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Ernest Hemingway once said there is nothing to writing all you do is sit

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down at a typewriter and bleed a little

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graphic but true Ernest hemway was one

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of the most prolific writers and most respected writers of our time would you

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agree jonno I read half of the Sun Also R Rises and got bored and and got rid of

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it I Dr a Mojito drank a Mojito apparently

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Hemingway loved Mojitos and he also loved distraction free wrting which is

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what today's product the AST house

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Earnest Hemingway free signature edition is all about that's a really long name

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so they say you can also just call it the Heming right which is what this

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thing was originally called when it launched on Kickstarter in 2014 it's

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supposed to be a distraction free writing tool um they changed the name

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from the Heming right to the free right because I I actually don't know why they

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did that so a fan was like Hey I bought this thing for

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$900 jez Louise um and they were like do

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you want to cover it we're like sure as

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somebody who whose job is to put words down on a digital page I can understand

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that sometimes distractions are very distracting and uh you know a tool or

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some sort of setup that would allow you to get rid of said distractions and just

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focus on your thoughts your ideas the

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shapes squiggly l lines that you want to communicate something like that might be

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useful wow look at this thing we got some leather Rich cognac leather what's

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Co I thought cognac was an alcohol I mean it's definitely it looks like it's

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all new I mean the idea I think is that you want to travel the world go to Spain

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run with the bulls as Ernest Hemingway did and uh this thing is going to gather

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some wear and tear you can also use it as a drum

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okay I got to say the USB-C chord that

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comes with it it's a USB-C to a chord for charging it's kind of not the same

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Vibe is it there's like a furry thing a

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poofy stuffy what do you call that fleece sure it's got fleece on the other

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side ah I'm I'll keep you writing safe

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okay so to to address anybody's uh confusion right off the bat this is a

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distraction free writing tool the idea is that instead of writing on your

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laptop where you can get notifications you can be tempted to open a new tab and

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switch to Twitter and have multiple Windows and all these things coming at

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you from all sides you say no I won't do

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that I will get a typewriter or rather a modern typewriter I guess you this would

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still be a typewriter wouldn't it there's just no paper so there's an e in

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screen so you can see what you're writing and you can write the truest

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sentence that you know as Hemingway tells you to if you're just going to

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listen to him and then you have uh it's also got Wi-Fi it's got 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi

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and it syncs up with Google Drive

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Dropbox and Evernote I believe so it's not like you're just like typing these

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things and then they stay in there forever and it's just like a journal I guess they got different folders here A

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B and C you can be writing three things at one time and that's it I thought it

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was heavier I thought it was going to be heavier than that it's supposed to be 4 lb I think cleaning cloth which for for

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the whole thing I guess is it for the screen or and then we got a sticker and

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then warranty card cool cool cool Astro house please wait booting

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sorry for some reason I thought it would just be like boom you know cuz it's literally just an earring screen and

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like a word processor I guess I I I

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imagine that it would be a bit more like jump into writing right away but no you

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got to oh I just had an idea oh this

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inspired me I have to write many many

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hius booting your distraction free

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writing experience awaits oh man your account and input languages at this URL

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it's time to begin push new plus new to

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start your first draft as in like hold the new button and then press the other

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new button there's a bit of a delay there

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eh and I love Earnest

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Hemingway oh oh

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no right away I feel like the delay between when I hit a key and when it

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shows up on screen is kind of problematic like right there I was

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trying to type something and then I made a mistake so I was backspacing and

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trying to rewrite again but it like it wasn't catching up so I had to wait for

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the thing to catch up before I could keep typing okay so this might just be a

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limitation of of eink screens in general and I'm I'm almost positive that it is

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so as we can see this has a aluminum uh

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chassis and apparently it's it's hand polished but it's uncoated so it will

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develop like a natural patina over time there's a reason why lonus is not doing

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the ShortCircuit it's this is not the type of product meant to impress a

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hardcore Electronics uh Enthusiast

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unless that Electronics Enthusiast is also like I don't know into poetry or

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something there's a reason I'm doing this one because I'm LMG's resident

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hipster douchebag and I can acknowledge

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there's an alternate version of me that would really really really like this

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thing this is a special edition of the

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Astro house free right which was it's

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$600 I don't even want to say the price but this is

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$900 but to continue on with the device itself these are Cherry MX Brown

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switches and they do feel nice I mean like I got to say like it's you know

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it's a it's a good mechanical keyboard uh it feels good to type on it's got

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embedded flash memory so that's how it stores uh the the little drafts you're

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going to write um it's got a type-c port for charging which I already said uh the

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battery will last 4 weeks so you can basically be working on three things at

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once which is fair because part of the concept of this thing is that you sit

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down to write and it's meant to like separate the writing process from the

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editing process so this is just supposed to be the straight content generation I

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had an idea and I'm going to like stream of Consciousness blurt it out into a

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draft form and then I'll sync that to the cloud and I'll pick it up on my

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laptop and I'll edit it more I can see

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that working I just can't I it's $900

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this might be good on yeah on on airplane if you need to do some writing but the thing is that like this is

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really only for creative writing if you need to do any sort of research while

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you're writing like for my type of work I need to like have all the sources that

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I'm like referencing and stuff up at the same time while I'm writing this is like

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you're writing a short story you're writing a a poem you're writing a

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firsthand account of like your own life there is a specific cool case and and

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the thing is that like astroh house says that in people who have tried this thing

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they have they've seen you know obviously there aren't like maybe there

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are studies but they say that they've seen people's writing productivity

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double and maybe even triple what I will say is that may okay this is $900 and

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you probably shouldn't buy it but I will say about astroh house they have a

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number of other products that might make more sense like the regular free right

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is only $600 still too expensive but they have a free right Traveler and I

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don't know how much that is but I'm assuming that it's less than $600 I

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would take this thing a lot more seriously honestly if if there was a

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faster refresh rate with like response rate with the typing to screen press the

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special button it will cycle through a few different things that you can display down here so uh originally I

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guess it just says freewrite and then the the folder that you're on press it

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once you get it'll tell you the number of words you have characters and how

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long it takes to read what you wrote that's kind of cool if I want to write

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like a 3 long thing it'll tell me where when I've reached around 3 minutes

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that's kind of cool oh and then here's a timer the latency of the e-reader cuz e-

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readers are slow so I think that

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removes is there an e Inc screen that doesn't do this no there isn't but

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here's the thing the amount of time it takes for the hammer to like strike a

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page is probably the same except we were we were just saying the opposite like

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you hit it it goes yeah but the time it t it's just that you're seeing movement

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that whole time but might similar for what this is they

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did it the right way there are people who like you want to go to a coffee shop

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and type your screenplay and not be distracted by the internet but you have to bring your laptop and the internet is

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like a click away you could actually this is still small enough that you

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could just put this on a table at a Starbucks and jam and there's not going

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to be any distractions that's the whole idea how much does it cost

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$900 out of here this is the thing I don't don't understand how these guys

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are are making any money this thing made

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$342,000 it raised $342,000 on Kickstarter in 2014 with a

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$250,000 goal it blew past its goal a

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bunch of people wanted this I mean clearly there's a market well I think

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overall this is kind of a defeat for the Astro house nnest Hemingway free right

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signature edition but to quote Ernest

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Hemingway man is not made for defeat a

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man can be destroyed but not defeated so

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I guess the the Heming right wins again

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