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so I've shown you many different keyboards over the years all the coolest all the weirdest all the most unique this device it's a thing that you interact with all the time pretty much every day if you work on the computer live on the computer game on the computer you're in front of a keyboard let's kick it off with this one here it's called the Expos economic mechanical keyboard very simple packaging here it's a nice white box the most obvious thing that you'll notice about this one is probably different than yours is the layout look at that that is that is super unusual the reason that an ergonomic keyboard in general has this type of layout is because of the way that your hands kind of rest down on the table and with a straight keyboard right you might have to bend them back a bit to get in the correct position where naturally the wrist kind of wants to go this way and so these keys are meant to follow your fingers essentially look at this you'd normally have a space bar right across the bottom instead you have this split design so there's two spots for the space bar and in the middle they've utilized that space for control shift and enter button and a backspace which is kind of cool because that gets used frequently having it there instead of there might save you a couple of seconds it has some feet on it too so you can get a better angle there you see so now it's even even more in line with how your wrists want to live while you're typing so it's optional mechanical key switches with Gator on red black blue or brown and it's also got RGB adjustable lighting and apparently the casing here is made out of an aluminum alloy the whole thing feels real solid so type-c the standard USB all right let's see what this backlight looks like oh look at that this this area in the center here lights up it's glowing like a oh and the RGB starts moving around there we go okay you can see that a bit better now definitely if you look along the top from pink purple orange red green and so on you can of course configure this however you like you can have it cycle like this stick to a particular color but that's kind of what its gonna look like for a person like me okay that's already like not a sophisticated typing machine typist I'm already kind of pecking around this is a very foreign experience could could I get used to it possibly like look at me I'm reaching up here you're definitely not gonna open this up and immediate we feel comfortable with it unless you're familiar with the ergonomic concept all right so that's the expose next up also equally unusual it's a 60% mechanical keyboard these things are all arranged since this keyboard is small you're gonna be missing certain keys like even the directional keys so as you can see here by holding the function key you actually end up with these functions coming back to you in like a duel like a key combination scenario this one is off Amazon it's very affordable it's also mechanical this one has key switches called red switch these are I believe the same as the switches in the last keyboard I was looking at okay let's crack this open here wow look how small that is this is tiny mmm look it look how slender and sleek that is it's only 60% of a regular keyboard the only thing that strikes me immediately like whoa what am I gonna do without that is the directional keys but of course holding down your function key you can turn these other keys into your up down side to side if you use them of course the layout a lot more familiar here a lot more traditional and the bottom is pretty straightforward oh very nice this is a lot more similar to what I'm using right now whoo zoom in on that orange blue Oh like a split look at that the triple setup so this is not the brightest backlight in person you can see it a little bit when you look at it directly but anyway you can cycle through there's a few different settings as I mentioned before and of course the focus here is shrinking down to the bare necessity of what you need a keyboard to be now if I take out this next keyboard you're gonna see how just how much smaller this thing is comparatively this one is from a company called Maya Nicks and they sell it with these interchangeable key caps like this it's also backlit it's also RGB but much more of a classic layout so look at this one here full-size and now this is really gonna help you appreciate just how small the 60% keyboard is look at that it looks tiny comparatively speaking I like this look at this thing very nice solid build mechanical key caps we have a cable here with the little bungee on it which i think is a cool look a full rubberized mat on the bottom ooh very little slip there maybe not as much of an incline as you might like but reasonable Oh another thing I like on this the OS key it mean it actually says OS as opposed to being a Windows key or the Apple key this will work on both platforms so why have a dedicated key that can't be interchangeable that's very cool also in the package we have a sticker a little bit of paperwork look at the look at the inside of the box is that cool or what why does that remind me of The Simpsons why does that make me want a donut well I know why because there's a picture of one right there also a silca packet which as you know is Jack's favorite treat but you're not jack so where's jack okay so that's the layout of the keyboard let's plug it in and we see the RGB lighting again not super bright but really the