What's up, Full Plane? As the year comes to the end, there's a lot of tech that came out this year, so let's take a quick, you know, peruse around what was the best tech of the year, according to all our staff members who are present and who are not busy and who consented beyond camera.
Sorry, please, thank you. We're also at CES, so we're really busy, so this is the best kind of content we can make during a short amount of time. Sorry, thank you for understanding.
Alright, for our first guest. Hello, Dan. Hi.
What is the best tech of the year, according to you? Uh, jeez, I don't know, GH200 Superchip by NVIDIA?
I don't know what that is, but thanks. Alright, let's go over here. We have Sean here, who is our technical specialist, I think, right?
Infrastructure. Infrastructure specialist? Yes, that's what I am said. So what is your tech of the year?
It would be robotics. The advancements in robotics.
Do you have any particular one example? Just in general, yeah.
Cool. That's the one? That's the one?
Yeah. No. No?
No? Not that. You don't like, you're not a musker?
No. You're not a Elon guy? No.
Colin is a very well-spoken man. So what is your tech of the year?
He's forklift certified. As a forklift certified person, what is your tech of the year?
Forklift. Forklift. Forklifts. Yes, forklifts. Hello. What is your tech of the year?
My favorite tech? Your tech of the year of 2023.
Uh, the new iPhone. The new iPhone? Which one?
15 Pro Max. Pro Max? Yeah.
You're rich like that? I ain't got one. You don't got one?
No. Alvin, I'm proud of you. What's your tech of the year?
Can I say Vision Pro? Yes, you can. Look at Jake Danes working so hard. He sees us.
Oh, hi Jake. What is your tech of the year?
ChadGBT. I'm a programmer. I like ChadGBT.
It's just, it's made my life so much easier. I haven't had to do anything for months.
For what? For months. What is your tech of the year?
M3. M3? Yes.
What's that for a person who doesn't know anything about tech? Apple Silicon M3. Apple Silicon M3.
Because I finally bought into it myself and then immediately stickered it.
Look at her making graphs. What's your tech of the year?
Yell it. What's the best tech that came out in 2023?
Can you yell it? We're going to head upstairs.
If I bump into someone, that'd be really funny, right?
I just kind of got scared. What is your tech of the year?
What's my what? Tech of the year. Tech of the year?
Yeah. Probably the 4090 Matrix.
Can you explain that in fortnight terms? In fortnight terms?
Or Minecraft. It was the liquid cooled 4090 by ASUS.
The AIO one. I don't know stuff, but okay.
Thank you. I'll look it up after.
What are fucking on lava? What are fucking on lava?
Framework 16, I hope, when I get mine eventually.
Can you explain it in Minecraft terms? It's the laptop you have to build, but then how do I explain the Minecraft terms if you
have to slide it into the bottom? So imagine when you're assembling, you know, that doesn't make sense.
It's like horse armor in Minecraft, the GPU.
What is your tech of the year? The Focal Batisse.
Very, very nice pair of wireless headphones.
They can also be used wired through a USB-C DAC or through the headphone jack on them.
They have 40 hours of battery life. They're super, super comfortable.
I wear them every single day for like six plus hours.
Great for travel. Got ANC. They sound absolutely incredible.
We have here fan favorite.
My favorite, David, favorite David I know at this company.
David, what is your tech of the year?
It's hard to pick just one, but I'm pretty hot on the RetroTink 4K right now.
It's like a retro scaler, but it's the best it's ever been, baby.
And then we made a video on it, so you can check that out when it's done.
If it's before CES, there'll be a roll here.
If not, then I'm just going to do this like a dumbass.
What is your tech of the year? I don't know. What is the exact opposite of Microsoft Word?
Google Sheets. Google Sheets? Yeah, that's Google Sheets.
Text. Google Sheets. Google Sheets.
Are you busy? Yeah. Okay.
We're all busy, bro. Can I interview you? Can I interview?
