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With rising costs and unoptanium graphics cards, I don't blame you guys

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for being upset whenever we cover the latest and greatest tech. But what if I

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told you I had the solution? Tech adjacent products that are not only

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under $100, but some might even say

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handy. That's right. It's back. Handy under $100. And today we have seven

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products ranging all the way from a magnetic wristband to a solution that

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will fix any controllers's stick drift.

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And the best part is everything that we're showing off today comes in at less

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than $100 combined. And while I could

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jump straight to showing you the stick drift fix, let's switch the stick and

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chat a bit about this. A tiny USB stick.

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No, this thing puts the micro in

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microphone. Coming in at $7, your gut instinct is telling you

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this sounds like poo poo. But guess what? Let's test it. While I'm about

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arms length away from the laptop, it's a bit quieter than my laptop's mic. But if

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I can get it out. As you can probably hear, it sounds

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a lot clearer. And a laptop is a perfect use case for this little thing since you

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can just leave it plugged in when you're on the go. Or if the internal microphone

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dies, you can get a quick fix up and running instead of paying an arm and a

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leg for it. But what about my desktop? Well, because this little guy is only

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using USB 2, you could pick up a longer than normal USB extension and route it,

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I don't know, anywhere on your desk, under your monitor, or maybe even to

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your headset. And even if you combined the cost of this and a USB cable, it is

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still cheaper than some of the top results on Amazon. It can even record

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Thanks Elijah. I was working on a CPU cooling project recently and noticed

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something that drove me nuts. Being the absolute klutz that I am, I bent the

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fins on a tower cooler and it feels impossible to straighten them back out

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without just making the whole situation worse. But that's where the fin comb

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straightener air conditioner condenser car automotive AC condenser radiator

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evaporator comb straightener rake air conditioning tool comes in. And it's

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only $10 or if you have a 3D printer less. It has different blade

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thicknesses to accommodate a wide range of coolers and even comes with a handle

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to make sure that your fingies stay clear of those sharp fins. Ouch. One

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weakness we found is that it doesn't work well with corrugated V-shaped

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radiator fins like the ones found on your liquid coolers. But regardless of

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what kind of fins your cooler has, you should bear in mind that damage to a small number of them probably doesn't

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have any measurable impact on your cooling performance. But you're the only one who has to look at your PC, so maybe

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the peace of mind and the better aesthetic is worth the $10

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anyway. But if you want a real tool, one that's made of metal and made for water

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cooling, check out the Nifx Cobra XS water pliers. This little guy can grab

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things up to 1 in diameter, and it is crazy

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strong. And it is also very

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sackable. And to help keep you organized, you can slap on the tools for

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men magnetic wristband for holding screws. Super strong mag. Okay, that's

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enough. Despite the marketing being a bit 2000 and late and there being a

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little bit of a learning curve since the

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magnet doesn't go all the way around for 15 bucks if you're under a desk or in an

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awkward spot where reaching or holding a bunch of screws would be annoying. The

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powerful magnets prevent you from dropping those

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tiny screws on your shag carpet. It also has tiny pouches behind the magnets so

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storing longer items like an Allen wrench or cable ties is easy. Well,

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that's my addition to the tech sack. You definitely shouldn't just get normal

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pliers and a magnetic part

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tray. Check out the tech sack itself,

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ltstore.com. I have a super light, well,

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light, just a simple USB to LED light

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that allows you to be hands-free if you have to work in a dark server room or

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down behind a desk. Cable managing, just plug this into the back of your

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motherboard. The main reason we were drawn to this is because of the value.

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You get eight of them for $7.50, meaning every kid at the party

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leaves with one in their goodie bag. Or combine them all in a hub dongle to make

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a flashbang. Speaking of bright lights,

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some are just too damn bright. And while

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yes, you could buy a roll of electrical tape to cover them up, some LEDs are

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important to know the status of, but just you just don't need to be that

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bright. The answer, stickers. Yeah. Okay, stay with me here, guys. These are

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actually not that lame. This kit comes with both black and white stickers,

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depending on the color of your device, that are both matte or gloss. They also

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range from 50% opacity to zero, meaning

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I could color match to my specific product, while also being able to see

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the status of my AC unit, so I know if my cat has walked on it, and change the

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mode. But will there be residue when I peel it off? That is a good question. It

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seems like this this is a low residue product, I'd

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say. All right, that's enough teasing. Let's get this stuff into the sack and

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pass it back to Elijah to show you what you've been waiting for. How to fix

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stick drift for less than $3. Oh god.

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Uh, good. Stick drift is when your

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controller's potentiometer wears out, causing the center point to drift. Kind

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of obvious. Almost all of the big players that make controllers use the

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same potentiometer, which is rated for about 2 million cycles, or as iFixit

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estimates, about 400 hours of Call of Duty War Zone. And since the lawsuits

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about this issue aren't doing anything, and you don't want to have to buy a new

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controller every year, you're going to need these. These are flexible little

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pads that once they are soldered to the back of the controller, allow you to

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adjust the center point of where the stick lies. Let me show you. Just five

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quick screws later and we have access to the back where you can see we already

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did a little bit of movie magic. Justin has already soldered our little adjuster

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boards to the back of the control sticks here. And all you'll need to do to

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adjust them is take your little screwdriver and twist this screw. You

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guys want to see it on the computer? Okay, our controller is plugged in. Now all we need to do is if we just grab one

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of these screws and start twisting, we should see

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uh Yeah, I'm not I'm not great at screwing. And let's see if we can start

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adjusting. Oh, there you go. See? So, now we've obviously ruined this

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controller. But if your controller was showing these types of symptoms, you

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just come back in and use one of these alignments. Try to get it as close to

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center as possible. And then the other one also goes on the other axis. Isn't

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that cool? I mean, what would be cooler is if you didn't have to do this. Hall

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effect joysticks, often seen on third party controllers, are designed to never

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suffer from this problem. It just sucks that the big three refuse to put them

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even in their flagship products. Now, while these pads themselves can be found

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for as cheap as $1 each, you do need a

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soldering iron to do the job. So, depending on your skill level and if you

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even have access to a soldering station, you may just want to pick up a new

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controller. And that's okay. Or this is now your chance to learn something new.

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Maybe we should try to find a soldering station for under $100 for our next

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video. If you want to give these a try, we're going to have these and every other product we showed off today linked

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showed off, you know, some other