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welcome to Linus tech tips at CES 2013 our trip to the show this year is powered by Corsair maker of quality PC components and peripherals our trusted storage partner is Seagate Technology and our trusted networking partner is Nexus as I'm here at the Thermaltake booth checking out their chow series headsets I'm gonna pass you guys off to Kitty ready hey guys I'm gonna say that I lost my voice so that's why I sound funny like maybe like a 12 year old boy but it's over that hopefully you guys can ignore that so I want to show you guys a new headset that we have from the chow series it's our new chow Drako captain and this headset is actually with white rock this is my first headset with him we did a mouse with him if you guys know our products we did a Saphira Mouse so this has said well this series let me tell you a little about the series first so our channel series is geared more towards music lovers and lifestyle we you know we obviously have headsets geared towards gamers but this specific line the chow series is really about you know DJs and music enthusiasts so what's really cool about this headset it kind of like blends and combines the world of music lovers and gamers so these are 50 Mill 50 millimeter drivers they're really big your ear cups as you can see so they're really great for a long-term use have a tiny head so it's not really a great comparison actually wigs it hasn't look huge okay so for you there we go yeah yeah they actually fit yes and if you know a little bit of a child's eyes Chow series don't really have mics you know they're like I said it's for music lovers so they're really focusing on just you know long-term musically so it's our first chow had set with actually a mic attached so it's really cool yes like but another thing that the chow series does is that the ear cups actually flip so for people who are like DJs or listening music you can actually flip it and once you don't have to like move it to the side you can flip one side so you can hear people so you know your friends can't talk anything bad about you No and then the side you can listen so you can actually get over the child captains - so the Chow assets are these ones are $79.99 which is our or the regular child's and then our child signatures are kind of the premiums you know they have the gold-plated and the cable is removable so with the new challenge captain headset it actually has pretty much all the features of what they have sets and it's priced at $79.99 so it's really kind of competitive price the only thing it doesn't have is kind of like the gold plate but I'm a bigger fan of that kind of sleek sleek matte look and it actually matches the Saphira Mouse if you're familiar that right this is very interesting so first of all as you can see when we start first started we have all these these different colors of the Saphira mice so really all this is is we've expanded upon the Saffir series because everybody really liked that Mouse you know it was a favorite for a lot of people it's a favorite of mine so we're really offering more colors this year and you know different finish the original Mouse is black with the matte finish and these ones are cloth so we have it in red the combat green white yellow camouflage blue orange just a ton of colors just because we want to offer your you know personalization with this mouse right pretty much that's it you know all the other features of the same nothing too new but we definitely want to expand upon a lot of the products that people really like and give them more options this is our gala rue I feel like I'm just playing with it already can I stop okay this is the gallery and this is a mouse abundant she's so basically a really simple idea you know you have a bunch of cables in the back of the computer and sometimes you're playing with the mouse and so get snagged on like your monitor or the side of your keyboard or it will just get tangled in the back of all the other wires so what it really does is it just manages that and makes sure that it doesn't get snagged on anything yeah and it's you can actually collapse it's a magnet so just pop it into place and it's really easy to bring with you if you're gaming anywhere else but you just put it here and you can choose however much slack you need if you're one of those people were crazy and they go all over the mask you just yeah you put in there it doesn't come out unless of course you know you but so you can choose how much slack you need you know some people need a lot like this or some people have a little but that's bit it's just basically cable management for your mouth it was for a piece $14.99 nothing more frustrating than getting most huh great before you kill someone I get really pissed and sometimes I'm just like mouse okay pull it and it will just snap out of the back which is really bad never good things that I solve that problem alright I guess we can move on over to keyboards over here actually Mouse the mouse that we affectionately play it's a new it's just its colors different colors so you can remember if you know if you know instead of numbers we use colors and letters that's not what we're talking about here today okay so the Volos mouse really is more for people who are MMO gamers or people who need a lot of like macros or hotkeys this one has up to 14 macro keys adjustable waist as usual profiles that you can store inside the mouse we have memory inside and of course the weights of course I show you I can take out the weights there's weights in here so everybody likes that no I'm actually a type of person who likes heavier Mouse's well complain though some people like it's too heavy I can't move it a little bit bigger than most of our other Mouse's a few mice that's a very cool I claw grip but I call grew up with really big mice because I have a really big hand so that's actually really cool because I can still go all around the side does have grip right along here and the buttons are nice because you can easily feel where each one is and they are color-coded super really did this before I was playing with the spouse actually is the buttons right here there's actually two right here yeah and I kind of grip this way so I don't you know it's like kind of perfect for where I have it but I use actually like the middle part of my thumb and it works really well like I can hit here and I usually use the buttons on the side like for FPS gamer like when I prone or when I with me way so those are kind good bones I'm not even actually yes but it's definitely we offer a lot more buttons it's the most we offered on a mouse and MSRP is $79.99 and we're expecting for it to come out in the spring we're really pushing towards mechanical keyboards this year it's getting really popular yeah sure I wasn't gaming with mechanical keyboards at first but it really has become really popular in the last couple years I I use mechanical and I can't turn back now yeah once you try it yeah yeah so basically what we're trying to do is offer more options for gamers nothing too crazy not like you know a bajillion macros but you know we're starting slow seeing what people like and then building upon a good base so our original Mecca and Mecca G units our original Mecca g1 just had it's a pretty standard layout and that the default was black switches so now what we're trying to do is offer more switches give people more choices of what they like some people like Reds some people like blues Browns so we're actually picking those up this year so we actually got our red switches on the mecca G unit which is back here if you want to play with it might actually be how it is difficult a key technique we have Reds and the one key point I think everyone's been waiting for at least me cuz I've been a lot of people and asking me especially want to go to eSport tournaments you know like waiting for the our new prime keyboard so this is our new Mecca g1 prize I've been looking this is our keyboard made by team prime so everything you see here the colors that they chose and the layout is customized by them and how they play the game so it's in Korean - obviously good thing to have English - cuz I wouldn't be able to read it yeah but as you can see it has their logo prime escape key yeah so any time you try to escape you know it's like up you don't escape don't escape fight the battle very cool looking keyboard awesome yeah these ones are actually brown switches yeah I really like the rounds they're definitely ones that I think if you're a gamer who likes to keyboard with you know that feedback everything like super loud I think Browns a good medium in the middle to have but you know like we said we have Reds we're gonna get blues and we still have our blacks a lot of people do like the black so what we did - is for the mecca g1 this is a mech when illuminated so now we're offering options like backlighting yeah people have been asking for backlighting right now it's just red LED but maybe in the future you will have more if people in it so the MSRP for both of these are actually one $49.99 you see right and as you can see on this white one back here they've got lighting zones that you can set so these this one actually is it's not fully lit it's just the special keys you know like the WASD for FPS gamers and then the arrows it's not all lit it's just you know certain areas I think some people they don't really like a fully lit keyboard yeah I just want you know the keys yeah yeah so so this one is actually just certain keys but this one is priced at one thirty nine ninety nine USD