it's time for handicap
handy tack handy tech
under a hundred today we have a motley assortment of doodads to help you get
more life out of older stuff you may already own so let's tack them out
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do you remember the original game boy from 1989 introducing game boy it's
portable it's in stereo and its games are interchangeable
okay yeah you probably don't because even people born in the year 2000 are
almost voting age now lordy
anyway now noobs and veterans alike can have
the original game boy experience on the hyperkin smartboy a 50 device that
marries old school game boy controls and cartridge support with your phone's
superior screen and battery life as long as you have a supported usb
type-c phone game boy advanced games aren't supported and the software
experience is a bit less than streamlined since you
actually need two separate apps to get it working the smart boy companion app
and a third-party emulator but the buttons feel pretty dang authentic and
it works on games for both the original brick game boy and the game boy color
it is a little clutchy but overall i like the way hyperkin has executed this
the hardware feels durable and using a third-party emulator makes the smart boy
pretty future proof our next item is a real sleeper hit it's an HDMI to vga
adapter from dyno and i know what you're thinking does
such a mundane object deserve such a savage logo
yes yes it does it's super compact compared to competing
solutions and doesn't require any power or any drivers to be installed just plug
one end into your HDMI port and your vga cable into the other and bam digital to
analog baby as for why you might need something like
this well it's mostly for interoperability between new gadgets
like your laptop or latest gen graphics
card all of which lack analog outputs
and legacy tech like an old projector in a conference room or lecture hall or
basically anything server related now dyno doesn't do everything you can't
reverse it to adapt a vga device to an
HDMI display the conversion's just one way and you'll be stuck without audio
but there are slightly bulkier solutions that will convert your HDMI sound to a
three and a half millimeter jack and i mean on that subject if your new device
doesn't even have HDMI displayport and usb type-c adapters to vga are out there
as well the main point was to highlight that things like this exist
another thing that some people care about that the dyno lacks is mounting
screws to ensure that it doesn't walk itself out and disconnect over time but
i personally think it's more convenient this way since i'm probably going to be
using it in short bursts rather than as part of a longer term deployment anyway
next up well let's say you've connected all your smart lights so you can control
everything from your phone making your life much easier until no no wait stop
your bloody family and friends keep touching the light switches ruining your
setup don't reach for the duct tape just yet
the magnatac light switch covers are a more elegant way to keep people's greasy
little digits off your switches these were originally designed to help people
who observe the sabbath a time at which they are not supposed to do any work
including switching lights on and off but they're also great for preventing
people from turning off the outlet beside your bed that you use to charge
your phone overnight so you don't sleep in and miss work but if you're thinking
that you can use these to child proof your switches think again on that one
part of the beauty of them is that they attach magnetically to the fairest
screws holding your light switch plate on so they go on and come off with no
work at all next up we have 12 acoustic studio foam
wedges now first things first these are not for
soundproofing so don't buy them to keep your neighbor's dog from waking you up
at night mark why bart why you gotta do this
i mean okay by definition pretty much anything with mass will offer some
soundproofing but the main purpose of these is to treat a room for recording
and playback quality by removing reflective sounds and echoes
at a foot square and only a maximum of an inch deep these work best on higher
frequencies and probably won't be enough to absorb lows like a proper bass trap
would but they're really cheap and
not just functional they also give your space a professional studio feel and you
can attach them to the wall without damaging anything by using adhesive
spray like this or strips like the ones that come with our last item
command brand cord bundlers
these things are seriously shockingly useful you just stick the hooks to the
wall using the included 3m strips and now you've got a versatile hanger for
cable management storage and drying out your sandals after a trip to
the beach and who says you have to stick it to the wall you can tack it right onto an
object to maximize your stow and go ability but just because these puppies can hold
up to seven and a half pounds doesn't mean they're gonna wreck the paint when you take them off as long as you do it
properly so uh we just painted a lot of walls
around here that's why we got these ones and i guess actually that leads us
perfectly into the disclosure part of these handy tech videos where we tell
you where all this stuff came from it's pretty easy this time we bought almost
all of it from amazon except the smart boy which was sent to us by hyperkin
those guys were probably hoping for a dedicated video
sorry guys y'all done got bundled
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