Sorry, off topic. Why is there one white keycap?
It's a special custom keycap. It's my face on it.
I'm just curious what the lore is.
I don't remember if someone custom made a bunch and they did me.
I don't know if it was for a video or a sponsor or a fan.
I honestly don't remember. If it's you, thank you. Does it have to be something that was meaningful to me or something that launched this year?
Something that you found cool this year. Because for me, it was Home Assistant.
And finally, just getting a little deeper into DIY.
Like not just buying GoV LED strips, but just actually getting raw LED strips with like an
ESP32 and then flashing WLED open source software on it and kind of just wiring it all up myself
and using Home Assistant Automation. I didn't have Home Assistant before.
So yeah, that's been fun. My favorite new tech of 2023, Jamstripe Keycap.
Agree? It's older than that.
Are you busy, Ploof?
Like games that were all busy. All right, cool.
What is your tech of the year?
Probably the ally. I have an R&G ally right here.
You're an ally guy, not a steentech guy? Yeah, because it's just stronger.
It's all about strength. It's about how you use the strength. When it comes to wanting to play AAA games on handheld yet is unfortunately.
Look at this guy. He wants me in the video so bad.
Please. Look at this guy. Look at these zoomers.
What is your tech of the year? MetaQuest 3.
Why? Okay. Thank you.
It feels like it was the headset that was covered the most by mainstream media to the point
where I feel like we might finally be getting a good blend of AR and VR.
And it makes me really excited for the Vision Pro. Because if that one's however much and the Vision Pro is way more expensive,
it's probably going to be way better as well. So I'm very excited for it.
Can you explain it in Fortnite terms? Yeah, sure.
Oh, they came out last year? Yeah.
So are you? Yeah. Yeah, sure.
What's your tech of the year?
OnePlus Open. Folding phones are cool.
We forgot to ask the most important person at the office.
So before we go to Labs and studio, let's ask...
What's your tech of the year?
Steam Deck OLED. Cool. All right.
And now we're going to transition into...
What's your tech of the year, Glenn?
Cool. Okay. Andy.
Hey. What is your tech of the year?
Glenn, what's your tech of the year?
For real, it's the new NBA jersey. That's not tech.
Oh my gosh. On spot. It's MagSafe SSD records that we just saw get released right at the very end.
It's kind of nice to see more MagSafe and a little bit more of creator-friendly products
so that you can actually use more storage than Apple gives you for an extra $800.
It's nice that way. Hi, Lance. Are you busy for a one-second interview?
What can I do for you? What is your tech of the year?
Oh, Wi-Fi 7. Wi-Fi 7?
Yeah, Wi-Fi 7 is sick. Have you seen how fast it is?
No. It's crazy. I don't understand anything like it.
Like, well in excess of 2 gigabit per second, like, without a wire.
I'm waiting for Wi-Fi 8, actually. Well, that's great.
I rate it 8 out of 8.
That's crazy. Thank you. This one's called the speedrun because editors are always busy.
So we're going to have three minutes to interview everyone.
Go, go, go, go, go. Hi, Sam.
Tech of the year. Tech of the year? Okay, thank you.
Emily, hi. What is your tech of the year?
Fast, fast, fast. Go, go, go, go, go.
The PSVR. Okay, thank you. What's your tech of the year?
Rico GR3. Why are you dressed so nice? I have to go to a party later.
I wasn't invited. Connor, what is your tech of the year?
My tech of the year? I don't know.
Go, go, go. Sorry, the Rico I bought. Okay.
Hi, Mark. What's your tech of the year? Tech of the year?
Fast, fast. We're speedrunning. We're speedrunning.
Go, go, go. We're speedrunning. We got that.
I got that. Okay, okay. We got to go.
We got to go. No time. No time.
Oh, you got security camera? Okay. You want to tell us which one and where you live?
All right. Nicole, what's your tech of the year? Very, very, very controversial, but I like it.
