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the arc MIDI r2 by fractal design features massive air flow and highly flexible liquid cooling support click now to learn more so we're here with a bit of an impromptu video I'm here with the inventor of the whatever you can be like Steve Jobs you invented it I just take credit for someone else's work yeah pretty much anyways I saw a demonstration someone strapped a phone to an Xbox controller and then was able to wirelessly connect the Xbox controller to his computer and use a program called Splashtop to stream the his monitor to his phone so he could basically make a ghetto shield then so here's the here's what we got going on right here there's some Counter Strike being played on a computer downstairs this is being streamed wirelessly on a galaxy s3 looks pretty good 800 by 600 right 800 by 600 on the desktop it looks very crisp here though so what we were thinking is we're going to take a little bit further than the demonstration that I saw and we're going to do a wired version so you can have your controller plugged directly into your phone and play Android games that way a wireless version so you can have your controller connected wirelessly to your computer and play desktop games that way and we were thinking about throwing a snez controller in there for some awesomeness as well so basically by the time we invest in a couple of Xbox controllers and an OTG cable and free software you can basically make a ghetto shield for under a hundred bucks now able to pull that down a bit just estimated now it doesn't have the AI it doesn't have the battery life benefit of shield doesn't have necessarily the all-in-one convenience of shield nope and you're you have some black bars on the side and there's the aadhi aadhi yadda yadda yadda but you're saving a bunch of money and it's kind of fun it has data and it has data so we're think eyes we're gonna we're going to bring you sort of the the ghetto the ghetto shield sometime in the next little bit here but we're thinking something like a cell phone case so that you can actually snap your your phone into the piece that thats it's mounted to the controller so you'd have like two dedicated controllers a wireless and a wired one and then your phone which can just go as much as you want and we've got a bunch of plans but we don't know exactly what's going to work yet but we know that we can make a wireless and wired version already so we're going to go with that for now wish us luck and as always guys don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos and this video is brought to you from whatever we end up keying into the background we're out where are we um in dust yes in dust