Gadgetory

hello welcome to circuit breaker live the Verge's premier and flagship Gadget Show Live on YouTube I'm Ashley Carmen I'm Paul Miller Tommy Lee is here our girl just brought so many things with her but first before we get to the things Donnie has brought let me just tell you what we have going on for this show so DOM is here and then we're going to have a massive career that's going to come out and try out the spinning wheel of gadget wonderment which is what I'm calling it fishing channel I don't expect anyone to know what that means but you'll see eventually so this is gonna be a really great show I'm excited also this is our last episode probably ever yeah I did because we have the greatest gadget of all time but next week we're not going to be standing right here the verge exists exists Ashley is making some amazing videos if you go to the verge YouTube channel it all exists it just won't be live every week after this after right now okay we'd always are both sad stuff and maybe later but dummy Nintendo lab oh yeah what oh lab Oh which was just released 4:20 nice it's sort of like DIY cardboard accessories for the switch and a lot of people were kind of confused about it cuz Nintendo was selling to kits right now there's the $60 a variety kit oh no sorry $70 which comes with five different games like this toy piano you can build right here or like a fishing rod and then there's also an $80 robot kit which Paul is modeling right now and people were like why is this cardboard so expensive like what the heck and the thing is you're not just paying for cardboard girls are paying for like the experience and it comes with like this game cartridge which has all of the corresponding games for it but let's start one of my favorites which is this toy piano here and I'm going to explain how this all works yes but just to clarify because I was confused about this for a while you don't buy labo and then buy a bunch of these different things there's a kit that is a bunch of stuff and then there's a kit that's a robot switch cartridges and it's all separate from your switch which is a whole nother thing you buy yeah so right now we have the variety kit cartridge in the switch right now and I'm gonna use that to demonstrate how this toy piano works it looks really impressive yeah so basically the build guide says it takes what like three hours to build this but that's probably like assuming like your bullying with like a small child because this really marketed towards kids mmm-hmm this took a Meg our production manager an adult it took her like an hour and a half to build out and it's mostly like it's just so much folding and like you really got to follow all the steps and yeah all of this is individually folded yeah like everything is cardboard you don't need scissors or glue or anything like they've engineered this so you can just building it like right on the box really cool-looking um so yeah I'm going to go into the software here and go into the toy piano mode we're going to okay so first you have to control or connect the controller is wirelessly just wait for that to detect and this is important because the red controller has IR camera right there and this picks up on little IR stickers that are on the back of the keyboard here if you look right there I can see them yeah and those are stickers do you have to put on your cell yeah so the kits all come with like a roll of like IR stickers and you just have to place them in the right positions oh my god yeah it's a lot of work and let me just stick this into the back of the piano here so wouldn't you like press a key it'll reveal itself to the camera telling the switch to make a sound and then we try well in here hmm I love I use a lot this morning yeah so whoa right now it's on a mode for to make the keyboard sound like cats I'm not like super musical you can't really make music with this that works I just really feel bad for parents like a terrible child oh my god but there's different filters you can put into the keyboard here so that was just a cat torture basically all of these little knobs here it's instantaneous - yes it's got a different title in code yeah you can see you just place it on there differently let's try this one this one is an angelic voice tell your kids that we lost the cat sound and you can press this little lever here to bend the hear that in like a Brooklyn warehouses oh yeah on the top on the left or right at the plate so I think this one is for recording just press the button oh well I did not program this this is just playing a song for us this is happy birthday mm-hmm so I guess this just came with it we're still discovering yeah number three oh wait no this one's also really good at some old man would you rather have your kid play with more the cat worse or the old man I really don't know oh they have different songs I guess sound like a band beat up okay that's over so that's the piano yes so let's see what other filters there are no if the lab is flimsy or weak and also is it easy to replace ik if you lost pieces maybe yeah so Andrew Webster reviewed the lab oh and he has like two kids like super young and he said it's like surprisingly durable mm-hmm but also Nintendo's cells like replacement kits try something or he also said it was like easy to fix I think they even have tutorials of like how to repair something if you raise it okay cool but Nintendo also suggested like you should hold on to these like cardboard kits that it came from so if you finish making one you can always use it as a stencil to like create more kids reproducing cardboard kits here yeah there's so many like different modes on here so that was just a toy piano if you go into studio you have way more options this is like a baton that also came with the cardboard I don't know where it went but the studio lets you like really record and like play around with making music and also it gives you more octaves it's like five octaves that you can adjust it the lever here so much scarier looking yeah oh no man everything started they were counting you