Gadgetory

what's up guys Lew here and as you can tell the space is a little cramped right now that's because I have teamed up with Best Buy to put together the ultimate back-to-school gadget guide these are my picks and I've got a reason for every single one so stick around and let's get into it this is from the RL series thank you I chose this one for a couple of reasons it's an incredible gaming monitor it has some of the best input lag or lack of input lag of any monitor on the market that means when you have an input on your controller some kind of instruction a button press etc it's going to happen on-screen incredibly quickly that's different than response time but when it comes to response time this thing is quick as well one millisecond to be more specific so it's a 27 inch display it's got dual HDMI so a couple of different sources is another cool feature which is this little hook on the side and this is used to house your headphones they always know where they are and they're up off the desk and out of your way on the back you also have a headphone out and aligned in sort of act as a mini receiver if you will it's also got a DVI port and traditional VGA port so there are some options for interfacing with other stuff I almost forgot to mention is this little Ridge here this might just look like a design feature but check this out there's actually some rubber up here and that's going to be the perfect spot to house your controllers a really well-thought-out little feature you're always looking for a place to put these BenQ RL series my monitor choice for the ultimate Dormer next up we have a mouse this is my favorite right here the MX master from Logitech incredibly comfortable these are sort of the leaders in the space when it comes to precision mousing I said precision mounting plus this can use bluetooth over receiver to work on Mac or PC and it can be paired to multiple devices at once this thumb wheel on the side for horizontal scrolling you've also got this really unique free spinning wheel in your traditional scroll wheel section here very satisfying clicks this is just a fantastic package up to 40 days of battery life if you want the best in the business it is probably the MX master from Logitech so this gets my vote for the mouse choice in this ultimate back-to-school gadget guide what do we have next AJ it's an external hard drive I know not the most exciting thing in the world but you're gonna be doing a lot of work and it's not any good to you if you lose it all so this is a place to back it up it's also a place for all your multimedia you know I'm always thinking about the entertainment side as well this is a one terabyte Thunderbolt bus powered drive and in this case that means up to 110 megabyte per second transfers it's a little bit rugged as well so if you do drop it bump it it has a little bit of extra protection lastly the cable is built right in it sort of just slides around the outside and then there's a little is it a flap it's a cover that keeps it contained say you happen to go to your friend's dorm room and they don't have Thunderbolt capabilities on their computer but you still want to share files this still has USB on it USB 3.0 to be specific so no matter what computer you're interfacing with you are covered so I talked a little bit earlier about entertainment and I think it's important for your dorm room lifestyle your back-to-school lifestyle it really all starts right here this is a PlayStation 4 I'm sure you've seen one before combo kit comes with the new Batman Arkham Knight heard fantastic things about this game this was a very tough decision going with the PlayStation 4 over the Xbox one obviously there are very passionate people on either side of the console spectrum there are many cross-platform games available and I think the most important thing to consider when deciding on the console you want to take with you off to your college just consider which one are your friends on which one are they gaming on and then that's probably the best one for you in my case it's Playstation headphones very important have a very intimate relationship with my headphones this is the new version of a pair of Sony's that I've been using for a year now maybe over a year the MDR is ZX 7 7 0 bTW this is their latest in wireless bluetooth headphones now the reason I've chosen these is because they're versatile they can be used with a wire or without they also don't feature active noise cancellation I've never been a huge fan of active noise cancellation requires more battery life gives you that odd sense of compression on your ears at least for some people now this is this is subjective they make an active noise cancellation it's got a microphone in it too so when you pair this with your cell phone you can go ahead and answer phone calls now this is going to work with your Playstation as well as your laptop with or without cables and as you can see here it even has NFC that's one of my favorite features it means that when you want to pair with a new device say your phone for example I hope it features NFC simply tap the two you are then paired and you're listening to your favorite podcast or whatever it is that you do with headphones these are capable of up to 17 hours battery life and in my testing they get very close to that so as you'd imagine you're not charging them that often and you pretty much always have juice when you need it 17 hours could go to Tokyo can I get to Tokyo 17 hours Tokyo baby you're probably going to need a backpack to carry all this stuff around this one is from a company called dual I hope I'm pronouncing that correctly they're out