welcome to Handy Tech under 100 episode 8 where just about anything can happen
as long as it happens for under $100 and also isn't lame we never let anything
lame on this show which oh you're going to go there you you want to go there all
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about here so our first handy item of the day is one that would have come in
handy uh many times at the office when we've resorted to Hanging cables out the
sides of our systems using the Frankenstein remains of ripped apart
external hard drive enclosures or crossing our fingers and hoping one of
those USB DEA adapters will manage to supply enough power to the drive we
happen to be trying to read from this is
the thermal take black checks I honestly
have no idea how to pronounce it so I'm going to go ahead and call it the blacks
uh the concept is simple but quite frankly most of the options on the
market are just not very good and my personal BLS has served me so well that
we reached out to Thermal about equipping each of our editing stations
with one of them for quick ingesting of footage shot directly to an SSD we
actually have a few cameras that do this but the application of these bad boys
goes Way Beyond pulling files off of cameras they're great for
troubleshooting borked PCS so you can try to fix issues or pull important data
off with outer working OS they're great for archiving data if you use hard
drives kind of like VHS tapes and if you
pay a bit extra for the duet then it's even more flexible because you can use
it as like a you know external drive enclosure with two mounts instead of one
for your usual nightly backups or whatever else the case may be Drive
compatibility is a strong point for the blacks with only our native 4K sector
Seagate Enterprise Drive stumping it and
if I had to complain about any anything else it would be that the Dual drive one
doesn't feature separate power switches for each Bay so adding or removing a
single Drive will momentarily disconnect the other bay although I've yet to see a
dock that handles this any differently item number two today is a totally fun
one from Tech keys and it's actually kind of a variety of items we have here
with a common theme Ultra small driverless programmable keys for your PC
or for your Mac now the original concept was kind of a unique PCB business card
with a microcontroller on it where each of the keys spits out some information
about the manufacturer when you press it then from there came the tech Keys
programmable card which unlike the business card and thanks to the 7x 24
LED array built right into the board can be easily reprogrammed by holding down
program for 2 seconds selecting the key you want to program then using the arrow
keys to select which characters you want cool right not as cool as the Tetris
game Easter egg that I'd be lying if I said I didn't waste a bunch of time
tinkering with at my desk while I was supposed to be writing this review
anyway neither of those are really finished products intended for end users
although you can buy them along with cool key caps on their site exposed pcbs
are not a safety hazard with low amperage 5volt power to them but they're
certainly not durable so let's take a look at the One keyboard and the three
keyboard that these earlier experiments inspired the concept is simple it's a
sweet little aluminum housing from nude CNC with a PCB mounted to the bottom
that gives you either one or three fully programmable keys that can be used for
anything your heart desires from single inputs to frequently used passwords not
that I'd recommend that particular use to Windows or program specific shortcuts
to Long macro chains with modifiers like control and shift just hold down any one
of the buttons for 4 seconds with a text editor like notepad open on your
computer and watch as the instructions for programming the device up here
magically which leads us to the magical
device that allowed us to take the following footage walking up and down
stairs with an iPhone check out how steady that looks isn't walking footage
with phones usually total crap how's he doing oh all right there's nothing
magical there's nothing magical about a gimbal but this particular one is
Affordable easy to stuff in a bag and just a downright cool little mobile
accessory it's called the stable Cam and it's about the size of a folded umbrella
and works a little something like this you slide your phone into the smaller or
the larger of the surprisingly slip resistant slots depending on your
device's thickness then you decide if you want to film at body level or down
low or up high then you hold the device
horizontally by the grippy ring and pull the weighted end out until it balances
you put the whole thing up right and then you nud your phone left or right
till it pretty much holds still then holding it like this and supporting the
bottom shaft with your little fingers it is Off to the Races the whole process
does take a minute or two every time you want to balance it but considering the
difference in the results it's pretty safe to say it's worth the extra effort
if you're into not having your phone video footage look like total rubbish
the footage you're looking at right now was actually shot on the Galaxy S6 Edge
at 1080p 60 FPS then that was slowed
down to 30 for even better stability pretty cool hey so closing out this
video the last thing is the full disclosure part that I like to include
with handy Tech the black actually a
number of them for our new office was provided by thermal but I already owned
one that I'd picked up for myself a couple of years ago and the stable Cam
and Tech keys were both provided by the manufacturer without any obligation to
review them if I didn't like them but I did so here they are guys thanks for
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