3 Cool Gadgets That'll Improve Your Life (or won't)

All right, so I regret to inform you

those of you in the audience, those of you that are here in the studio, I've likely spent too much money on some SD cards

That's these ones right here. Anytime you go to the far end of the spectrum

price to performance ratio gets a bit nuts. And that's the place we're in with this particular SD card

It's from Sony and it says tough right on the front. So that's your indicator that this is a substantial piece of gear

This is a 64 gigabyte SD card. And you're thinking to yourself, what are you doing with a 64 gigabyte SD card

Part of it is how cost prohibitive this particular model is. We've just gone through so many SD cards over the years

Ones like this. Plenty of storage for a cheap price. These things, they get beat up

These little switches on the side sometimes give way and stop operating as you would expect

They don't lock in place. So then when you're in and out of a camera or an audio recorder

this thing might slide when you don't want it to. Sony aimed to address some of those problems

some of the concerns that a pro user might have around an SD card

And that's this SD card right here. So capable of 300 megabyte per second read speeds

just under 300 megabyte per second write speeds. On top of that, look at this

the world's first one-piece molded construction with high hardness materials resulting in the

world's highest level of bend strength 18 times greater than a standard SD card. They got rid of

the right protection switch which I don't know does anybody actually use those we never do. The

card is waterproof compliant to IPX8. For a 64 gigabyte card you're paying $100 USD that's even

more in Canada. It was like $130, $140. It's a tremendous amount of money for a 64 gig SD card

But when you're recording kind of mission critical stuff, you don't want the breakdown to happen on

the SD card side. So you pay a little bit of a premium. So this is the card. And I mean, it looks

like an SD card. What can I really tell you? It is an SD card. Okay. It's definitely reinforced

It's super hard material. The contact points also look sort of different here

This is a different level of SD card. Look at the contact points

Of course, you'll also notice here the difference. There's no little hold switch

It is a V90 card, U3 card. And hopefully we can get rid of some of these cheaper cards

Will has the prices for larger cards. You can see a 128 card for Like I mean even in Sony other series the M series This is 50 bucks over here for a 128 it like double the price what do they state the water resistance is will ip68 dust and

waterproofing what does that mean it can be underwater at what depth for how long 1.5 meters

of fresh water for 30 minutes 1.5 meters we don't have that we have a glass of water

but it should give you an idea. You can casually pop that in there and not be too concerned

I'm not going to leave it in there for 30 minutes either but I just want to show you it's the real deal

It's tough. Look how tough it is. It's swimming. It's that tough. The whole thing is just sealed up, dry it up, get back to business

There's no seams on the cart itself. So others in the past have made claims kind of like this

but you had to be concerned about the seams. If you're in a market for some crazy durability

and speed in an SD card and compatibility. You might wanna check out this series yourself though

Like I said, not gonna be justifiable for most people at that particular cost

But if you're chasing the ultimate, this might just be it. All right, I have a couple other gadgets I wanna check out

We have one here. There's been versions of this in the past. This one, at least from a packaging perspective

looks to be the most polished. This aims to take a type C connector

supplying power to a laptop or other device and turn it into a magnetic connection

Now, some of them in the past I didn't like that much because it was a bit difficult

to get the magnetic component off from a company called InnerXile. It's called the ThunderMag

Thunderbolt 3 USB-C magnetic for all type C devices. It's the lightest, smallest, safest, and fastest connector

The cord gently disconnects, gently. So they're thinking about what I'm thinking about

and it supports up to 100 watts. How about that for an unboxing experience

It's the adapter, but that's really all you need and all you pay for. How much does this go for, Will

Is it a Kickstarter? Is it 49 bucks? That's a little pricey

Capable of transferring data over the magnetic connector? Wow. Okay, so that's a little bonus

Supporting video output, 6K 60 Hertz. Supports Thunderbolt 3 external GPUs. Look at all the pins on that connector right there

This is a more advanced version, and that's how you get your much larger connector there

Connects here via magnet and then the type C connector goes into, I have some laptops over there

So this guy is going to pop in there and then your type C charge cable will go here

