Did you know that on Facebook and Twitter about a quarter of the posts you see are ads?
I'm serious, go ahead and check for yourself, I'll wait.
Now that you're back, did you buy or even click on any of that stuff you saw?
No? Well, don't worry, that's okay, because we did it for you.
For an entire month, our team forwarded every ad they saw to the procurement department,
who furiously sourced everything from whatever this is to keyboard cleaners to
this build-it-yourself conference room. Now all I need to do is unbox them and see if there's any
golden nuggets in the nasal cavity that is modern social media advertising.
Now, there were some limits. We didn't buy any software or anime video games.
They had to be a physical item. We also wanted things that were tech-related and they had to
be available in Canada, which is why we're starting off with this. Do you want to guess the price?
I'm going to say $4,000. It was $10,000. $10,000? Yes. I mean, it feels pretty nice, but is that Canadian dollars or US?
That's real dollars, freedom dollars. At that price, it better keep you guys from hearing this.
Whoa, did lights just turn on in here? Yeah, the sensors are behind here,
so as we're moving everything out. Oh, dude, it's got fans. Yeah, it's got ventilation.
Okay, if I'd known about all the features, I might have guessed the price a little bit closer.
That's pretty cool. There's also some outlets back here that you're missing. Oh, not going to lie. A lot of this looks like Aliexpress garbage.
Correct. But the bed jet, man, when I was a kid, this would have saved me so much trouble.
I wouldn't have had to wet it myself. Oh my God. Now that it's time to, oh.
Oh, okay. Yeah, just the fan. That's probably that second light that logistics didn't plug in.
Oh, that makes sense. It actually took him about a day to build this. They didn't say it was tough,
but it was just a long process. It's fine. Yeah. Actually, Alex said that he thinks it's worth it,
because over the last two weeks that it's been installed, we've had several people actually
just have their meetings in here and enjoy it. Okay. So here's the ad that sold us on it.
Oh, I get to watch the ads. There you go. Nice. And the emergency stairwell,
just to get some privacy. That was literally an April Fool's joke for us. There's no way anyone's
action. I mean, our inbox boots, private work pods are the perfect solution to office noise and
distractions. He doesn't look sold. No, I like it. That is a little pricier than some solutions
we've looked into. We actually need some of these, but I can't fault the build quality,
the features, or the overall vibe. Is this for two people or four? It feels like it'd be an
extremely cozy four. It'd be a cozy four, but it for sure confirms two people. This is actually
their Tuesday booth. I get it. So what would they call the four one? Four's day. Oh, I was going to
go with four skin. We should remove this and that. Sorry. You know what else we should remove? Four
skin. The sound? Anybody else hearing this conversation?
We can hear each other just fine. Other than it being a little echoey, thanks to this big
glass panel here, it definitely gets stuffy fast. If you don't have the fan on. Speaking of stuffy,
do you want to try the next item on our tech list? I do. All right. Guess how much we spent on this?
I would have to know what it is. It is a CO2 health monitor. You know, like canaries in the
mine. So this dies if the air sucks? Well, yeah, you mentioned it was getting stuffy,
so I thought we could put it on the wall and see if we kill a bird. I'm going to say 100 bucks.
It was like 230. Shut up. I was already assuming that it was going to be overpriced.
Yeah, it was really expensive. How much did we spend on all this stuff? Just over $14,000.
More importantly, the booth was actually sent to us. Are we going to buy some?
Well, if you use our affiliate code down below, they'll knock the price off for us so we can keep
it. Please buy some. Who put you up to that? I'm not even kidding. That's the contract we signed.
Thanks, Josh. Keep calm. Open your Windows. Oh, it, it like turns it. Oh yeah, it outright dies.
I mean, okay. Well, if we want to find out how bad it is, I guess we got to turn the fan off,
right? Yeah. Close this door. It's just a CO2 detector. Yes. Improve focus and productivity.
Improve sleep and mental health. Yeah, this happy little bird would improve my mental health, I
think. Okay, I'm going to pass out too. Yeah, the ventilation is, uh, it's not great in here,
but I feel like it would take a lot to knock this boy out. Okay, let's watch the thing.
A word winning Danish design telling you when to open your Windows.
It's so sad. Air out? Et voila. Good air quality. I honestly don't think we're going to trigger it
either. I can't keep going. There's no oxygen. This bird ain't dying, bro. I don't know, man.
I'm sure it's a good product or something, but it didn't, I, uh, okay, sure. Cool. See you later.
