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00:00Hey, how's it going? Dave 2D here. Day 2 of CES, and if you thought yesterday's footage
00:07was bad and grainy, be prepared because today's even worse. So I got to check out the Razer
00:12Suite, and that's an extra dark room, so the footage is just really grainy. I've been filming
00:16this on phones. The first thing I want to talk about is their thing called Project Linda.
00:20This thing looks out of this world. They're using the Razer phone and placing it into
00:23this chassis to create this really impressive device. Like, I don't even know how to describe
00:28this thing. It's kind of like a laptop, but it uses the phone. There's no internals of
00:34this laptop to give it processing capabilities. It's literally, the phone is powering everything.
00:38I mean, there's a battery in there, and it's got a screen, but all the processing power
00:43and the touchpad comes from the Razer phone. It's crazy. So the phone turns into a touchpad.
00:48The moment you drop it in and the connector plugs in, we have a fully functional device.
00:52So this thing is just running the Android software on the phone, and you use the screen
00:56of the Razer phone as a touchpad. Now, as of this moment, there's no developers that
01:00have created custom software for this thing, but the idea is that you have your program
01:04running on the main screen, like the regular Razer Blade Stealth screen. I think it's got
01:08a 13-inch screen. And then on the screen of the Razer phone, you can use it as a touchpad,
01:12or the developers can put a custom UI on there. So if you're using something like Lightroom
01:15or just an Adobe product, you'll be able to see the settings and different controls in
01:19there. Or if you're playing a game, you can see the UI or different skills or potions
01:22or just an inventory. Whatever it is, there's just a lot of potential for this hardware
01:26combination. So in theory, you could just carry your Razer phone around, and then for
01:30people that need a little bit more computing capabilities or they want a keyboard, they
01:34can just connect it up into this device and then use a mouse to navigate around. It's
01:38obviously a prototype, and it's obviously something that they're just testing the waters
01:41with. I think it's just well-executed, considering how early in the development process this
01:46thing is. So they call it Project Linda, and I have no idea when it's going to come out
01:49or even if it will come out, but I really feel like the concept is cool. And they're
01:52not the first people to do this, but they're definitely the first people that I've seen
01:56to do it well and to actually have it executed so seamlessly. And the other thing that's
01:59really cool is the mechanism that comes in and out of the device to plug into the phone.
02:04Like this is just a prototype, but it works so well. I think everyone that got to play
02:08with this thing was really impressed by that particular hardware mechanism. Okay, another
02:12thing they announced was this new mouse. So we've seen inductive charging on mice from
02:16Logitech and other companies, but this one's a little bit different. This mouse has no
02:20battery inside. It's a very lightweight mouse, and it can hold a charge for maybe like 5,
02:2410 seconds the moment you pull it off the mat. But the idea behind this thing is that
02:27it's really lightweight, high-performance mouse that uses an optical sensor that's completely
02:31wireless. They call it the Razer Mamba HyperFlux, and the mouse pad that it's on actually has
02:36an interchangeable surface. So you can have a hard surface, or you flip it over and you
02:39have this nice cloth surface, depending on the preference of your mouse pad. But two
02:43really cool products from Razer. I'm particularly interested in Project Linda. I just really
02:47want to see how far Razer can take that thing, because the idea of it is really cool on paper.
02:52It's unfortunate that it's like a single device that can work with that chassis, so only the
02:57Razer phone will fit into that thing. But just the idea of having a phone that can connect
03:02into a chassis, and then that device becomes essentially a laptop is really cool, especially
03:06with how powerful the CPUs and the hardware inside smartphones are getting. Like we've
03:10seen benchmarks. This stuff is equivalent to laptop performance. So yeah, I think the
03:15idea of it is really neat. Okay, hope you guys enjoyed this video. Thumbs if you liked
03:18it, subs if you loved it. See you guys next time.