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how's it going everyone welcome back to the channel today we're taking a look at this fantastic piece of innovation from the folks over at Razer this is the chroma bug holder and functionally at its core pun intended for all your Razer fans out there it is an RGB coaster and don't let that fool you it is a game-changer it's a groundbreaking piece of innovation that will change your life forever it changed mine I've only been using it for a week and already my wife loves me more cakes no longer have any effect on my metabolism I found and you know those little ingrown hairs that you get sometimes when you're shaving I don't get those anymore they just they just stop coming in now I know you're already drooling over this groundbreaking technology but unfortunately you might have a hard time getting your hands on one of these these aren't conventionally sold at trusted retailers you're going to have to find one on a reseller like eBay for example and probably have to pay an absurd amount of money to a scalper because they're available in limited supplies only there's only thirteen hundred and thirty seven of these units available worldwide and I was lucky enough to have received unit number 499 out of a leaked amount at the razor booth during CES this year so I feel very privileged and fortunate to be able to share this unboxing experience with you guys today so on that note you may continue fuming with envy as I got over this product in front of me all righty then let's go ahead and crack this guy open all right upon lifting the first flap looks like we're greeted with this nice little letter here from looks like it's from min-liang tang himself the CEO and chief gamer of razors not going to read the whole thing but it says this limited-edition Razer chroma mug holder is our thanks for your tremendous support for 2016 oh good I'm glad that Razer acknowledges all the great things that I've done for their company the Razer chroma mug holder is also equipped with Razer chroma lighting on the base so looks like it can sync up perfectly with all your other razor's chroma enabled peripherals aha that's pretty cool what's intelligent detection the base lights up when you place the mug on it and keeps you hydrated by blinking green according to an optimal drinking schedule I have not witnessed the blinking green cue myself but maybe we can also give that a whirl later on opening the second flap looks like we've got a nice flat awesome nice foam here very cushiony lots of foam protecting the innards first thing we're going to open up here is documentation pamphlets because we'll start with the least interesting stuff first and work our way up to the good stuff so we got some stickers Razer stickers I always recommend placing these on like street signs or other places that could cause havoc we've also got some documentation on how to use the Razer chroma mug holder because it's confusing and not straightforward at all the system requirements welcome kick in your system even run a coaster we don't know let's let's see what it's what it takes you need a PC with a free USB port okay fair enough windows 7 or higher you also need an internet connection and 200 megabytes of free hard disk space I would assume for the software again keep the Razer chroma mug holder away from liquid what how the hell that's supposed to work maybe they just mean like don't dip it in like a pool do not take apart the Razer chroma mug holders doing so will void your warranty I didn't know this thing had a warranty so that's kind of cool if something goes wrong I can maybe trade it in for another one I don't know how that works if there's only 1300 of them or so but good good to know alright cool documentation out of the way let's take a look at the mug itself it says this does also come with a mug and not just a mug holder has a fairly nice mug it's a 20 ounce got a nice Razer logo for gamers by gamers on the bottom there just kind of have like this nice metallic finish it's matte I'm glad it's not nasty and glossy we've also got a nice little lid here lid with a little locking mechanism it doesn't seem like it's too secure when it's when it's locked it's very easy to just slide it I could see some accidental slippage here and maybe spilling some hot stuff all your all over your face the cap however the actual cap inlay is pretty pretty solid here's a look at the inside its it's a mug you drink out of it you know it definitely looks like it can hold liquid good stuff there now RGB lighting on the mug itself unfortunately I know I know that's just come on where what do what do you guys think it and then we've got the the main main star of the show here which is the mug holder I had to repackage this for the video so it didn't actually come all fray like the cabling did not look this messy that's just me so here it is it does have the RGB lighting around the bottom we'll take a closer look at that later it's got a nice rubber grip on the bottom as well so it doesn't slip around on your desk surface and the RGB lighting is activated any time you put the mug on top of the actual coaster so it's a pressure activated it just kind of goes down a millimeter or so and it activates the button or something like that and lights turn on the braided cables fairly nice it's a USB braided cable I believe it's anywhere from four to six weeks can't really tell right now got a Razer logo here it says signature Black Edition signature Black Edition and even has an engraving of the number the number unit that you have out of 1337 so for 99 out of one three three seven that's pretty leet if I do say so myself