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there are phone cases out there that offer a rudimentary protection for your device from short drops and scratches in your pocket those cost a few bucks there are phone cases out there that do that and look kind of cool I'm partial to the ones that look like game boys or nest controllers on the back those cost a few bucks more moving up in price we've got ones with enhanced functionality more durability built in card wallets bottle openers or multi tools you know everyday stuff but hold on a second Linus I mean sure some of those cost over $100 but arguably that's useful stuff why is it in this segment it's not today's featured product is the result of my effort to find the lowest utility to cost ratio iPhone case I possibly could on amazon.ca and so I present to you the shop ready lumen OSIS handcrafted luxury bling Swarovski crystals sparkling full glitter rhinestones back snap on protective hard case cover for iPhone 6s by play bling a 250 US dollar iPhone case covered in crystals cooller masters master case maker five features they're freeform modular system allowing you to customize adjust and upgrade make it yours at the link in the video description so the price is unmistakably over a hundred dollars but how do you prove that something is useless or that it's a very poor value in the case of the thousand dollar HDMI cable from the last episode which you can check out here by the way I reviewed the manufacturers claims about the value of the product like noticeably better sound and video quality then tested it at very high data rates against a generic cable and observed that there was not indeed any discernible or measurable difference easy so let's take the same approach here by finding the actual manufacturers product page where the price is a still outlandish but at least significantly lower two hundred and thirty-five US dollars so they're apparently Swarovski crystals which in case you were wondering means glass in the shape of crystals made by a company in Austria apparently Eastern Europeans are good at glass crystal work who knew nothing to do with usefulness though other benefits of this fine product include each crystal being 100% handset by a skilled craftsman if there any women working on them I'm throwing a fit just saying that it contains over 1,000 crystals and that the adhesive glue is RoHS compliant well I'm not much of a glue expert hey you know get out of here but I did manage to count the crystals and there are indeed over a thousand of them so full marks there although none of that has anything to do with usefulness okay it's presented in a premium gift set this is a little debatable since the packaging is almost as horrible as the gigantic paper warning about never taking the case off once it's installed in case all the rhinestones start falling off and finally it is perfect for parties and balls again I'm hardly a leading authority on party-going having ever been invited to one and my attempts to use it on my balls eclipsed all other failures I have ever broadcast on this show so then given that the manufacturer actually makes no claims whatsoever about the items utility I don't really have to prove that it's useless I only have to prove that I can get something equally useless for less time for a field trip to the dollar store God Wow everything is about 25 fishing supplies shockingly few jewels in the hair accessories Department this has promised still no jewels a million hair bands and no jewels starting to lose hope damn I overpaid for my case maybe these are a boo those are like gel arts across aisle oh we're close I definitely gotta have some of these rock on I have painstakingly extracted all the hematite beads hmm acrylic crystals you have got to be kidding me this looks easier so there we have it everything I need to recreate the functionality of this case for under $50 u.s. so I need you to evaluate two things for me on a scale out of 10 oh my god Wow five out of ten I don't okay I'll be right back six I give it a one I think this is like maybe worse seven out of ten I get that like a like an eight yeah five and a half zero so then here's the bottom line for a fifth of the price and about 40 minutes you can achieve the same goal of looking like a tool who is in your 20s or 30s and still wants to play princess dress up on the weekend and you can do this without also looking like you have more money in your wallet then sense in your head because remember there is expensive crap that you can buy if you just have money burning a hole in your pocket that actually retains its value so maybe look into that so you can look like a baller without also looking like an idiot speaking of looking like an idiot do you ever browse anything online that would make you look kind of dumb or kind of like a weirdo well tunnel bears got you covered because tunnel there doesn't let your internet provider track your web browsing in fact it's the simple VPN app that makes it easy to browse 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