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yo guys johnathan here back with a fresh episode of the best tech under 25 bucks but this time there's a twist this is tech that you recommended for me to check out so I have no idea if it's actually going to be good but we shall find out so first up is this guy right here this is the fruity OH version of the apple Milanese loop which is only 11 bucks and if you compare that to Apple's version that's 200 bucks so what is that a twentieth of the price essentially and if you look closely at the box maybe upon first glance you wouldn't know this was a knockoff because they are straight ripping apples box but again it's a fraction of the price and the test is to see if it's actually any good because if it is that is gonna save you quite a bit of money now immediately upon first glance it's actually really nice for the price the only discernible difference I can see at first glance is that magnet sticks out like a sore thumb so that may or may not matter for you and it may be worth the savings because honestly once it's on your wrist that's something you're not going to see slide it magnetic loop and we are locked on and loaded to go let's clean so honestly for 11 bucks I think is kind of badass again the magnet that is exposed here is almost non-existent once you close it up it seems to pass the patented classic magnet test which is obviously important how that will withstand over time is to be determined but as of now it is pretty awesome so whether a ceramic space black or in this case space gray which looks super stealthy this definitely makes its way as a valid entry into the best tech under 25 bucks so next up this is from Gina or Jenna Hunley I'm so sorry if I pronounced your name wrong let me know the correct pronunciation in the comment down below but she sent this my way colourful silicone animal way let's check it out the thing is dude this is squishy weight is the light in here Oh surprisingly the light bulb was actually already inside this which is weird because of how light and squishy it is and the weirder part about this is you actually have to Pat it to turn it on so one pat on second Pat equals color cycle mode this kind of reminds me of those glow-in-the-dark nerf footballs where's it's actually going to be cool though I think is on a desk which is going to help accent things and immediately what comes to my mind is using this squishy light-up animal as a background piece when shooting video so would be normally a pretty boring pen now we're going to add a little bit of spice and character in life because with the movement there's actually a little bit of stuff going on in the background with the light and if we get even closer that's going to become even more blown out and again in this instance right here the camera is still there is no movement happening with the actual shop but because there is something happening in the background it makes the shot more interesting so just like the app watchband I definitely say this is worth the pickup and better yet not always under 25 bucks right now it's under 15 so next up this is actually a recommended item with the Apple watch so people who bought that band also bought this apparently which is a jelly comb cell phone stand nature wood and also apparently has a pen container you guys know I'm a little drawn to wood tech products so there's naturally kind of piqued my interest supposed to be for an iPhone but from what I've read it's also going to work with other phones too so we'll test that out so right off the bat this is not really a dot solution looks like you have to stick the cable in and kind of line things up with the phone first slide it through then drag it under so it'll work but it's not going to be a convenient solution where you just pop the phone in the second purpose with this is to amplify sound so let's see if there's a difference there so it's a decent stand not really a great amplifier but like the bucks says it's also a pencil container in this case we're going to use the Apple pencil so just in case you ever wanted to store a pen or a pencil with your phone while amplifying your sound this is the perfect product for you now before I forget I want to test this out with a different phone here is the LGB 20 again per the Amazon listing it just for iPhones but really there is nothing special with this so most phones should work it's not going to be the best fit it's kind of leaning outwards and honestly this is not really the best Tech 25 I think this specific product Falls more in line with okay tech under 25 bucks and if you're a little bit more you can probably get a much better product so I'm going to drop a few alternatives linked down below so next up is yet again one more of those Amazon rabbit-hole purchases you know when you go down that deep dark path of the frequently bought together this is one of those and on the surface it's a really simple keyring headphone splitter which with the recent iPhone 7 release that may create some problems that is dangerous can take that away from me so that's actually kind of neat this was unscrewed from this part that in turn goes in here and now you have yourself the actual keychain portion of it screw it back up and you're ready to go so to make this more complicated than it needs to be I'm going to go ahead and use an iPhone 7 plus so the question is how many dongles are we going to need to make this work so dongle in the iPhone splitter in the dongle now it's headphone time that is ridiculous so step one headphones ralphie let's split some music buddy we're going download a splitter that's not a combo not many people go in if you haven't heard Marian he'll stop what you're doing I've actually watched this video first and then go listen to her I felt like we're uh your average consumer me are you areare my gender I'm Mary so final verdict the biggest thing that stands out to me with this aside from the fact that it actually looks good is that you're not losing volume which is the most important thing with a splitter I know often times with cheaper splitters once you split that signal oftentimes you split that volume in half just super annoying especially if you're in a loud environment like a plane or a train or a subway station which is loud AF this is going to pass the test and allow you to split that audio without losing signal which is most important so last up this is a recommendation from Colin Jensen aka doctor flopper on Twitter regardless this is a 64 gigabyte USB C to a flash drive which right off the bat I can tell you this is not Amazon frustration-free packaging there we go so this code is tiny the idea with this is to be able to go back and forth between normal USB devices and USB C products whether that's a phone or a laptop what I like right off the bat with this is there's a protective cover on the USB C and I've used many drives where I've bent this because it's exposed with this you can pop it over there cover it that's going to keep things nice and protected so one advantage with this is because it's USB 3 you're going to get some pretty fast speeds I'm going to test that out right now pop it in I actually made a mistake earlier if you insert it this way with a protective cap facing down that is one surefire way to wreck your port I mean it stands and it looks cool but if anyone knocks that over or bumps into that our IP or port so in this case it's clearly performance is definitely faster on the read side of things so when you're accessing files reading files you're going to get some really great performance as far as transferring goes that's where the writes because come into play that is not the fastest in the world so when you're going back and forth from machine to machine you're not going to get the fastest transfer but really for 20 bucks is a really useful piece of tech so aside from that thank you guys very much for watching hopefully enjoyed the video if you did enjoy feeling like 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