The Womier DUO 87 Keyboard SOLVES a Real Problem! — Transcript

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1. 0:01This mechanical keyboard looks pretty
2. 0:04unassuming, right? Well, this is the Wo
3. 0:06Mier Duo 87 modular keyboard and it has
4. 0:09the potential to really speed up your
5. 0:11workflow. It has a color touchscreen
6. 0:13module that you could swap in and fully
7. 0:15customize to quick launch apps, adjust
8. 0:17settings, use hot keys, and more. You
9. 0:20can even use the smart touchscreen
10. 0:21separately off the keyboard so you can
11. 0:23keep the stock keycaps or use the
12. 0:25included figurine as well. But, how well
13. 0:27does it actually work? Is it really easy
14. 0:29to customize and how does it actually
15. 0:31sound? Well, let's take a closer look
16. 0:33and a big thanks to Wo Mier for sending
17. 0:35this out for review. In the box, we have
18. 0:36the Duo 87 keyboard along with a Duo
19. 0:39figurine and magnetic base for it.
20. 0:41There's a USB Type-A to Type-C connector
21. 0:44cable, four replacement switches, a
22. 0:46keycap and switch puller, manual, and
23. 0:48there's also the smart deck or play deck
24. 0:51along with its own base if you want to
25. 0:52use it off of the keyboard. The Wo Mier
26. 0:55Duo 87 keyboard comes in at around 924 g
27. 0:58or about 2 lb and that's with the stock
28. 1:00configuration. However, since this is a
29. 1:02modular keyboard, we can actually remove
30. 1:04these keys here and swap in the Duo
31. 1:07figurine which comes in at around 50 g
32. 1:09with the magnetic base attached.
33. 1:11Additionally, you can also use their
34. 1:12smart deck or play deck and if you
35. 1:14attach that just by itself, that comes
36. 1:17in at around 61 g. I have the retro gray
37. 1:20version, but it also comes in black as
38. 1:21well. This is an 80% layout and the case
39. 1:24material is an ABS built. Now, if I go
40. 1:27ahead and try to flex this, you can see
41. 1:29it actually does have significant flex,
42. 1:32but there's no type of creaking at all.
43. 1:34There's double shot keycaps and these
44. 1:36are using Wo Mier's palm switches. Now,
45. 1:38do note we have south facing LEDs, but
46. 1:40we don't have any shine through keycaps.
47. 1:42There's three or five-pin hot swap
48. 1:44functionality. Note that when I press on
49. 1:46the left key with a lot of force, you
50. 1:48can see the other keys nearby being
51. 1:50depressed as well, so there is a bit of
52. 1:52structural flex. Here's a side view of
53. 1:54the keycap profile and if I go ahead and
54. 1:56run my fingers along the printed legends
55. 1:59on here, you can feel it ever so
56. 2:00slightly. The Wo logo is on this glossy
57. 2:03area here, which looks really nice. And
58. 2:05on the back of the keyboard, this is
59. 2:07where we have the USB type-C port. You
60. 2:08can only use this in wired mode. There
61. 2:10is no wireless connectivity. And on the
62. 2:12very back, we have rubber feet to keep
63. 2:14this nice and planted. And we have
64. 2:16two-stage adjustment feet. Here's a
65. 2:17quick look at the specs. Feel free to
66. 2:19pause and review or jump ahead to the
67. 2:21next section. Here's what the palm
68. 2:22switch looks like. So, we have the
69. 2:23south-facing LED and it has extremely
70. 2:26smooth travel. Here's what it sounds
71. 2:27like.
