It's handy tech under a hundred time again. And this time, no sticky stuff.
I've got a better way to charge, a better way to communicate, a better way
to cool, and a better way to dongle.
Let's do
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Number one is the Ant Lion Mod Mic 5, a boomstyle microphone that can attach to
any pair of headphones, turning them into a very capable and modular headset
for 70 bucks. This way, you get to keep your audio filegrade headphones that
you'd prefer to listen to instead of resorting to clipping a mic to your
clothes, putting a desktop microphone in front of you, or switching to a gaming
headset. All of which might not be ideal solutions for a variety of unsurprising
reasons. There are good gaming headset
options like the ATTH AG1 from Audio Technica, but spending that kind of
money doesn't make a lot of sense if you already have awesome headphones that you
personally like and you don't want to lose their sound signature, which can be
annoying. Of course, if it sucked, we wouldn't bother talking about it. But
now in its fifth generation, the Mod Mic does sound great. Though I don't expect
you to take my word for it. I'm going to read the rest of this paragraph on a handful of competing solutions. Once the
bass is attached to your headphones, you can clip it on or remove it easily with
its built-in magnet. It has a dual mic capsule with an omniirectional mic and a
separate unidirectional mic. A modular mute switch, a cable rack to protect
your wires and simplify your setup, modular cable lengths, the right
adapters get you going no matter what device you have, other than I guess an
iPhone 7. Although, if you have one of those Bluetooth audio dongle things, you
could get it to work with the Y adapter. And there's also Kevlar reinforced
wiring because why not? Number two, the
Silverstone 1 to8 PWM fan hub, which is
way cooler than the name makes it sound. Yes. Yes, it's just a fan hub, but it is
a four pin PWM, so it will support whatever fans you'd like. It looks very
sleek and will go in pretty much any case, even with all the tempered glass
that's been going around lately. The cables are an appropriate length, so you
won't have a ton of excess, but there also will be enough to actually plug
them in, which is important. And it comes with awesome 3M dual lock adhesive
strips, so you can put it anywhere in your case that you'd like. No more
awkward fan cables running all around your motherboard searching for just one
more fan header. Just one single cable to control
the speed, and it's only 12 bucks. less than you'd pay for many premium fans.
Anyways, number three, the Fin 6 Dart.
It's barely under a hundred bucks, but it's really cool. It's a laptop charger
that's so small that when I first saw it, I genuinely asked if it was actually
just for charging phones. And while I can do that with the integrated 2.1 amp
USB port, it also charges laptops. In
the box, you'll get your Dart charger, a nice carrying pouch for everything, nine
tips for charging a variety of laptops, and a thank you note for their
Kickstarter. What? A decent product that I like from
Kickstarter. Okay, that was weird. And it gets even more unbelievable. If none
of the included adapters actually work for you, just email them and they'll
send you one that does for free. That's cool. Now, unsurprisingly, it's not that
strong. At only 65 watts of output, you'll be stuck with the thinner,
sleeker selection of laptops out there if you want full charging performance.
But that being said, it does work with laptops that want more juice, like my
old ASUS Bamboo, whose included charger is rated for about 90 watts. It will
charge just a little bit more slowly, which may be a fair trade-off while
traveling if you're going to be able to charge overnight and bag space is at a
premium. Thanks, United. Last but
potentially not least, we have number four, the Axel XL axle, whatever. It's a
DisplayPort 1.2 to HDMI 2.0 adapter.
Most graphics cards these days only have one HDMI port. Sometimes you need more.
Sure, your monitors probably take DisplayPort, but VR headsets, capture
cards, TVs, and video splitters are almost always HDMI only. Big deal, Luke.
There's like a million of these on Newegg, right? Okay. But if you dig a
little deeper into the specs, most of them are HDMI 1.4, which means they're
limited to 4K at 30 Hz instead of 60 Hz,
which means your highresolution display will feel laggy and stutter in
everything from games to even basic desktop use. Which brings us finally to
the full disclosure part of these handy tech episodes. Since they're structured
more as a recommendation to buy with links below to Amazon versus a review,
we like to disclose why we chose these and how we acquired them. Item one, the
Mod Mic 5 was actually sent to us by Ant Lion for an ad spot we did for them a
little while ago, but Linus has always loved these things and I have too. And
this one is just well more to love. Item
two, the Silverstone 128 PWM fan hub was
sent by Silverstone for Lionus' desk PC project, though unfortunately it didn't
arrive in time. The Finix Dart. Lionus backed this a thousand freaking years
ago, and it just arrived a couple weeks ago.
Item four, the Excel DisplayPort to HDMI adapter was purchased by Lionus
personally to solve his decidedly firstworld problem of how to connect his
4K TV and his HTC Vive to the 980 Ti in
his Media Center PC at the same time.
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