Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Our Favorite Tech of the Month – Team Edition!”.
Thanks to amazon for sponsoring today’s video, what’s going on guys your average consumer and today we’re going to be taking a look at some of our favorite tech of the month. I say our because we actually got a really good comment from someone in a previous video saying they want to see what the team likes the kind of tech that we use around here on a daily basis. Uh, you guys know. I usually cover things that i personally use whether it’s old or new, but today we’re taking a look at what everyone in here likes to use in their own personal lives. So we should have a really fun video today, but before we get into that, we got to give a huge shout out to our sponsor amazon smart home.
Now i know a lot of you are familiar with amazon echo devices. They control a lot of our smart homes, but there’s actually some more functionality that you can get out of them with the use of some really inexpensive cameras like these blink cameras. This right here is the blink mini camera. This one is the indoor camera and it’s actually pretty cool.
We all know how important it is to have camera setup so that you can feel secure in your home and be able to see what’s going on, maybe interact with someone. We’Ve all seen these cameras before, but there’s some cool functionality that you can get out of them. If you have something like the amazon echo show so right now, we’ve got the camera set up over here. If you happen to be in a different room – and you want to keep your eye on what’s going on, you just want to check in you can easily say, show me living room camera so and it’ll start talking to the blink and boom.
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But now, let’s take a look at some of our favorite tech, all right guys. So now you’ve probably seen one of my previous videos, where i talk about this little camera right here, the insta360 one rs. Now it’s not often that i come around tech that i haven’t seen before or i haven’t used before and this little guy. It actually hit that criteria, so this is definitely something new for me and i’ve been absolutely loving it now.
The reason why i like the one rs is because it’s got this 360 camera, where you can pretty much capture content all around well the camera. It gives you the ability to do so much more than you can with a standard camera. What you get with these guys, you’re only getting what you’re shooting like what’s in front of the lens is all you get with this. No matter what position you put it in it’s capturing everything and with the included app, you can do a lot of customization. You can do a lot of editing, it’s actually got a really cool feature with this selfie stick or they call it their in the invisible stick once you put it in here, you can hold it like this, and this stick completely disappears.
That’S why they call it like the invisible selfie stick. It completely disappears, while you’re using it. So it’s almost like you’ve got drone footage which is really wild. What’S cool is like when you’re in the app and you’re editing i can have it focused on me for a little bit and then i can have it move on to jay or something or carl kevin doesn’t matter. You can do so much with this.
A lot of flexibility now, what’s cool about this camera overall, though, is that it’s modular. So if i wanted to, i can go ahead and take it out and then i can throw in just like their 4k. Oh the cameras, i’m like wait, what’s happening, something’s, not adding thanks carl, but it’s cool because you can go ahead and take the body of the camera throw on a different lens altogether. So you’ve got like a 4k camera right here and then you’ve got like a standard action camera. I think it’s cool that it’s modular uh, but what really gets me is this guy. It gives you a lot of flexibility as a content.
Creator, mark my words all right, you guys you look you all listening i’ll, be making more more instagram content with this guy. Follow me on your average consumer on instagram. If you want to see that mark my words, you guys hold me to it. Please i but yeah this is what i’ve been really enjoying.
I think it’s dope there’s a few things we could. I could have talked about today, but it’s not just about me. It’S about the teams about it’s about my guys over here. So, let’s pass on the torch, who who’s going first uh jay jay.
I know jay’s the most nervous, so we’re going with him. That’S that camera man all right yeah. So what what you got for us today, my man, so i choose the shure mv 88. The only thing uh i don’t like about it is: you cannot use it with the case. You got ta, take the case off and then just plug into it. So wait a minute. So that is a microphone and does that move? Yes, yeah it doesn’t move yeah. That’S one thing you can plug in this way or you can plug in this way. Whatever uh works for you like, if you want to vlog that kind of stuff, you can just do like that, but you still pick up your voice for you to use it. You have to download an app. This is really cool, though, because you can literally like just pick any kind of pattern. You can just move how wide the sound you want to pick up and it has like different presets.
You can choose so you’ve got a lot of control. Yeah, you get a lot of controls here. I think that’s awesome, that’s smaller than the the rode mic deck really. Yes, it is, and also remember we used to uh, not sure if it’s working or not like every time we plug into it, we have to like record a test footage.
This one has a indicator light. Also it will let you know if it’s working. Oh, you see that green light. Yes, so that’s one thing i like about it so and you can see your you can see your levels and everything right from the app uh from this app. Yes, i like to use it with the filmmaker pro app: okay yeah.
