we haven't done a handy Tech under $100 in a while and not because there hasn't
been any handy technology in the last little bit but because we've been so
incredibly busy with other projects so I guess it was a bit of a blessing in
disguise that I came into the office this morning having forgotten the
microphone I was supposed to review today at home cuz now we get handy Tech
that SL600 microphone review will be coming soon by the way so we'll find out
if a dedicated single condenser module cardioid mic can Dethrone the Jack of
all trade zti Pro but uh first this
video Corsair's h8 GT and h100i GTX
all-in-one liquid coolers improve both the appearance and cooling of your PC
click my face to learn more as long as Nick doesn't forget now our first handy
Tech under 100 today is one that I actually dug my heels in about buying
Brandon really wanted one though so basically I finally said okay look fine
if I never have to use it and I don't have to see you wasting time dinking
around with it because there's a thousand other useful things you could
be doing you can get one it's a label
maker specifically the brother pouch D200 so to give some background Brandon
is a bit of an obsessive about putting labels on things and while I see the
benefit for things that belong to him and he brings to the office he can label
those at home and it seems like a waste of time to run around the office
labeling things that belong to the company since you can pretty much assume anything unlabeled belongs to lus Media
Group and besides from my point of view printers are printers they never work
their upkeep is expensive and they almost always end up wasting more time
than they save since a piece of tape and a pen is just as functional to me as a
label maker at least that's what I thought a standalone sing single purpose
label maker like this that requires no wireless connection no computer and just
generally takes a text input on its built-in keyboard and spits out a label
within a few seconds is actually a godsend for everything from organizing
which SD cards are for which cameras and which power adapters go with which
laptops or network switches to well
that's actually the only thing I use it for but it's definitely worth the 35
bucks for that alone it's not perfect the side margins are too big so it was
some paper the replacement cartridges cost a third as much as the entire
device and the menu system isn't exactly revolutionary and awesome but I am
officially converted I thought it was useless when I bought it but it truly is
a handy piece of tech my second handy
Tech item today is well let's start with this every day I get companies sending
me their latest stupid Bluetooth doad
that for some reason they think makes my life easier but is actually just another
confounded Gadget to remember to charge from my perspective but this one is
actually surprisingly cool it's called the gate keeper and it has the same
functionality as those Bluetooth proximity tags where there's an iOS or
Android phone app that lets you know if your luggage or your purse or whatever
this is attached to moves too far away with an audible alarm but that's not
that cool and I said this thing was cool the cool part is that it comes with a
USB lock dongle that allows you to automatically lock or unlock your
Windows or Mac based PC simply by moving near it or away from it the app is super
simple to install on your computer and set up you just pair the Locking Key by
putting them next to each other set up a proximity threshold I found somewhere in
the middle was good for having the lock plugged into my keyboard although if you
had it inside your case with one of those little dongles that we actually
introduced in the last handy Tech then you might want to set it a little bit
further away then all you do is move away from the PC and it locks and toward
it and boom it unlocks by the time you've put your butt in your chair
usually now to be clear Windows
passwords are pretty easy to defeat on their own so if you're just using a
gatekeeper on its own then it's not much of a deterrent for someone who has
unlimited time to access your computer and is trying really hard to steal your
data but what it does do is prevent casual eavesdropping from co-workers or
or other patients in a setting like a doctor's office or hospital and much
much more and if that's not enough for you you can actually set your system up
to require both the keychain key and a
typed password for unlocking so two Factor authentication and then if you
combine the gatekeeper with other security measures like bit Locker full
drive encryption it can actually be fairly difficult to defeat it with you
know a couple passwords and a physical item in the way of all but the most
dastardly data thieves my last handy
Tech item is one that many of you will already actually already own and the
vast majority of you will already know about at the very least but it's the
kind of thing where it might take a video like this to make you think a snap
I got to go order a couple of those so next time I'm running all over the place
looking for one when I have a Skype meeting in five minutes that I'm
supposed to join I'll know where it is now pretty much everyone knows that the
vast majority of personal audio devices use a female 3 and2 mm or 8 in Jack but
what some people don't know is that in addition to there actually being some
wiring variations they can actually have three or four contact points depending
on whether they're designed to accommodate a pair of headphones or speakers a microphone or both of those
things yes the popularity of smartphones and Ultrabooks with no physical space
for two separate Jacks has skyrocketed the popularity of four pole 32 mm Jacks
but if you happen to have a headset for Skype or gaming or whatever else it is
that doesn't have four poles you can plug it in and just use it as a
headphone or you can get one of these little puppies to split the audio output
and input for you now there's not a whole lot to say about these other than
that I ordered a couple from Amazon a startech one for a few bucks and a
Sennheiser one for a few bucks more and they both work about as expected the
Sennheiser one has more Supple thinner wires and features gold plating on the
connectors inside and out a longevity booster but given that I could afford
literally twice as many of the cheaper ones I think I lean towards those or if
there's something on mono price that for whatever reason I couldn't find and is
cheaper then that's good too since functionally they are exactly the same
but like super handy and that's what this video series is about speaking of
functionally exactly the same most portable battery Banks except this one
from churo Power the world's first battery for engress agents officially
licensed by Niantic Niantic whatever
Niantic Labs a startup within Google dedicated to creating mobile apps that
connect people with the real world like Ingress so Ingress if you're not
familiar with it is kind of this unique entertainment experience known as a real
world game an all new style of Game featuring Innovative massively
multiplayer mobile game playay which transforms neighborhoods and cities around the world into the well the just
intera active gaming experience there's like 9 million downloads there's a huge
Community around it and this battery bank is for Ingress agents okay so it
okay so it's not that functionally different from other battery Banks it
features an ultra high capacity battery so that's 12,000 milliamp hours it's
compatible with regular 1amp charging devices it's got a 1 amp port for those
and it's got a quick charging 2.1 amp Port allowing an iPhone for example to
be charged up to five times on a single charge and quickly something that's
itely handy when you're out and about with your phone constantly powered on
and in front of you speaking of powered on and in front of you it comes with a nice Supple USB cables you go ahead and
pop that baby in your back pocket you got your phone in your other hand and
you can go around and do your Engish things now where it does get differ is
that it does have a variety of lighting pattern so you press the power
button press the power button oops that's not the power button ah so you
press the power button and the lights light up you can short press the LED
control button and change the color of the center logo you can long press and
these other LEDs around it are going to light up and looks pretty cool and I
guess that's pretty much all there is to say about it it's outfitted with the usual automatic shutdown protection and
automatic overcharge prevention and ShortCircuit protection all that good
stuff and I think that pretty much wraps that puppy up you can check out the link
in the video description if you want to pick up one of those bad boys for yourself or someone you know who's like
really into angress so the last thing for this video is the full disclosure
part that I like to include with handy Tech the churo Ingress charger was one
of of our usual sponsor spots the label maker and the headphone adapters were
purchased for use at Linus Media Group here and the gatekeeper was provided by
coolcat electronics for evaluation even though I told them at the time I
probably wouldn't review it but then I liked it so I did thanks for watching
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