in okay oh so let's check out something else yeah so let's take this off and maybe move on to the fishing rod we have here and the fishing rod is fun because you can play the corresponding game that comes with it how do ya when I saw that there's a fishing rods like I wasn't really having a hard time one it's made out of cardboard - how is that like a video game so the video game is basically it's very calming it you just reel in the fish that you catch but the way they set this up is you put the screen on like this and you have to is it going to teach me how to fish just to be clear for people this is still part of the variety kit the variety this is the $70 kit okay so piano fishing oh like there's a house that you can build with like a hibachi character and it's all the games are on one all the games on one cartridge so we're gonna put this controller I think it was right here yeah and the red one goes on there oh sorry no we got this backwards so the instructions are all on the screen here we don't like following yeah the red one should have gone we'd prefer to experiment let's do this play our own rules there you go there you go who's this using the camera - yes so the camera is on the red controller and it can sense where your fishing rod is right now Ashley fish we're gonna wait for fish to come along and buy the hook I'm gonna means this guy mmm so I can also pull it yeah and it knows yeah just so people can see that on the screen I don't know it's more effective to go like this or to go maybe it's like a combination of both yeah that does seem to be more for gonna be patient yeah I have no patience but this is good it's good I need to practice this one like teach kids Paige okay okay fishing you got a mackerel yeah I did amazing thank you this is awesome I could absolutely see myself playing with just all the time and sitting in the office doing it baby I'm like good for a union of break yeah how long does this one take the mate so creighton our producer made this I think I took him like what no three minutes no hour and a half yeah yeah we went to the Nintendo like hands-on event and they basically they how does make this RC car which super easy to make it takes like five minutes yeah but they had to start the fishing rod and like didn't give us time to finish it because they knew what take longer that sounds fine I mean we still had to play with it after it was done but yeah I want to show you the RC car next still variety kit yeah still variety can too much to pay for cardboard well let me tell you yeah and also you got to RC cars okay one cardboard sheet here so basically this one's already done this one that has ink on it this one's some green so like all the RC cars are green fishing on it's blue like so you'll never like mix up okay toys but they also give you a blank one so you can like decorate it however you want but googly eyes on it if you want it feels like the proper way to do it I'm gonna I'm gonna try this I'm not here old school Lego expert yeah you know you give me some Legos an instruction book I'm there really haven't done a lot of cardboard work in my life yeah but I'm willing to flex into this new role yeah so I guess before we let you start building we can show people like what the finished one looks like and let's go into the RC car mode here stick the controllers and like this and you gotta get the antenna on the thing makes it official yeah so this is our finished RC car and if you press this button here they make a little roller vibrate to make it go in that direction if you press some blue on it goes left press both environment goes straight and this part is really cool there's a camera as I mentioned the IR camera on the red controller here you can actually see yourself on the screen there is there there's paul night vision mode whoa the paul cam on there people see this yeah Paul's camera there's Ashley if you top it one more time it turns into like a depth sensing camera so the closer you are show up in red and then also has this auto mode so you put that down and turn on auto mode and then it'll start to follow whatever is in front of it it follows those stickers stickers pick up super well on the camera I'm over there no should we so I guess we have to have you build yeah we give this shot so this is supposed to be the easiest one to but this super easy takes like less than five minutes and it's the first one they have you build in the variety cuz kit because it teaches you the basics of like folding so how do we so we have to go back to make mode okay and the instructions are like super easy to follow there's these back and forwards arrows that will let you adjust the speed of like how fast you want to learn first that takes you through like the entire process and then if you pull the tab like all the way over here it goes super fast you just hold it down it's like kind of slow okay so you just follow these instructions to see what's most amazing to me is the fact that like I own a Nintendo switch and I really never thought about how yeah the camera or how this could eventually be used in the future to actually make something like this yeah there's really not that many games on the switch that make use of this camera so far like even want to use it for like one two switch there's a game on there that's like I think it's like the eating contest game oh yeah put the controller in front of your mouth and you're like this yeah like we can take some questions about yeah if anyone out there who's watching the show has questions let us know I'm gonna go through here and see if there's any that are coming through but seems like most people are just really excited about this and that they think that the fishing game could be addictive which honestly after just a little bit of playing and I'm like I honestly could see myself playing yeah and just sitting there waiting for it let's see you know many questions yet but yeah Paul how's it going the key to good toy car construction is to crease firmly along the fold lines that's where I'm at yeah so folding is like ninety