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it's handy tech under $100 again now some of you said that the items in Episode eight weren't handy enough well this time I am stepping up my game I will be showing you guys the best handy you can get for under $100 Kingston kc3 ten series business great SSDs feature firmware based power loss protection massive capacities and performance to spare in fact we're using them for our new production server click right here to learn more about them since I was so rudely interrupted during my intro take a moment now to beg for legs like a pathetic loser and ask that you guys mash that like button if you want to see a small form-factor PC flagship graphics card showdown between the 980ti and the r9 fury X and NIT X build Go Go Go Go Go and then moving on to item number one today have you ever noticed that no matter what when you're in a hurry and fishing through a bin or a USB cable to charge a phone or plug in a hub or whatever if the device you want to connect uses a micro B connector invariably the first cable you find will be mini B the second one you find will be mini B and so on and so forth until you're so mad you can't even see straight to dig out the right one this is known as Murphy's Law and you know what Murphy introducing the USB cable noose with one of these bad boys around the next time you get so upset about not being able to find the right cable that you're ready to just end it all you reach for the nearest noose and bam it turns out that upon closer inspection the USB noose is made of dozens of USB cables in both the mini and micro variety it's amazing the kinds of solutions that exist for this problem bracelets cards that fit in your wallet will screw it those are expensive and for the price of one fancy cable I could buy a dozen cheap ones in bulk so you don't have to make a new side of them that was a joke but if you run into this issue as often as I do take 10 minutes and grab a bulk order of cables they're like 75 cents each I bought a hundred of them for the new office and I couldn't be happier for my under $100 purchase which leads us to the second item today this one is pretty straightforward and something I didn't even really think of until I reviewed the new MacBook and found self marveling at apples boldness I mean can you imagine another company just forging ahead and not only implementing a connector that exists nowhere else within their own product lineup and hardly anywhere else at all but making it the only connector on the device how does Apple get away with this stuff thanks to innovative things like this the Kingston DataTraveler 3 see it's got a regular USB type a connector that will work with a regular 2.0 3.0 or 3.1 port on the one side then a reversible USB type-c connector on the other end when you lift up the protective plastic cover awesome now to be clear at a rated speed of 10 to 15 megabytes per second on writes and 100 megabytes per second on reads this is not the world's highest performance flash drive or anything but it's also not unreasonably priced at around 50 cents per gig on the 64 gig model making it competitive with other commodity grade USB 3 drives it's not perfect and I think Kingston could improve this product and actually many of their USB drives by making it a little bit more keychain friendly but even with that shortcoming if I was gonna buy a utility drive today this one makes a ton of sense thanks to its awesome versatility which leads us to our last handy tech item one that I've had on the shelf for literally months because it's so geeky and cool that I wanted to make a video about it and yet most people wouldn't really have much use for it this is the USB charger doctor from Adafruit comm there are other similar devices but for my purposes I didn't need such an expensive one and this one is less than 10 bucks the concept is simple if you ever wondered why the crap your phone is charging so slowly in this charger or off of that battery bank ever wondered why the USB hub on your Logitech G 15 gen 1 can't power anything more hungry than a thumb drive with this puppy you can monitor both the output voltage of any USB port and the current being drawn by the devices downstream it handles from 0 to 3 amps and three and a half to seven volts and it's accurate to within ten millivolts and 10 milliamps I've actually used it a handful of times since I got it already and I'll definitely be using it more in the future I wish that it had the connectors on either end so that it wasn't so bulky when plugged in but hey I guess you get what you pay for this is the cheap one which leads us to the full disclosure part of these handy tech episodes item number one I purchased from monoprice comm to make this video and for Linus Media Group's as well as my own use number two was provided by Kingston when I asked them for a sample of a USB type-c device for that video that I made a little while ago and then actually wasn't going to get a spot in its own video until I needed it during my macbook video and I was like oh yeah this is handy handy under 100 and then item number three was suggested by a viewer so I bought a couple of them and that's pretty much it straightforward you know what else is straightforward crunchyroll it's the site created by anime fans for anime fans they offer the most Korean episodes of new shows straight from Japan like Kuroko's basketball 3 and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure as well as large collections of the most popular anime series like Naruto and one piece all the content on their site is professionally subtitled and if you try out crunchyroll premium which by the way you can get a 30-day free trial of that crunchyroll.com / - you get a whole month of free anime completely ad free you get the benefits of premium like 1080p streaming getting new episodes of show straight from Japan within an hour of their premiere and being able to stream anywhere anytime on a variety of devices like your phone tablet or game console you can continue your premium membership to crunchyroll for only 695 a month so head to crunchyroll.com / linus to check them out so that's pretty much it guys thanks for watching dis if you I screwed up I was going to do my old outro no I'm doing the new outro if this video sucked you know what to do but if it was awesome get subscribed hit the like button or even consider supporting us directly by using our affiliate code to shop at Amazon buying a cool t-shirt like this one or with a direct monthly contribution through our community forum now that you're done doing all that stuff you're probably wondering what to watch next so click that little button in the top right corner to check out Luke's video where he has his first experience with an Android wear SmartWatch from Sony thanks again for watching and don't forget to subscribe if I didn't already say that I think it did you