This Keyboard Will Make You Spin...

So as you guys know, I'm always on the hunt for that next cool thing, potentially something to enter my setup, maybe a more optimal version of something that I'm already using

You've seen so many crazy keyboard videos on the channel, most of them mechanical, some of them crazy elaborate

Today, it's a little more low-key, it's a little more low-profile. This is a product from Logitech, it actually came out a while ago, and somehow it slipped under my radar

Well, not today because I've been using a low-profile keyboard recently ever since I've been standing at my desk

For some reason, the angle I'm gravitating towards low-profile keyboards at the standing desk, it just fits better for me at the moment

Well, this might be the granddaddy, the godfather of low-profile keyboards. No, there are not any mechanical key switches

but there are some crazy features inside of something that's almost, it's impossibly thin

It's called the Craft from Logitech. And you guys, I mean, I don't need to explain to you

the Logitech love affair that's gone on for a while. This is my favorite mouse on planet Earth

You can go watch the video. Configurability, beautiful wheels on it, ergonomics, and so forth

And recently, the Logitech app has improved so much for customizability. And that's where this comes in to join the party a little bit

The craft has a configurable wheel on it. Now, you're looking at that thinking, so what

A wheel? I'm turning a dial. Microsoft did this a while back with their studio products

They had that wheel that you could use for creative input. What does that mean

Well, in certain applications, this wheel can actually control quite a bit

and potentially increase your productivity level. It will work with Illustrator, InDesign, Adobe Premiere, Photoshop, Lightroom, Word, PowerPoint

And you can configure what this thing does, whether it's zoom functionality or the size of a brush

Beyond the creative input, the keyboard also has illumination, which is smart

So if you approach the keyboard, the backlight pops on. It works over Bluetooth or a unifying receiver, which is included in the box

Works with Windows, Mac, and mobile platforms. So it got a lot going for it but it has a price tag to match up as well as you expect with a product in the premium Category with a name like craft i mean it just it sounds expensive okay so look this is the keyboard now i telling you i mean is that a look

or what apple would call this space gray at the top and then the black deck below it it's just it's

a nice color combo it's very uh darth vader it's very i don't know it's futuristic i like it look

at the, it's impossibly thin. Can I, can we, this is a phone, that's a Galaxy S20 Ultra. I mean

it's a big phone, but just look at how slim the keyboard is. My goodness gracious. Is that important

I mean, not really. There is an aesthetic component though, where maybe if you approach your setup and

you find it to be inspiring, if it's giving you positive feedback and you spend a lot of time

there then maybe there is some value associated with the appearance of the

thing but ultimately for me like I said the new angle I'm working a lot when I'm

standing it just gives me a different approach the height that I like and

therefore the low profile is just a little easier on my wrists at the moment

even though I'm giving up some key travel and probably a little bit of

typing accuracy also in the package look at this nicely wheeled up rolled up

USB type-c cable to charge this up. It does work wirelessly and can pair simultaneously

to three separate devices with a simple click of the switch over here

Also in the package as mentioned, you can connect via Bluetooth or you can use this 2.4 gigahertz little dongle

They call it a unifying receiver. What do we have on the unit? Well, the keycaps, you're probably gonna notice right away

they have a very strange shape to them. They are square keycaps, but on the inside

There's this divot, this little recess, which of course that's the shape of your fingers

And so even though you're giving up some key travel here, I believe the hope is that you get some confidence back based on the shape

So the quick brown fox. And you can see I do not have proper typing technique

So for me, it's kind of, it's even more important for me to have the confidence that I'm on the right key because I'm definitely not

See, the problem with a lot of low-profile keyboards is since you're giving up so much travel

oftentimes you may, it's easier to accidentally click a key compared to a mechanical key switch

where it's a more definitive press. Plus, a lot of the mechanical keys

are gonna have that natural sort of concave to them as well So this is a kind of an in type of solution Logitech has come up with You going to notice multimedia stuff up along the top

play, pause, you have your volume controls, you have controls, manual controls for the backlight

of the keyboard, brightness, and I like that they've put both Windows and Mac specific keys

All we've got, it's a very simple, it's a clean looking thing, which is good in my opinion

But that means all we have on the top is a type C connector and a power switch

We hit the power switch and there's a green LED indicator. So the Logitech options software has gotten so much better in recent years

In the past, I have issues with it. The new version, it really encourages you to customize your experience

So just like this, the application sees your various devices. Now it's important to know you don't have to do this

It would be a shame because you won't be taking advantage of the features here

You could just continue to use the keyboard the way it is without even installing the application

It'll work like any other Bluetooth keyboard once you get into the application

And you see the creative control come to life. It starts to explain to you. Okay. This crown is touch sensitive

So by default this is doing volume as you can see but that's really that's some minor functionality

I trust me. I like a volume knob. Ooh, that's quite satisfying. Listen to this

the crown is contextual. The crown adapts to the app you're using

and the tools selected. How cool is that? I can even change the default setting for it

prior to tapping it. It can control just within the OS, volume, brightness, next, previous

a custom keystroke, horizontal scrolling, which in a video editing application, for example

that's how I'll probably use it. The ability to navigate between tabs, as I said previously

switch between different desktops or pages and of course zoom by tapping on it because it is a

physical button you can press it can control play pause mute show desktop i mean it's so

brightness up that calculator my goodness so we'll switch it for now how about we try brightness

okay cool boom screen brightness up and down what if we wanted to control horizontal scrolling

Oh, interesting. When I changed to horizontal scrolling, it eliminated the clickiness So now it a smooth scroll which is what you would want in a timeline for example Navigate between apps And just like that navigate between apps re

the clicky factor. So you can stop more easily on a specific spot. Switch between desktops

Boom. Now you'll see the key with the contextual nature is if I open up a bunch of tabs

I can just quickly look at this. I mean it's so convenient

Dude's going wild over a little wheel, but I'm telling you there have been complete products

around the idea of putting a wheel next to your keyboard so you have a secondary left-hand input to go with your mouse

This is it's very interesting for creative applications. I'm telling you from personal experience

I've used wheels for that purpose in the past things like this guy have existed for years

and they're very commonplace in editing suites all over the world. But the problem with these is you now have a secondary device somewhere on your desk

You need more space. It's a less clean look. For most people, it won't justify the space that it takes up on the desk

and then maybe they won't use it. Of course, some people swear by it. Everybody's going to be a little bit different

But this achieves some of what that does in a package that really doesn't change the clean line

You end up with something that's very slick looking and you hardly even notice this wheel because of the way that it's integrated and you end up with a package

I mean, that's your package. It's nice. It's slick and it just it keeps your mind on the thing that you're working on, the location of it

Hopefully, you don't even have to think about it. It just becomes second nature with the left hand

So I think hence the name of the thing. It's going to be targeted mostly at creative people, people using creative applications

since everybody's creative, but people using the illustrators and the photoshops and the video editing applications and so on

But really, I think anyone can benefit from it, even in an Excel spreadsheet or even within the OS or even within a browser

So I'm excited to use it on a daily. I like the design

Impossibly thin. It is the Logitech Craft. You will pay for it

I will tell you what. You will pay for it. But that's typically the case with anything that sets itself at the top of the food chain