72. 2:46The sound profile is really pleasing to
73. 2:48the ear, very creamy sounding. There's
74. 2:50no type of harsh noises and no type of
75. 2:52pinging noises when you're slamming down
76. 2:54on the space bar. Similarly, the typing
77. 2:56experience is also really enjoyable on
78. 2:58here. So, my fingertips are nice and
79. 3:00cradled on the keycaps. They have a
80. 3:02matte type of finish, so it's not
81. 3:03slippery at all. And I don't have a way
82. 3:05to actually measure the actuation force
83. 3:07on here, but it does take a little bit
84. 3:09more force than I'm used to on other
85. 3:11keyboards. Just something to keep in
86. 3:12mind if you're more of a touch typist,
87. 3:14but I don't mind it at all. All of the
88. 3:16keys also had really nice travel, very
89. 3:18smooth. And more importantly, on the
90. 3:20space bar, it doesn't matter if I hit it
91. 3:21on the corner, in the middle, or on any
92. 3:23of the other corners. It's a nice and
93. 3:25consistent depress. I've cut the lights
94. 3:27to show the RGB effects. So, I'll go
95. 3:29ahead and start lowering the brightness.
96. 3:31So, that's the lowest setting. Of
97. 3:33course, you can turn it off completely.
98. 3:34And here it is at the highest settings.
99. 3:36You can also go ahead and slow down the
100. 3:38effects, speed it up, [music] and you
101. 3:40can go ahead and cycle through various
102. 3:42effects as well, as well as using solid
103. 3:45colors. And here's the full list of the
104. 3:47keyboard commands that you can issue. In
105. 3:49terms of modularity, they've made it
106. 3:50extremely simple. So, once you remove
107. 3:52the key cap and switches, you can just
108. 3:55attach a magnetic base either for the
109. 3:56figurine or the smart deck. So, you can
110. 3:58see it's right now with the smart deck.
111. 4:00I'll just go ahead, pop this out. I'm
112. 4:02not even going to look. And then I have
113. 4:04the figurine here. I can just snap that
114. 4:06into place and it's magnetically held
115. 4:08into place. That's why it's not falling
116. 4:09off. When you're done, just go ahead and
117. 4:11swap either of these modules. Again,
118. 4:14very simple. It just finds its way home
119. 4:16and it's automatically powered up and
120. 4:18you're good to go. It really is that
121. 4:20simple. Additionally, the smart deck
122. 4:22comes with its own base. So, you can see
123. 4:24the connector here and there's a USB
124. 4:26type-C port right there. So, I have a
125. 4:28USB type-C cable connected to my laptop.
126. 4:31I'll just go ahead, plug this in just
127. 4:32like that. And now I can actually use
128. 4:34the smart deck separate or off the
129. 4:37keyboard. I could have the default key
130. 4:39caps right on here or the figurine and I
131. 4:41still have that added functionality.
132. 4:43Let's take a look at the dual 87 play
133. 4:45deck software, which is pretty cool. So,
134. 4:48note that it right now shows print
135. 4:50screen, calculator, pause, break and
136. 4:51that's exactly what's mirrored on the
137. 4:53play deck screen. Now, if I click on
138. 4:55screen saver mode, it's going to play
139. 4:57the animated GIF files on here and of
140. 4:59course I can cycle through these other
141. 5:01static images that came pre-loaded. And
142. 5:03there was an image of a cat. I replaced
143. 5:05it with this image of stars to show it's
144. 5:07pretty simple to do. Now, if I want to
145. 5:09go back to the keystroke mode, rather
146. 5:11than having to open the software, I
147. 5:12could just swipe down and I can just
148. 5:14switch between these two modes,
149. 5:16keystroke mode and the screen saver
150. 5:18mode. Now, to use the software, it's
151. 5:20actually quite simple. So, on the left
152. 5:22side, it's broken down into scenes. So,
153. 5:25we have keyboard. Note, if I click on
154. 5:26Windows controller, look at the screen.
155. 5:29You'll see it switches extremely
156. 5:30quickly, basically in real time. There's
157. 5:32one favorite web, info board, music
158. 5:35console, word. And these are the custom
159. 5:37ones. Now, if you click add or the plus
160. 5:40sign here, you could add your own custom
161. 5:41scenes. So, I've added my own and I've
162. 5:43dragged in the tools or kind of assets I
163. 5:46want from the right side. But, let's go
164. 5:48on the keyboard one. This is the kind of
165. 5:50like default one.
