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Linus tech tips coverage of CES 2014 is brought to you by NCI XCOM your source for great technology selection and service along with corsair Memory and western digital hey guys we're here at the rockettes wheaton the first thing they wanted to show me was the ryo's tkl pro or 10 keyless Pro and right away you can notice it has a fixed wrist rest a really big fixed wrist rest you don't see that very often especially in that large form format I like this a lot because you can see it actually is able to work for my hand my hand actually positions properly on WASD with my hands still on the wrist rest which is not super common I have to use detachable ones usually but not the tattwa one that comes with the keyboard so I can leave it on my desk shift it down away from the keyboard so its proper positioning so that's actually pretty cool to see not all the time people are doing fixed wrist wraps for tenkeyless keyboards but reasoning for this is a lot of tanki those keyboards it's it's people buying it because their gaming and they don't need the numpad it's not necessarily people buying it because they have this tiny little miniature desk that can't fit it so they're not super worried about saving space in this way it's just there so they can save space so that your your shoulder width is more natural because a lot of people find with really wide keyboards with macro keys on it all that kind of stuff you end up doing a spread eagle formation with your hands whereas if you could have it straight in line it's a little bit more ergonomic next we come to the kone xtd which is an optical mouse and if you're wondering about optical versus laser you can check out our tech quickie video on that subject and that should explain what's actually going on but it's quite interesting because it has something pretty unique you can change the liftoff distance in the software on your computer which is pretty unique to this mouse another nice thing that it has is in the bottom where you're waiting system is they responded to some customer feedback about the weighting system rattling around and making some noise so they put a rubber pad in there to stop that which is which is nice because the weighting system isn't moving and it's nice because it's not annoying you with the audio and finally we come to the cave xtd 5.1 analog first look at this headphone you can see that it's quite deep in the cans and I noticed that it's actually nice there's a few headphones I think you've if you watch the wine show you've heard me complain about my my ears will touch the inside it becomes quite uncomfortable with extended use and my ears do not touch the inside of these these have quite a few unique features as well as you already hear their 5.1 and they have actually angled drivers on the inside I'd a lot of 5.1 headphones it's just a flat surface where all the drivers are and this is a much different way of doing that I'm excited to try it out in a more extended use environment to see exactly how I feel about it but it is very cool to see them innovating in that way another cool thing they have with these headphones if I can plug this guy or pick this guy up here right here is they have movie and game settings traditionally when you see this you automatically assume equalizer and you're pretty much always right but not in this case what it's actually doing is it's changing where the vocal channels coming through so if you go to movie it'll move it to the front and rear speakers instead of just the center speaker and if you go to game it sits on where it is trying to naturally come from that way it's not screwing with you if you in a game and putting voices where they're not supposed to be but then if you're in a movie you can more easily hear the vocal channels I'd like to thank our sponsors NCIX WD and corsair for sending us here in the first place and as always if you want to see all of our CES content be sure to subscribe to Linus tech tips