A Totally Unbiased Review - LTTstore Northern Lights Mousepad

[ColinLTT]

Months of development and customization have led to this - LTT’s first peripheral. Kinda. Meet the LTT mousepad, and let us tell you about the trials and tribulations it took to get here.
 

Buy a Northern Lights Mousepad at LTTSTORE.COM

[Red :)]

inb4 it gets sold out again

[TetraSky]

Very happy with my 900x700 desk mat. Just enough to cover most of my uncovered desk space, with my monitor on top and still leave about 15cm on the side to put a cup of water or other stuff that really shouldn't go on a pad.

I just had mess it up a bit by hitting it hard with a small phillips screwdriver and punched a small hole into it while trying to unscrew a device and slipping off the small and hard to unscrew, screw. 

[Egg-Roll]

Because of delays the sponsors dropped this video harder than most things hitting the floor that Linus loves to drop.

[Gum Joe]

Order placed Been waiting for this for a while (missed the last drop as was moving house and didn't know how large my desk would be!)

 

[YoungBlade]

It was cool to see how the desk pad finally came to market, and I now understand why there haven't been more drops: Linus pawned off everything to his team.

 

If Linus had just done the work himself, we'd be seeing drops all the time.

[Keudn]

Awesome to see the testing that went on behind the scenes. If any LTT staff see this, would it be possible to get the files for the test rig you guys built? Would love to build my own to test my own mousepad.

 

Edit: Oh apparently linus said in the outro card that there would be a link. Looks like you guys shot that outro with the original video so guessing someone forgot the link after these 6 months?

[Toolarmy]

I bought 2 last time they were in stock. They are awesome. 

1200mm x 700mm   /   47.2” x 27.6”

[rentaspoon]

Love it but in the UK so won't be purchasing it. Sorry guys

[da na]

3 hours ago, TetraSky said:

Very happy with my 900x700 desk mat. Just enough to cover most of my uncovered desk space, with my monitor on top and still leave about 15cm on the side to put a cup of water or other stuff that really shouldn't go on a pad.

I just had mess it up a bit by hitting it hard with a small phillips screwdriver and punched a small hole into it while trying to unscrew a device and slipping off the small and hard to unscrew, screw. 

When the size of your mouse mat is more than the res of one of my monitors  : (

[JogerJ]

Quick story: I recently took a course in uni about how product design affects user interaction. I learned a lot of new things from this video that my classes didn't cover, such as working with existing manufacturers to avoid reinventing the whole product and cutting costs down. I'm pretty sure there are other (boring) steps that the video didn't cover like user studies or other prototyping steps for the test rig and such. I'm glad it all ended up great and they're marketing it well to the customers. The only thing that managed to surprised me is how they managed to price all sizes of mousepad the same? Really something competitors could take notes on.

 

Also I guess what's left for LMG to solve is the logistics of shipping worldwide. Seriously though how is it costing me $25 to ship a $30 mousepad in the EU!

Btw if there's group buys going on for Germany or EU, please let me know! Forget group buys, apparently purchases above 5 items are immediately marked as reseller and they're asking $10,000 for merchant verification wtf

[Shani Ace]

Yeah I also noticed the high shipping costs (also to Germany), although it only said 20$ for me, but you also gotta add customs tax to it, so you end up around 60$/50€.

Still thinking about it, but that's a lot for a mouse pad (I haven't even needed one for years).

[TetraSky]

53 minutes ago, JogerJ said:

Seriously though how is it costing me $25 to ship a $30 mousepad in the EU!

Shipping as a whole is expensive within Canada, much less shipping oversea. 

Unlike many areas of the EU (or all?), Canada doesn't subsidize its postal service. So it's already pretty cheap all things considered. Considering the weight and size of the boxes, I would've expected this to actually cost around $15 if I were to try and ship this same package from BC to QC. Instead it was "only" $11 (+taxes... total $47.12 USD and in USD, so it cost nearly $60 CAD)

[GGTaxo]

10 hours ago, JogerJ said:

Also I guess what's left for LMG to solve is the logistics of shipping worldwide. Seriously though how is it costing me $25 to ship a $30 mousepad in the EU!

Btw if there's group buys going on for Germany or EU, please let me know! Forget group buys, apparently purchases above 5 items are immediately marked as reseller and they're asking $10,000 for merchant verification wtf

Well, that really sucks. I also am in the EU, and the reason I haven't orderdered one, is exactly the same. Shipping and customs, double the initial price. Way above from what a mouse pads price seems reasonable. Which is a shame, because the mousepad looks really nice.

[callmesora]

This is awesome but one thing i've been wondering is how do I go about cleaning it?

[jellydonuts]

I don't understand why Linus is Canadian, yet the store only sells in USD...

[IkeaGnome]

4 minutes ago, jellydonuts said:

I don't understand why Linus is Canadian, yet the store only sells in USD...

There's some ideas thrown around here.

 

[Daft_Vader]

They look great....but why are there no small sizes?  Why do the pads have to cover the whole desk these days? I just want one that's 360mm x 250mm. My razer control pad is looking shabby.

[dogwitch]

1 hour ago, Daft_Vader said:

They look great....but why are there no small sizes?  Why do the pads have to cover the whole desk these days? I just want one that's 360mm x 250mm. My razer control pad is looking shabby.

they have 14 sizes. seems all sell out fast

[Gabriel]

Hi, is it possible to open source the tester v2 files? I'd love to make that thing to a pen plotter

[Daft_Vader]

8 hours ago, dogwitch said:

they have 14 sizes. seems all sell out fast

 

Which one of these sizes is 360 x 250 exactly?

[cacoe]

17 hours ago, JogerJ said:

Quick story: I recently took a course in uni about how product design affects user interaction. I learned a lot of new things from this video that my classes didn't cover, such as working with existing manufacturers to avoid reinventing the whole product and cutting costs down. I'm pretty sure there are other (boring) steps that the video didn't cover like user studies or other prototyping steps for the test rig and such. I'm glad it all ended up great and they're marketing it well to the customers. The only thing that managed to surprised me is how they managed to price all sizes of mousepad the same? Really something competitors could take notes on.

 

Also I guess what's left for LMG to solve is the logistics of shipping worldwide. Seriously though how is it costing me $25 to ship a $30 mousepad in the EU!

Btw if there's group buys going on for Germany or EU, please let me know! Forget group buys, apparently purchases above 5 items are immediately marked as reseller and they're asking $10,000 for merchant verification wtf

You're going to really want that merch at that price...

[fritzmg]

Left-handed version when?

[Velcade]

I have a drawer full of those fnatic 'mouse holders' 

 

[mvk]

18 hours ago, fritzmg said:

Left-handed version when?

just rotate 180 degrees. Then if anyone ask why, just make some sly joke about Australia being backwards or upside-down.