166. 5:52And you'll notice that on a lot of
167. 5:54these, there's this blue arrow. And that
168. 5:57is what's going to allow you to cycle
169. 5:59through the different scenes because if
170. 6:01you just pull down, it would put you
171. 6:02into the screen saver mode. So, that's
172. 6:05how they've gotten around that issue.
173. 6:06So, you can just have this on all of
174. 6:08your scenes. Now, to customize this
175. 6:11additionally, I've actually clicked the
176. 6:13plus sign here and it's added horizontal
177. 6:15pages. So, I'll click uh delete for
178. 6:17three, but you can see right now there's
179. 6:19a two. So, actually, if you look here
180. 6:22right now, if I slide over horizontally,
181. 6:24I now have a num pad. So, I basically
182. 6:26just went into Photoshop, created these
183. 6:28numbers, just transparent PNG files. And
184. 6:32now I have a num pad, which is something
185. 6:34I always miss on a full-size keyboard.
186. 6:36Now, to show you how easy it is, I'm
187. 6:38going to click hot key, drag it into
188. 6:41this box here,
189. 6:42and I'm going to click uh nine. So, let
190. 6:45me click that again. I'll click nine and
191. 6:48then I'll change this image to select
192. 6:50local file right here.
193. 6:52And I'll give this nine. And instead of
194. 6:55cropping it, I'll just say original
195. 6:56image. And basically, in real time, it's
196. 6:59updated my, you know, kind of makeshift
197. 7:01num pad there. Now, I also want a zero
198. 7:04on here. So, what I'll do is instead of
199. 7:05dragging hot key, I can just go ahead,
200. 7:07click copy,
201. 7:09paste it in there. I'll click on nine
202. 7:11again. I want the hot key to be zero.
203. 7:14And I've made an image for zero right
204. 7:17here.
205. 7:18Click original image, and there you go.
206. 7:20So, I now have a functioning num pad.
207. 7:22Now, if I jump into Excel, you can see I
208. 7:24can go ahead, you know, hit one, hit
209. 7:26eight,
210. 7:28you know, just like if I had a full-size
211. 7:30num pad. That alone is, you know, kind
212. 7:33of worth having this on here. The fact
213. 7:35that I can easily switch over to a num
214. 7:37pad. Now, if I was, you know, regularly
215. 7:39going into Excel, I could just, you
216. 7:41know, populate this with the Excel icon.
217. 7:44Tap on that, open Excel, and then just
218. 7:46start typing. So, let's go back over
219. 7:48here, and you can see these are the
220. 7:51defaults. You can add or remove any of
221. 7:53these if you didn't want. You could just
222. 7:55right-click, delete this, or re-map it
223. 7:57if you want. Now, if we go under Windows
224. 8:00controller,
225. 8:01again, you have some quick launch icons.
226. 8:03So, there's one here for showing your
227. 8:05desktop. So, if I just tap on that, you
228. 8:07can see my desktop right there. There's
229. 8:09one for calculator, one for opening
230. 8:11control panel, you get the idea. And
231. 8:13basically, you can do whatever you want.
232. 8:15Now, favorite web is just going to be
233. 8:16bookmarks. You have your info board, you
234. 8:18could do times, you know, you could
235. 8:19quick launch your drives,
236. 8:21Internet Explorer. There's music
237. 8:23control, volume up, volume down, really
238. 8:25handy, mute. And then, you know, for
239. 8:27specific applications like Word. So, for
240. 8:30example, you know, country doing control
241. 8:32U, you can see that map right there,
242. 8:35that hot key assignment. Now, if you
243. 8:38want to get an idea of the
244. 8:39functionality, so on the right side,
245. 8:41these are broken down into these kind of
246. 8:42sub-menus right here. So, under Play
247. 8:44Deck, you can even create folders, scene
248. 8:46shift, previous page, next page, go to
249. 8:48page number, and then page indicator.
250. 8:51And then, under toolbox, you can see
251. 8:52this is where you can pull in, you know,
252. 8:54websites, hot key, hot key switch, super
253. 8:56keys,
254. 8:57mouse events,
255. 8:58which is handy. You can open
256. 9:01specific files, folders, open apps.
