to hold down my left thumb which is what I used to bind it to left thumb if
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I don't want to hold that down while I'm talking to my teammates and I don't
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believe in using voice detection because you know who knows what I might be
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saying to the people around me that I don't want all my gaming buddies hearing
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or who knows who might walk into my room and be inappropriate then what I can do
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is I can just bind it here so I can just step and do that and not have it
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interrupt my gameplay even when I'm speaking and there's endless
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opportunities for bindings like this that are different than what you would
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otherwise have access to so for example it supports four modifiers Keys now so
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that's Control Alt shift and the Windows key giving you up to 16 functions down
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here and you can do all kinds of crazy stuff like you could bind diagonal
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movement is another thing that it does now or you could bind uh different
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potions or different spells instead of using I mean I have small hands so
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reaching up to the number keys for my tool belt actually isn't always
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necessarily that convenient so having something like even two of these under
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my feet and having them B to the first eight slots there would be much more
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efficient than me taking taking my fingers off of the movement keys and then potentially not even finding my way
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back so the functionality is all configurable within the driver which
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they're constantly updating and I think it's really cool not only for your
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typical gamer but also for people with disabilities as well so they have one
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testimonial on their site that I think is really cool so the guy has it bound
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to WD for his feet and then he doesn't have a left ARM so he uses his right
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hand and then I guess you combind all those you know Fancy Pants extra Mouse
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buttons you have to all the other things you need to do and enjoy a experience
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that you otherwise couldn't if you were limited to only being able to control
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your games with your hands so I think that's really cool it's not cheap it's
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120 bucks um they asked me to mention that it's available at Future Shop and
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Best Buy although I should also probably mention that my affiliate link is under
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the video in the description so if you want to help us out then you can order
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there as well if you're interested in it if you're not interested in it I think I
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have a pretty good idea what your objections going to be it's really expensive it's over $100 for what is
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effectively four buttons so if you were to just evaluate the cost of your
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Hardware like per button with a keyboard you could spend over $100 on a
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mechanical keyboard and get over a 100 buttons but it's not necessarily that
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simple they're a startup company they have to have money to repay whatever
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loans they've incurred up until now they have to have money to reinvest and make
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new products especially if you want to see maybe a lower cost version in the
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future or you know maybe like a tongue controller so that you can use your
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mouth to issue additional commands I mean that could be very cool the more
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ways we have to interface with our computer the better and I personally am
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willing to help them out with that now I mean I mean think about it I was even
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talking about a USB butt plug not that long ago imagine that as a control
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device clench for push to talk like clinch to prone every time someone jumps
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out from a corner and you get all tents you just automatically prone that's
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amazing that's great functionality I that that is a million dooll idea right
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leave a comment on the video letting me know what you think of the stinky foot for what would you guys be willing to
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pay if you know you had to wait a year or something like that for a lower cost
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alternative or would you be willing to Pony up for this one right now and as
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