It makes sense full filmmaker yeah, yeah yeah and that’s a good combo here. So i i love it okay, so we got ta hear a test. We got it. Okay, we got ta come here um, so this is the sound quality. Uh sounds like with the shure mv-88 and then this is without it: okay uh. So i guess, there’s gon na be a huge difference. Um. How much is it like? Oh, no man, okay, it’s a little expensive though it’s like 150., oh baller, jack right, but it’s it’s it’s real! It’S really good, though it’s really good like the build quality and everything i think it’s metal. So i mean, if you’re serious, about your like mobile videography or something, then that’s a really good option, all right, jake! That’S my fine favorite stuff! Come here! It’S mr fun guy here guys and my tag that i’ve been using for the month is the oculus quest. 2. me and my girlfriend, we are very competitive and when it comes to beat saber, we play that almost every night, because really, yes and she’s she’s, always beating me honestly, i got ta disown you, you got ta, you got ta, let your girl win. You see you need to learn from me, but yeah, so i’ve been playing that nonstop and also like when she wants the tv like to watch a tv or something i could just go on netflix and just watch netflix on that and leave her to the tv. So would you prefer to watch netflix on that versus like your phone? Definitely what it’s more of an experience, it’s so much more! It really feels like you’re in the movie theater watching netflix on that. So besides vsaber, what other games you play? That’S what i play! That’S that’s it! That’S it right! We’Ve been we’ve been at it man, so this is your b saber machine. This is my beat saber machine.
I mean you’re you’re a gamer. Yes, so how does it feel compared to like a playstation like it’s more realistic to me like because in the beat saver, you know like how you like, alright so boom boom when you’re doing that like and if you feel like you’re falling or the thing’s about To actually hit you, okay, i i i get where you’re it’s more realistic to me as to the p5, like you’re playing, it’s like it’s on the tv and you’re like okay, it’s it’s cool! I love my p5, but this is just more realistic to me. That’S all okay. Okay, i’m going to need you to play another game, though, before you use it, i think i’ll think about it.
I got some recommendations. I got you okay, thank you all right kevin. What do we got all right? So this is pretty tame. I feel like in comparison to what you guys brought uh, but this is the kindle paperwhite. This is the 10th generation. Is that the notebook uh notebook? Are you reading the notebook? Oh, no, sorry, all right! I was gon na get to this later, but i cheaped out.
I got the version that comes with ads. It’S ten dollars left, okay, so pretty much. What that means is that when it’s shut off you’ll get ads on your screen, but okay, i think i should pay for this cause like listen to the sales pitch.
They give bad boy football star, innocent girl, next door, one small town, a million reasons why they should have never walked away. Oh wow, come on on the reel. I use the kindle paperwhite because it’s super practical and it lets you read anywhere.
It has an ink based screen which super slow. You don’t buy this thing for the processing power. Are you turning it on right now? Is that the process? That’S the process? Wow? I had enough time to ask people, but, like i said you can read anywhere. I think the thing that sold me the most on it is when i saw someone using it at the beach if you’re anywhere it has enough light to like read in the dark, also has a dark mode to it.
You can bring the brightness way down when it’s actually dark you’re, not straining your eyes right right. So that’s that that would be great for right before bed. Exactly that’s yeah, that’s a great time for it also with accessibility for reading it’s, as you can see, really tiny, uh much smaller than any book. I feel that yeah, it’s oh man. This is so light. The battery life on these things is ridiculous. I charge mine every week, sometimes every two weeks like and are you a daily user like yeah, because i use it at least one once a day on the train so probably around like 10 to 14 times a week. This is like, i said, the 10th generation.
I think they’re on the 11th. Now this was, i think, around 1 30 when i bought it. So that’s really cheap, considering all it does for you and my favorite part about it is actually integrating with an app called libby, so i’ve never actually paid for a book on this thing. Every book that i’ve read is just through the library that is no yeah.
It’S it’s pretty sweet. Now, it’s a little convoluted because you have to like get your library card, connect that to the app and then you have to sync this manually. The good news about this is actually, if you don’t read a book in two weeks when you would normally have to automatically return it. All you have to do is not sync.
It oh and you can just keep the book for as long as you need. Oh and the other thing i forgot to mention – i don’t use this, but it i found out today. It can also do audio books, it has bluetooth and you can get those from the library as well all right kevin. I like it.
I like this. I like having you guys involved, it’s fun, all right, guys so kevin good job, carl good job, jay, good job uh. This was, though, next time, hopefully we can get ahri in here, but boom there. You have it guys.
This is the uac team’s favorite tech of the month for the month of march. You guys are seeing this probably in april, but you get it, but hopefully you enjoyed it. If you want to see more, let me know with a comment down below. Hopefully you enjoyed the video if you did be the cool guy girl that gives this video a thumbs up and we’ll catch you guys in the next one.
So then it’s your average consumer peace. What you’re gon na have next time carl nada, fair, .