percent from building yeah it's really making you work for your entertainment looks because I missed the bus was to punch this circuit we're gonna fall we only just go back to playing with this because it's my favorite thing ever it's super fun I guess I can also show off this guitar that is not part of the variety kit but this is about manager Meg all-star superstar she signed this guitar as all good guitarist should have and she reinforces the back with like popsicle sticks here and we use this for like the labo video would you also watch because it's very incredible yeah it took me like two days of like blood sweat and tears over my guitar on to labo which is something you can do to work on garage which is a programming platform within the lab oh let's you like remix like all the different variety kit games or like the robot kit which Paul is going to show off later yeah yeah for the guitar we basically like attached this blue controller here and like use that as like the fret and then we have the screen here and we're like that's so cool so people can buy this now braid they're asking yeah that one it's available yes it's available now and everyone seems to be very interested in the quality of the cardboard yeah which it does feel hefty yeah doesn't feel super like yeah it's like somewhere in between the thickness of like a card a cereal box and like an Amazon shipping package somewhere in the middle yeah and then it's one cartridge per kit right so it's not like I need a separate cartridge for the piano or for they common so the variety kit has the piano RC car fishing rod there's like a tamagotchi like house and was the other one motorcycle yeah did you guys get the motorcycle we and so it's in the office somewhere like we played it at the event and it's pretty fun yeah and also is Nintendo trying to make this an educational thing like is that at all part of their focus or is it more just like this is a fun cool thing for people to do I'm sure it's like like they definitely want to focus on education like especially with work on garage it teaches kids like basics of programming so it works with like if this then that it works with like a series of nodes where you like determine what is the input node so like if you touch this part of the screen the output would be like making a sound or making a part of the screen light up yeah I figured this out okay I've got this Paul is working on the RC car it looks like it's almost done yeah I'm a real instructional follower but I realized now what is actually happening and I think it's gorgeous so it also tells you you have to put the antenna on the screen which is purely decoration right so this part this next part is pretty fun we're gonna face off and rage right these cars hey I love a racetrack let me let me look at the racetrack okay yeah so these instructions are great because it tells you like now put the controller in yes let's you know you know like after you put it in like does it feel a little loose and if so like that's okay cuz it's meant to be loose it vibrates there we go okay and now we're gonna make oh you guys are really using your imaginations so this is the outer edge of the racetrack this is the middle and we've have our starting line right here so that's the start also like these like cones also come with the cardboard kit so like they're really encouraging you to like know get competitive wow I can't believe this tutorial okay so I guess yeah let's exit out and go back to the play portion and this is the part let's you race your friends you can control both of these on one switch I think one of these is backwards which the IR camera is forward I have no idea yeah I think it was going towards with okay let's test this out okay so I'll take I'll take this one okay very good who's gonna win okay Tommy you're Paul now place your bets oh yeah actually I can't book side it's you know I gotta remain neutral here I'm just a neutral referee do you have an advantage because you're cool we'll be outside okay what if you try to push him out that's all there's about marathoners you help everyone without limit of their life wait here Yami's really trying to push them out wait music coming from tell me you are now third square 52 seconds that's just loud that was exactly what you can do with a variety K now let's move on to the robot can I ask a question for my shot people want to know if you think it's worth some money I definitely think it's worth money like if you're gonna spend $60 on like Super Mario any game these days games are like like this is an experience it makes a lot more sense if you have kids yeah but there is something that is very satisfying if you if you're looking for like a hobby yeah you want to learn programming or or just like make something with your hands it's it's pretty good okay so I'm gonna switch out the cartridge here oh that's right it's a different yeah it's a different game $80 yes I do think the robot I think the variety kid is a better value yeah but I were to recommend something like a robot and this took one of our team members Jeff about three hours three hours our longest one to build I think we have like a time-lapse of Jeff there he is and yeah there's just so many pieces showing show off like the inside of it yeah yeah yeah so the instructions you create like weights to be put inside this cardboard backpack and the way all those weights are made up of this cardboard that you fold over each other and it works like the piano you have these like IR stickers that move up and down depending on if you're pulling on the strings and you can't see it on the camera but Paul also has the weights attached to his feet so so the controller with a camera with going yeah so we have to put the controller into the back of the robot kit how does it feel to pull on the strings I was when I saw this it looked like the most fragile thing in the world and I didn't think I would be able to actually wear it at all yeah weirdly strong yeah it's cool that like both kids and adults can wear this robot kit because the string is long