welcome welcome everyone to the 2015
Linus tech tips technology awards i'm your host
Linus tech tips actually my last name sebastian don't worry too much about
that so we're going to keep the show pretty simple today and we're going to be talking about some of the top and
some of the well less top products of 2015 that we have had our hands on so
stay tuned because it's going to be one heck of a ride
just like that one night
when i rode a camel
the logitech g303 features a lightweight design and advanced optical sensor with
delta zero technology and RGB lighting check out the link in the video
description to learn more our first award of the night is the
snake oil award for being the biggest
pile of snake oil
and it's the pono player from neil young
yes the pono player brought to us a 400
mp3 player that was going to redefine
the way we listened to music along with a music store full of high quality music
that turned out to make no difference whatsoever in a blind a b
trial thank you pono player for giving us a
product that has so much snake oil which is a liquid that we actually managed to
make a pile of the snake oil
our next award is the reinvention of the wheel award for reinventing a product
that no one really asked to be reinvented
and this one goes to valve for the steam
controller the steam controller
adds touch pads to the handheld controller experience which is not great
for some gaming genres but makes it
possible to play mouse and keyboard
interaction games like civilization or papers please on the couch
on the big screen in a way that wasn't possible before
our next award is the square wheel made of cheese award for
reinventing a product that no one asked to be reinventing
and it not ending up being particularly good
and it's valve again this time with
steam machines the pc slash console
things that cost as much as a pc minus a Windows
license but don't have all of the benefits of a pc like all that game
compatibility and actually don't even have a lot of the benefits of a console
like exclusive titles or netflix apps or really anything else
and might improve later but for now
are taking home this award in 2015.
our best smartphone of 2015 award goes
to wow i don't think anyone's going to see
this one coming the iphone 6s
now to be clear the iphone 6s did not
win a place in my pocket as my daily driver
but best is such a funny word and what apple
did this year was drove forward the industry in terms of smartphone
performance both in terms of the actual CPU and in
terms of the rest of the subsystem with faster storage and faster wi-fi by a
long shot than anyone else is delivering
and i personally think 3d touch is going to be a huge thing for smartphones in
2016 and beyond so we gotta give kudos
where kudos is due which leads us to the biggest
disappointment award and
while i can't necessarily claim to have been that disappointed by the products
because i really didn't have high hopes for it from the beginning this one goes
to the apple watch everything the apple watch wants to be is great a phone
extension that you can have on your wrist so you can actually carry
conversations with the speaker and microphone the gorgeous multi-color
screen the apps and all that stuff all let down by an soc and battery that only
allow it to be on for a few hours a day and make you rely on goofy gestures in
order to turn it on when you want to use it the shark in the toilet award for
being the biggest surprise of the year goes to the google on hub which we
actually expected to be a total turd i
mean who wants a router with only one
Ethernet port on it that's ridiculous right
but the wi-fi range and performance of
the tp-link variant of the google onhub absolutely blew us away in our review
and i think it's a great option for people who really don't need to rely on
a wired connection or who are willing to add a breakout switch to their wireless
router that is to say as long as they don't mind google being the gateway to
their internet connection the coolest manufacturer swag award was
no contest at all and it goes to lg
for the 3d printed figurine of me
and then a later one with socks and sandals for accuracy as well as the
gigantic box of socks that go with those sandals that we unboxed in front of a
crowd here at our meetup thanks lg for
really thinking outside the box in terms of swag items the re-badge award we've
actually got two winners for this one it
goes to jaybird and to AMD for rebadging the jaybird
bluebuds x as the x2 with a slightly different carrying case and package and
AMD for well rebadging most of their
video cards this year although the most notable one is probably the uh
390 series the 390 and the 390 x
the best monitor ever award for being the best monitor ever
was a pretty difficult one as it's one that we awarded multiple times this year
might just be the best i've ever seen my coveted editor's choice award the only
choice 4k is off my wishlist my new top choice top dog gaming monitor but of
course we're going to go with the most recent co-winners the acer predator x34
with its 34 inches of ultra wide 100
hertzness and the ASUS rog swift
pg279q which operates at a stunning 165
hertz refresh rate at 1440p
with both of them featuring NVIDIA g-sync technology
which leads us to our final award
the award for the best fans
and that one it should come as no surprise goes to me
for collaborating with Noctua to create the nf f12 and nfa14 LTT edition fans
now i'm just kidding it's you guys thank you so much for this absolutely awesome
year thank you for coming along with us for the ride as we explored all these
products did a bunch of crazy projects i mean can you believe that whole room
water cooling wrapped up this year scrap yard wars started this year uh we did
two gamers one CPU this year luke's epic fallout for build all that happened this
year at least i hope it happened this year this entire Linus media group thing
has sort of been a blur but thank you guys all for being part of it all 2.1
million or so of you and we hope that
2016 is going to be just as fun and
exciting and speaking of awards shows the award
for the the the desk
that goes the most up and down with electronic control allowing you to sit
or stand or adjust to any height you could possibly want goes to updesk these
guys kitted out our entire office here almost poor nick and Colton don't have
up desks but what are you gonna do they equipped our entire office with their
fantastic power up up desks allowing us
to set three different presets a low a high and then a somewhere in the middle
i guess if you're one of those people who kind of like crouches in an action
stance while you work at your keyboard
and mouse they're extremely high quality they're nice and quiet as they raise and
lower and they come in a wide variety of configurations
luke and john are actually equipped with their squared up desks these are corner
desks that have the same height adjust features they've got a bunch of different tabletops and if you guys want
to check it out and get yourself a standing slash sitting desk we've got a
link in the video description and while there's been a lot of study on the
benefits of standing versus sitting the thing we can all agree on is that moving
around is good although there seems to be some evidence that just standing all
day is not really that great even compared to just sitting all day what's
cool about the updesk is thanks to its design it can actually be equipped with
a treadmill underneath so if you want to really take your game to the next level
you get a treadmill going and you can actually work and walk at the same time
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