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can a different light source change your
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workspace let's have a look Dave Taylor
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here and I'm working at my big
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workstation here I got this glorious 4k
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monitor and everything it's a really
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great environment to work in except for
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the lighting turns out there aren't a
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lot of great choices for lighting in a
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workspace you can use a big overhead
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light but that tends to put a lot of
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glare on the screen you can use a little
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desk light like this but again that's
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going to put glare on the screen too
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which is why the BenQ screen bar is so
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fantastic it's what this is and all I
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have to do is tap it and now you can see
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all of this is so much better
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illuminated but because of the way it's
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designed the light comes straight down
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and it's not there's no glare there's no
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reflection there's literally no
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illumination on the screen itself so
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when I look at the monitor it looks
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exactly the same way it normally would
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but all of this is really well
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illuminated that is fantastic now let me
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ask you how do you light your workspace
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if you have something like this set up
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even if it's at the kitchen table how do
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you get this part to be illuminated
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probably not going to be a great
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solution but let me know tell me in the
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comments maybe you have an even better
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solution but this one this is again the
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BenQ screen bar LED task lamp and
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there's a lot to really like about this
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so it has an auto dimming feature so as
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the room brightness goes up or down it
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can adjust for that but I like to have
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manual controls one of which is that you
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have brightness so I can do this and I
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can make it less bright it's a little
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hard to see that on the camera but look
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I keep touching it with the other side
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of my hand but now notice also I can
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change the temperature of the light and
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so now let's make it a little brighter
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this is a very warm rng sort of light
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this is good for nighttime work you
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don't want a lot of blue light but
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during the day when you are in the
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middle of your work world then you might
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well want to have a be a bright blue
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really bright illumination you have that
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choice it's really nice then there's
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actually eight steps so you can even
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find a middle ground that gives you sort
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of a neutral light I really like that
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they call that hue adjustment whatever
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you want to call it it's a really great
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feature for a light and the other thing
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that's really neat about this is the
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whole design is really slick let me
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actually pop it off my monitor because
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the bar actually is in this mount and
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it's just a big counterweight and the
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counterweights flexible which means that
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you can put it on any monitor and
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there's no hassle with things like
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mounting tapes or sticky glues or
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anything like that so you can literally
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just flip it on to the back of something
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and it's good to go that's it I am ready
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to rock and roll with this light and it
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powers via micro USB now where that's
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really great is that this monitor has
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USB plugs in the back so I have plugged
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this light into a USB plug in the back
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of my display and it's ready to go if
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you don't have a monitor that has USB
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plugs then I'm sure you have spare USB
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somewhere heck you can probably use an
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old phone charger and plug it straight
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into the wall and that'll work great so
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really really flexible and you know in
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terms of space I love that it takes up
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no space this is not a bad light but it
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takes a valuable desk space I like my
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desk to be empty other than what I'm
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working on if you look behind me you can
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see it's not entirely empty but we won't
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go there but suffice to say for this
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this is as easy as it gets is it's ready
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to roll when I need to be able to look
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at information up close or go through a
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stack of receipts or something and then
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when I don't want it then all I have to
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do is tap and it's off and I'm ready to
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get back to whatever I'm doing on my
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monitor there is not much not to like
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about this so let me just say the only
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limitation the only thing I will mention
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is that because of the design if you
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have something like a big iMac with a
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webcam right there front and center then
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you might have to slide it to the side a
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little bit to make sure that it's not
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covering the camera that is an easy
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thing to do and again because there's no
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mounting tape or anything you don't have
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to worry about oh I installed it but now
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it's not exactly the right position no
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that is no problem at all and you could
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even take it on the road with you and
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put it on another monitor or use it at
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work or use it at school or something so
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whatever wherever you want to have
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better illumination in front of your
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screen without it actually messing up
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the screen itself this is a great
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solution now before I get to the price
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if I can go ahead and ask you to give me
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a thumbs up subscribe if you're so
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inclined but definitely leave me a
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comment let me know how do you do
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lighting in your workspace some really
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curious about how people do that this is
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such a great solution now before I sound
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like a total shill and I'm not I'm not
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getting anything out of this just have a
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nice new light so let me just tell you
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the price the BenQ screen bar LED task
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lamp will set you back 99 dollars at
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now that is pretty spendy because you
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can go and buy a desk lamp for probably
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five or ten dollars at Target but here's
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the thing is that there's so much to
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like about this from the different hue
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adjustments to the brightness
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adjustments to the fact that it doesn't
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take any desk real estate all of that is
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such a win that I think this is a smart
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whoops this is a smart investment if
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you're actually trying to build a nice
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workspace that's gonna help you be
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efficient and get your job done so
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that's all I got I need to get back to
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going through my receipts so I will