That's Nick. Eli, what's your tech of the year?
My tech of the year is something handheld related.
Ploof, what's your tech of the year? Oh, it's always some keyboard. That's really cool.
Marcus, what's your tech of the year? Oh, I love the PS5.
So you hold the mic here for a second.
Hi. My tech of the year. I'm putting this here.
Sorry. Does it have to have come out this year?
Yes. 2023. Well, that, that makes things more difficult because I can't even, I can't even think
of like use this year that I haven't already had for like three years.
This tech of the year is a computer. Thank you. Yeah.
My phone's downstairs. I forgot it. Oh, NVIDIA has great pricing.
Oh, NVIDIA has great pricing. Highlight of the year. That is the highlight of the year.
Yeah. Good job, fans. Not, not, not led, not, not coached any way possible.
Nothing happened. All right. Cool.
Thanks. You have nothing. What do you mean?
Like there was the vision pro announcement, but that was like literally an infomercial,
like a concept video and everything else is just kind of like, hmm.
So, so no, no, no tech of the year.
No tech deserves an award to year. No.
I have an answer. Okay. But I don't know, I don't know how to say it though.
Just say it. Earlier in the year, myself and Alex went to San Diego and we saw this laser.
I can't remember what was called. I can't remember what was called the ultra high EV or something like that laser.
My tech of the year. Yeah. That shirt for one.
You know what my favorite tech is? That's amazing.
My favorite tech is tech length. You're supposed to ask me what my favorite tech of the year is.
Why are you, are you just going around telling people what your favorite tech of the year is?
Is that this video? No. Maybe.
I mean, thank you for saying that. It makes me feel nice.
You're welcome. It's not tech though. So that's wrong.
You need to fix. Okay. Change that.
Am I linking the game already?
What is your tech of the year, Jacob?
Pass. You can double give the next person.
I don't know what to do anymore. Oh, you have an answer now?
All right. Just because you're my favorite Riley Murdock in the company.
I just scroll down here. I had to go look, I had to go look at what we reported on.
I forget, you know, like it goes in one ear and out the other.
Snapdragon X Elite looks, I'm excited for that to come out.
That's next year though. It's Qualcomm's like answer to the M1.
Like it's going to be like ARM powered Windows chips.
So maybe it'll be good. Might be horrible. Let's interview our favorite CEO.
What is your tech of the year?
Come sit here, Brandon. So what is your tech of the year?
Tech of the year? I just got a 240 Hertz monitor for the first time.
Life changing. I'm Chase and my tech of the year was some 2,000 million Hertz monitor.
That's your tech of the year, right? Five million Hertz monitor.
Yes, I came up with that. I handed it. We're doing a five million Hertz monitor.
What's your tech of the year? My what?
Tech of the year. Tech of the year? Oh.
Yeah. That's it.
That's crazy. Did chart GPD come out this year?
No. No, I think it's 2021. But I'm really impressed with all the AI development this year.
I have to say like in Photoshop and all that, that's, I feel the AI changed a lot of them.
Help a lot in the daily so workflow and stuff.
I'm sweating so hot.
Or am I just sweating because I'm next to my bestie?
Can I type? Look at my keyboard.
What is, what is, what is, what is, sorry. I'm just so nervous around my bestie.
I just get really nervous. I'm really sweaty. Don't touch me.
Damn. That's a good question. I want to say.
Is it your McNugget buddies? Well, I want to say their tech products, but I mean, shout out Kerwin Frost.
I want to say like Steam Deck OLED.
I'm going to go crazy. The limited edition one looks sick.
This is no joke. What? Give me this.
Give me this. My tech of the year is the ASUS ROG Ally.
I'm not even just saying that because ASUS is here. It's the thing that I play with the most.
Yes. Yeah. I love the ASUS.
Yes. ASUS. ROG, ROG, ROG Ally.
