These things are so dangerous...
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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1,653 words · ~8 min read
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so the story about how today's video came about is actually a pretty good one
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they're both probably [ __ ] dangerous
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so today's video is gonna be me trying two pairs of hover shoes which one will
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be better the brand name or the knockoff or will i ever even find
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out
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speaking of finding out uh i just found out that cablemod's vertical pci express
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bracket lets you securely mount your graphics card vertically inside your case it's gonna be about the only
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securely mounted thing in this video i think it includes a pci express riser
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cable two display adapter cables and it's compatible with most cases that have seven open pci express lots check
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it out today at the link in the video description
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so first order of business was
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digging around and seeing if i could find some protective gear to wear
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unfortunately we got rid of i think all the knee pads and elbow pads from nerd
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sports but my old motorcycle helmet which is
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expired so it's no longer suitable for road use
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is here and i will be wearing that you should just duct tape some pillows
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yeah i mean if we had pillows then
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oh no no we do we built a bedroom set
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oh i can protect my precious butt and
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that's the money maker right there you know no one watches these videos for the
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tech knowledge it's all about the butt
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yeah i feel like my butt could take a pounding now
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i just want to see if we have any of the old Channel Super Fun
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uh protective gear okay more knee pads
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and uh we don't have any elbow pads but we do have knee pads but this is better
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than nothing so
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thanks i do want to clarify something
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i'm not some kind of you know electric
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personal transportation device you know noob
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oh shoot i regularly still ride my z
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board electric ski or ski board from all of my experience riding these types of
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devices i have seen nothing that would
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indicate to me that this is a good idea
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at least gonna put on a couple layers here because i forgot to bring in my
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motorcycle jacket safety first baby which one do you want
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to see brand name or off brand brand brand name first all right let's
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do it so this is the segway
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drift w1 maybe the drift is for how far they've
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drifted from their position as the market leader
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i have never ridden these and in fact the first time i took them out of the
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box there was a glitched out issue with one of them that was able to be resolved
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but i have never ridden them i just kind of put my foot on one of them so they
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don't seem to really have like a forward and backwards but the power buttons are
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right over here and they double as a battery indicate
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and we're off to a good start aren't we my concern here is not really balance
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but how you keep from kind of ending up uh
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with your legs like this and having a hard time getting them back together
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because these aren't rollerblades very comfortable on rollerblades
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uh really
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whoa oh baby holy crap
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oh i wish i was on ground that was a little bit more level
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okay so we're gonna go a little slow to start
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it's a little trickier than i'm used to
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whoa so once you start going
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on a standard hoverboard it's only the first little bit where you feel like
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kind of lurchy whereas these it's hard to feel
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completely stable on them at least you know this is my first time riding them
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mind you but i mean what do you want to see david i want to see you do like a slalom course
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yeah i'm super down do we have cones it's time to head inside whoa
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oh man
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i'm good
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hey that was that was a lot better that was a mushy bump mind you
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Ethernet cable no problem power cable
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huh i am not even gonna try that
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is this all we got for cones i mean i guess that's realistically
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that's probably enough right does it really matter i gotta say on a completely smooth floor
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it is a little easier
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oh it's powered you look at this and you go
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you're back here well heck yeah i've been on this how
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long ten minutes my ankles are so sore
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already let's set up this obstacle course if i can pull off three turns through it
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we like time it or something call that pretty good
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okay all right okay google
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start my stopwatch sorry stopwatch is not yet supported
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you suck so much stopwatch is not yet supported
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these are hover shoes sir well they don't really hover they just
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got big rollers are you just balancing on those are you strapped yeah you lean
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back or you lean forward no you're not strapped and you just but
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they're like segway they're made by segway yeah yeah
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did you really say what the fog are those all right you ready here here's your
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timer three seem reasonable
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okay because you know i'm going max speed here right
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max power
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oh no okay that's hard
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oh dang it
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together shoe and time time
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oh shoot one minute 27 on the segway brand
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all right let's try the off brand now
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it's getting away it's running away hey shut up
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okay
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where'd the other mask go some guy drove through here did he like
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clip it and send it flying somewhere where did it go
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it's just gone it's so bizarre
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okay there's something about the same there red battery
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oh boy do they immediately look cheaper
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oh that's some quality plastic right there
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one thing that i kind of appreciate i guess is they've got a ridge on the side
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so your foot can't rotate too much i don't really get this it's just like a
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carrying handle or something that's so you can attach a chain and use it as a
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boat anchor wait wait
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we got a live one here do these ones hover on their own or do
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you have to get on them can't tell the
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indicator leds not very bright
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hey there we go okay it's on now so far functionally they seem very
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similar the brakes work that's a positive
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indicator you know what i do want to test going in that door
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so the other effect of harder wheels or harder tires is that they're
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less forgiving on bumps it's immediately noticeable
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uh i want to try going over the
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how did this get here oh so sweaty
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all right see how this goes
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it seems i mean acceptable i wouldn't recommend it on
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either of them
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all right now worst case scenario it's not a red battery that gets run over at
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least so far the biggest drawback is actually
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one that i didn't really expect and it's hard breaking because it's hard to break
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exactly evenly and then once you get spread
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it's hard to bring it back together you know
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oh
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all right we're going max feed here
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oh shoot
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hit a rock
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cornering on these ones noticeably worse
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gotta get around yeah
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119.7 baby
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these ones definitely corner better
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and absorb little bumps in the road and mishaps
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better these ones frankly i don't even know how much
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either of them cost but these ones are probably cheaper
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but they both cost too much because
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these are really stupid um if the argument is that they're compact
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and when you get to where you're going you can you can throw them in your bag
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and you can carry them around with you oh oh maybe but you're reaching so hard
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because they're really heavy these are better than these but i wouldn't
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recommend either of them i'm sure many of you here have had a bad
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how about the protective gear okay you know what this helmet treated me
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very well i never crashed in it though so i'm not gonna like endorse it or anything it never actually protected my
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head because i don't fall except when i do um
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