LTT Technology Awards Show 2015
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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1,624 words · ~8 min read
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welcome welcome everyone to the 2015
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Linus tech tips technology awards i'm your host
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Linus tech tips actually my last name sebastian don't worry too much about
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that so we're going to keep the show pretty simple today and we're going to be talking about some of the top and
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some of the well less top products of 2015 that we have had our hands on so
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stay tuned because it's going to be one heck of a ride
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just like that one night
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when i rode a camel
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the logitech g303 features a lightweight design and advanced optical sensor with
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delta zero technology and RGB lighting check out the link in the video
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description to learn more our first award of the night is the
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snake oil award for being the biggest
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pile of snake oil
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and it's the pono player from neil young
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yes the pono player brought to us a 400
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mp3 player that was going to redefine
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the way we listened to music along with a music store full of high quality music
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that turned out to make no difference whatsoever in a blind a b
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trial thank you pono player for giving us a
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product that has so much snake oil which is a liquid that we actually managed to
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make a pile of the snake oil
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our next award is the reinvention of the wheel award for reinventing a product
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that no one really asked to be reinvented
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and this one goes to valve for the steam
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controller the steam controller
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adds touch pads to the handheld controller experience which is not great
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for some gaming genres but makes it
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possible to play mouse and keyboard
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interaction games like civilization or papers please on the couch
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on the big screen in a way that wasn't possible before
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our next award is the square wheel made of cheese award for
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reinventing a product that no one asked to be reinventing
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and it not ending up being particularly good
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and it's valve again this time with
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steam machines the pc slash console
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things that cost as much as a pc minus a Windows
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license but don't have all of the benefits of a pc like all that game
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compatibility and actually don't even have a lot of the benefits of a console
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like exclusive titles or netflix apps or really anything else
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and might improve later but for now
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are taking home this award in 2015.
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our best smartphone of 2015 award goes
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to wow i don't think anyone's going to see
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this one coming the iphone 6s
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now to be clear the iphone 6s did not
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win a place in my pocket as my daily driver
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but best is such a funny word and what apple
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did this year was drove forward the industry in terms of smartphone
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performance both in terms of the actual CPU and in
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terms of the rest of the subsystem with faster storage and faster wi-fi by a
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long shot than anyone else is delivering
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and i personally think 3d touch is going to be a huge thing for smartphones in
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2016 and beyond so we gotta give kudos
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where kudos is due which leads us to the biggest
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disappointment award and
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while i can't necessarily claim to have been that disappointed by the products
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because i really didn't have high hopes for it from the beginning this one goes
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to the apple watch everything the apple watch wants to be is great a phone
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extension that you can have on your wrist so you can actually carry
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conversations with the speaker and microphone the gorgeous multi-color
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screen the apps and all that stuff all let down by an soc and battery that only
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allow it to be on for a few hours a day and make you rely on goofy gestures in
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order to turn it on when you want to use it the shark in the toilet award for
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being the biggest surprise of the year goes to the google on hub which we
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actually expected to be a total turd i
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mean who wants a router with only one
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Ethernet port on it that's ridiculous right
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but the wi-fi range and performance of
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the tp-link variant of the google onhub absolutely blew us away in our review
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and i think it's a great option for people who really don't need to rely on
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a wired connection or who are willing to add a breakout switch to their wireless
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router that is to say as long as they don't mind google being the gateway to
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their internet connection the coolest manufacturer swag award was
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no contest at all and it goes to lg
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for the 3d printed figurine of me
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and then a later one with socks and sandals for accuracy as well as the
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gigantic box of socks that go with those sandals that we unboxed in front of a
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crowd here at our meetup thanks lg for
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really thinking outside the box in terms of swag items the re-badge award we've
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actually got two winners for this one it
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goes to jaybird and to AMD for rebadging the jaybird
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bluebuds x as the x2 with a slightly different carrying case and package and
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AMD for well rebadging most of their
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video cards this year although the most notable one is probably the uh
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390 series the 390 and the 390 x
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the best monitor ever award for being the best monitor ever
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was a pretty difficult one as it's one that we awarded multiple times this year
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might just be the best i've ever seen my coveted editor's choice award the only
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choice 4k is off my wishlist my new top choice top dog gaming monitor but of
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course we're going to go with the most recent co-winners the acer predator x34
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with its 34 inches of ultra wide 100
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hertzness and the ASUS rog swift
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pg279q which operates at a stunning 165
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hertz refresh rate at 1440p
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with both of them featuring NVIDIA g-sync technology
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which leads us to our final award
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the award for the best fans
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and that one it should come as no surprise goes to me
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for collaborating with Noctua to create the nf f12 and nfa14 LTT edition fans
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now i'm just kidding it's you guys thank you so much for this absolutely awesome
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year thank you for coming along with us for the ride as we explored all these
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products did a bunch of crazy projects i mean can you believe that whole room
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water cooling wrapped up this year scrap yard wars started this year uh we did
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two gamers one CPU this year luke's epic fallout for build all that happened this
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year at least i hope it happened this year this entire Linus media group thing
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has sort of been a blur but thank you guys all for being part of it all 2.1
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million or so of you and we hope that
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2016 is going to be just as fun and
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exciting and speaking of awards shows the award
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for the the the desk
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that goes the most up and down with electronic control allowing you to sit
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or stand or adjust to any height you could possibly want goes to updesk these
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guys kitted out our entire office here almost poor nick and Colton don't have
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up desks but what are you gonna do they equipped our entire office with their
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fantastic power up up desks allowing us
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to set three different presets a low a high and then a somewhere in the middle
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i guess if you're one of those people who kind of like crouches in an action
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stance while you work at your keyboard
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and mouse they're extremely high quality they're nice and quiet as they raise and
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lower and they come in a wide variety of configurations
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luke and john are actually equipped with their squared up desks these are corner
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desks that have the same height adjust features they've got a bunch of different tabletops and if you guys want
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to check it out and get yourself a standing slash sitting desk we've got a
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link in the video description and while there's been a lot of study on the
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benefits of standing versus sitting the thing we can all agree on is that moving
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around is good although there seems to be some evidence that just standing all
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day is not really that great even compared to just sitting all day what's
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cool about the updesk is thanks to its design it can actually be equipped with
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a treadmill underneath so if you want to really take your game to the next level
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you get a treadmill going and you can actually work and walk at the same time
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pretty great stuff so thanks for watching guys if you
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