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is through our cm University website which Jana you've covered before and actually we started creating a pamphlet which were you know sharing at the show and we're sharing at all these events that were attending and it's kind of a breakdown of each of the courses and the corresponding products that benefit from each technology and so the whole theme of CES for us is work hard play hard because you know we're working all day and then like you partying all night so so so kind of one of the big things also for 2014 that cooler master's doing is we're kind of as you said blurring the lines between coolermaster and CM storm I think a lot of people really weren't familiar that where the you know kind of the same company so now cool and masters kind of taken something of our old CM storm line bringing it more and more into a modern coolermaster a kind of gaming solution and just kind of bringing that concept not only to our peripherals but also our mobile device mobile products and also our cases power supplies coolers and things like that so some of the older things that you'll see that we're bringing back with a kind of a new touch is for example our trigger Z which is a programmable keyboard we have our Cyrus to which actually is now also usable on consoles as well as a PC so it's a 2.2 design back to the trigger this is just a mechanical keyboard comes in various which types wrist rest fully programmable as I and we also have our havoc FML mouse which is more of a palm grip design these are just kind of the older products that are still kind of seeing really new fresh light even though they've been out for a while but the trigger Z and the Cyrus tool be coming very soon I think I think one of the things that people really like about this keyboard is the wrist rest I mean my personal feedback was I like a wrist rest and when I tried the you know the Quickfire ultimate that that's the most common thing I've heard from people who've bought CM storm or coolermaster keyboards is they like the wrist rest and only did you add one it's pretty big what are these are here these le LED indicators is just a designer is okay yeah I mean it's got kind of a rubberized texture to it which it feels really comfortable is removable I assume right yeah so what's which options are available in this keyboard so right now we do have a mostly brown switch is kind of the most available we also have blue and red but because of availability issues it's just varies on region right now we do see a lot of brown switch availability in the u.s. so with the brown switch we do a white LED which kind of works with any kind of design it's a very popular design for us we're seeing a lot of success on the Quickfire ultimate and again I am with you on the wrist rest thing I use an older trigger which uses more of the two-tone design and this kind of just kind of cleans it up with a full black finish rubberized finish and you know fits a lot of systems no I forgive me I didn't catch it did you say it will be available with a green switch uh this one will not be available with the green switch right out the gate it could change ultimately but right out the gate i do believe we'll just have it with the brown switch you know and i think the brown switch is probably the most liked switch among gamers honestly browns and blues but personally i like brown switch i like the feedback on that and then for clarification to i'm back lighting color the brown will get a white LED red and red blue with blue and those are the three colors i believe you mentioned it gets okay so now you know kind of we've touched on products that are a little bit older but you know with a new redesign on them i'm actually introduced our product manager Carter who's going to go over all the newer things that cooler master's gonna be bringing in 2014 some really exciting stuff that we think will help us you know really catch the eye of a lot of casual users and the enthusiasts as well so now there were a thousand of you in our livestream the other night and I don't know how many times I was asked what the thing I'm most excited about and see s is and we're going to take a look at that right now which is a brand new keyboard switch design so I'm go ahead let Carter tell us all about that Carter it's nice to meet you nice meeting you how's it going I'm going to go over a couple of new products we have here they're both tkl keyboards this one is are going to be our rapid eye and we have our SI version over here which is the side print and what it is is an illuminated tkl board sporting the cherry switches I did hear a little bit of talk about the green switch this particular board will be available in green switch what's neat about this specific board is it has a 32-bit ARM processor on it so what that's going to allow you to do is it's going to activate our active light mode which will actually give you an active beam of light each keystroke you hit we also have a trailing mode which will follow whatever you're typing on which kind of gives you a neat a very neat effect again it will follow the same Led flavors of the switch types of the brown this is a brown switchboard so it has the white LED but blue would be blue green would be green another neat feature about this is it has a modes where you can actually change which Keys you want particularly lit at any given time so you can actually utilize any type of profile settings save it there and it will keep those one of the most common feedback I heard from people who've owned CM storm or coolermaster