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it used to be that kids wanted to be astronauts and and doctors but now they

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want to be twitch streamers or YouTubers so I guess it makes sense that the

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market has been flooded with poisoned gadgets that cater to this aspiration

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the question is are they all E-Waste or are some of them a great way to turn

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your kid into the next Paul brother

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because it turns out kids Tech is a lot more interesting than I expected here's

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some pirated retro games running on a leapfrog educational gaming system and

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oh how about this fully functional camera and green screen playset and look

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at this thing yes that is Microsoft teams running on a hundred dollar Junior

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tablet from VTEC look at this it can even run this Segway to our sponsor

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link below first up we've got the plan toys vlogger kit I really don't know how

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I would feel about buying this for my children it includes a camera ring light

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microphone and pack and a camera stand oh and I opened it upside down uh it's

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just wood but it has a shutter button that you can

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press uh oh a viewfinder you can look

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through and a little mirror on the back to train you to be so into yourself

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what else we got carry case is this as

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funny as I think it is am I am I missing something here my microphone just put oh

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wait there's oh there's no really there's no clip put it in the

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pocket and all right well I'm a little shorter than a child a little okay there

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we go and that's it I'm ready for my

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daily Vlog this is a weird material how

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are you gonna see yourself when you take it no way no way no way it has a flip up

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display okay I could see this being kind

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of fun for kids and it's not really that much dumber than a blender that doesn't

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work though it is dumber than our next product

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the kitty zoom Creator cam from VTEC is

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a 5 megapixel digital camera that can record video in 720p has 256 megabytes

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of internal storage and a Charming navigation sound that definitely won't

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drive you crazy immediately

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that's not bad picture and sound quality aren't the

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best in the world they're about comparable to what you'd get with the built-in webcam and mic on a mid-range

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laptop and the advertised Focus range is 1.5 feet the lens flips around oh cool I

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feature reminiscent of the old perfume bottle-shaped Sony kw1 most cameras

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these days opt for the screen to flip around but I guess on a camera where the

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screen is more expensive than the camera it makes more sense to do it this way

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even though that screen is more expensive than the camera by the way

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that doesn't mean it's amazing the viewing angles are yeah

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kind of usable vertically but this is definitely a TN panel so your mileage

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may vary in order to save 720p video you'll need to make use of the micro SD

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slot which only officially supports up to 32 gig cards but we were able to use

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a 128 gig with no issues and the internal rechargeable battery lasts for

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about 45 minutes to an hour of recording time though files are limited to two

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gigabytes in size or around 13 minutes the included tripod attaches using a

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standard quarter 20 screw so the camera can be held on a ton of different mounts

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and while it's obviously not going to be comparable to a more expensive GoPro or

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something like that the footage is usable the interface is simple and the

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overall ruggedness of it means that I would actually

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this in the hands of my kids look they were even smart enough to make the lens

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not touchable with your fingers it's recessed genius the number of times I've

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had to tell my kids don't touch the lens now you can't

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yeah Disco Tree let's go look at me I'm

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in a disco considering how little processing is in

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this camera that is really good

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what the heck is a Leapster Explorer and where was this when I was a kid it's a

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cartridge based system released in 2010 by LeapFrog as a continuation of their

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Leapster lineup it has half a gig of internal storage 64 Megs of DDR RAM and

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a 393 megahertz lf-1000 processor which

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is an ARM 9 magicized Pollux SOC that was rebranded to be used on various

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LeapFrog devices why did LeapFrog feel the need to Rebrand the processor well

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because they're a serious tech company that makes serious Hardware that's

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probably why their devices also ran a custom version of Linux a move which is

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seen this device receive a plethora of mods over the last decade including

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internet access overclocking and the

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ability to run Doom one of the few mods that doesn't require serial Port access

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is the installation of retro leap a spin-off of retroarch that's designed

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specifically for Leapfrog devices now unfortunately the Leapster Explorer's

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meager system specs prior to overclocking means that emulation is

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going to be limited to Game Boy and Ness but for a device that costs about as

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much as four Big Macs that's pretty reasonable especially if

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you also plan on using it as a learning tool for the other mods available if you

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want to do more advanced simulation without the work of installing an rs-232

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cable the Leapster Explorer GS from 2012

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has the LF 2000 processor a rebranded

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nexcel nxp 3200 and can apparently run

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Game Boy advanced and Super Nintendo games quite smoothly our Leapster

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Explorer GS unfortunately though can't do any of that since its corroded well

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beyond use and these units have become increasingly rare I mean that's the risk

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we take when we buy used electronics designed for people who can't keep the saliva in their mouths liquid and