What's next? Oh, it's so expensive. Oh, what is this? A talking station.
Oh, it's so cute. Micro SD, SD power. Okay, you got some USB-A, USB-C, all the USB-A,
and Ethernet at the back and wow. Triple monitor support. Okay, okay, but hold on, hold on, hold
on. That is a chonker of a power brick. Uh, it makes sense if you've got 60 watts of USB PD,
plus being able to power everything else that's connected to it. And I love that they've matched
the aesthetic. How cool is that? We're actually going to build a full desk setup in here for you.
That's what it's meant for, right? So starting with the docking station, then we'll add some monitors later on. Oh, sick. Oh, it has a little cute calendar and clock. I love this thing. This
is great. It had a just on Instagram that led us to Temu. I think they also have like an official
website you can go to, but this is where we purchased it from. I can't promise it isn't
stealing your data, but I can promise you it's adorable. If you had to guess the price on this,
what would you put it at? I don't know, 70 bucks. It's 220 Canadian, so it's about 150-ish US.
It is a docking station. Docking stations get expensive. Yeah, it just feels like a novelty one.
You can change the colors. You have black, blue, and red. Whoa. Okay, that's pretty cool.
It's swiped to the side. They even totally just use the Apple logo. Oh, no way. Which I don't
know if they can get away with, technically. Well, three by four K displays, though. That's actually
going to come handy because we bought some screens. Okay, let's keep going with the setup then. Yeah,
JSAO. What was the name of this company? Sure, JSAO. They made the docking station that was used
in Sam's upgrade, and we actually like complemented the quality and fit and finish of it. Yeah. Well,
apparently they make these FlipGo Duo monitors, and they sent us both of these when we asked for one,
so we get to pick now. Which one do you want? I want this one. Cool. Oh, wow. That is like a whole
laptop worth a monitor right there. Good Lord, built-in USB hub, though. That's pretty handy.
Micro HDMI in. DisplayPort in, though. That's cool. Button for changing the orientation.
So just, is there a battery? Like, does it just power on? It powers on by one of the USB-C cables.
Oh, but there's no battery. No. Do they have any ideas for how you're supposed to mount this?
I'm so glad you asked. They also sell stands for them. Oh, okay, but it doesn't come with any way
of actually mounting this to anything? No. You have to buy the stand. Well, wait, what about this
thing? Positioning of the magnetic suction bracket. Yeah, that's what's in here. What,
seriously? Are you not messing with me right now? Like, this doesn't hold it in any meaningful way?
Not that I could figure it out. It has to. Let me pull up the website. There's no way it just
sits like that. You know, sometimes not everything needs a solution. You ever think about that?
No. Oh, my God. That magnet is what holds it. Yeah, it's pretty strong. Okay. Once you get it
lined up, it's actually pretty good. Oh, yeah, it goes on there pretty okay. I mean, it's a little
scary. Yeah, trusting your life on that is... Okay. Well, your monitor's life anyway. If you had to
guess the price. I keep getting everything wrong. $400. $600 US dollars. Dang it. I hope this stand
isn't more than like 30 bucks. It's 40. Well, that's within range. Okay. Boom. Just like that. Hold
on. I'm switching the orientation. Overall, this would be a huge productivity booster and it would
be pretty much like carrying around two laptops with the way that it folds down the stand. Leave
us a lot to be desired though. Okay, what's next? There's one more thing in here for your setup.
Oh. Because you don't want to be typing on your keyboard and mouse. Oh, you threw it right at my
junk. It's good quality. I bought them from an ad. Okay, we've got the block triple mode
connection mechanical keyboard back to classics. Yes, by the company low for you. And I've also
got this triple mode wireless touch mouse. What's a touch mouse? You'll see. Oh, yeah, that's it.
That's kind of stupid. They make some extremely bold claims for this bad boy.
Replacable PBT keycaps. Sure. If you can find that key profile again,
also improve comfort and productivity. I strongly doubt that.
X. X to doubt. This is cool though. Magnetic dongle holder. Oh, is that what?
That is so cool. Oh, I was trying to figure what it was on the keyboard.
Dude, sick. I like the style of the keyboard. You know what? Sure, they might probably spend too
much of their product development budget on Facebook ads, but they also spent a lot on design.
