Gadgetory

hey guys johnathan here and welcome back to the best home tech episode 4 so first up is what I feel every home setup should have that of course is a life-size Ironman on a serious note that is one of the questions that I've seen the absolute most lately and if you missed it a few months back we actually picked one of these suits up for a real-life Captain America vs Iron Man iPhone 6s parody and after we put it through its paces and it nearly fell apart we grabbed mannequin reconstructed it and turned it into this now by no means are these suits cheap or necessarily practical but if you're interested I will drop a link conveniently placed below that upwards facing thumb now what is actually first up is the lifx color 1000 which is a Wi-Fi connected smart LED light bulb and also a Philips hue alternative now don't get me wrong I am a huge fan of philips hue but you have to be committed and really dive into their system whereas with the life x it's kind of the complete opposite where you have a ton of freedom and flexibility I think that's really what drew me towards checking this out for starters there is no additional hardware or hub that you need to get this working you simply have the light bulb grab the app and you are good to go now conversely if you have an existing setup like for example here I have a setup with the Samsung smartthings home monitoring kit where it works flawlessly and that is where that freedom and control that I was talking about really shines through on top of that getting back to the standalone app I really like the interface it's clean it's simple it's easy to navigate changing the colors on this is as simple as dragging a dial and I know initially when these came out the price was a little on the higher side but since senate's come down and because of that and the overall experience I was really impressed with this so next up I know a ton of you are interested in home automation so we're going to take a closer look at these smart things home monitoring kit that I mentioned earlier and big shout out to Samsung smartthings for not only sending out the kit but the smart cam HD pro as well in sponsoring this episode so with this kit you get the smartthings hub which not only the nucleus but where all the magic happens a smartthings outlet a motion sensor and then two multi-purpose sensors so jumping back to the hub this is going to allow you to control everything it's where you connect new devices where you can manage things and this of course is all done through the smart things app on your phone now as many of you are probably aware I'm a huge advocate of salt Lance but the problem is I usually forget to turn them off so being able to use these smart things outlet with the salt lamp is kind of awesome because even if I do forget to turn it off I can simply do that on my phone or if I wanted to set these to a schedule now for those of you out there who have ninjas in their life who tend to grab things that aren't theirs you will love the motion sensor nerf gun not includable you can see exactly how useful this actually could be and on top of the motion sensor you can set up the multi-purpose sensor to trigger doors or cupboards and these work by being smart enough to know when they are separated and therefore let you know when something is opened up now jumping over to the smart cam HD Pro I know there are a ton of Wi-Fi cameras on the market right now but this stands out for a couple reasons one you can connect up to ten of these from multiple streams of video you get 128 degree wide angle lens and more importantly the video quality is stellar what you're seeing right now is towards the end of the day when there really wasn't much light at all in the room and for a Wi-Fi camera to hold that kind of dynamic range and clarity is pretty outstanding so overall you're getting a pretty complete package it looks good the video quality is great you get a ton of features and more importantly it works seamlessly with these smart things home monitoring kit which if you want to check out more make sure to head over to smart things comm / Jonathan now last step we're taking a look at another request you guys had and that is to check out some stuff from Sonu specifically this is the play one to Rooms starter bundle now with this bundle you can actually use it two ways you can either use them separately as individual speakers in separate rooms or you can use these as surround speakers in the entire home theater setup with the sub and sound bar in this case I'll be showing them off individually but if the entire surround setup is something you want to see definitely let me know now one thing I've always enjoyed with Sonos is a simplicity and how easy it is to set everything up these work over your Wi-Fi networking from their lighting either stream your physical library or your internet library whether there's something like Spotify or even Pandora on top of being extremely simple to set up I was genuinely surprised with how loud and how full these things sounded for the size I did not expect them to get as loud as they did but at the same time they still maintained clarity now if you notice here one thing that makes me extremely happy is when products work in unison with each other so if I am turning the volume up or down on the actual Sonos that is going to correspond over to the phone where the music is streaming off of so for the pair if you can jump on that holiday price and I would have no problem recommending these aesthetically they're on point the software experience is top-notch more importantly these sound good now cycling out there up to the video hopefully enjoyed it if you did and you are feel like being awesome make sure to go Ralphie getting shot with a nerf gun on that like button because how many questions drop me a line down below feel free to subscribe if you want to see more content like this this is Jonathan and I will catch you guys later