keyboards are backlit is they want programmable keys not just the three or four modes that came available so you guys have you guys wanted it they heard you and they listened so make sure you keep giving feedback to these companies on what you guys want to see because clearly you've seen it come to fruition here now you guys also wanted to see basically a backlit stealth and that's kind of what we're looking at here with the backlit side print key caps yes that's exactly what it is we took our stealth edition and essentially illuminated it so it's a very unique look it gives you kind of a flat look on top but does illuminate the keys on the side print also keeps any sort of we're away from the legends themselves so kind of 22 unique looks both have the same functionality which kind of gives the user a lot more programmability for whatever they would suit suit their needs I promised and teased you guys for a while now about what my favorite new tech is here at CES and that is the Nova touch tkl it's a brand new switch design well actually it's not new but it's going to be new to you guys because it's now being brought to the market in a gaming format well I'll go over it a little bit here so essentially what we've done is we take in the an electrostatic Japanese switch type which is one of the smoothest mechanical switches on the market and encompassed it in a very small form factor of a tkl board what this switch type does is it's a uniform 45 gram electrostatic so you're gonna have unified unified a actual weight across the board itself but the switch type itself is going to give you a much smoother feeling than the majority of the mechanical switch types out there at the moment we also encompassed a very unique stem on this particular switch it's going to allow you to utilize the backwards compatibility with the cherry switch the cherry key caps so another wonderful feature about this is where they're all connected in an electrostatic field so we're actually able to create a thousand Hertz polling first one first keyboard on the market to utilize electrostatic switch types as well as a thousand Hertz polling which is going to give you the most the fastest response time of any keyboard on the market at this current time it's also rated at 50 million key presses like other mechanical switches but again with a much softer smoother feel than anything else out there you're also going to have the n key role / which is very very important for a lot of the gamers out there and you might see several different form factors of this in the near future okay Carter now as a gamer myself I'm gonna throw some questions at you that maybe may not be hard all right number one attention is there going to be different press gram weights and such uh currently they are new release that we're doing now is a 45 uniform but we potentially could introduce a 55 in the future as well as a lower weight of a 30 ok guys so 45s to be about the weight of a red switch right over the red and brown this is a tactile but a very smooth tactile switch so it's going to not give that scratch here any type of friction at that tactile point like some of the other switch types on the market that is definitely the part that's really hard to convey to you guys in a video is the way this feels I mean they call it a hybrid technology and it really does feel like it takes the best of both worlds of both a membrane and a Mackay switch it feels like the kind of switch that would appeal to both ends of that spectrum and both could be plenty happy with that I mean like you mentioned as it's moving there's absolutely no scratching of the switch or the mechanism inside it is very very smooth I mean it's not loud either there's no click there's a slight pump in there giving you some feedback it's it's really a unique feeling it's hard to hard to describe I can't say it feels like a red or feels like a black because honestly I think if it felt like any other cherry switch out there or cherry switch there'd be no point in this technology around the office kind of the joke is it feels like to you know playing a piano on ivory it's really got that smooth just kind of flow buttery feel with the that landing pad that membrane the silicone injection it kind of takes away from any of the bottoming out or that harsh feeling so just very unique hybrid field now the next question I know people going to ask is availability when are we looking at this coming to market we should see this probably towards the beginning of q2 okay so there you go guys beginning beginning of q2 right now it does not have a 10-key on there we talked about maybe in the future there will be but this is going to be a debut items see how well it does give your feedback what do you think about this technology I mean I know you guys this is brand new to you it's brand new to me you don't really have anything to kind of go off of but tell us how you feel about this this type of new switch technology on one thing we did mention is that it does not have backlighting in there so it is there is a little bit of give and compromise in there I'm not going to ask it back Lighting's will be something available in the future because this is this is emerging tech now for gamers and will come across that bridge when we can so guys Carter thank you very much pleasure to meet you CES 2014 guys make sure you follow us and cooler master on Twitter and Facebook you guys want to miss any of this exclusive coverage coming to here in CES 2014 and magically my voice just came back thank God alright guys we'll see you my next video