Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Favorite Tech of the year 2022!”.
Foreign, what’s going on guys, it’s your average consumer and today we’re going to be taking a look at my favorite tech of the year. So in 2022 we got our hands on a ton of different Tech, but these are some of my absolute favorites things that really stuck with me and I use on a daily basis. But before we get started, we got to give a huge shout out to the sponsor of this portion of the video HubSpot, so check this out, whether you’re a small business owner just starting out or you run an entire sales or marketing team. Hubspot CRM platform has everything you need to improve your customers experiences, so you get faster results if you’re over disconnected Marketing sales or even customer service software that don’t talk to each other There’s A Better Way. Hubspot CRM makes all your data accessible from one place. So your teams can collaborate easily and efficiently.
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I’Ve been enjoying this thing. This has been what I’ve been looking for. In terms of being able to actually complete some games for me personally, I love RPGs, and you want to really sit down and enjoy those, and I’ve found that this has been what it takes for me to get that done, being able to pop in and pop Out, right with this has been everything I needed to finally complete some games. Now, if you’re not familiar with the steam deck, you can pretty much think of it as portable PC gaming.
So it’s like having a Nintendo switch but for PC games. Some console games are on here as well, so I’ve been having a really really good time. I’Ve solved a lot of my issues based on some of your comments in the video that I made about it like changing the frame rates to 40 and all kinds of stuff, and it’s helped. It’S helped a lot in terms of battery life and having it not just clunk out on me.
I didn’t get a chance to really sit down and delve into the world of the steam deck, because guys there’s a ton of stuff that you can do with this. Not only can you have access to those PC games from the steam library, but you can also throw on Windows. You can use Linux. This is basically a portable computer and that, in the sense that, like the phone in your pocket is a computer, you can treat this thing like a full-blown computer attach a keyboard and mouse all that good stuff.
You can use it like that, but I’ve been enjoying the experience overall uh being able to play Apex. Legends portably is something I never thought could happen, but if you want to do portable PC gaming uh, this is the one. But if you want my full thoughts, I’ll, have it linked Down Below in the description with a slight update that playing at 40 frames per second has helped tremendously with battery life and keeping performance consistent. So extremely happy with this check out the video.
I think this could be cool for a lot of people if they’re really into PC gaming or are real techies. Dads yeah, listen, get a couple games in here and there during a nap, not mad. Now, next up, we’ve got this guy over here, and this is the Logitech MX mechanical. Now I don’t know how many times I said it on the channel already, but I’m a huge fan of Logitech peripherals for for PCs keyboards, the mouses.
I love a lot of their products, I think almost every setup we have has Logitech gear. At least my setups all have Logitech gear, and this has been the missing link for me when it comes to the Mac, so I fell in love with the Logitech g915. A couple years ago I fell in love with the weight. It was super clicky.
It was a mechanical keyboard that just felt awesome to type on, and there was just nothing like it for the Mac until Logitech went and dropped this guy. So this is basically their Mac version of that keyboard, and I absolutely love it now me personally, I like having these nice clicking keyboards. It feels nice and tactile while also having a really low profile. I think most people who’ve experienced the g915 from Logitech have had good experiences.
So if you want that, but you’re a Mac User, this is the way to go. It has all of the Mac keys that you’d expect and typing on. It just feels absolutely awesome. Now I’ve started this. I will not be able to stop until I finish 61 words per minute.
That’S not so great, but you know whatever hands are cold. That’S why that’s the problem, but either way guys. This thing is awesome. It’S got really cool features where you’re able to customize the lighting. It works with a lot of these options plus software honestly, I have absolutely no complaints when it comes to this completely changes. The way I type I was so happy, they came out with this this year and honestly, it’s hard to go back to anything else, so yeah, while there are quite a few good options for the Mac that Logitech themselves make. I think this is my personal favorite, but yeah.
That’S the Logitech, MX mechanical and uh, something else. That was a surprise to me about not too much of a surprise, because I bought it knowing the impact it would have for me, I actually some hair clippers. This is the bevel hair, clippers and trimmers. I don’t think they have like a special name or anything, but this is fellas. This right here is a game changer now a little backstory, so during covid we’re all looking a little scruffy because he couldn’t go to the barber and some of us learned to cut our own hair.
I learned to cut my hair a bit and I had a couple of different Clippers and trimmers to get that job done. I’M not sure what I was using. So these are all my you know my personal hair tools uh this guide to get my hair trimmed down and then, when I wanted to do a lineup, I would use this to and this tea liner.
You know this is what you see in almost every barber shop, but you guys this thing alone replaces both of these. So what’s really cool about this is like I said it’s a Clipper and a trimmer. Now, what’s nice is that these are interchangeable, so I’ve got the trimmer blades here clipper blades over here, and then I can just pop this over here and now. These are full-blown Clippers and of course it has the uh guards, and all you have to do is just go boom. Magnetically attaches and there’s also a button and a small screen. I don’t know if you guys can really see it here and you can actually adjust just how tight of a cut you get. I’M not a great example right now, but if you want a super crisp line and we want a super crisp line, so you get the if you want it to look like geometry right on yeah zero feather, you want to be super sharp, and this gets you A really really fine cut, so you can see the blades going up and down and the screen actually lets. You know exactly where you’re at so you can make micro adjustments, it has a built-in battery.
You can plug it in charge, it use it wirelessly. If you want I’ve been able to go with out charging for weeks and it works just fine, this one is actually the second one that I’ve purchased. I got this guy first, these were just trimmers, so if I I just bought this to do a shape up but yeah, I keep this guy at the studio. This thing either stays home or goes with me on trips and fellas. This thing is sharp y’all Barbers. If you’re, not using this, I’m putting you on right now, this thing is so sharp, so absolutely worth it a little expensive.