Yeah, it looks pretty good, right? She actually thoughts not bad. But the question is,
uh, how much did she fuck me? Do you want to guess? Sure, I'll guess. Keyboards I shoot. Oh,
80 bucks. 170. No mouse. I don't know. It's pretty stylish. 70 bang on now for something
that's not part of our work setup. This retro pixel pro tiny computer, it's powered by an
RK3326 quad core ARM CPU and it features and it's gone. Emily Seddon from our editing team sent
this ad over to procurement. Procurement clicked on the link and the site was no longer working.
And this right here is the biggest reason that this video took so long to take because we would go
to purchase items from obvious drop shippers or scammers and they had already pulled the rug.
So guys, please take an extra 30 seconds to look over items before handing over your payment
information since you never know what people are on the other end of these companies. I actually
almost gave my credit card to someone who had, um, they were like cheaper versions of those
electronic water blasters. Oh, yeah. They were listed for like $27 and I was like,
I've never heard of this site before and I googled, are they a ripoff? And it was like pages and pages
and pages of negative reviews. So 30 seconds. Watch out. Okay. What did we actually get next then?
Another Temu special, a 20 in one cleaner without looking at the box. Can you find all 20?
There's one. Ah, it just comes apart. I don't know if a sim removal tool accounts as a cleaning
device and the same goes for a key switch puller and a key cap puller. You missed one on in there.
I missed something. Yeah. The lid itself. But this? Yeah. Wipe your screen with it. You know,
I'm not a screen, but thank you. I would not wipe a screen with this. Well,
you're at five. Keep going. Oh, oh, a little spritz bottle. Yeah, that's pretty cool.
Little air puffer. Yeah. It, it moves air.
Tampon. Air pod case cleaner. Right. That makes sense. Little brush. Okay. I'm bored. Yeah,
there's a lot of them. Yeah. That's, that's the gist of it. How much do you think it was?
This gotta be 10 bucks. That's five bucks. Yeah. It's fitting that your mic battery just died.
We bought a battery tester. Hey, they don't work for rechargeables.
They don't? No. Oh, rechargeables run in a different voltage range than alkalines.
Oh, well, do you want to test it to make sure? Sure. I mean, it works. It works. It's, it,
it was $4.20. Hey, it's a good battery. It's a good battery. I hope so. I just grabbed it from
the shelf. These things are a dime it does. And though, and I've seen much better form factors
than this stupid system. So if you paid more than like six bucks for it, then you got ripped off.
I'm glad we didn't get ripped off. This one, I think we did though. Take a look at this one.
Smart light sound machine. Look at the size of it in his hand. Well, it's, this is a completely
different thing. Yep. The thing, that's a completely different product. Correct. That one has a
speaker in the front. This one, the speakers down here, they, the play button is backwards.
What the heck? It's also like four times bigger in the video. He's holding it. Wireless phone
charging though. I'm sure that won't light on fire. It didn't when I tried it.
Oh, wow. That quality speaker though. Would you like to listen to some music? I would like that very
much. Oh, that's my phone speakers. Yes. Good luck. It took me a while.
I think we get the point. It sounds like garbage. Yeah, but we don't know. Maybe it's got a hidden
speaker. Okay, we can move forward. Feel how light it is. Like our second last. Not this again.
This is no longer available on Temu. Is it gone because of how dangerous it is? There's literally
a warning right on it that's like laser class one. And then it just beams it into this refractive dome
and sends it frigging everywhere. How are you supposed to not have a child or a pet or an adult
look into this thing? It has speakers though. And it came with the remote. What does the microphone
button do? I don't know. This remote feels like there's nothing inside it. It is lighter than the
battery tester. You ready? We want it to stop. I was gonna check to make sure it's turned on.
Wow. Wow. That was the G button. Here's R. Here's B. Here's W. That's white. Yeah, close. Hello.
Check, check, check, check. Hello. Switches between red and okay. That's the microphone. It's music
mode. Blue tooth is off. I hope I'm not connecting to someone's headphones. Blue tooth is connected.
Oh, that was it. That's me. I'm not going to give it access to my calls and logs.
This sounds so bad. No, like, imagine. You put that in your, you know, six-year-old kid's room.
They're vibing. Okay, imagine this for a second though. Can I borrow that for a second, Andy?
Literally, world's better. If I'm going to need the phone and I'm going to need to be in Bluetooth
range, I might as well just play it off the phone. It's not the same vibe though. The thing I connected
to is this. What? Oh, you got it working. I connected to the wrong one. This even has Bluetooth?
Apparently. It's even worse. The price?
10 bucks. You'll be happy. It's only eight. Okay. Our last Temu item. Industrial endoscope.