257. 9:04You can close things. And for open apps,
258. 9:06so under custom, you can see I have one
259. 9:09for open Photoshop, one for opening
260. 9:11command prompt, Internet Explorer, mail.
261. 9:15It's extremely simple to just drag any
262. 9:18of these over like open an app right
263. 9:19here.
264. 9:20You can see I can cycle through all of
265. 9:23the various apps on my computer. So, for
266. 9:25example, I can say Kaspersky right
267. 9:27there.
268. 9:28And I can just go ahead, hit that, and
269. 9:30it's going to open that up. Really no
270. 9:33issues at all. And then, you also have
271. 9:34some Windows control stuff like sleep,
272. 9:36switching screen, you know, speech
273. 9:38detection. In the main settings, this is
274. 9:40where we can take a look at the device
275. 9:42firmware. We can actually turn the
276. 9:44screen off never after a certain amount
277. 9:47of time. I'll leave it on never. And we
278. 9:49can rotate the display as well. I'm
279. 9:51going to leave it back on the default.
280. 9:54Now, this is where you can manage
281. 9:55scenes. You can delete scenes you know
282. 9:56you'll never need or add scenes as well.
283. 9:59And you can also set default scenes. So
284. 10:01you can see this one is set as the
285. 10:02default. And under general, this is
286. 10:04where you can check for updates. These
287. 10:06are the available languages as well. And
288. 10:08you can also go ahead read the user
289. 10:10guide if you need to. Something else
290. 10:11that's noteworthy is this icon. So if
291. 10:13you click on that, it's going to take
292. 10:15you to their website, the space station
293. 10:18they call it. So under plugins, there's
294. 10:19a bunch of different plugins here. Now,
295. 10:22I haven't found a way to actually sort
296. 10:24by the smart screen or this Play Deck.
297. 10:27You can sort by operating system, you
298. 10:29know, by price and things like that. But
299. 10:31I haven't seen anything for this aspect
300. 10:33ratio. So it's probably something that's
301. 10:35going to get populated later, you know,
302. 10:37once this becomes a bit more mainstream.
303. 10:39So yeah, there's a ton of functionality
304. 10:41here to add, you know, kind of
305. 10:42additional productivity and features to
306. 10:45this. While I've loved using the Smart
307. 10:47Deck so far and I haven't had any
308. 10:49issues, you know, tapping the wrong icon
309. 10:51because everything is nicely spaced
310. 10:52apart, I would like the ability to have
311. 10:54smaller icons just so that I can have
312. 10:57more on the screen at one time. You can
313. 10:58see right now this is a good layout, but
314. 11:00if I go ahead and swipe over where I
315. 11:02have kind of this number pad that I've
316. 11:04set up, it would have been nice if it
317. 11:05could be a little bit smaller so I could
318. 11:07add in, you know, a plus, minus, divide,
319. 11:10equal, enter sign, and all of that. The
320. 11:12touch screen is also plenty responsive,
321. 11:14but I would like to see in a future
322. 11:16model maybe a bit more premium of a
323. 11:18build with a glass screen versus this
324. 11:20plastic type of screen. So I've been
325. 11:22loving the Duo 87 so far and I think
326. 11:24this is a fantastic keyboard if you're
327. 11:26someone who likes compact keyboards, but
328. 11:27you want that functionality that a
329. 11:29full-size keyboard brings because you
330. 11:31can easily go ahead just pop the screen
331. 11:33and it's extremely modular. Fire up the
332. 11:35software just customize it. It's really
333. 11:37simple to do and you're off and running.
334. 11:39Plus there's potential to add additional
335. 11:41plugins and functionality down the line.
336. 11:44So the Dygma Raise 87 really gives you
337. 11:46the best of both worlds. It's compact
338. 11:48plus there's the ability to add
339. 11:49additional functionality say like
340. 11:51Photoshop actions, Illustrator, After
341. 11:53Effects, DaVinci Resolve. You can really
342. 11:55customize and fine-tune this exactly for
343. 11:58your workflow. So if you're interested
344. 11:59in picking up the Dygma Raise 87, I'll
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