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electronics don't mix folks if only that drool had fallen on a keyboard inspired

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towel from lttstore.com for something a bit newer we also picked up the LeapPad

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Academy from LeapFrog or well

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sorta from LeapFrog more on that in a minute this bad boy is a 7-inch tablet

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with no Bluetooth no NFC no gimmicks none of that needless bulk it runs a

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custom version of Android 10 that's reminiscent of an Amazon device meaning

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that it lacks Google Play services and can only install new apps from

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leapfrog's own app store or curiously

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the Amazon app store spec wise the screen is 1024x552 it has

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one gig of RAM 16 gigs of internal storage and uses a rock chip rk3266 SOC

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now thanks to Amazon's app store's

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inclusion of send files to TV we were able to side load apks that we

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downloaded from sketchy looking websites and even got teams working

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sort of video apps like jellyfin and Plex did play though not without hiccups

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along the way YouTube wasn't too forgiving about the lack of Play

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services so we were limited to web browsers for that but it still plays

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video Even if we could best describe the quality as

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premium potato it might not be able to do much or do it that well but as far as

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security goes it's pretty secure ish apps seem to close completely when they

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aren't in use the lack of Play services makes compatibility extremely limited

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the requirement of a parental password to access any newly installed app will

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make you think twice before opening something and even though Android 10 has

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past its end of life the age of the Target demographic for the device means

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that LeapFrog has a reason to keep pushing security updates as they're

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needed personally I'm a big fan of the child sized finger stylus that it

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includes awesome man you'd have a hard time damaging the screen with that you'd

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try though similarly security updates will also continue to get pushed for the

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Kitty Buzz 3. this Android 10 based

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pseudo phone from VTEC aside from showing off the flippable camera there's

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not really too much to say about the Kitty Buzz 3 oh my God it's a zoom lens

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okay I thought it was a privacy shutter well anyway the reason there's not much

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to say about it is because if we put it side by side with the LeapPad Academy we

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can see that there is not much of a difference the LeapPad has a bigger

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battery double the internal storage a different screen and a slightly

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different UI but under the hood they are fundamentally the same device this is

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the legacy of vtax 2017 buyout of LeapFrog Enterprises there are very few

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competitors in the market of electronic edutainment so designing devices with as

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much overlap as possible maximizes profit so no longer are they rebranding

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socs rolling their own Linux or doing things in a really cool extremely

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hackable manner which is disappointing but an inevitability so whether it was

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once two device manufacturers there's now one device manufacturer making the

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same product in a different box with different Navigation sounds what better

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way to hear those navigation sounds than with a pair of appropriately sized

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headphones oh my goodness these look awful the LOL surprise kid safe

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headphones advertise exactly one feature

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that they limit volume so that you don't hurt your delicate little kid ears and

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in that regard they actually function as advertised maxing out at exactly 84.2

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decibels with music playing that is within one decibel of the stated 85

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decibels functionally though they are quite lacking in both bass and treble

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which leaves vocal sounding dark and muffled the plastic is cheap feeling and

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the cable is so thin you could probably floss your teeth with them so I wouldn't

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expect these to survive for very long on the other end of the spectrum though

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these Puro sound Labs bt2200 Bluetooth

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kids headphones appear to be quite sturdy and they advertise a tiny bit

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more in terms of features on top of an 85 decibel limit they claim Studio grade

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audio which is obviously Market

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nonsense but they do have a feature that allows them to be Daisy chained so you

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can have multiple headphones plugged in together over micro USB that is great

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for preventing fights in the back seat of a car the frequency response on these

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headphones is actually fairly decent with only a slightly over emphasized

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bass and underemphasized treble range and while the microphone is missing much

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more bass and treble for a headset mic the quality is right in range with our

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expectations they're also a lot more comfortable out of the box and Puro even

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sells optional over ear pads so you can tweak it to the user's preference with

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some proper care these should actually last quite some time before hitting the

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donation bin I actually love that they have some decent padding on the headband

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as well and that's what we're really focusing on here the point of finding

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usefulness in children's toys isn't just about justifying you know a new

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off-the-shelf item it's that growing up is a fact of life and once something has

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been handed down to the youngest in the family it's destined to go somewhere

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else and we would just prefer that it not be the landfill if it could end up

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at the thrift shop or in the hands of that weird neighbor kid that always show

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goes up at your house Uninvited and wants to eat your food and I'd say the

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big winners here are any of the old hackable devices you can get your hands

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on I actually really like that camera green screen kit I think that'd be a ton of fun for my kids and these Puro sound

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watch them all the time