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I'm sorry I've been so preoccupied with

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useless expensive crap lately that I've been neglecting the stuff that actually

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works and does so on the cheap well I'm

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getting back to my roots today welcome to Handy Tech under $100 episode

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link below so first up I've got a bit of

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an odd one I have to confess I just take

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my disposable batteries with me for recycling whenever I have the hankering

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for Swedish meatballs from the cafeteria of the local Ikea I had never heard of

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recharging alkalines but apparently it's been a thing for over two decades with

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the first consumer disposable battery recharger the Buddy L supercharger

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having been released in 1993 now that one didn't really last

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thanks to its tendency to stop charging the batteries early and the extremely

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difficult battery insertion process but I have its great great grandson the

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mighty charger if you throw away disposable batteries you're throwing

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away money as far as I'm concerned and as seen on TV badge might as well read

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shoddy useless gimmick but I figured what the hey let's give it a shot

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so I devised a test putting a set of three Kirkland ablea batteries in one of

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my kids toys recording the discharge time and then with all those warnings

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about leakage or explosions in my mind I

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set up a safe space to recharge them with nothing flammable within 4T in my

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garage my recharged batteries ran for

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less than half of the time of my original test but I've since done a lot

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more research on the topic and yes alkaline batteries can be recharged

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n you can't recharge disposable batteries now you can with Mighty

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charger it needs to happen in bursts to

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keep the battery acid from leaking out the pressure release valve and it works

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best if the batteries aren't fully drained and then even so you'll only get

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10 consecutively shorter Cycles recharges dead disposable alkaline

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batteries up to 70 times that's right if you're lucky compared to hundreds or

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thousands on a proper NIMH but for items

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like kids toys where I don't want to invest in expensive rechargeables that

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I'll probably end up losing when they leave their junk outside in the rain

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this is a great solution here's how to

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order moving on it's no secret that I

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love high-end audio crap the most expensive headphones I own is a pair of

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Odyssey LCD 2s that I picked up used for

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still over over $1,000 Canadian a couple

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of years ago but that doesn't mean that I can't also appreciate value and item

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number two is both the cheapest pair of headphones that I've ever gotten from

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anywhere other than a dollar store and arguably the best bang for thee Buck

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audio device I have ever laid my hands on as far as packaging product

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appearance and included accessories go the Venture Electronics monk plus is

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actually pretty comparable to those Dollar Store earbuds you get the earbuds

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themselves these marvelous foam pads that serve to well pad your ears a

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little bit and increase friction helping keep them in your ears complete with

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bonus color cating red for right blue for left and you get this carrying bag

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that dank memes aside is just a bag it's

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actually made out of shockingly thin plastic and doesn't even reseal it's not

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much better than the free bags at the grocery store for putting your apples in

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funny story though when they first started charging for the regular

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shopping bags at our local grocery store my wife would actually take a bunch of

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those free ones and then put our groceries in them at the checkout she

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only stopped doing it when I refused to continue to go shopping with her out of

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embarrassment anyway I digress what's remarkable about the monk plus is that

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they actually sound pretty darn good the

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closest thing to a fair point of comparison that I have would be apple

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Earp pods which have more thump at the low end and that I personally find a

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touch more comfortable but whose mids are relatively veiled making vocalists

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get a little lost by comparison so yes

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in spite of the price difference I found

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the monk plus more pleasing to listen to

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than Apple earpods wait what's that I didn't tell

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you the price yet oh they're five bucks

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on AliExpress plus a few bucks for shipping I mean sure the build quality

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is nothing special and they don't include an inline microphone or

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controller but at 17th the price if

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you're one of those people and you know who you are who loses your earphones all

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the time come on man just buy seven of

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these and then don't stress about anymore am I right I'm right moving on

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have you ever wanted to recharge your doublea batteries only to go damn it I

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don't have a battery charger on me and even if I did there isn't a wall outlet

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for miles yes the next handy Tech is another

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battery item these are called USB cell batteries and they're made by moxia

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energy limited the difference between these and any other nickel metal hydride

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batteries are several first they are

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only 1300 milliamp hours which both theoretically and in practice is much

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less than the 2,000 milliamp rating of Amazon Basics rechargeables and closer

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to 13 the capacity of a disposable alkaline second they are about

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$10 per battery or about five times the

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price of the aforementioned Amazon Basics so uh

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lonus why well this is pretty cool don't

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let its appearance deceive you the USB cell includes in addition to the

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internal cell DC to DC voltage conversion circuitry a charging

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indicator LED and a USB plug under the

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positive terminal they can be recharged in about 5 hours over USB and while I

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wouldn't recommend buying a ton of them the capacity to cost ratio just doesn't

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justify it if there was a double A battery that I was going to carry around

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in my bag with me for emergencies the convenience here is

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undeniable the last item is another always with me always with you item and

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charging related again in the old days

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every device used a different proprietary vill charger which was a

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total nightmare then everything switched to micro USB a

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completely different nightmare one that's finally almost over with

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lightning hav't taken over all of Apple's mobile devices and USB type c

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riding in on its white Steed covered in shimmering armor for everyone else one

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small problem it means for techies you're carrying around a minimum of

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three charging cables if you want to be ready for your own needs and those of

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your friends so pick up one of these I'm

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not married to a particular brand here but these converter tips are available

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individually or in packs and are much less bulky to carry around than a bunch

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of cables I keep them in my at all times

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bag all right so then as always with handy Tech here's the disclosure bit the

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mighty charger was purchased by me out of morbid curiosity I wanted to know

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what melted batteries look like and I was pleasantly surprised when I didn't

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see them the USB cell batteries were a similar story and the monk plus

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earphones were provided by massdrop a conflict of interest if I ever saw one I

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mean $5 of sponsorship here yeah that's

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right as for my two examples of cable tip adapters uh one was included with a

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ZTE axon 7 engineering sample and the other was purchased by Brandon for his

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