I Accept Every Tech Review Request For A Week...

now if you have a tech youtube channel and  you get to i'd say the threshold is about   5 000 subscribers you start to get inundated  with weirdly complimentary spam emails from   tech manufacturers wanting you to review their  random product and they usually go along the lines   of wow nice to meet you insert channel name here  your content brings me great joy and inspiration   if you review my usb hub that also has dog toenail  clippers in it it will bring me to glorious climax   and usually my response to this kind of  email is to politely ignore them because   why would i want to review a bluetooth headset  that can also refrigerate coconut water for   some reason but then i woke up the other morning  and i was like why am i not reviewing this stuff   so i asked anna to reach out to five  varyingly obscure review sample requests   from the last week so that we can  all marvel at them together but   before we do some marveling it's time for  a quick word from today's video sponsor   today's video is sponsored by deepcool and their  awesome looking new ls series of aios that come   in a range of sizes from 120 millimeter up to  360 millimeters for them hot boy cpus the new   deep cool ls series aios come with daisy chainable  fans some rgb goodness and deepcool's new fourth   generation pump which apparently has improved  micro channel design ensuring optimal coolant flow   if all of this sounds good to you check out  the new ls series of deep cool aios using   the link in the description below thank  you deepcool for sponsoring today's video now it's been several years but we finally  have the stuff and it's really cool   to finally get to actually see some of the  random crap you get offered on a daily basis   and no offense to the people making this random  crap of course so with that let's start off with   this one the first product happened  to be from a very popular category   usb hub plus gimmick and this one  has an m.2 slot right in the usb hub   accessory wise you get some thermal pad a  silicon case and a cable look at that opens   like that and then this is where uh the m.2 ssd  goes it feels pretty solid you know it's like   a a pretty sturdy nice feeling bit of kit and  while looking at all of the ports on offer by   this very sturdily constructed usb hub you could  tell that i was impressed uh yeah i don't really   know what else to say about it it's it's a usb  hub in terms of price apparently this occasion   is a hundred dollars and you have to buy it off  their site but we'll do some testing with it later   we've got a wearable smart air conditioner   straight off the bat i was struggling with  the impossible to read writing on the side   of the box apparently done by someone  falling down an escalator but once i   got over my confusion i was quite excited  i am a hot boy right to me if it's above   17 degrees celsius i am sweating and uncomfortable  so this actually seems like a great product for me   the outside of this case looks and feels a little  bit like how i imagine asbestos looks and feels   that's a concerning start hopefully this isn't a  carcinogen well there is a whole lot of branding   on this case go like that and wow that looks  like a very adventurous sex toy kind of pop it you just kind of put it on like that and then you  feel really cool although actually it is already   very cold to the touch and it's doing a good  job cooling my very high body temperature down   and it's not even powered on so that's  a good sign now having a look at it   one of the first things that stands out to me  is that um it's not very big and there's no   size adjustability so if you're one of those  people that has like an upturned dish ball for   a neck this is not going to work at all for  you because it's already kind of chafey and   it's it's not quite big enough for my neck so the  ice swift is 250 us dollars for this little air   conditioner it's not very well reviewed on amazon  so out of eight reviews it's it's got three stars whoa there's a lot of stuff in here we've got a  sealed envelope in here uh that says yours ever   very elaborately folded letter how do i open it  as i struggle opening this note it's basically   just a reviewer's guide written in quite flowery  language doogie stepping up with some style the   first little box had several skins for the back of  the phone ranging from carbon fiber effect to wood   effect so they're kind of like a case with extra  steps oh they've included smart glasses as well   they have kind of snuck a second product into  this review which i feel like is cheating a   little bit as a glasses wearer myself  that is not a very good glasses hinge   i wonder if these are also ip69 rated or if you're  just going to be electrocuted if it rains on you   which kind of seems like it may be the case these  have speakers built in which i can just imagine   sound atrocious yeah that i feel so cool i think  that these glasses with this i mean i now look   like the techiest person in the world and while  you try your best to control your rampant arousal   for how sexy i look with all this tech on me let's  check out the doogie phone oh that is a big phone   in terms of accessories we get a kind illusory  10 watt wall wart a cable and a lanyard   thing oh and a screen protector you can see  it's one of those two off phones for people   that i guess recreationally sword battle  it's surprisingly comfortable in the hand   doogie wasn't lying it does feel decent in the  hand it is quite a big phone okay so that's   the sim card slot you can actually put two sim  cards in here with a memory card on the other   side we've got a fingerprint sensor