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if you're anything like me there was a time when you thought wearable tech was about to be the next big thing in consumer electronics then 2017 happened and now you're just jaded AF because instead of having a computer in your contact lens all you've got is an endless sea of inaccurate fitness trackers and smart watches that make Homer Simpson look like a frickin genius so when I heard about the baselet a subwoofer wristband that promised to make you feel like you're surrounded by sound I pulled in enough internet for today and went to bed but then I found out it was $200 and I thought this could be perfect fodder for useless tech over a hundred Silvan are their claims completely baseless or is this little device about to shake up the way you listen to music the Ripjaws km 570 mechanical keyboard from g.skill features full RGB a simple design Cherry MX switches and more check it out now at the link below the german-engineered baselet requires hardly any setup plug the sender into your laptop or phone's headphone jack or dongle as it were then plug your headphones into the sender all the audio leaving your device passes through the sender which routes the bass frequencies automatically to the IP 44 rated bracelet over low-energy Bluetooth know pairing shenanigans whatsoever the design is an understated matte black with a plastic finish that's subjectively okay and a single LED indicator light with two buttons for adjusting the intensity of your experience but good design is more than skin deep and low felt the makers of the bass lit cared enough to make the sender double as the units charger and so to attach to the bracelet you just magnetically snap it on and the buttons are actually conductive contacts it's an elegant idea even if it only takes a slight bump to disrupt the connection the only part of the bass le'ts design that stands out as flawed is the silicone wrist band it's pretty hard to put on especially tightly like the instructions recommend you should pretty much factor the replacement cost into your purchase okay then so you've got your beautifully designed $200 vibrators strapped on to you ready for the bass lits psycho acoustic phenomenon to trick your brain into thinking your whole body is being accosted by sound waves so with your favorite tunes cranked what does it actually feel like well did just about exactly what you'd expect your wrist and by extension part of your hand and arm will vibrate along with the music but wait hold on don't don't click away yet it's not like taping a vibrating cell phone to your arm it's silent to the people around you and there's variability in the feel of the bass notes being pushed out like you can actually kind of distinguish a plucked string from a kick drum for example and per the recommendation of the reviewers guide we gave it some more time it's apparently supposed to take a session or two for your brain to adapt and merge the sound from your ears and the vibrations on your arm into a single experience and I have to admit my skepticism aside it does in fact happen if you wear it for a little while particularly with the intensity kind of somewhere in the mid level the bass starts to feel less localized and it becomes harder to distinguish whether what you're feeling is coming from the music or from the little trinket on your wrist which is pretty cool but that doesn't mean that the awareness that you're wearing a little subwoofer on your arm ever completely melts away and to expect that might be a little unrealistic then again there are some cases where having bass localized actually made a lot of sense to us namely gaming so cranking the bass let's intensity up to max and throwing on a first-person shooter like doom can actually leave you pretty shook but we did find it worked best when it's on the wrist that's connected to your mouse hand or thinking completely outside the box you can strap the chest thumping beats directly to your thorax to really get your heart rate up a please bear in mind though that the baselet is not recommended for people with pacemakers and also that duct tape sticks to chest hair really really well finally while we did find one guy online who likes to use his base lid on his tummy we got our best results with the device above the waistband although now that I think about it it does come with this extra shorter strap anyway the base lit can also add some value in non headphone situations like supplementing your base model car audio or keeping you immersed in your tunes as you put around the house and it's not surprisingly decent range so then I was ready to tear this thing apart but as far as jewelry goes it's neither the most expensive nor the most useless thing we have ever encountered and my initial skepticism and annoyance at needing to carry yet another fricken dongle aside it does make your music experience feel a little bigger but with that said unless you're already rocking a top-of-the-line audio solution at 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