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Linus tech tips coverage of CES 2015 is brought to you by phantom glass visit store dot phantom dot glass for the best iron screen protectors out there as well as HyperX now we reviewed the rog Gladius not that long ago the first two thousand hertz polling rate Mouse there were some things we liked about it there were some things that weren't quite perfect about it yet and we kind of said okay well as sue still has some work to do on Mouse development but we're not counting them out of the game here because it's a pretty darn good first effort well they're following up with some additional stuff right off the hop here that looks pretty interesting so this one right here is the sea cow we're figuring it's gonna be around $40 MSRP is that sound about right I'm getting the kind of this sort of gesture it's gonna feature a 5000 dpi sensor we don't know exactly which one but we do know that it's optical it's kind of a no frills no gimmicks Mouse on the surface very similar to the very well-regarded G 100's in terms of the ergonomics and the size and the weight as far as I can tell with this gigantic piece of plexi it seems like it's pretty much in that neighborhood but it comes with some features that you might not normally expect so it's got LED lighting on the back of it and it also features upgradable socketed switches so while this one doesn't come with emraan switches like the Gladius does you can swap them out if you want very very easily but that's not the only Mouse they have coming this is the Sparta and this is where I need you guys to get involved because a JJ personally will be reading the comments on this video and taking your feedback back to a Seuss HQ when they decide on how to continue to develop this mouse so this is gonna be a wireless sort of MMO MOBA RPG type optimized Mouse so you've got six programmable macro buttons on the side here you've got a couple more to the left of the left click you've got your left and right click and then you've got what appears to be either it's gonna be a button is that gonna be a dpi switch yeah that's gonna be a dpi switch up here at the top you will be able to use it in Wired mode so all this sounds pretty good it's going to feature wireless charging which is pretty freakin cool so there's a little thing here it can sit on a stand it can sit down flat but the big one that they don't know yet is they're still evaluating three different sensors and you know we don't know which way it's gonna go it could be even laser or optical so I want you guys to weigh in what sensor would you like to see and bear in mind guys that there isn't a laser sensor on the market that doesn't have inherent acceleration or other anomalies if we want something that tracks one to one we've got to give them a little proud in the right direction tell them we want an optical sensor that doesn't feature any nonsense and just pure one-to-one tracking a soos please deliver that for us guys let JJ know what you want to see speaking of tracking they've got the ROG whetstone mousepad this is a little bit unique in that a it's textured and I kind of went are you guys high because textured mousepad mouse pads with graphics these things have been very terrible experiences for me in the past just because tracking can often be very jittery and uneven over them but no no no no hold on a second we actually revised this quite a few times in order to get the distance or the like the height difference between the pattern and the and the valleys just right so that not only our mice but other mice track just awesome across it the other unique thing about this guy is that aside from the heat treated edges that should prevent it from fraying this is the first silicon mousepad so it's not just your typical rubber and cloth soft mouse mat it's silicone so that means a couple of things number one is it should be much more durable and number two is it's going to be completely resistant to spills even liquids and odors so if you don't want a stinky mousepad then you might want to spend yourself probably in the neighborhood of sort of 35 to 40 bucks on a whetstone low friction mousepad with durable anti slip silicone base intricate meiyan meiyan pattern surface minimizes friction Mayon pattern alright I love you guys but sometimes you're sometimes your marketing bullet points are just silly speaking of silly marketing phantom glass decided to have us tell you guys about how great their screen protectors are that's not silly that makes a ton of sense so basically these are the clearest screen protectors we've ever encountered they feel just like the glass that was already on your phone there at resistant and pretty much resistant to any kind of ugliness you can put your phone in your pocket with your keys not worry about it they're super easy to apply it's basically impossible to get a bubble stuck under it and you can check them out at store dot phantom dot glass we absolutely love these things around here they're so low profile because they're made of the same Gorilla Glass that your phone already has on the front of it that you can actually put third-party cases like this bumper that I have on without worrying about compatibility like with other screen protectors where they might peel up at the edges also want to give a shout-out to HyperX thank you so much for allowing us to be here at the show you guys can check out the youtube channel to youtube.com slash HyperX we'll have both of those guys linked in the video description so huge thanks for our sponsors thanks to you guys and make sure you leave a comment we want an optical sensor in this not that I'm leading you guys in one direction or the other thanks for watching and don't forget to subscribe so you don't miss any of our CES content