So this goes into here. And now normally, if this was just straight into the laptop

and you kicked this or tripped over it, you might yank the laptop right off the table

but in it ooh that comes off maybe too easily That comes off very easily Let try it on the Macbook here So you yank that off Okay off is easy On Hmm

Aligning it up takes a little effort for the on portion. Now, I'm sure you could get used to that there

It definitely requires a little extra finesse. It's not like MagSafe was

This could be a prototype, right, Will? Like, this might not be final

just because we're seeing it on Kickstarter right now. So let's keep that in mind as we evaluate here

But I have some power down here actually. And then line it up

Okay, so we hear the tone. It's charging. Still charging. Okay, that's good

We pop it off. It stops. We go back on. It starts charging again

You really have to watch it to make sure you've hit all the contact points

Or at least you just have to be aware of it, I guess. one benefit though here of it coming off easily is if you walk past it or kick it

it's coming off easily but it's almost so gentle that you wonder if you wanted to have it sitting

on your lap but charging if you'd ever be confident in this particular connection i think

this is one of those situations where the potential for added convenience might not be enough given

the potential downside to be fair none of the magnetic alternatives or magnetic adapters for

type c have been perfect or impressive to me to this point so it's just another one to the pile i

guess for now okay last up we have this thing uh showed up it's also a kickstarter product it is a

magnetic power bank how are you going to connect it to your phone your phone's not already magnetic

So I believe what we're going to see here is some sort of an attachment inside the package

that allows you to make any case magnetic capable, capable of interfacing with this

charger magnetically. You might have a moment case. This is the later case

And so I think the angle here from this company EXO is make any case magnetic capable with

our 5,000 milliamp hour battery bank. This is the product right here

Does this come off? Oh, yeah. Okay. So this piece. Whoa. That's a pretty strong magnetic force there

All right. The only other thing in the package is a type C to type A cable and an A to micro USB

Let's see here. They want you to just slide it underneath your case

So there's no adhesive necessary. So if we wanted to use, say, this Moment case, if you have a set of lenses and stuff and you

you want to use this power bank set up with this I guess this is a sort of universal fit So you would take this piece where do you put it at the bottom Maybe you put it there like that

And then you slide this one in. Okay, now it's held in place just by the case and the phone

And then we can come with this one. Which way you think

Oh yeah. Turn it on. Oh, there you go. All right, so this phone obviously is dead

but you can see it's beginning to take a charge. Let's try it on a thinner case

Obviously over here we have the later case. This is the bigger iPhone as well

Would it work the same on a thin case? Find out here

Well, that's no good on a thin case. It works, but it's not ideal

You see this case fits so thin. You can see we're charging up there in the top corner

So it does work. It will work with a thin case. I think the proposal here is that you're gonna use it on

with whatever case happens to be your choice. So probably the moment scenario is more compelling

for certain users that have a fatter case and don't have this magnetic power bank option

available to them. You're charging up. This goes back in your pocket when you're done

or when you don't want to, you can have a phone call still. You can use your phone still

It's gonna take longer. It's wireless charging at the end of the day

And chances are when you're using a power bank, you need juice quickly

And it seems a bit odd that you wouldn't use the cable to get juice back into your phone as rapidly as possible

or as rapidly as you can. But there's the convenience factor of carrying the two of these in your pocket

and not needing a cable to go with you. So I kind of understand that too

It's kind of nice to have both. It's a Kickstarter project for the time being

What do they want? want $67 from you. They say it's one millimeter thin so it should work in a lot of cases that are

slightly more robust. You could probably use it in an OtterBox something like that. 134 grams so

that's kind of nice. Just don't know if it's compelling enough if you already have a battery

bank particularly one that's quick charge capable. I don't know you guys tell me. I noticed Will when

he carries around a battery bank he likes to just have a big one. He likes to have like a big giant

thing so he never has to worry about it running out like is a 3000 milliamp hour or a 5000

milliamp hour battery is that big enough now considering the scale of smartphone batteries

themselves is portability really the thing that we need or do we need even greater capacity where

you could recharge a phone or potentially other devices more than once it's the exo

magnetic wireless power bank i'll take the sd card myself