Banned Commercials from the Archives! - Doppler Labs Here One Showcase
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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1,515 words · ~7 min read
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it doesn't happen often but every once in a while a sponsor will approach us to
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do a video for them we'll deliver it and they will absolutely hate it and
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refuse to pay usually those videos end up lost in the
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archives forever never to see the light of day but today is a special day
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because doppler Labs makers of the here1
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and the agency that actually contracted
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us to do this video you're about to watch both either completely went out of
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business or got acquired by some other controlling interest
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so then without further ado i present to you
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banned commercials from the archives
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the link below okay so here's the problem it is
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impossible to get anything done in here
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i put up this sign but the only effect it seems to have is
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that instead of people walking right in
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they kind of point at the sign wave at me and then
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walk right in anyhow so clearly
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something has to be done here
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okay so now we've got earphones in
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so this this is the isolation zone
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okay so construction's done now the last thing
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that's left then is to get third party independent validation of my do not
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disturb zone so dennis you're first i'll just
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summarize so what we've done is we've added light blocking material to the
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Windows we've added an acoustic dampening material above the ceiling tiles in the
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room to prevent sound bleeding and sound reflections
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and around the monitor itself we've added a foil blinder but
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the one piece that we didn't
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you know really have to install is these so these are the doppler Labs
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here one noise canceling earphones
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i think the sound might still be the issue because you only put the thing on
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in the ceiling but the doors you can hear some stuff
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like i can already hear with my own just talking it sounds like something is
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happening up there or not happening as it were so i'm optimistic okay yeah
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if i think this setup of all this stuff that you put around randomly in your
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office is going to work yeah no
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so dennis i'm just talking from like right kind of next to you on the
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other side how would you describe the isolation
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no i i can't hear you
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it sounds about the same sounds about the same from here yeah i hear more
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things okay now point back at him
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okay dennis how's the isolation i can't still hear you you can still hear me
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okay well i can hear you less because you're outside it sounds like there's a
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wall between the two of us did you turn it on yeah would you do would you say
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the results are kind of disappointing man all that's fine
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because this is the kind of the hahaha moment
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the last ingredient of the whole solution is actually the
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most important in my hand here
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rare earth magnets
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what these are are incredibly strong magnets here try
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it try and peel it off
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see anyway they're really strong magnets oh yeah
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they're pretty strong so those are definitely rare earth magnets um by
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positioning them around you i should be able
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to have an effect on what you hear okay what
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i'm serious is it because the magnafill thing i'm gonna put one of them here
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one of them goes behind the monitor but out of your line of sight can you see
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this i can okay uh how about now no i can't okay uh
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if i talk like this do you hear any difference i don't know if i can tell nothing okay
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let me check the angle here okay i'm gonna put it right here the last one
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is the one behind your head so if i were to move behind your head do you hear a
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difference holy wait a minute do you like do you hear a difference
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okay okay hold on okay hold on just a
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second uh is that better or worse noise isolation oh it's worse okay uh
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yeah well it sounds like the ambient noise as you did that really went down
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the law so i'm moving closer towards you i'm moving closer towards you and now
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i'm touching the back of your head can you hear a difference yes oh wow i feel like i can't hear anything
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like not much i'm bringing it back around
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it's quiet again and
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very quiet now oh wow
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is it working okay hold on a second i'm gonna move it away from your head
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okay i'm moving it around in front can you can you hear me better or worse
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okay i'm going to move it back around your head
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yeah what if i told you
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that the magnets were both
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no what no way
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no it actually works you
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what's actually happening is i am turning the real world up and down with
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the headphones oh
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that's just so lame i can even amplify it can you hear me
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even louder right now too much okay okay so that's more comfortable
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minus 22 db so basically in real time
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these things listen to the world around you and they change what you hear
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it actually has a microphone on the outside yeah a dsp so digital signal
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processor or sound processor and then it has
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balanced armature drivers inside so what it's doing is it's
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actually taking the world around you altering it or removing or adding so you
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hear that echo effect right now and then rebroadcasting it into your
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ears holy crap so you can actually even do like live eq
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so i could i could add a bunch of bass they've got um
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balanced armature drivers and instead of working like a
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traditional noise cancellation which would block out or create sound
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waves that cancel the waves around you what they're doing is they're basically
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sealing up as well as they can they're a closed design closed back design and
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they're trying to block out everything and then they're actually re-adding
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selectively that's really cool
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i thought but i thought beckner would be cool
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i thought you could do like magic trick but okay that's cool that's pretty
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impressive i feel like being able to turn down the real world would be
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that would be extremely extremely useful in a lot of circumstances
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very cool technology because like and also the fact that
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like something like this isn't really big and ugly is surprising where like it
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actually has the ability to like cut out so much noise around you and
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it's taking in all the sound that you it
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hears and then just giving it to you in almost real time basically i could
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you tell the difference i know so essentially real time
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not that's very cool so what they ultimately didn't like
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about the video was the way that we positioned the here one as a really cool
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piece of tech and it really is it works way better than you'd probably expect
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but one that wasn't ready to go toe-to-toe with apple's airpods
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and i can see why because clearly they were so strapped for cash that they
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weren't gonna survive if this one wasn't a huge commercial success
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um but it looks like we were right so
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believe it or not real leather it's available in three different color
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variants with different stitching patterns and it's designed in germany
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with inspiration from luxury sports car interiors it's got fully adjustable
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height and recline and a sophisticated locking mechanism and it's available in
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link in the video description so thanks for watching this video guys
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if you disliked it you can hit that button but if you liked it hit like get subscribed or maybe consider checking
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out where to buy the stuff that we featured at the link
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no you can't do that uh what is linked in the video description is our merch
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store which has cool shirts like this one and our community forum which you
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should totally join and right now i'm going to adjust my angle to dennis's
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camera angle so that i appear to be sitting straight
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dennis one job man one job hold the camera no
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no