 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 Linksys. Guys, I'm here at the Thermaltake booth checking out their Chao series headsets. I'm going to pass you guys off to Kitty radio. Hey guys, I'm going to say that I lost my voice so that's why I sound funny, like maybe like a 12 year old boy, but ignore that, hopefully you guys can ignore that. So I want to show you guys a new headset that we have from the Chao series. It's our new Chao Draco Captain and this headset is actually with White Rock. This is our first headset with him. We did a mouse with him if you guys know our products. We did a Sapphira mouse. So this headset, well this series, let me tell you a little about the series first. So our Chao series is geared more towards music lovers and lifestyle. We, you know, we obviously have headsets geared towards gamers, but this specific line, the Chao 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 millimeter drivers. They're really big ear cups, as you can see. So they're really great for long term use. I was going to test it on you, but I don't know if you want to wear it. Because I have a tiny head, so it's not really a great comparison. It actually makes the headset look huge. Okay, so for you, I can't see a bit. Okay, here's a... We got it, we got it. Almost. There we go, there we go. Yeah, so the ear cups are really big. Yeah, yeah, they actually fit. And they're really comfortable. They're great for long term use. And if you know a little bit about our Chao series, and Chao series don't really have mics, you know, like I said, it's for music lovers, so they're really focusing on just, you know, long term music use. So it's our first Chao headset with actually a mic attached. So it's really cool. Yes, mic. But another thing that the Chao series does is that the ear cups actually flip. So for people who are like DJs or listening to 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, you know, and then this side you can listen. So you can actually do that with the Chao captains too. So the Chao headsets are, these ones are $79.99, which is our, the regular Chaos. And then our Chao signatures are kind of the premiums, you know, they have the gold plated and the cable is removable. So with the new Chao Captain headset, it actually has pretty much all the features of both the headsets and its price 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 Sephira mouse, if you're familiar with that too. Right. Cool. So yeah, that's pretty much our new headset. This is very interesting. Yeah. We can go on and see other stuff. So first of all, as you can see, when we first started, we have all these different colors of the Sephira mice. So really, all this is, is we've expanded upon the Sephira 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, a different finish. The original mouse is black with the matte finish and these ones are gloss. 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 more, you know, personalization with this mouse. Right. So pretty much that's it. You know, all the features are 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 Galeroo. I feel like I'm just playing with it already. I stopped. Okay. This is the Galeroo and this is a mouse bungee. So basically, 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 it'll get snagged on like your monitor or the side of your keyboard or it'll 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 you can actually collapse it. It's a magnet. So you 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 who are crazy and they go all over the mouse and you just, you know, you put it in there, it doesn't come out. Unless, of course, you know, you try to throw it. 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 it. It's just basically cable management for your mouse. MSRP is $14.99. Nice. Nothing more frustrating than getting mouse tug right before you kill someone. I get really pissed and sometimes I'm like just like your mouse and I pull it and it'll just snap out of the back. It's just really bad. Never a good thing. So that'll solve that problem. All right. I guess we can move on over to keyboards over here. Actually, surprise. Surprise. Mouse. The mouse that we actually play with. I was looking at that. I noticed the side there. It's a new mouse. It's just, it's colors, different colors so you can remember if you know, instead of numbers we use colors and letters. If we had the triangles and the circles it would be like PS3. 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 macros or hotkeys. This one has up to 14 macro keys, adjustable weights as usual, profiles that you can store inside the mouse. We have memory inside and of course the weights, of course, I'll show you. I can take out the weights. There's weights in here. So everybody likes that. I'm actually the type of person who likes heavier mouses. Yeah, me too. I usually put all the weight I possibly can. People complain though. Some people are like it's too heavy. I can't move it. I love heavy mice. It's awesome. Great for accuracy. This mouse is actually a little bit bigger than most of our other mouses if you want to grip it. Yeah, mice, mice, mice. That's very cool. I claw grip but I claw grip with really big mice because I have a really big hand. So that's actually really cool because I can still go all around with a claw grip. Do you want to be like graceful and move it? Is that really how you play? Yeah. Does the side have a grip? 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. What's interesting is I never really did this before I was playing with this mouse actually. Is the buttons right here. There's actually two right here. I kind of grip this way so it's kind of perfect for where I have it. But I use actually the middle part of my thumb and it works really well. I can hit here. I usually use the buttons on the side for FPS gaming like when I prone or when I melee. So those are kind of really good buttons. I might even actually play with FPS. But we offer a lot more buttons. This is the most we offer on a mouse. 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 for sure. I have multiple mechanical keyboards. See I wasn't gaming with mechanical keyboards at first but it really has become really popular in the last couple years. I use mechanical and I can't turn back now. Yeah once you try it it's pretty hard to go back. 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 Mecha and Mecha G units, our original Mecha G1 just had a pretty standard layout. And 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 Mecha G unit which is back here. If you want to play with it. It might actually be loud. It's just like tickety-tackety. That's not too bad. It's not too bad. Yeah. Yeah reds are usually quite quiet actually. We have reds and the one keyboard I think everyone's been waiting for. At least me because I've been a lot of people have been asking me especially when I go to esport tournaments you know they're like waiting for the our new Prime keyboard. So this is our new Mecha G1 Prime. That's what I've been looking at. Yeah exactly. 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 too obviously. Good thing they have English too because I wouldn't be able to read it. Yeah. But as you can see it has their logo. Prime Escape Key. Yeah so anytime you try to escape you know it's like oh you're hitting the Prime Key. Don't escape. Don't escape. Fight the battle. Very cool looking keyboard. Awesome customization. Yeah these ones are actually brown switches by default. I really like the browns. They're definitely ones that I think if you're a gamer who likes a keyboard with you know that feedback but I think like super loud. I think brown is a good medium in the middle to have. But you know like we said we have reds. We're going to get blues. And we still have our blacks. A lot of people do like the blacks. So what we did too is for the Mecha G1 this is a Mecha G1 illuminated. So now we're offering options like backlighting. A lot of people like backlighting. Yeah people have been asking for backlighting. Right now it's just red LED. But maybe in the future we'll have more if people want it. Yeah that's a good idea. So the MSRP for both of these are actually $149.99 USD. Right and as you can see on this white one back here. They've got lighting zones that you can set up. Yeah it's like light zones. So 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. They just want you know the keys that they really matter. Their main ones yeah their main gaming keys all the way up. Yeah so this one is actually just certain keys. But this one is priced at $139.99 USD.