enough mm-hmm I definitely feel like I'm sending Paul off to school oh and also comes with this visor here we have to put the blue controller here okay this is we launched the yeah so let's put the robot kit into the dock all right so this is my new look for the summer you're placing your wearable computer glasses that's right let's say and we're gonna just go ahead and put this into the dock and play the robot game all right we're gonna put this on the big screen so you guys it's C and Paul's gonna demonstrate this these are the these are the legs yeah there's a little fiddly to get it oh okay right now you have the visor on which puts you into the perspective of the robot first-person perspective that's normal and the objective of this game is to basically just walk around and destroy everything so you can take a bunch of stuff to go forward punch the building destroy it if you could also visualize where the yeah the weights are yeah you're sewing destruction if you crouch down you can get into a car good for the kids yeah not so much funny because the switch can also tell how many calories you burn while doing this I feel like I should be making yeah well my favorite part is it almost feels like an AR experience beautifly send your arms out to fly it gives you a couple tips they're really loves giving you this helpful tips yeah I am like 3 or 4 times and it always gives me this whole the immune eyes are you enough destruction yeah you're just being peaceful I really don't like the story things I'm a bill Oh but so you actually program yes so I was I thought this is cool is pretty excited about it and then I saw a Dom knees project of building this guitar and playing Rainbow Connection so I immediately took the this robot kit I was like well I can make like a robot yeah I know but I think I think that's the idea and I think that's why this is an exciting thing is cuz I think I'm probably the only person who thought robot piano and they saw Tommy's video cuz it's just obvious what what am i doing I'm doing stuff ok here we go built a one-man instrument machine that you control with your body it's really sad sound oh my god freakin to watch yes I feel so sad but you know Paul you're following your heart and that's what's important here [Laughter] so basically you this has inputs so the input is if the the left arm right arm right leg left leg I also set it up with touch inputs like that means this guitar thing so those and then those are wired up to the way the legs work it detects that you're pulling it down and it it's it's the opposite of automatically contracted and then they're like the legs by default are what's the opposite of contracted extract new extended okay so but so I put in these not gates so that's in the middle there's these logic things so so I put it in little not gates because there are not and AM gates by the way this is turn complete you could make your own NAND gates and make a whole computer out of this program it would take forever yeah you can customize what sound you want piano or you can make it play like an organ to play like a heavy metal guitar sound a way to sharing what you've created like this they build a community because you can go in here and like save your file I have no idea I guess they've got something they thought of you can also say what range it senses this with them mm-hmm so if you if I don't want it I didn't want a guitar sound until I hit like a pretty high oh yeah so it's not doing that's really cool busking falls one-man band amazing alright well that is the lab Oh amazing Tommy this is beautiful so Paul yes you made a video it was basically trying to start some beef with hi and Barton Bird cuz we were disagreeing about some technology topics also I feel like a lot of what the show is about is showing them to behind the scenes and what is more than behind-the-scenes then a writer for circuit-breakers desk so this is x desc hey it's your friend paul miller a lot of people have said that Paul why is your desk so messy and well I always say to them is I don't have a good answer but one one way I deflect is I say have you seen Himes desk - hi I'm Garten Berg hi in addition to always agreeing about where our keyboards should be placed and headphone form factors we both have pretty messy desks would you agree yes would you say your desk is maybe more messy than mine I would maybe disagree on that I generally point people at your desk oh wow so we're both deflecting yeah see I have a lot more loose cables you've got a lot of boxes yeah I mean they just accumulate because you have like little things like you know headphones and hubs and then they come in boxes and then I don't need the box while I'm testing it but I need the box so I can give it back afterwards and it's just like they just kind of pile up and I test a lot of things so I think what we should do there's no shame here all right okay well let's just let's just run through what you got this is the most important space which is the small reclaimed area that I get to keep my computer so I can actually get work done let it be known that you do get a lot of work done that's that's good or you just say these are my headphones they usually go in my bag I just didn't put them back in my bag after my commute this morning would you say they're comfortable headphones yeah these are great these are really comfortable that's good to know Nintendo switch which I'm actually currently testing with some USB C chargers right now this is a notebook full of notes for meetings oh this is my to-do list notebook actually I have actually still not done some of these I should get on that wait where's that cable from oh okay so this cables actually from these headphones I'm matching matching the logos sometimes I said things the back sometimes they just stay on my desk but you what's the process here so the process here is I'm gonna hand it to Michael and Michael's gonna hopefully put in our views room real time behind the scenes Michael I had nice return there will be more it's like an echo da Apple TV combo pack am i right