ROG, ROG, ROG ASUS. I love ASUS.
ASUS? Some of the software gets a little weird, no offense, but otherwise it's super dope.
Can I have a free one? Stop, Sammy. No soliciting.
Does this work? Yeah, it works. It's so much power.
I'm sorry. Jeff, what are your thoughts? On what?
My show. Your show? Get over here.
Dude. Your show sucks, dude. What?
All right. Why am I dual-built? All right.
We'll go with Sean here. Sean Caldera. What is your tech of the year?
My tech of the year is the ASUS ROG Ally.
ROG Ally. Do you want extreme version? Yes.
Right here. It's capable.
I love the ROG Ally. Honestly, tech of the year, though, is probably the LTT Store water bottle.
Nope. No free cloud. No free cloud.
This guy never works. He's always walking around. We caught you three times.
They were all my lunch breaks, so thank you.
I know we gave out three 30-minute breaks. That's crazy.
You can. Three 10-minute breaks. That's 30 minutes.
Is that allowed? What is your tech of the year?
Tech of the year? Tech of the year. ROG Ally, for sure.
ROG Ally? Yeah. Why the ROG Ally?
Why not Steam Deck OLED? More power. Runs Windows.
It's not about power. It's about how you use the power.
Yeah. Well, 4-Z-5 actually runs properly. Sorry.
4-Z-8 runs properly on the ROG Ally versus the Steam Deck, which it does not.
I was going to say it can't run in Minecraft, but it can.
We have here a second Linus. What is your tech of the year?
Tech of the year? Yes. My tech of the year is definitely the Diablo robot.
Because I got it at the Christmas party.
Have you actually used it for anything? Kind of.
I've turned it on and played with it. I plan on doing stuff with it later, but...
Like what? Making automation things.
We are now at a creative warehouse. The fashion team complimented my shirt.
That's the tech of the year. My tech of the year is probably the OLED Steam Deck.
I mean, come on. Better screen.
More room for gaming. How can you go wrong?
Sorry, off topic. I like your Sailor Moon stickers. Thank you.
They're so nice. I'm going to try and always have like an anime theme to certain things when I can.
As a prominent tech connoisseur you are.
I'm just assuming. What is your tech of the year?
Yeah, I'm so not. I have my tablet, my pencil.
Was there anything tech in the fashion industry that we should know about?
Are there my shirts? I need to know about it as well.
Alright, cool. Thanks. Color changing shirts? Did you see those ones?
Oh, we're all over the color changing already.
Yeah, some fun stuff in the works.
You don't have one? No. What about...
What about... What about... I don't know.
I don't know either, to be honest. Cyber truck.
Is it that? That's not what you said! Cyber truck is my tech of the year because it's so cool.
Matthew's lying to me. He's lying.
He's a lie. My tech of the year.
Oh god. I want an ROG flow at the Christmas party.
It's like the only thing I bought tech-wise this year. Tech of the year.
Yes, of all time. You can see nothing. Oh, oh fuck.
Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry. Oh, 2023, sorry, sorry.
Sorry I put you on the spot. Sorry, sorry.
I don't think I've bought anything tech-related this year.
No, I'm like the Steam Deck? No.
You're saying that's like non-extensive purchase?
Listen, this is also my first time meeting Ashley and this...
I'm just, sorry, I'm just really awkward. Sorry, I'm just gonna like transition here.
Oh yeah, sorry. Yeah, what would you like to buy this year?
A DeLonghi espresso mochi.
I don't know what that is, but it sounds cool. It's a very bougie Italian espresso mochi where you make your own, you can steam your
own milk and grind your own espresso beans.
It's like $3,000. Yes. What is your tech of the year?
I've been looking at the Steam Deck. I don't have one, but I like one.
Stuff I got this year was this high B music player.
It's okay. It reset all the settings when it ran out of battery, so we'll see how reliable it actually is,
but... Sorry, I was just wondering, I looked at your anime figures.
