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Linus tech tips coverage of computex 2013 is powered by Western Digital our trusted gaming gear partner is corsair vengeance and our trusted retail partner is NCIX calm now when it comes to sponsorships tell me something why taste OSIS ok so a lot of people know us in the past were really involved with starcraft like marine king why Ross and all those like big name players but when you really think about starcraft you really think about the announcers you think about people that are entertaining you while you're watching the game they're telling you how to feel about the game they're telling you how to think about the game you're you can really relate to them on a personal level because you feel like they're having a conversation with you every day that you're watching starcraft so who else then to go with then the most famous eSports personalities out there tasteless and artosis so that was our reasoning to approach them but at the same time they were really eager to develop personalized gaming products and that's one thing that we really specialize at TT eSports is being able to make personalized gaming gear we have a mouse and mousepad for white raw we have a keyboard and mouse pad for prime team and marine king so they've known that we've done that in the past so they were really excited to develop products from the ground up in the design phase and the testing phase to be able to make the stuff that they really want to use and that's something we're working with them right now on now we actually mentioned this in one of the episodes that we did for NCIX if you're not familiar with them it's canadian retailer where i actually haven't had that much familiarity with thermaltake products in the past same with TT esports and I picked up the white raw mouse and I kind of went oh this is actually designed for some dude's hand because it doesn't fit me at all whereas I feel like a lot of the time with these gamer sponsored products it's just a product that you then find a gamer to sponsor whereas it really doesn't seem like you guys do that so so which ones would you say are the ones where it really was designed for like that guy and if you want to play like him and and and use a tool like he uses you're really getting that experience yeah a lot a lot of companies or products in the past have just used a pro gamers face to stamp on the box and endorse it where we really started developing products on a personalized level is when we started with the prime team keyboard you can really see that marine Kings design really went into that keyboard it's bright red with pink keys he's really well known for like wearing really flamboyant clothing being like an out their personality so that's when we designed we sat down in a room with them and I said okay here's the layout we're going to be using tell me what's which you want to use tell me what colors you want to use and we'll make it even though a lot of people don't like the red and the black and the pink color scheme is like whatever you want we will make for you because that's the deal we have with you so that's where we really started and then even taking it to a next level with taste OSIS i sent them like the 3d drawings of the the mouse design and our toast would say no I want to change that so like two weeks later sent him a new one no I won't change that it's like okay well it keeps kind of kidding pushed back but he's really like he has a big emphasis on this has to be perfect this has to be perfect if you want me to sell this and so we finally finished the design I got a 3d printer in our office we printed out the the model of the mouse sending it to him next week to finally dig it get his final approval so we could actually start making them the mouse so yeah I think it was started with the prime team keyboard with a design and the color scheme and then we took it to the next level actually just starting from the base just 3d designs 3d models let's get to the really bare bones stuff before we actually make the product a real a real product that people can go out and buy and use that's fantastic because it's just totally different from what I see other guys doing and it's one of those things where everyone's afraid to make that polarizing product that isn't you know good for the masses I mean you know how long it's been since I've encountered a mouse as large as the white raw mouse I was like oh someone with big hands can actually Palm this whereas you see everyone else hedging their bets they build a palm mouse that someone with bigger hands they expect them to just claw it and you guys just don't believe in that I mean like I said earlier something for everyone so if you want a big mouse small mouse we have that I know personally like artosis likes a small Mouse we're developing a smaller claw type mouse for him but we have you know a big mouse for white raw sin our Taiwanese star he uses a service mini which is our really basic small mouse design so we have something for everyone you like a big small flats getting there anymore I mean we could go we could go there with that but we'll leave that to another interview maybe we'll get why wrong on that one do you have like a like a private room that we could do that interviewing well we got 33 interview rooms in the back but well we won't talk about that do I need them have a pole the hot tub all right thanks man