Top 5 Awesome Dorm Room Tech
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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1,160 words · ~5 min read
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LG sponsored us to do a couple videos Linus's empty Warehouse gaming skit with
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their short throw projector was pretty cool except he left thousands of dollars
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worth of equipment behind when he left
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but his second idea to go with their battery powered short throw projector
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and have a look at five handy Tech items for a college dorm life had an even
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bigger problem lus has never lived in a dorm so here I
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go
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let's start with item number one the Bose qc35 wireless headphones one of the
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first things you'll notice about dorm life is the incredibly thin walls and
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your neighbors in every direction are probably enjoying their first taste of
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Life out from under their mom and dad's roof eavesdropping on conversations may
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be fun the first few days and the rabbit's next door could be interesting
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for a bit too I'm not judging but after a couple weeks you're probably just
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going to want some quiet time to yourself the noise cancellation on the
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qc35s is nothing short of amazing they're very comfortable and with ample
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padding for long studying sessions and they'll last the whole time too with
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Bose's boasting 20 hours of active
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listening on a single charge sorry for that pun this isn't the first in the QC
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lineup Bose has been doing this whole quiet comfort thing for a while now and
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it isn't likely to come to a surprise to owners of the qc15 or qc25 but the
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bottom line is qc35s are expensive but
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undeniably awesome moving on to number two the Google Chromecast now I'm
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probably preaching to the choir here but if you had to leave the family one at
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home now might be a great time to pick up either the updated Gen 2 model or
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even the brand new 4k model us
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Millennials love to show each other internet memes and random videos this is
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just a fact of life and there's no easier way to do this wirelessly than
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with a chomecast it's light enough to hang out of your HDMI port on your
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display without harming it and with just a micro USB plug required for power it's
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both easy to set up and easy to use it
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works with Android 4.1 or higher iOS 8.0
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or higher macOS 10.9 or higher and
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Windows seven or higher so regardless of your Tech budget you're probably covered
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now you just need something to plug it into right which brings us to item
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number three the LG ph450 ug an ultra
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short throw LED projector with an embedded battery but Luke why would you
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want a portable projector you're in a dorm room just plug it in okay I hear
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that but there's this this concept it's called leaving your dorm room now I
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hadn't heard of it till recently in my college Years I only only left my dorm
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room for sustenance education or to do my laundry but I do understand that
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certain Homo sapiens will venture outwards to gather and consume Libations
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and participate in other various social activities in such scenarios one may
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gain higher Social rank within the herd by showing up with a portable projector
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it's even possible that such a scenario may lead to romance or what I call
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popularity plus with a desirable mate all right all jokes aside having a
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projector in your dorm would be badass and the portability afforded to you by
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the built-in battery could be wildly useful bringing it along to a study
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group room that doesn't have a power plug is a much more elegant solution to
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sharing notes and collaboration its size
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makes moving it around easier than you'd expect and like its bigger brother from
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our last video it's Ultra short throw so you can get 40 in of screen size just
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2.9 9 in away from the wall and on the
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subject of studying your dorm life and just being in post-secondary education
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in general will very possibly launch the
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biggest boom of incoming communication that you have ever experienced managing
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this will be distracting feeling your phone Buzz pulling it out unlocking it
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opening the right app typing out some super hot fire memes to impress that
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person you like ending up on Facebook for an hour when you were just going to
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look at that one damn thing which brings us to item number four the Logitech k780
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Multi-Device keyboard can simplify this process it's a Bluetooth keyboard with
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low profile keys so the typing experience is somewhat similar to a
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laptop but that kind of thing is everywhere its main feature is its
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ability to hot swap its connectivity between three devices like a computer a
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phone and a tablet it even has a handy rail near the top to store your phone
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meaning you could be sitting at your computer working with your your phone
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propped up and plugged in with the screen always on hot swap when you get a
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message type out your reply and move on
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with your work less downtime now no one
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does top fours five is the magic number and I was struggling to come up with
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another one thankfully as I was throwing this together the night before the due
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date I had a hankering that inspired me
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Nong shim spicy kimchi flavored Bowl noodle now you might argue this isn't a
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piece of tech Fair but it's awesome nonetheless
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even one of the top helpful reviews on Amazon titled it great for Hungry
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college students if you are what you eat I think at one point in my life I was
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probably 25% techie dude and 75% Nong
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shim noodles I highly recommend them as long as you don't mind that they
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certainly almost contain no nutrients whatsoever and probably about two times
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the recommended daily intake of salt depending on how many of them you eat
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per day for me it might have been near eight times right now I'm not worried
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about that however because I'm about 95% done hosting this video so all that's
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left to say here is that hopefully these suggestions will help you enjoy your
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dorm experience or just life in general
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if you're past that whole dorm phase let me know what you guys think in the
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comments down below or at lineus tech on Twitter thanks for watching I'll see you
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next time if you're interested in any of these things uh check out Amazon in the
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link in the description down below or even one of these shirts but I don't think we have polos for sale so oh well
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see you