Yeah. Does it scope your end? It can actually. Oh, wow. Yep. That's a lie. Just knows. You can flip
it upside down. So that's pretty useful. Black and white versus not black and white,
depending on what you're trying to make out. That could actually be pretty useful. No recording,
unfortunately. That's a bummer. Yeah. USB-C charging. You know what? Pretty cool. If this
was less than, let's say, 50 bucks, I'd say it could be useful at least. This one at this length
was $54 US. Yeah. You know what? I like it. Thanks, Temu. That endoscope kicks off the
camera gear category. We've got an advertisement for the opal tadpole. A tiny webcam with a clip.
Wait, these are the guys that Marquez invested in. Correct. Okay. What's the pitch? It's the
world's smallest webcam of this class. Okay. Sony sensor. Yes, correct. The cable doesn't
open the whole way because I don't know, f**k you, I guess. Yeah, I was confused by that. I don't
really get it either. Oh, and I guess we get to try it now. Yeah, let's test it. It's better than
what we had. It's better than my laptop, for sure. You want to guess the price? Oh, God, it's
probably like $150 or something. Bang on. Really? Yeah. And you can get a carrying case, which will
bring it to $168. Yeah, I wouldn't spend that kind of money on this. This next item, I think, is a scam.
Is this supposed to change your phone to like a wide-angle lens or something? Oh, yeah, yeah.
It's for a camera. We bought the Sony E-mount variant. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,
wait, wait. So this just goes like straight onto your camera. This is a lens? Correct. This is just
like crazy glued together. Correct. This is garbage. Correct. It was $50.
Who would be stupid enough to buy this? Do you want to try it? Yeah, I do, actually. Could they have
at least invested in a decent 3D printer? Okay, here, we'll go with our LTT desk pad Northern
Lights design. Very nice. Beautiful. Oh my God, this feels so wrong. What the hell?
I gotta say, this like works better than I thought it would. That's not really a sales pitch.
No, no, no, no, no. Yeah, no. Manufactured e-waste for sure.
Apparently, we're shooting the next one on that lens now. So way to go. Look at what you've done,
Elijah. Perfect. This is what we were shooting on. Ah, that's garbage. That's cost money.
Oh, this looks better. It's shut up. It's actually a good thing you mentioned that it's better,
because this device promises to help you take your photos better. The intelligent camera assistant,
camera body, meat camera brain. Dude, was this a Kickstarter way back in the day? Correct.
I think I remember this thing. It's compatible with a certain list of cameras. You basically
clip it onto the top, you know, calibrate your environment, and then help adjust your settings
on your camera to help you take a better photo. Okay. So it's auto mode. Correct. Have we had our
camera guys look at this at all and like discuss it? Because surely it wouldn't still exist after
all this time if it was completely useless. I think their main target is going to be amateur
photographers, right? They're not going to be targeting someone who knows their camera inside
and out. So I think that's probably why they still exist. They're also one of the products that
is always on sale. You know, it's marked at 430, and it's 130 off. So we paid $300 for it.
Shut up. Yeah, we got three of them. Why? Well, because I thought if they work, you know, we...
We didn't. There's another one. The other one's at the studio. Why did you buy more? Well,
because if they work... But what if they don't? Okay, stop. What are you not telling me?
They sent it to us. I just wanted to scare you. Okay, well, how do we try it? This camera's one
of the compatible ones. Okay. So let's plug it in and give it a go. Okay.
So hitting the take photo button, what it'll do is you should notice some settings adjust
after I hit the button. Yeah, hit it. Whoa, geez, it even hit the shutter. Yeah, it takes the photo
fully for you. Wow, that's pretty cool. Okay, I took a picture. Now I'm going to try. Now you're
going to optimize it. I definitely saw some settings change. I mean, it didn't change that much.
It went with a faster shutter speed. It did open up the aperture a bit more,
so you get more of like a pleasing depth of field effect. But the question for me is,
is that what I wanted? Because I might have wanted more of the object in focus. So that's
debatable. The theme of the shoot is dumpster photography.
I think it definitely helped. Yeah, the only difference is full auto went with a slightly
slower shutter speed. But the way we're using it assumes a particularly unsophisticated user.