purpose of these back lights is for dim environments anyways okay last up we have a wild one this is the retro classic from Azio azo I have featured their products in the past in fact I featured one that looked almost exactly like this which I was like this thing is over the top steampunk style keyboard they went even further with this one the artisan series retro classic this one is primarily in my opinion for appearance you want the ambient environment maybe you go this way so three colors are available there's this one with the copper and the black there's also a full black onyx version and then there's one called posh which is white mostly this is the most steampunk looking version of the retro classic and they claim it's gonna be the right height with an adjustable incline look at the unboxing experience whoa that is wild oh my goodness it has like a leather deck in there holy smokes alright this one wins for unboxing experience braided USB cable guys this actually smells like leather right now it smells like I'm at a shoe store like I'm getting a fancy leather shoe and this one is completely different look at it it's actually like a typewriter this would take me a while to get used to much like the ergonomic one but like I said I think this is for a certain type of environment maybe it's a it's at the front desk is the receptionist to like some cool business has this thing sitting there you walk in you're like whoa look at that thing this is that keyboard this is all legit alloy on the outside with the copper plating the copper coloring it's heavy move in now let's plug this in real quick I mean you can already see it shining through but go ahead turn off the lights look at that that is some bright backlighting a ton of contrast through those key caps so this is obviously a really cool look I mean that's what this keyboard is about all right so there you have it four unique keyboards this one might be the most unique it's certainly the heaviest and it feels the highest quality but for me the one that I would most likely put on my desk in fact I'm gonna go put this on my desk right now the Maya Nicks I don't know what it is this keyboard here is just speaking to me it's the color it's the gray I'm gonna customize the keys I think I like the fact that the whole bottom is rubber it just feels really solid don't forget we had this little guy the 60% keyboard I think this is gonna be popular for a number of users I feel like you've got to be a power user I feel like these other two keyboards here are more focused on power users even though this one looks the same once you use this thing there will be an adjustment period and then this one here which is the ergonomic layout I don't personally have a ton of problems with the traditional layout but I can see how given a certain number of hours spent on a keyboard you might get sore in the wrists and so on so there's a few options there for unique keyboards hope you guys enjoyed it let me know down in the comment section which one would you go for I'll drop links down in the description to each one question time we've got some good ones today first stuff from Mohammed Ben said it did you still playing hockey some of you know some of you don't in fact there's some videos that would expose the fact that yes I do play hockey and I still play one of the few ways I maintain this physical structure right here I just think like why would you exercise like lifting weights it's boring get out there play a game hockey is that thing for me so I play twice a week I'm in the offseason right now cuz I play in the summer I play in the winter two separate teams two times a week get on the ice alright have a Molson Canadian and get out there maybe have the Canadian after the Olli okay so here's one from Marcel studio which game console is the best one for you Xbox or ps4 ok the truth here I don't play very many console exclusive titles like titles that only exist on PlayStation or only on Xbox one of the series that I that I did get invested in in the past that was exclusive was Uncharted so because of that game I've generally been in the PlayStation Camp but here's the thing like these are more comparable than they are different so you can't go wrong with either the PlayStation Camp or the Xbox camp I know people get fired up you gotta be on this one you gotta be on that one I would say follow the exclusive titles that piqued your interest and then grab that console but anyway my playstation gets more use ok here's the third one from Silvio do you watch Game of Thrones well in fact I did watch the first season all right so I was like I'm going along its medieval things are interesting the cinematography and then the Dragons started coming out towards the end and I was like oh man I don't know if I can keep nothing like I think it's cool but I just wish it had to just stayed like this a little bit less mystical I don't know is that even they're gonna be so mad at me now for this it wills mad at me right now I just wanted it to be like a long form of Braveheart or something like that that's all I want it don't put any spoilers in the comments I know everybody loves Game of Thrones so so be it all right I could deal with a little bit less of the magical mystical side of it that's just me so there you have it your questions have been answered remember in this video leave your questions down below one more time because I will be answering them in the next episode 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