Handy Tech Under $100 – Old is New Again
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,328 words · ~6 min read
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it's time for handicap
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handy tack handy tech
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under a hundred today we have a motley assortment of doodads to help you get
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more life out of older stuff you may already own so let's tack them out
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oh oh that's terrible speaking of terrible this sponsor segue
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is but Corsair isn't Corsair's ml rgv fans
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feature magnetic levitation bearings and dynamic RGB lighting check out their 120
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and 140 millimeter variants at the links below
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do you remember the original game boy from 1989 introducing game boy it's
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portable it's in stereo and its games are interchangeable
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okay yeah you probably don't because even people born in the year 2000 are
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almost voting age now lordy
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anyway now noobs and veterans alike can have
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the original game boy experience on the hyperkin smartboy a 50 device that
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marries old school game boy controls and cartridge support with your phone's
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superior screen and battery life as long as you have a supported usb
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type-c phone game boy advanced games aren't supported and the software
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experience is a bit less than streamlined since you
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actually need two separate apps to get it working the smart boy companion app
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and a third-party emulator but the buttons feel pretty dang authentic and
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it works on games for both the original brick game boy and the game boy color
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it is a little clutchy but overall i like the way hyperkin has executed this
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the hardware feels durable and using a third-party emulator makes the smart boy
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pretty future proof our next item is a real sleeper hit it's an HDMI to vga
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adapter from dyno and i know what you're thinking does
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such a mundane object deserve such a savage logo
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yes yes it does it's super compact compared to competing
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solutions and doesn't require any power or any drivers to be installed just plug
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one end into your HDMI port and your vga cable into the other and bam digital to
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analog baby as for why you might need something like
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this well it's mostly for interoperability between new gadgets
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like your laptop or latest gen graphics
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card all of which lack analog outputs
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and legacy tech like an old projector in a conference room or lecture hall or
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basically anything server related now dyno doesn't do everything you can't
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reverse it to adapt a vga device to an
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HDMI display the conversion's just one way and you'll be stuck without audio
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but there are slightly bulkier solutions that will convert your HDMI sound to a
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three and a half millimeter jack and i mean on that subject if your new device
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doesn't even have HDMI displayport and usb type-c adapters to vga are out there
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as well the main point was to highlight that things like this exist
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another thing that some people care about that the dyno lacks is mounting
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screws to ensure that it doesn't walk itself out and disconnect over time but
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i personally think it's more convenient this way since i'm probably going to be
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using it in short bursts rather than as part of a longer term deployment anyway
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next up well let's say you've connected all your smart lights so you can control
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everything from your phone making your life much easier until no no wait stop
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your bloody family and friends keep touching the light switches ruining your
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setup don't reach for the duct tape just yet
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the magnatac light switch covers are a more elegant way to keep people's greasy
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little digits off your switches these were originally designed to help people
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who observe the sabbath a time at which they are not supposed to do any work
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including switching lights on and off but they're also great for preventing
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people from turning off the outlet beside your bed that you use to charge
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your phone overnight so you don't sleep in and miss work but if you're thinking
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that you can use these to child proof your switches think again on that one
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part of the beauty of them is that they attach magnetically to the fairest
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screws holding your light switch plate on so they go on and come off with no
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work at all next up we have 12 acoustic studio foam
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wedges now first things first these are not for
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soundproofing so don't buy them to keep your neighbor's dog from waking you up
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at night mark why bart why you gotta do this
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i mean okay by definition pretty much anything with mass will offer some
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soundproofing but the main purpose of these is to treat a room for recording
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and playback quality by removing reflective sounds and echoes
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at a foot square and only a maximum of an inch deep these work best on higher
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frequencies and probably won't be enough to absorb lows like a proper bass trap
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would but they're really cheap and
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not just functional they also give your space a professional studio feel and you
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can attach them to the wall without damaging anything by using adhesive
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spray like this or strips like the ones that come with our last item
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command brand cord bundlers
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these things are seriously shockingly useful you just stick the hooks to the
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wall using the included 3m strips and now you've got a versatile hanger for
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cable management storage and drying out your sandals after a trip to
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the beach and who says you have to stick it to the wall you can tack it right onto an
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object to maximize your stow and go ability but just because these puppies can hold
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up to seven and a half pounds doesn't mean they're gonna wreck the paint when you take them off as long as you do it
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properly so uh we just painted a lot of walls
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around here that's why we got these ones and i guess actually that leads us
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perfectly into the disclosure part of these handy tech videos where we tell
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you where all this stuff came from it's pretty easy this time we bought almost
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all of it from amazon except the smart boy which was sent to us by hyperkin
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those guys were probably hoping for a dedicated video
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sorry guys y'all done got bundled
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blue apron allows you to create delicious chef-inspired recipes at home
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they deliver all the farm fresh ingredients you need right to your doorstep in exactly the right
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proportions no trips to the grocery store and no waste they've got two
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different types of plans the two-person plan and the family plan and this is
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really cool the recipes are delivered in a refrigerated box so the ingredients
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stay fresh even if you're not at home when your package arrives they're always
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adding new dishes to the menu and they ship to most of the usa there's no
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commitment you can skip or cancel the service at any time and the first
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hundred people to sign up at the link below will get three meals off their
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order so go check it out why go out when you can learn how to
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cook have some fun and have a delicious
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healthy meal we've got it linked below
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so thanks for watching guys if you disliked that video you can hit that button but if that video this video
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whatever the button if you liked it hit like get subscribed maybe consider
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checking out where to buy the stuff we featured at the links in the video description also down there is our merch
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store which has cool shirts like this one as well as our community forum which
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you should totally join