Like I don't know if it's adjusting more than just shutter speed aperture and ISO,
which like I can do and I'm not exactly a photography expert. Yeah, Andy described it as
spend the $300 on a book and learn how to take a better photo. You know what though,
if most of what you're after was just the remote functionality and the app,
save for wildlife photography, I could actually see it being pretty useful. But as a, you know,
training wheels for camera operation, I don't know guys. Picture this, your children won't get
off their phone. What do you do? Tell them to get off their phone. What if what if they don't?
Then I use family link and I lock their phone. Well, this product can do that too. It is a box
that you can plug in and then charge up to four devices. Okay. Why are they all lightning?
You can switch them out. Okay. Yeah. Okay. All right. But then what happens is you close this.
Yeah. Using their app, you can magnetically lock it with a timer so that, hey, you know,
in two hours, you can go get your product. Huh? How much? You thought I was going to hate on this,
didn't you? Yeah, but how much do you think it costs? Oh, oh, oh. If it was a hundred bucks,
I'd be like, you got to pay app developers somehow. It's a niche product. They probably
don't sell that many, but this is pretty trendy looking product literature.
Crap. It's like $300, isn't it? It is 250 us for the box. Do you want to know the best part?
You can't even use it without paying for their subscription. No. You can charge your devices.
It will not do any of the timer or locking without a hundred and eighty dollar a year
subscription Linus. Does the membership cover my entire family? I should sure as hell hope so.
We'll charge five phones at once. I think there is more like, I only see four slots. Oh yeah.
How will it charge five phones? That's just an outright lie. Great concept. The price is way off.
Yeah. $100 one time fee. Sure. If you're this desperate, I'll take $100 a year from you to
hold onto your phone and give it back to you when you want it. Okay. So hold onto this phone. Okay.
No, no, you don't need the box. No, I still want to use the box. You paid for the box. I'm just
the subscription. All right. Here. Thank you. Okay. Now give me my phone. No, you have to wait
two hours. Nope. Give me the phone now. No, I need the admin. You don't have the credit card.
I need the admin. You don't have the credit card. What's the password? I don't remember.
Sucks to be you. I have a product that doesn't require a subscription.
The photo stick 2.0. One click photo backup. You plug it in and run an EXE.
Can we go ask Luke if we can test this really quick? Sure. Okay. You know what the name like
this. I got to wonder what kind of pictures it backs up. Luke's not here. So we're going to talk
to Sean instead. We would like to use the photo stick. The instructions are to double click on
the photo stick underscore Windows.exe and it will backup our photos. No. Cool. All right. See you later.
One of the selling features that works with Windows 7.
40 bucks. It's $60 for a 32 gig. You're not backing up. Okay. On to our last product.
This is the bed jet. Uh-huh. It's basically an air conditioner slash heater for your bed.
That sounds amazing. Yeah. Do you want to give it a try? I do. Okay. Wow. That's something.
It's a white noise generator too. Yeah. Bonus. It does heating and cooling
and that this sheet is only the single inlet, but you can actually get a sheet from them that'll
do like a his and hers side. So you can have one side that's hotter or one side that's colder.
You would need a second machine. Yeah. I see that. Yes. So it doesn't do heating and cooling. It does
heating or cooling. Yes. Where is the air going? So it actually goes between the two layers of the
sheets. Oh. Okay. So this is my warmed bed. Good night, sweet prince. I'm not dying. It does look
like it. How does it feel though? Can you tell it's warmer? Oh yeah. Okay. Oh yeah. No, it's great.
It's warm. Well, let's cool it. Now, I don't expect it to be as sophisticated as something like,
you know, eight sleep with their subscription nonsense. Yeah. But I also expect it to be a lower
price. Correct. I'm going to say 300 bucks. It's 600, but it's one of those products that is always
on sale. So we actually got it for 430. Okay. You could jank together something on your own for
a lot less than that. Or you could just not. Yeah. Do you need a subscription? No. Okay. Oh,
that's interesting. It definitely cools starting at the bottom and that, whoa, she's, she's flowing.
Wait, no, our AC just kicked in. It's pointed right at me, Andy. The cold's definitely coming
from inside the sheets as well, but I don't know if it's cold so much as it's like,
it didn't warm up. You know, like when you get into the bed and the sheets are kind of cool.
Like it feels kind of like that. I think that's the whole point though. I don't think it's
necessarily supposed to be like an air condition replacement. Do you think this could help some
people? Because I don't think it's actually a bad product. Alex actually wanted it. He was
considering buying it before we did it for this video. So he's asking if it can go in the Christmas
party pile. Sure. Okay. Did we buy it? Yes. Fine. Just like this fine segue to our sponsor.
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