but that's pretty much all we can do with this thing in our hands not plugged in so why don't we go ahead and boot on a computer to take this bad boy first in all right people so I've connected the chroma mug holder to the razor blade that I have here and let's go ahead and just check out what we can do with it in the synapse software I have updated to the latest version of synapse and that actually popped up the Razer chroma bug icon here letting us know that the device is connected and ready to customize so initially when I plug this thing in by default the LEDs on the base are off so I thought you could only activate the LEDs by placing the mug on top but that's not necessarily the case as we see in the software you've got options to customize the LEDs with or without the mug so without mug set to off right now but go ahead and switch that to something like all your static first off just give you an idea and the color accuracy of the LEDs is actually quite good this is kind of a fuchsia tone which of course needs to match with hot line and it certainly does the white is a little bit on the cool side you can see I don't know if you can tell from the camera it's a little on the cool side but I've definitely seen worse with other gaming peripherals in the past not necessarily from Razer so this is actually not too bad for a freaking for a frickin mug holder here's a look at the green and I kind of like how it gently fades and transitions to the next color even when you're switching it in the software that's kind of nice so a cool thing you can do here is you can also sync whatever led effects that are on the coaster to other chroma enabled devices and you can see there's a button right here that says that in the software I click that and all of a sudden my keyboard has changed to the same LED profile or LED effect as as the mug holder that's pretty cool you can also do that with the with the mug on top of the coasters so if we let's see spectrum cycling is what it sets you now when we occupy the mug holder and now you can see it's going to cycle through some colors and if we apply that if we click apply to other chroma enabled devices then the keyboard follows suit the bummer the only downfall here is that by doing that it actually disables the previous thinks that we had so when you remove the mug now the coaster goes back to its off state or it's no mug state however the keyboard continues how it was so that's kind of a bummer you can't have both things at the same time unless I have completely missed something I'm going to go ahead and switch this to breathing when when the mug is off I like it to breathe and let's do like a dark red as if we're running on empty and we'll just do red by itself so now it should be breathing red and it is that's cool and then with the mug I do like the the wave effect I'm quite partial to the wave effect when the mugs on top of it so there's my there's my profile so I can save this now as whatever profile I want I can name it I can make a number of these profiles and I can even link it to a program which is which is a super super handy so altogether I'm very satisfied with this stuff with this with this coaster and I have had one one one the serving of coffee with this coaster so far and I can tell you the coffee actually tastes better it tastes at least twenty percent more colorful so really quick and one to mention that apart from the included mug the coaster also supports different kinds of glassware I've tested this with beer bottles wine glasses probably not so much because the base will probably be a bit too big for the coaster itself to fit within the rim but everything else seems heavy enough to depress that pressure sensor and activate the LEDs beneath so that's that's good to know you don't you're not completely limited to just the actual mug I guess my closing thoughts on the chroma mug holder are generally positive I think it works very well I like how it integrates very seamlessly with the chroma software you wouldn't even realize that this was just kind of a freebie I mean if this was actually being sold in retail stores or on fine I'm sure it would sell and that kind of brings me to the question of has razor or companies like razor like Corsair other you know RGB riddled vendors have they gone too far with RGB lighting I think the answer is no generally because otherwise people wouldn't be buying them otherwise they wouldn't continue making our GB products there's clearly a demand for them people who hate them will always hate them but the fact is is that RGB is just an extension of part of why we like PC building in the first place to make something our own to customize it to have a personal attachment to it and so if RGB lights can help achieve that to some degree then I guess that's all part of what makes the PC community special stop being said I do understand the argument of well that can also hike up the price on products for purely aesthetic reasons when you're just trying to get the most function out of it and so that there's an argument to that too but I think at the end of day it's going to boil down to you as a user as always and what your specific needs are but that's all I have to say for this video I know it was silly hopefully you don't take it too seriously it's a coaster let me know in the comments though if you would actually buy this and how much you'd be willing to pay for this I'm going to close out the video thank you all so much for watching be sure to toss me a like on it if you enjoyed it subscribe to the channel for more tech stuff coming at you really soon I love you guys have a good one and I'll see you all in the next video