Wow. I know that one. That one's from Hero Something?
Close enough. Where's it from?
My hero academia. I got one word right.
I'm gonna have to say this thing that I literally just installed, I believe like yesterday and
have yet to properly install.
It's called the Lightning Fantasy Free.
It's a sync box for an LDED strip behind like a screen, usually like TVs, so sync to the
colors being shown. What is your tech of the year?
This might be a little bit delayed, but that's because I was delayed and that's my PlayStation
5. You know what? If you bought it this year, just for you, I'll count it.
Yeah, just for me. Just for you, yeah.
What is your tech of the year?
How about... Can I say app? This is the worst internet game?
There's an app that I found that can teach me how to play board games.
It shows all the tutorials and stuff. You played a lot of board games this year, haven't you?
Yes. I'm a four board game away from playing like 200 unique games this year.
How's that even possible? You literally start a new one every day?
Pretty much. I wasn't invited.
Join me. Like today. There's one today.
Oh, I'm sick. Sorry. Oh, okay.
You can say no later, but I'm just gonna...
I'm not taking this. It's a mod shirt. I don't know if I'm allowed to take it or not.
Take it? It's not mine. That wasn't even scripted.
That wasn't even scripted. I need a verbal approval.
Yes, you can have it. Can I have more stuff?
What is your tech of the year? My tech of the year.
I don't know what my tech of the year is. My tech of the year?
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That's my tech of the year. Yeah.
I don't know. I haven't been up on the tech news this year.
You picked the wrong department. Yeah, this is... We don't know what that is.
This is not a great department. This is like the engineering tech, isn't it?
Are you busy? Yeah, what's up? Can we bother you for two minutes?
He's very bothered me, so...
So, Kyle, what is your tech of the year? Sorry, what?
What is your tech of the year? Tech of the year.
Sorry, I said time of the year.
Tech of the year? I'm trying to figure out what tech was released this year.
Something that's actually pretty cool is Home Assistant did year of the voice this year,
which basically was voice assistant done locally though,
so you don't have to rely on Google or Siri or whatever the other ones are.
I literally got it set up for my AMD upgrade that's happening next year,
and it freaking works really well. I think they're using a plugin called Open Wake Words,
which kind of replaces your Hayes Siri with other words,
or Whisper, which is like an open source speech-to-text conversion,
and then they're using something called Piper, which is text-to-speech,
and they're integrating all that together into a local voice assistant
that can run your smart home, and it actually works pretty decently.
And then full-flow plain viewers watch my upgrade,
because I'm going to be making use of that. Is it coming out during CES, so I don't know if it's come out in time, but...
What? Oh, this is coming out in CES? Yeah, so I don't know if it's going to come out...
Well, mine's afterwards, because I don't think I'm filming my upgrade before CES.
Exclusive? If we go exclusive... Exclusive is another exclusive scoop?
We're going to get Kyle's AMD upgrade soon.
Next year. Sometime next year. Probably next year.
Soon TM. Soon TM. Thank you, thank you.
You already know what the question is. No, he doesn't know what the question is.
Oh, you changed the question? Well, no, I just got up here.
My tech of the year. Yes.
Is that pen that you're using right there a great tech of the year?
Yes. Can you show off to the camera? Yes, yes.
Really good pen. Really good pen. Probably the best pen I've ever used.
Yes, I love B-Pen.
No free cloud, sorry. No free cloud.
So that's kind of about everyone we can really record at the moment.
Unfortunately, because it's Tuesday, a lot of production stuff are kind of starting to ramp up.
And it's close to the holiday, so we'll be trying to get done before Christmas.
So not a lot of people unfortunately, but we got some great tech of the year.
And also got a free shirt. So yeah, that's all.
So please, please, please like the video and tell us, hey, great video.
And yeah.
Wait, Sammy, what's your tech of the year?
Well, I didn't want to brag, but it...