and a volume  rocker you have a covered up usb c port which   means this thing can just do lots of water and  stuff can happen to it oh look at that the phone   has a headphone jack which means already it  is the best phone in the world at the moment   because you can actually plug the headphones into  it although it's an even more exciting feature is   apparently this phone has a night vision camera  in it which i am definitely going to try tonight   now next up we have the little g-com mini air  11 which is a mini pc now i would say about   70 of the emails we get are from people with  mini pcs there's a surprising amount of them   specs wise we have a celeron n5095 in it and as  we know the name celeron is synonymous with power   we also have eight gigs of ram and a 256 gig ssd   and then here is the very mini pc it is it is very  small the little mini pc also comes with a nicely   printed card but this one is for customer support  information not bribery underneath that we have   a little velvet effect carrying bag so you can  transport your mini pc in style there's also a   power brick a mini displayport to hdmi adapter  some mounting screws damn an hdmi cable as well   you even get a vase amount for it in the  box often these manufacturers have those   as like an optional accessory so it's  nice to have it included in the box on the front there's a little bit of i o on the  back there's a bit more i o and a vent with a   pretty significant looking heatsink in there so  that's promising in fact generally ventilation   on this little device does seem pretty good now  it may not have a lot of ports on it but at least   they're good modern ports all in all i can't  wait to fire up the little gecko maybe try and   play some games on it and see how much horsepower  we get from the little celeron but first we have   one more thing to unbox before we get to  the review segment this which is the fopo that is a nice looking box you've got some  elevated print on the top and you can see here   that it's kind of like a thing that sits on your  monitor and gives you two extra displays on it   okay oh so this is the kind of thing that i  assume they want you to carry around with your   laptop but it's it's big and it's heavy it's  not that portable but you know we'll get into   that in a bit it comes with all of the cables  which adds to the immediate concern around   portability for this thing it even comes with a  wall wart i guess it just kind of folds like that   i think the other display folds up from  the bottom why is this one on the bottom   there's more of a disconnect between where the two  displays sit in relation to the middle monitor it   seems like a bit of a weird thing but i'm excited  to try it out because in theory it's quite cool   if you have it closed like that the display is on  the outside so it's gonna be easily damaged it's a   very flimsy little stand that feels real weak and  with my skepticism growing fast of the fopo we've   finally unboxed all of the products which means  it's time for the review section of the video first things first what's the venereal  bloatware situation like on the little geekcon whoa that is a very clean windows install good  job little geekom here is our little quad-core   acceleron oh and a single 8 gig stick of ram  who would have seen that coming we also have   some intel uhd graphics so gaming should be  very interesting on this little geekom mini pc okay so anything in the ballpark of  gta 5 at 1080p low settings is not   really feasible on this little pc uh so  let's drop it down to 720p maybe that'll work   oh i guess if you have very low standards  this is fine bear in mind this is not at all   what it's designed to do and considering  that this is quite an impressive showing   also the temperatures are great and it's  nice and quiet however i wouldn't really   consider this playable so let's quickly try  a game that should run on this little system it's not running super well but at  1080p high settings half-life 2 is   definitely playable which means you can do  at least medium gaming on this little geekom   it can handle 4k 60 video the cpu is fast  enough that you don't have a frustrating windows   experience on it in terms of cpu performance  you're looking at about third generation i5   which for a pc that small is actually not that  bad and you can even emulate older games so   yeah it's a solid little mini pc oh and in  terms of price it comes in at 280 us dollars   and as far as i'm concerned the only real  problem i have with the little geekom is that   it doesn't quite have enough i o luckily we have  a solution to that problem the occasious usb hub   very smooth review transition there now i'm not  entirely sure how to review a usb hub because   surely if you plug things into it and it usbs it's  fine uh but i guess i'll go a bit deeper than that   now using the 10 gigabit usb c port on the  little geekom this is the result we get   which is not great considering that in that  caddy we have a wd black nvme drive so the   caddy is bottlenecking that ssd quite a bit so  let's see how much that changes with the aces damn having the occasions in the chain lost  us about half our transfer speed and that's   with just one of the ports being used with that  i sense a contender entering the arena to give   us some context now i've also tested it with a  different usb c hub i happen to have lying around   and we get about the same results  so with my sample size of two   i've determined that this is the industry  standard usbc data throughput result   and now the last thing we're going to  do is test a little ssd caddy in here now it's about 25 slower than the  silverstone caddy which is