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welcome welcome everyone to the 2015 Linus tech tips technology Awards I'm your host Linus tech - it's actually my last name Sebastian don't worry too much about that so we're gonna keep the show pretty simple today and we're gonna be talking about some of the top and some of the well less top products of 2015 that we have had our hands on so stay tuned because it's gonna be one heck of a ride just like that one night when I wrote a camera the Logitech G 303 features a lightweight design and advanced optical sensor with delta0 technology and RGB lighting check out the link in the video description to learn more our first award of the night is the snake-oil award for being the biggest pile of snake oil and it's the pono player from Neil Young yes the pono player brought to us a $400 mp3 player that was going to redefine the way we listen to music along with a music store full of high-quality music that turned out to make no difference whatsoever in a blind a bee trial thanking pono player for giving us a product that has so much snake oil which is a liquid that we actually managed to make a pile of the snake oil our next award is the reinvention of the wheel award for reinventing a product that no one really asked to be reinvented and this one goes to valve for the steam controller the steam controller adds touch pads to the handheld controller experience which is not great for some gaming genres but makes it possible to play mouse and keyboard interaction games like civilization or papers please on the couch on the big screen in a way that wasn't possible before our next award is the square wheel made of cheese award for reinventing a product that no one asked to be reinventing and it not ending up being particularly good and its valve again this time with steam machines the PC slash console things that cost as much as a PC - a Windows license but don't have all of the benefits of a PC like all that game compatibility and actually don't even have a lot of the benefits of a console like exclusive titles or Netflix apps or really anything else and might improve later but for now our taking home this award in 2015 our best smartphone of 2015 award goes to wow I don't think anyone's gonna see this one coming the iPhone 6s now to be clear the iPhone 6s did not win a place in my pocket as my daily driver but best is such a funny word and what Apple did this year was drove forward the industry in terms of smartphone performance both in terms of the actual CPU and in terms of the rest of the subsystem with faster storage and faster Wi-Fi by a longshot than anyone else is delivering and I personally think 3d touch is going to be a huge thing for smartphones in 2016 and beyond so we got to give kudos where kudos is due which leads us to the biggest disappointment award and while I can't necessarily claim to have been that disappointed by the products because I really didn't have high hopes for it from the beginning this one goes to the Apple watch everything the Apple watch wants to be is great phone extension that you can have on your wrist so you can actually carry conversations with the speaker and microphone the gorgeous multicolored screen that apps and all that stuff all let down by an SOC and battery that only allow it to be on for a few hours a day and make you rely on goofy gestures in order to turn it on when you want to use it the shark in the toilet award for being the biggest surprise of the year goes to the google onhub which we actually expected to be a total turd I mean who wants a router with only one Ethernet port on it that's ridiculous right but the Wi-Fi range and performance of the tp-link variant of the google onhub absolutely blew us away in our review and I think it's a great option for people who really don't need to rely on a wired can affection or who are willing to add a breakout switch to their wireless router that is to say as long as they don't mind Google being the gateway to their internet connection the coolest manufacturer swag award was no contest at all and it goes to LG for the 3d printed figurine of me and then a later one with socks and sandals for accuracy as well as the gigantic box of socks that go with those sandals that we unboxed in front of a crowd here at our Meetup thanks LG for really thinking outside the box in terms of swag items the rebadge award we've actually got two winners for this one it goes to j-bird and to AMD for rebadging the j-bird blew buds X as the x2 with a slightly different carrying case and package and AMD for well rebadging most of their video cards this year although the most notable one is probably the 390 series the 390 and the 390x the best monitor EV our award for being the best monitor EV r was a pretty difficult one as it's one that we awarded multiple times this year just be the best I've ever seen my cardigan Editors Choice Award the only choice for K it's off my wishlist my new top choice top dog gaming monitor but of course we're gonna go with the most recent tow winners the Acer predator X 34 with its 34 inches of ultra wide 100 Hertz this and the asus rog swift PG 2 7 9 q which operates on a stunning 165 Hertz refresh rate at 1440p with both of them featuring Nvidia g-sync technology which leads us to our final award the award for the best fans and that one it should come as no surprise goes to me elaborating with Noctua to create the n ff12 and NF a 14 l TT edition fans now I'm just kidding it's you guys thank you so much for this absolutely awesome year thank you for coming along with us for the ride as we explored all these products did a bunch of crazy projects I mean can you believe that whole room water cooling wrapped up this year scrapyard wars started this year we did to gamers one CPU this year Luke's epic fallout 4 build all that happened this year at least I hope it happened this year this entire - media group thing has sort of been a blur but thank you guys all for being part of it all 2.1 million or so of you and we hope that 2016 is going to be just as fun and exciting and speaking of award shows the award for the the desk that goes the most up and down with electronic control allowing you to sit or stand or adjust to any height you could possibly want goes to up desk these guys kitted out our entire office here almost for Nick and Colton don't have up desks but what are you gonna do they equipped our entire office with their fantastic power up up desks allowing us to set three different presets a low a high and then a somewhere in the middle I guess if you're one of those people who kind of like crouches in an action stance while you work at your keyboard and mouse there are extremely high quality they're nice and quiet as they raise and lower and they come in a wide variety of configurations Luke and John are actually equipped with their squared up desks these are corner desks that have the same height adjust features they've got a bunch of different tabletops and if you guys want to check it out and get yourself a standing slash sitting desk we've got a link in the video description and while there's been a lot of study on the benefits of standing versus sitting the thing we can all agree on is that moving around is good although there seems to be some evidence that just standing all day is not really that great even compared to just sitting all day what's cool about the up desk is thanks to its design it can actually be equipped with a treadmill underneath so if you want to really take your game to the next level you get a treadmill going and you can actually work and walk at the same time pretty great stuff so thanks for watching guys if you enjoyed this video hit the like button if you didn't hit the dislike button but I hope you enjoyed it and if you did get subscribed to Linus tech tips maybe even can get subscribe maybe something like the video yes like the video I did this out of order anyway get subscribed maybe consider getting a cool shirt like this one at the link that's up there and the cards on the video and wow you think after all these years I'd be good at this stuff subscribe like thanks for watching see you next time you