Gadgetory

Linus tech tips coverage of Pax 2013 is brought to you by Western Digital Intel and SteelSeries this is Luke Levasseur and this is his stinky foot maybe if he wore socks with his sandals he wouldn't have that problem I love the name of the product we walked by the booth and I was like you've got to be freaking kidding me what is this thing so basically it's a d-pad for your feet that you can bind any action to its four ways your foot rest on it all the time so you don't have to look for the button you don't have to hover over the button it works with any game any game that has modifiers as well like such as shift ctrl and alt it'll recognize it so for games like that that's 16 functions under your foot you can also adjust the tension and the resistance of the board we give you Springs so that you can modify the feel of it some people like a heavier feel or a lighter feel what else why why why did you make this because there were foot paddles available or foot pedals available for PC already so so the main reason why I made this is because I tried other pedals and I was hovering my foot over them or I was looking and fiddling around the desk looking for them I wanted something that I knew where my foot was at all times and I wanted more buttons that's how it came about now we usually don't talk MSRP on our channel because the usual procedure is click the link in the video description but I think based on that I mean this is gorgeous the aluminum construction here for a first run attempt at building PC hardware this is very very nice you guys know a thing or two about what you're doing here how much does it cost to get one of these it's one 1999 and during the show right actually here's there's a couple other things I want to mention I love this detachable cable folks detachable cable if it's something lying around under your desk you want that to be detachable so you can move it around or if you accidentally kick it and whatever it's not going to break it not only that but they've got a nice little S shape or C shape to the router for the cable so that means that even if you do pull on it pretty hard there's a very slim chance it's even gonna come detached accidentally it's got nice rubber feet on the bottom so it's not gonna move around whatever kind of surface you have on it I mean this this thing what's outstanding what are people saying about it cuz you got a bunch of machines set up here oh they're loving it they're they're really liking it it's it's something that they've never really thought about most gamers are like oh my god I can use my few arm gaming well yeah you can and it's funny because there's those there's gamers with disabilities who don't have use of their hands that game with their feet and yet we never thought of this just for a mainstream gamer is there any reason why you could only use one of these at a time like is there a software limitation no not at all actually our software recognizes two boards or more I we have DJ's using five of them guitar guys who use guitars they use them as far away katar at Beck's pedal people use them in Photoshop Illustrator sky's the limit that is absolutely outstanding so guys huge thanks to Luke for doing this interview with us and well bringing this to the market I'm pretty excited about it don't miss any of our PAX Prime coverage remember guys were powered here at the show by Western Digital Intel and SteelSeries so a big thanks to them for making it possible for us to be here and thanks thanks a lot so there are a few things that actually really weren't covered in the interview but I've had a chance to try it now and it's awesome it's as good as you might think it is so there's a bunch of stuff like the springs that can be adjusted in the bottom not only can they be adjusted they can be adjusted per spring so you can actually have different tensions for the different directions of the d-pad that you might want to go in it's super easy to do so there's an allen key just pop it out swap the spring pop it back in it's more intuitive than you might think I was only sitting in front of it for about five minutes but if you bind it to things like melee that might be inconvenient to reach or things like push-to-talk or things like crouch or prone or even WASD it's totally up to you and the flexibility is incredible I mean even if you're just doing work if you were to bind like copy and paste or something like that you're going to be saving yourself keystrokes and hand movements with something that your feet would be resting on anyway it's cool they also mentioned that the aluminum plate here on the top is so thick that you can't bend it by hand even when it's not attached to the rest of the board and they have a unit that they've driven over seven times with a car that is still in use right now so my feeble stomp test here isn't going to look that impressive