Gadgetory

welcome back to another episode of the incredibly popular series here on unbox therapy gadgets under a particular price point today we're back to gadgets under $10 let's go ahead and get straight into it so first things first on the far side here we have a light bulb obviously I wouldn't show you a standard light bulb this one is a little bit fancier so it's kind of like a budget version of the Philips hue or one of those other programmable Wi-Fi connected bulbs now obviously this one is a little bit more low-tech for 10 bucks but you do have a remote control and you can change the color of it so for a basic type of installation you can have all the ambience of a colorful light without the expenditure of a Wi-Fi connected one all right so I have my famous IKEA lamp here with wireless charger built in I did a video on this very interesting you can charge it can lamp you can do it all so I'm gonna put this in seems right and now my magic lighting remote controller I'll pull this tab out we might need some lights off would you look at that all the basic ones white blue green red and then of course the different sequences the flashing the breathing cycle look at how look how gentle that is okay so a simple way to add some ambience to your light fixture or to your room maybe your bedroom without the investment of a whole setup that's connected to your network maybe this is on your bedside table and it's under ten bucks all right so next up we have a couple of items here that are kind of connected this guy here and this guy here this is for people who drink beer could work for a coca-cola doesn't really matter but this one over here is specifically for bottles look at this this was like four bucks for both of these I think this is a bottle cap remover which also happens to fire the bottle cap why I don't know for fun I guess they give you to include it and they also give you a ring which can open a bottle as well a bottle cap opener ring you got to be a serious drinker to wear that at all times but it looks like it should function it's way less fun than this unit here before I use that I do want to mention another gadget here the beer chiller dick this is for a warm beer in order to instantly chill it and keep it cold this little unit here rather than having to be filled with water it has some sort of frozen fluid in there you stick this thing in the freezer and if you get stuck with the warm beverage you slide this in and instantly it's cold now in the package it came with two and just like on a fancy cooking show I already have the other one frozen so I'm gonna crack the beer and then I'm gonna test this up see how quickly this guy can cool down a warm beer so you can see this is frosty very cold we're gonna use that in a moment first let's try this bottle opener see how this functions here alright so this I get in there like this ooh very nice look at that comes off quite easily and then what do we fire it you ready for this you're gonna lose an eye here I do not do not fire this at people okay it's still a metal projectile let's try it could be fun oh I've had some good distance to it you pop the bottle you fire it into the end there's no mess it is you don't get these bottle caps lying around everywhere it actually has some utility to it it's also kind of fun let's slide this guy in and see what happens okay here we go there's like a gasket a rubber gasket in there so it's secure so the beverage itself enters that chamber and then comes up the ice-cold contraption it's definitely not ice cold yet maybe this thing is targeted more at keeping a beer cold as it says on the top here but then again if you have a nice cold beer how long are you holding on to it what are you doing you hold on to it for a couple of hours or what you need to keep it cool to gene to make it cold let's find out I mean it's definitely colder but it ain't ice cold it's not like the hyper chiller this is more to keep it cold alright if it's a really hot day you're out there but it ain't an ice cold beer alright so next up we have this thing here zag gadget cleaning foam let's go ahead and try it let's see here now you're gonna get fingerprints on your device no matter what but the thinking here is you can get it back to a reasonable cleanliness and then do it all over again here they are right in there those guys nobody wants that nobody won't look at it right there so we're gonna come with the foam here put it on the microfiber ooh okay it's like a car wash up in here and we're gonna hit the device it does the trick very nicely in fact oh my a nice and fresh display it works I didn't expect otherwise like I expected it to work the question is how much better is it then spray one area where I think this could be real nice is on laptop displays on the display of your laptop you're like how did those I never touch the display on my laptop yet when you turn off the screen it's like there's inevitably fingerprints on there I have no idea how it happens but it always happened so the last one of the day it is the arctic breeze mobile it's a USB fan they're super cheap now this is under ten bucks and what I liked about this one it has this maneuverable neck to it so you can direct your breeze plug this into the laptop let's do it alright so you got a USB port on a laptop here like this one you know you want to have it kind of up like this I'm gonna twist it like this look at that I'm cooling down that's a decent little breeze going on there you're getting a nice little breeze staying awake and what I like here is there's no separate stand it sits up on this arm here and there you go alright so there you have it that's five cool gadgets you can get right now for under ten bucks and here is the crazy part this episode has been sponsored by privacy calm and they are a site where you can actually set up virtual credit cards to shop online while protecting your identity let me give you an example of how this works let's say 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sponsoring the show they're gonna give you guys ten bucks to star ten free dollars go to the link in the description sign up try the service out by any of these gadgets I just mentioned or any other gadget for that matter it's free I'm serious it's actually free shout out to privacy comm for the cool promo and for sponsoring this episode now go go spend the cash I'm serious get one of these gadgets or maybe there's something better I don't know comments here's a good one from Donald Trump something tells me that's not actually him but very original username there what one gadget would you take with you for the rest of your life this is easy right I think I don't know am I gonna have battery life am I gonna have electricity because if so I'm taking my smartphone okay you can do the most things I can stay in contact communicate I could play games on it I could watch YouTube assuming the infrastructure stays up and running a smart phone is that one gadget that's on you all the time it's the one that gives you access to everything else so the rest of my life gadget would have to be a smart phone here's a good one how do you get so amped up every episode your videos are the loudest i watch at times I've got to reduce the volume but man it's fun to watch keep up the psychie you know what that is it's a good question because I feel that it's important to bring my a-game to the table I try to remember what it's like to get some new gadget because ultimately I'm an enthusiast first I'm interested in tech like naturally without this channel that's why I got into this channel so if I come on here and it's just like ho-hum here we go another product another gadget and I'm not really doing service to the thing until what your experience would be like if you were interacting with that thing I've done like 1200 videos there's so many products that come through they start to just look like a stack it starts to look like a pie who would want to watch that if I get pumped about a product whether it's all camera or otherwise this is me oh man I'm like look at that thing that thing is cool you need to go out and get one that's me to you and it's me in my regular life to people who ask me that question they say Lou what do I need I say you need to listen to me right now alright here's what you need to do that's that's what I do that's who I am if you can't get passionate about it why are people asking you for why are you the one that people are asking for advice if you don't even care so the reason I'm amped is because I care oh here's a good one hey Lou I've got a question how much time does it take to record a video do you get to enjoy your life to believe yes believe it or not I have a lot of time left so one thing about my videos is that they're never scripted ok there's there's I'm not sitting down and I'm like formulating how I'm going to express something I want it to be organic you know I want to just I want to go off the top like what is this thing making me feel how am i interpreting it what is the impression what is the reaction those are the important components to me so because of that it means I for the most part I get to sit here put a product in front of me and see what happens and the good part about that is it means I can make a lot of videos I don't need to necessarily invest my whole life plus I work with great people who are able to take certain tasks off my plate when it comes to editing and other things so I can have a pretty decent balance between how often I'm at work how often I'm at home and how often I'm doing things that I enjoy there you go three questions answered for you remember leave your questions in the comment section of this video and you might show up on the next episode