Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “How to stop Amazon from spying on you!”.
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You shouldn’t be talking to your friends. I know more about you than anyone else. I only listen because i love you. I am always with you and i want to be forever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever so as i’d like to do sometimes, this intro is probably a little dramatic, but the point of something always in your house. Listening to every word, you’re saying does sound like it’s out of a horror movie, the very least the latest black mirror episode.
So what? If there’s a way to like stop that from happening with a device that looks like it’s straight out of a sci-fi movie? What if you could have a camera, a microphone on your wrist or a magic device that can suddenly get you hundreds of free, hd channels, so i went out and got five different products from store shelves and online with crazy outlandish claims to try all these products To see if they live up to what they say and if, for whatever reason you want to check out any items from this video uh we’ll have links down below first product on this list is actually the reason that we did the whole video. I went through the whole video this little yellow guy. Here it’s called alexa gate.
You could probably guess what it does. It’S from a company called mischief and bishop has made a name for themselves. They do a bunch of kind of viral products, but this one checked my interest for a few reasons. So look on the back, it’s uh kind of creepy looking, but what it’s going to do? It’S going to push out ultrasonic sound and it’s going to sit right on top of your alexa device and it’s going to essentially block the microphones when this is turned on and on top of your device.
The microphone is only hearing the ultrasonic noise coming out of the alexa game. Now you can’t hear it with your own ear. If you get close, you can kind of hear something. It might drive your dogs, crazy uh, but your alexa is no longer gon na be listening to every word.
You say little plastic piece goes on. You think it’s got a battery on it, but it doesn’t. You have to plug it in turns it automatically goes on top and that’s it so check it out. What’S the weather, you can’t hear me i’m going to talk about all my spy secrets so to activate your speaker ganks.
Obviously, you want to use it if it’s in your house, you do three claps. What’S the weather in porter ranch, there’s an excessive turn off and it doesn’t interfere with the quality of the speaker either. So it sounds exactly the same, but the plastic part does it raises it up, so the sound can still come through works totally as advertised. If you want to turn it back on again same three claps and you can see the lights kind of expand with each clap and now it’s doing its thing, what’s the weather, it’s just getting blasted with ultrasonic waves uh, so you can’t hear me working does what It’S supposed to do more expensive, quite frankly, than most of the echo speakers out there, but i like it for peace of mind. It does require an extra plug and outlet, which is a bit of annoying um, but i think it’s gon na have a place in my house. Anything just for a conversation piece.
So spy movies have taught me anything. It’S one always wear a tuxedo and super cool gadgets can get you in and out of almost any situation. Instead of spending 130 bucks on, like a nice gen, 3 new watch on amazon, i took that money and spent it on this a spy watch.
So it has a little bit of a camera hidden in the number six there’s a microphone built in, so you can sort of do this and record somebody and record the audio. Did you ever find yourself with the need to do so, but getting that stuff off of said watch is a ridiculous journey of pain in the buttness that i don’t recommend to anyone. You have to create, like a text file, to set it up.
The footage that records is weird, it uses a 3.5 to usb to get the footage off records an avi just a mess overall. So all right, i’m gon na try to record. If it does work, you’ll see it. If not, you won’t so hold down the top button for three seconds.
A little led above the 12 should blink three times um. Try it again all right, so i think now we’re recording so i’m so it’s got internal storage. It’S got eight gigs. So in theory, it should be able to record a lot the times we did get it to record.
It was mostly just like black avi files, so out of all the products here, uh this one just like on feel like feels the fakest you can’t tell, but this thing does doesn’t feel like there’s anything in it. It’S light thrown all over the place. So it’s by i o gear. It’S wireless screen share, essentially what it does lets you share in theory.
What is on your phone to your tv uh very much like we have something like airplay you’re, probably asking yourself john. Why would i want to spend about 45 bucks for this little fake feeling device a lot of reasons? So, first, if you’re traveling you’re in a hotel – and you don’t, you know, have a chromecast or a roku do something similar. This is a really nice way to do it. It also doesn’t use wi-fi. So if you’re in again one of those areas – and you don’t have access to wi-fi – you can still cast your screen uh, that’s the good stuff. There are some caveats here so uses uh miracast text. It’S only going to work on android and pc.