But for me the quality has been amazing, and next up are these guys. My airpods Pro second generation Apple made some really good changes to these and I’ve been absolutely enjoying them now. You guys know me, I’m, Mr forgetful, I misplaced everything. So I’m always looking for things that I need to grab before I head out and with these we have the built-in Precision tracking. So I can find these if I ever misplace them with my iPhone, makes my life a lot easier and I think for most people who misplace their airpods or their case, it’s going to be a no-brainer. It is an absolutely awesome feature to have because it’s really easy to misplace these guys, but not only that they added a little speaker into the case.
So you can go ahead and play sounds like this. If you’re looking for it super convenient stuff, and it even makes a nice little all right, stop it even makes a nice little chime when you plug it in or it lets. You know when your batteries are running low. So, for somebody like me, the additions have been extremely useful, but they also upgraded the sound quality. So the sound on these sound quite a bit better than the previous generation. It’S a lot more bass.
It sounds a lot more full. The audio sounds absolutely amazing. Now I’m not saying go, run out and grab these if you already own a pair of air pods. But maybe if you know you misplace yours or you, you lose them or they break whatever.
The case may be uh, there’s a solid reason to go ahead and upgrade to these guys. In that scenario, they’ve been my earbuds since they dropped and until maybe beats comes out with something with similar features. Similar sound, I’m gon na be rocking with these for a while, not to mention these have the best transparency mode of any earbuds or headphones I’ve ever seen. So if you want to be able to know what’s going on in your surroundings, but you still want to be able to listen to your music, absolute no-brainer and they added the touch control.
So you can control your volume and all that good stuff. It’S just an all-around better pair of earbuds, the best that Apple makes so far now something else that I’ve been Non-Stop about. It’S, not the switch OLED. You know we’ve been on this for a while now, but it’s uh this game right here, Pokemon Violet now, there’s Pokemon, Violet and Scarlet.
Now I know some people are like that. Buggy game you’ve been loving that oh yeah a lot. So I think this is the most exciting version of Pokemon we’ve seen in years, where it’s just felt like pretty stale to me. They tried implementing different things here and there, with some of the newer games.
Arceus had like that open world feel. This is where I think they they took it to the next level. Personally, with this game, I feel like it’s everything we hoped Pokemon would be when we were younger and we were like man.
I wish you could just walk around and see the Pokemon walking around with you and walk up to it and catch it all that kind of stuff. This is the culmination of everything that we’ve always wanted to see in Pokemon. It feels really open world. You can tackle any gym whenever you want there’s a lot of different story Lines within this. I think it’s a really really good version.
I think it’s the best version of Pokemon we’ve seen so far. I have not been able to put this thing down since I got my hands on it. Have you been playing Jay? The visuals are not so not so bad right. Yeah. You see the person walking around like this, sometimes in the background, but like it’s a Pokemon game, exactly NPC world, you know so I get it. It’S not perfect, but it’s been a blast to play Kevin. Can you can you co-sign that this has been a fun version of Pokemon 60 hours? Listen man! How many hours am I that’s a I’m 80 hours in damn foreign? Yes, these have been some of my favorite things over the last year, but I do have a couple of honorable mentions uh, one being the remarkable two tablet and you guys have seen in a ton of my Gadget backpack videos from the very beginning. I always walk around with a pen and notebook just because I want to jot things down, get some ideas down pretty old school, but this has completely changed the game for me, uh, instead of walking around with something so prehistoric like a pen and paper. I’M now doing everything digitally uh and it’s been a game changer for me being able to just take this write out whatever I need to, and it still feels like I’m writing on pen and paper. It’S been awesome, absolutely great, it’s expensive, but for me I never feel like.
I have to buy a book again. Another honorable mention for me is this: guy, the Apple watch Ultra uh. This has been on my wrist since it came out as well. The biggest thing is the much bigger screen the battery life having access to that extra battery life means I can go days without really worrying about whether I need to charge this or not.
Every now and then I take a look at the battery like okay like right now, I’ve got nine percent and I don’t think I’ve charged it over the weekend since, like Friday. So that’s a really really long time and it’s finally dying on Monday morning, uh being able to turn on a flashlight with the Press of a button, I’m always using a flashlight for some reason when I’m at home. So this has been awesome, absolutely love. This thing, battery life and screen size alone – yeah, I think, is absolutely worth the money not gon na lie.
The looks have grown on me too and last but not least, I want to mention the Alienware monitor that we got in. I think one of the most recent massive Tech unboxings: it’s got this ridiculous model number for its name. I think it’s the Alienware. Aw34.
23 DW. Am I right Kevin? Oh yeah, all right KW, so it’s got one of those Sony like names and uh. It’S been absolutely amazing: it’s 3440 by 1440 at 175 Hertz.
So it’s a really nice fast screen that looks amazing. Colors, look great on it! It’S got this awesome design, I’m kind of mad, that I’ve got it wall mounted because the design looks so clean uh. So I absolutely love this thing and it’s what I’ve replaced.
My Acer Predator x34 monitors in my man cave so now. I’Ve got like three Alienware like OLED monitors and I feel, like my monitor situation in the man cave, we’re there. It’S done, but that’s about it. Guys those were my absolute favorite pickups of 2022, some really awesome stuff. What about you guys? Dom favorite tech of the Year? Oh, which one that’s the sweet spot right there, Jay I’ll, say the MacBook. Ah, okay, Kevin favorite tech of the year that you picked up work.
It was December 2021, okay, okay, nice, but if I wraps it up for this video guys, what was your favorite thing of the Year? Let me know with a comment down below and I guess I’ll catch you guys in 2023 peace, It’s Been a Good Year. .