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your hard work noxious 2014 coverage is brought to you by and say XCOM technology connect alright so we're here with steelseries and they're announcing a couple of new and pretty badass products and the first one that I have right here in my hands is actually pretty small and it packs a pretty decent punch when it comes to iOS gaming this is the Stratos it's available now for pre-order on the website you can get it in about a month's time from the apple store as well too and it retails for a hundred bucks now the biggest thing is that it is the first moi or made for iOS controller that you can play your games like what we're playing right here which is Grand Theft Auto and inside the game it basically using the ability that you can control or have up to four controllers connected at one time now aesthetically the controller is actually quite pleasing it comes with a little case that you can put on the front or the back if you want to adjust the size on the back so you'd have a little more area to grip going to the top of the control you get your standard directional buttons couple of joysticks your paws or menu as well as your X Y a and B buttons on the side over here we have the power switch with the connect button down at the back as well as a couple of triggers now from playing with the device it actually is pretty comfortable considering how small it is there isn't much of a lag from what I'm seeing at all when I'm playing the games now there is a little bit of a reach to get to the triggers but it's nothing that's going to ruin the experience at all whatsoever it does make your gaming experience on any iOS device especially if you have like an iPad Mini or an iPad air it makes it a lot more enjoyable and a lot more intuitive and comparison to the options that are currently available on the market also you can tell that still series put a quite a bit of R&D into this because it does have a good form factor it does feel pretty good in your hand and going forward this might be your go-to device for gaming so this right here is the Stratos and like I said before it's available for pre-order and you can get a third it's just a hundred dollars moving on to what else steelseries have in stock for CES 2014 as you guys know steelseries produces a lot of gaming peripherals one of them one of the categories is mice so you can tell by this design here that this is very much to looking like a since a mouse that's exactly what it is this is this insane wireless and they're going towards the wireless market with this with this mouse first of all aesthetically wise we have a rubberized coating on the entire body we have these glossy finishes on the outskirts and we have rubberized bits on your both sides on the left and the right so this is a very symmetrical Mouse both can be used for both left and right-handed users have left and right click to scrub browser buttons on each side like like they are asymmetrical mouse and we have a scroll wheel that's also illuminated and we also have an LED still series that is also eliminated the button in the middle inside this sort of aluminum casing no loom casing thus aluminum little frame here is your CPI change so you have the option for to CPI adjustments unfortunately no other ones so you can have a program for two additional CPI's that you want so for example you have you're playing with 800 CPI or DPI in game and you can jump it to tank for a little bit faster so maybe program the other one for 1200 or something like that to give you that extra edge that we perfect so coming to the bottom as this is a wireless mouse we have a few connectivity ports that will show you exactly what they're for later we have a release mechanism for the wire that goes this is a micro USB port inside there that will be attached for charging and girls to be using this of course as a wired mouse and here we have the connect button that will connect to the base platform and we also have it on an off switch so if you're constantly using this as a as a wireless mouse preserve battery life you can just turn it off inside there you can also see an 80 200 DPI laser sensor kind of very standard things to see from the form a sense a mouse a few things to note is the switches that are used here in left and right clicks are steelseries own switches and they do provide very nice and tactile feedback they're quite light so you don't have to particularly use a lot of pressure to press them which is nice the actual keys on the left and rights which is the browser buttons let's call them they have a bit of a squishy feel which I do prefer so they don't have a very hard stop they kind of continue on even told they're registered so that's actually a really good thing if you don't want to disturb your aim that because they can keep traveling on and they absorb something that more of that more motion which is awesome to see now coming on to the base this is a synthesis in wireless mouse as you can see the base actually has an illuminated sort of outline where the mouse would be placed with you here you can see the contacts that will be placed with the mouse let's place the mouse inside there this is an aluminum frame which looks awesome and it will look amazing on your desk we did talk to them about me perhaps having the mouse and stand up and to occupy less real estate on your desk but this is the design they went for and I do like them at the bottom there's some there's a lot of there's a large basically rubber bit so that it doesn't move anywhere and also the LED but now it's green so that means that the mouse is fully charged the LED here would also indicate whether or not the mouse is half the battery life so they'll be orange or it will flash red when the battery life is low this is the micro USB cable that oz also attaches to the base platform so you can take it out to plug it into the mouse like so and the actual device lets me see how this plugged in so the actual cable isn't as a potential side and it's actually clipped in so it won't pop out in case you really pull hard on it and you do have to sort of use this unlocking mechanism in order to take the cable out so this is the steelseries sensei wireless this is going to be one hundred and fifty nine dollars in good wireless solution for those gamers that want both that wireless and wired experience in a very popular and very common sort of form factor that become accustomed to hear from steelseries now they're releasing one more awesome product here at CS 14 so let's go ahead and check out