not ideal   but at least it's faster than the usb ports on  the hub so at the end of the day the usb hub does   usb hub things uh although i will say my main  complaint with it is that it doesn't really   have enough usb ports on it which i feel like is  quite a fundamental failure on a device like this   two square usb ports just feels insufficient you  can just plug a mouse and keyboard into this thing   and then you need a usb hub for your usb hub which  seems really dumb i don't know i feel like to me   the minimum requirement is at least  four square usb ports uh but maybe i   have unrealistic expectations so let me know in  the comment section down below what you think   and then with that i'm gonna stop talking about  the usb hub now and move on to something else   now next up we're gonna test  the neck aircon which i have   over here uh that's clearly been designed either  for children or people with very skinny necks   so i guess we just kind of  slide it on there and then okay it's beeped oh um now my first impression is that it's very noisy  it's kind of unsettling because it's blowing air   right up into the base of my ears and i i don't  know it feels weird it feels like someone's   blowing really hard on the back of my neck but  like not someone i know or want to have blowing   on my neck i don't know it's just it it doesn't  feel as consensual as i feel like it should   um can do i just turn it down there we go  that's a bit less jarring i think it was on max   power it's still very noisy though i  don't know if i want something going   in my ears the whole time this is not my kind of  device but i think i'll like it more if i augment   it with the the doogie glasses so let's let's put  the doogie glasses on ah it just spoke into my ear   ah kaichi what um okay i think it's on oh okay  it's trying to connect to bluetooth so let me   quickly get my phone i mean i have to say my neck  is a lot cooler than it was before in fact i'm   actually getting a little cold uh so i think it's  quite effective although again it just it feels   like there are two people behind me blowing on my  ears i i don't love that uh but let's do bluetooth it just said elencia in my ear so i  think that means connected in chinese   i'm assuming and at this point i spent the  next five minutes struggling to connect the   doogie smart glasses to my phone but i got there  eventually the speakers are happening but they are   about as terrible as you would imagine speakers  in sunglasses to be that that is some of the worst   audio i think i've ever heard like the sound  is shockingly bad sorry about that doogie   it's a little bit of a fail but getting  back to the actual like aircon headset   um it's cooling me quite effectively like i i feel  cold at this point it just invades my personal   space bubble somehow and another issue that i have  with it is because of how kind of silicony it is   it's gonna get disgusting instantly so i  think sweat wise and stuff it's not gonna   be great yeah if you have a skinny neck and  you don't mind people blowing in your ear then   yeah maybe this is the very expensive product  for you uh with that let's try something else now we need to kind of unfold this thing so  i think this is the back this feels really   scary to interact with it's very precarious and  then you kind of do that wow this thing feels   like it's going to break at any second but you can  kind of it's got like a ratchet and then come on   i hope that the side monitor doesn't fall off and  then um and then on the back here which is going   to be very dark but on the back here this stand  is all that keeps it in place okay there we go   i think this fopo multi-monitor thing is a marmite  product now i'm pretty sure i've used this analogy   on the channel before but for those of you that  don't know marmite is like a yeast based sandwich   spread that has like a black tarry consistency  and there is no middle ground with marmite you   either fanatically love it or you gag just at  the thought of it now the reason i think this   is a marmite product is because after struggling  to set it up i sat back looked at it and thought   wow that's really dumb wait a minute didn't  i remember seeing a linus thumbnail with one   of these in so i went and watched linus's video  on a different version of one of these products   and actually there's a pretty serious patent legal  battle going on between two of these companies   over intellectual property theft i don't think  foppo is involved with that although i may be   wrong let me know in the comment section down  below anyway i watched this video where linus and   the person helping him review it are just giddy  with excitement about this thing they're like   wow this is a pretty janky implementation but it's  such a promising product whereas for me it doesn't   get me giddy i just think it's kind of a dumb  idea now i fully understand this is not a product   designed for me i'm not one of those productivity  power users or whatever the term is that wants   as many displays around me as possible my idea of  productivity is sitting in front of a single good   monitor with premiere pro for 12 hours editing  until my eyes bleed right i don't want a bunch   of displays with distracting crap around me but i  do understand that a lot of people like that a lot   of people want that kind of thing around them and  even taking that into account i still think this   is a dumb product laptops almost fundamentally are  about portability that's why laptops keep getting   smaller and thinner so that it's easier for you to  carry it around so if you introduce a product that   is if anything bigger than the average laptop that  you have