of Sweden this one sort of checks all the boxes for things should be looking for and it includes something that's a little bit unusual this safe zone up here which is like a hard portion for storing something like sunglasses or important electronics and gadgets as you can see here you put sunglasses back here you put your phone up top it's also water-resistant so if it rains you should be okay on the inside of this little pocket here you can feel there's like a coating a plastic coating so that water hopefully been penetrate and zippers themselves very satisfying you have a big compartment in the back for a laptop as well as an iPad and this front compartment here some organizational stuff for pens various school related stationery and then there's a really big main compartment as well you'll likely be using for textbooks unfortunately sound very important I'm a big fan of sound and this is going to improve it compared to say the speakers on your phone or your laptop it's the JBL pulse and what's special about it compared to other Bluetooth speakers is that it lights up you're at college and you might do a little bit of partying and when you show up with this thing people are going to know I'm going to see the the lights moving along like an equaliser they're going to know that you mean business party business now often people think that a Bluetooth speaker will only work with Bluetooth but many of them like this one actually have an auxilary input as well meaning you could connect this to the stationary setup that I proposed earlier with the BenQ monitor and even the laptop and PlayStation and everything connected you can take exhilarate out from the monitor and that will essentially take both of your HDMI inputs from your computer as well as your PlayStation and send that audio through to this speaker which is going to be better than either of those things independently that said this works incredibly well as a Bluetooth speaker also so somebody comes over to visit you and you're set up they might be visiting your set up first and then you the thing that can connect via bluetooth on their smart phone and stream music that way so it's a versatile solution without the need for a lot of outboard gear something that's easy to travel with now this one is not something that you absolutely need this is just something that I'm really into in a very intense way this is the new rx 100 from Sony pretty much the best pocket camera ever made the perfect companion to a wonderful college experience this thing has an incredible lens an incredible sensor it now shoots 4k video and high frame rate video for slow-motion stuff with the giant aperture on the lens you're going to have a much easier time taking pictures in low light which is probably what you'll be dealing with at those parties I'm talking about the new rx 100 mark or from another camera this is a different kind of camera meant to actually stay in your space it's the new camera from nest which has an incredibly wide field of view this is going to help you to protect all this stuff I'm talking about very important comes with a slick application for checking in on your space right you know seeing if anything unusual is going on you can also set up alerts so you're the first to know if anything fishy is going down why have all this cool stuff if you're not even going to protect it cables a necessary evil but believe it or not something that I'm incredibly excited about I like innovations in the cable space a few of these here are representations of that one of my favorite manufacturers happens to be tilt for that very reason you can see this flip duo here is not only both a microUSB and lightning cable but it also now has a reversible USB connector so you can't plug it in the wrong way that is a win my friends also from tilt this flat short cable which believe it or not is incredibly convenient it'll never be tangled when you're looking for it and when you don't need that extra cabling this is a way to stay organized we've also got this battery pack one of my favorites again it's very slim and it has built-in cables so built-in lightning as well as micro USB this fits in your back pocket incredibly slender one of my favorites a couple of extra HDMI s and audio cables can't go wrong with those and then my new favorite accessory this surge protector from Belkin which features a rotating look at this rotating outlets so no matter how big your power bricks are you can actually use all the outlets that you paid for you know the drill you need power a phone this is the bonus round you might already have a phone but if you don't and you're looking for one to complete the ultimate gadget setup for back-to-school this is probably it this is my favorite this is what's in my pocket it's the s6 active a tough rugged version of the galaxy s6 from Samsung this one is going to give you water resistance it's going to give you a little bit of extra shock resistance as well overall great package fast incredible camera that's my smartphone choice for the ultimate back-to-school gadget guide so there you have it my ultimate back-to-school gadget guide for 2015 I hope you guys found this useful if you did make sure to leave a thumbs up down below big thanks to Best Buy for making this video possible all of this stuff is available on bestbuy.com I'll have all the relevant links down in the description if you want to check out pricing and availability on any of this stuff hopefully you pick something up and it improves your college experience potentially making it the best college experience possible thanks again guys I'll catch you on the next episode later