Gadgetory

today's video is brought to you by philips hue they're white in color me it's a nineteen starter kit which would get you amazing lighting like this is currently on sale so make sure you check out the link below your guys johnson here 2018 is here but before we dive into the new year i want to take a look back and now on my favorite tech but the tech i use most in 2017 now 2017 was an amazing year as far as smartphones go but if i were to look back at a single feature that impressed me the most hands-down it's got to be the camera on the google pixel - so in 2017 dual cameras on smartphones were super popular with that came to term you're probably most familiar with portrait shots this emulates pictures you'd normally expect on something like a DSLR with that beautiful blurred background and then Google comes along it's like yeah we could do that with one lens and they did really well some of the shots I got on the pixel to still blow my mind of this day to the point where it almost doesn't make sense that this kind of image came out of a smartphone and it's not just port removed the camera as a whole on the pixel - is stellar from its low-light performance dynamic range sharpness it kind of all results in this really well-rounded package now as impressive as that is it still gets better with portrait selfies and there was a lot of hype around the iPhone 10 and what they were gonna do with portrait selfies but hands-down the pixel 2 outperforms that in every single way so yeah the Google puts - and more specifically its camera are kind of outstanding next up from there though our Apple earpods yes err pause I know you think to yourself why on earth would you include err pause those kind of sucked the thing is they're actually kind of amazing so what exactly is amazing about air pods honestly it is the convenience the w1 chip inside these things something I wish was in every pair of bluetooth headphones ever yes that initial setup is stupid simple but what's especially special is once you set up air pods of one device every device after that essentially is paired and ready to go thanks to iCloud so with your dump from your phone to your laptop to an iPad or even upgrading phones because of iCloud those air pods are there and ready to go now yeah I was a little skeptical with these things one how they looked too or they easy to lose and three how did they sound as far as looks go yeah they still look a little goofy there's no denying that but I will gladly deal with that because of how well they work as far as how easy are they to lose I've never lost a pair of air pods or single air pod because the case is how you charge them you're constantly in the habit of putting them back in the case when you're done so losing them is actually really hard to do as far as sound quality I think they sound good they don't sound amazing but they definitely don't sound bad my only real complaint with these as far as sound quality goes would be noise isolation because they don't do a real good job with that at all again it comes down to the convenience they're small they're compact you have great battery life and it's something that you can just keep with you at all times in your pockets in your bag and your person more importantly it's something you don't think about it just works now next up this one you're probably not gonna see on most tech lists out there it's not a smartphone it's not a pair of headphones it's on a computer but rather lighting so if you're a videographer pay attention so this is pretty much two awesome products that when combined together make something even more awesome the main component is Westcott's flex light which is a really cool flexible LED mat in this case this is their one by two one foot by two feet by color so it's gonna output all the way down from a really warm 2,800 Kelvin all the way up to 6,000 now what made these especially popular was the flexibility the portability you could essentially stick and take these things anywhere that's cool and unique but honestly it never really truly appealed to me that was until I saw this there flex drum softbox which transforms the Flex lights into a beautiful portable softbox now I will be the first to tell you if you don't need the flexibility or the portability there are many more inexpensive light and obviously which I will link to down below but will change the game for me was the ability to take high quality lighting essentially anywhere I went the 1 + 5 t video I shot earlier this year was in Brooklyn and some random Airbnb the entire video was lit off this lighting setup so when you combine that flexibility in the portability and end up with this beautiful evenly dispersed soft light it is a killer combination now speaking of lighting again huge shout-out to today's sponsor Phillips you if you're looking to get into the smart home lighting game they're white color ambience a 19 starter kit is hands-down my favorite way to do that in the kit you get the Philips hue bridge which is the centerpiece of all that beautiful lighting with this you can add up to 50 different light bulbs and believe me it does get addicting you also get for white and color ambience a 90 light bulbs which would get you everything from that relaxing warm lighting to the energizing cool lighting all the way to that beautiful colored light and the more likely have seen in these videos plus whether you use Google home Amazon echo home kit with Siri you can combine those with Philips you to control every aspect of your lighting with your voice this is what I've used for years to achieve that bright vibrant color lighting so if you want to jump in on this again there's a sale on this kit right now which I will link to down below last up is something that barely barely made the list and was released at the very very end of 2017 this of course is the iMac Pro and become my videos earlier this year this is one piece of tech that I was super excited for really looking forward to and now that it's here it hasn't disappointed if you want to learn more of a performance in speed in benchmarks and numbers I will drop a video to that link down below but again what the iMac throat was kind of one of those products that changed my workflow up I talked about it before but aka raw footage is incredibly taxing and incredibly demanding and with the iMac Pro I'm able to edit that aka raw footage natively no transcoding no optimizing I can hop back and forth between the raw settings the ISO the white balance you have buttery smooth playback in your timeline and the absolute craziest thing about this is you can take that aka footage transcode it to a 4k or ready YouTube file and do that essentially in real time which is mind-blowing so yeah the mi pro is fairly new but it has quickly become one of my go-to favorite pieces of tech along with everything featured in this video hopefully guys enjoy this thing if you did and you are feeling like been awesome make sure to smash that like button I would love to hear what your favorite gadget or piece of tech was in 2017 this is Jonathan and I will catch you guys later yes err pause and I know some of you out there toss it