to carry around with you and every time   you have to set up the thing you put your laptop  down you have to spend a bunch of time struggling   with the big dumb plastic thing being very careful  to not have one of the flaps fall down and break   one of the displays on the desk and after you've  got it set up with the little stand on the back   so your display doesn't fall over you then have to  plug it into every piece of i o on your laptop for   the thing to work and then after going through  all of that effort what you're rewarded with is   two karna crappy laptop displays that don't match  the color temperature of your main laptop display   which is gonna drive you crazy but you know you  have a lot of space for productivity and whatever   however someone's gonna call you like 20 minutes  later and you have to tear the whole thing down   and move it somewhere else it's just not  practical now some of you may be thinking   but darwin maybe it's not very portable but this  is the kind of thing that you can set up at home   for more monetary real estate on your laptop but  if you're going to use it at home why not just get   a proper monitor this thing costs 650 us dollars  you can buy a super badass monitor for 650 dollars   in fact you can buy three pretty good monitors for  650 dollars why would you want to use this at home   so it doesn't work for portability it doesn't  work at home when are you supposed to use it so   i'm sorry fopo i think that this thing is just a  gimmick and i am willing to bet money that even if   you think that this thing isn't a bad idea if you  buy one you'll use it like five maybe six times   and then never take it out with you again because  you realize you make terrible life decisions   so again sorry fopo i don't like your thing very  much but uh yeah we need to move on to the next   product so let's check it out now the hinge on  this right display can't really handle the weight   of the two cables even yeah like there's a  very specific angle where it actually holds it the final product we're going to look  at in today's video is the little doogie   houser smartphone which is a 200 tough  phone and i'm going to be honest i don't   have a lot of personal experience with 200  smartphones but after doing a quick google   it's a very competitive space like there are a  lot of options and even in terms of like tough   phones there are a lot of options and that's  a bit of a problem for the doogie because   this isn't a very good smartphone the display  while very bright is is pretty bad the phone   isn't particularly fast none of the biometrics  on it really work like i've only been able to get   the fingerprint sensor to work once so let's give  it a try now um so you lift i got it first try   that is the okay that that is a weird coincidence  because that's the first time that's happened   but most of the time it's just me sitting  there struggling with it so let's try again maybe you just needed time to learn my  finger let's give it let's try again i spent a lot of time yesterday struggling to  unlock this phone using the fingerprint sensor   and now it's just working okay so never mind  apparently it has an amazing fingerprint sensor   in it but still my point stands considering the  competition out there i i think it's a really   tough market for this phone to compete in like you  can buy a renewed samsung galaxy s 10 plus for 200   off of amazon now there is some dubious future  software support for a device that old but still   in pretty much every category an s10 plus is a  better phone than the doogie houser aside from   one pretty amazing selling point for this phone  now when i got it home i used it a little bit   and i was like oh this is a bit lame and then in  the middle of the night i brought up the night   vision camera now this is a picture using the  normal camera and then this is a picture using   the night vision camera it turns your cat into a  demon it's really cool and because it uses like   ir flashlights it means that even in pitch black  darkness this camera works it does have a downside   though it has live preview but you can't record  video with it which means if like me you wanted   to immediately buy one of these to film the blair  witch project with uh that you're kind of out of   luck that's not gonna work but still i think the  night vision camera is one of the more interesting   gimmicks i've seen on a phone in a while and that  on its own almost is worth the price of the phone   so yeah that's my opinion on the doogie which  brings me to the end of the video let me know   in the comment section down below which product  you thought was the coolest and which one you   thought was the least cool now in my opinion the  coolest one or at least the one that has a use   and met expectation the most was maybe the little  mini pc uh the one i liked the least you're not   gonna be surprised by this one unfortunately  is the fopo thing i'm sorry fopo i just don't   like the concept and i think the only way that it  would make sense in like a real world application   is if it was natively part of the laptop like if  it was just a bit of display that you could fold   out and you didn't have to use every piece of  i o on your laptop to use it kind of like that   razer uh thing even in that case i don't think  it's anything more than a gimmick uh but let   me know if you think i'm wrong in the comment  section down below uh thank you for watching   maybe watch another video suggestion will pop  up in a second and until the next video bye-bye foreign

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Length: 25min 53sec (1553 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 06 2022