you're not a MIDI introduce some garbage this is some garbage this is some car that plastic I really I recognize that plastic sheet as just a common thing that goes in boxes sometimes this is the remarkable it's an Ian tablet this was on the show this is a personal favorite it is a razor light up mug holder and if you plug this into computer it lights up and you can have it light up with like razer stuff headphones your ultimate is available in overwatch when your Ultimates available it's it's really the pinnacle of mug technology are you reviewing the ps4 I am borrowing a ps4 from the verge because I don't actually own a ps4 but I am playing the new God of War so I can write about that for our game section you gotta force by the way pretty good these are notebooks five and six notebook County notebook number seven which says small on it I'm not sure why it's a common insult that I received in middle school this is the holder for these headphones so I'm gonna put this bad yeah we're reuniting elements let's reenact these guys I think I spotted goggles are there goggles on your desk Kyle yeah of course these are my protection goggles we're actually like reaching the base layer of desk at least in the center over here now we like in archaeology are we going backwards in time yeah we're actually we want to say number eight I met 20 I'm seeing a book do you also review books I don't it seems like the base sedimentary layer is USB cables yeah this is a PlayStation 4 controller that looks a lot like an Xbox controller and a Google pixel book look things that are you currently in progress we're finally approaching the final layer this is just a giant pile of USBC hubs would you call yourself the world's foremost expert on USB C hubs can I call you the world's for math you can do whatever you want Paul this is crazy so yeah I just need to organize the cables a little bit let's do the official count two three four five six percent 13 that seems that seems about right I really just want to take everything on your chair please I need to I need to address this that's how it's done use psychological warfare on your co-workers to make them clean their desks that was beautiful Paul that was just stunning I feel bad you feel bad maybe I'm a mean person I mean your desk is equally as messy it's true so we just need to hire them to get revenge on you true but now you can't you know I'll figure it out okay so for this segment the spinning wheel of gadget wonderment yes we're going to spin the wheel these are all the gadgets that we're supposed to be on the show but we just never got to it yeah so then what's gonna happen is we're gonna land on a gadget and someone is gonna come out and explain the gadget it's me like lightning boom ah boom you're training for this moment our whole lives it's true it's true this this wheel requires a lot of muscle should I spend first the Hori onyx that's time uh-oh hi I'm this is his chance to really tell us how he feels Hori onyx which is a really weird PlayStation 4 controller that is a the first an actually only third-party Wireless PlayStation 4 controller so if you want a wireless controller that isn't made by Sony okay this is the only one and it also looks suspiciously almost copyright inducing like an Xbox controller but it still is the touchpad it still the touchpad is still it doesn't actually it has uses this little light over here instead of light bar on top okay but if you like the Xbox controller this is the closer you can get with the PlayStation is it I know this is a real company they only sell it in Europe you cannot buy this in America you actually have to import it from America but if you wants the Xbox experience on a Playstation this is pretty much your only option I don't want to start any beefs but do you prefer the Xbox controller to the ps4 can still I prefer the Xbox controller layout I like the offset thumbsticks the promise that the buns on this just aren't that good but someone hopefully will make one Chris the buttons need to be crisper I agree and I think it turned it on all right oh hi um thank you thank you so long sorry alright Paul the honest man yes this is a drone with Intel stuff this is Sean Sean okay come on up Sean okay baby it's Sean gonna do it is he gonna bring the drone on air or not oh okay Sean so okay we got we got the joke this is a classic circuit breaker live problem and old things always break you just have to handle it it's made by a Chinese company called rice it has Intel and DJI technology inside of it okay and it's 99 bucks which means it's actually like for sure the best if you can get it to connect indoor drone and watch out here a really great camera but it just is really smooth and very easy to fly it also has these really crazy flight modes any good hello hello uh turbo for a drama actually works yeah astonishing okay so Paul I hate to do this yeah but it's kinda suffer everybody everybody on the set they were bring it back all together the people you run out you care about the whole squad are you can you mess with the voice hello il nib it's my family's name it's wonderful this is good okay well it's what did you bring so if you're of a certain age like me I'm in my on the day we've already so we can check the map here we can probably forgive this one I sorry Risa man that Creighton comes in here we needed sir you should come in now into the studio at this very moment it was on the spinning wheel and I was gonna run in this is a surface pro yeah I have velcro to guts of an iMac g4 and it's just connected like that and I just pop it on and it pops up and that's how were you talk to you all this is amazing where you been way all idris more fun gorgeous all right well that is the show yeah practice a good like goodbye yeah I wrote a song but it was too sad only hide your robot yeah I don't please go to the we're so gonna hear at youtube.com slash the verge which you are at right now we're still making content circuit breaker still exists this show will abound in different ways and that's it yeah alright thanks for watching you