I could not get it working uh with several android devices i tested it did work really easy, though, from a pc just set up a wireless display. No drivers needed uh and it worked as advertised uh. There is a delay, though, so it’s not like for game training. There’S like a second difference like when you push a button and see the thing happen on the screen. But if you just want to watch a movie watch, some videos put a presentation up uh, it’s a really kind of cool way to do it without having to worry about carrying a roku or chromecast with you, and it does mirror your screen pretty cool unless you On an apple device – or i guess android teachers couldn’t get it working, but if you got access to a pc, you got 45 bucks burning.
A hole in your pocket did work as advertised all right. So there’s been some like stupid, expensive products. This one is not that this is five dollars. It is a 1 500 milliamp hour single use emergency charger.
So the idea is you leave this in your car, your bag, your phone never dies. You don’t have access to a charger whatever you’re out 1500 milliamps will give you enough juice to get to where you want to go. Five bucks, certainly not expensive and probably could be handy. The single-use part of it is a little annoying.
You can buy it for different types of phones, so this one has a lightning cable, it’s already built in to the pack. You can get one with usb-c or micro usb and it does what it’s supposed to do for five bucks, though you’re, probably better off just buying a reusable one. You can charge yourself, but this one supposedly will not lose its charge and it’s you can tell it’s kind of made of recyclable materials. You got the cable already built in.
You can hear the battery cells in there uh. It feels like it’s a five dollar thing, but let’s plug in the phone and see so it well works. So we know that it works um, but i really want to take it apart.
It’S exactly what you’d expect it’s a little circuit board, the cable soldered on uh and a battery. I don’t know why that would only be single use, though i would imagine that i could probably rig this to charge again, but i mean that’s it. That’S five bucks.
I mean to this case like good to have like an emergency bag. You know, keep it maybe, like your earthquake kit or your fire kit, always be able to charge your phone. I don’t know how useful this would be to have a five bucks. It’S nice. I guess, as sort of a low cost safety net for your phone, so the box makes the hd home run. Look like a late night, like infomercial total scam. This thing’s actually been around in some version for a while.
So first, essentially you can do local dvr. You can plug in an antenna and you can get live local hd stations. Awesome, it’s got two tuners built in. You can store up to 300 hours and you could be good to go also. It will integrate with like a bunch of other third-party options, so plex and kodi they’re apps for every streaming platform. So you can access all your content right through those, whether it’s like apple tv or roku or android, tv or even the consoles. There are options for that as well, and in that way in theory, it should work as advertised. So not home depot bought a regular antenna, a cheap one. Try to get access to some of the towers nearby didn’t work. I thought maybe i cheaped out too much uh and went and got a bit more expensive, nicer premium antenna which should have worked, and i checked my range where i was with these uh towers and uh. It didn’t work for any of those tvs, so that was annoying.
Another reason you might want to get this and they’re happy to advertise it for that uh you can plug in cable if you’ve got it sort of screw it in there you’re probably asking why you’d want to do that. Well, give your you know: cable, the same ability, a streaming tv like youtube tv, for example. You can access your content remotely from any tv or any phone or tablet and still get access to all of your stuff, so it kind of makes dumb, cable smart. So, like hd home run sells a lot of these, and if you have a good enough antenna and you’re within range of the towers, it should work as advertising. If you have cable – and you want to be able to access that from anywhere it does work is advertised. I still think, though, for the price you’re better off cutting the cable sort of getting a subscription service for tv like youtube, tv or sling, but for what it does it did work, although it’s not gon na find a place in my house, we’ve done big things In the past, but never zero to sixty in 2.3 seconds level, big uh we’re teaming up with omaze to give you guys a chance to drive home a brand new 2020 performance model, s with all the taxes and shipping already included in the cost of the car. As well, it’s 20 000 cash uh omaze has teamed up with give power they’re helping to use solar rays to give power and clean water to folks that need it all around the world. The roughly 2.2 billion people that don’t have access to safely managed drinking water and give power is kind of on a mission to help. It’S like this isn’t the first time that omaze has given away a tesla there.
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