So, from some of the best USB tech I've ever used, from all the way to some crazy looking
Bluetooth speakers, this is a TechFlow top 5.
What's going on guys?
How are you all doing?
My name is Alex and welcome back to this month's top 5 for...
What month are we on now?
2017.
January, February, March, April...
May.
Top 5 in May.
These are my top 5 most used tech products.
Let's get in to it.
Kicking things off in number five, and I'm not sure why I haven't spoken about this before
because I've used this thing and still use it every day since when I got it for Christmas
in January.
This is a simple Anker USB Hub and I have this in what I like to call my server room.
And pretty much what it is, is a USB hub.
And it provides power to any and all devices that are plugged in to it.
Now, the one that I've got and I use on a daily basis has a bunch of normal USB ports
and, as well, a USB C port for charging those devices like the brand new Samsung Galaxy
S8 or the Axon 7 or even a GoPro Hero 5.
As well as USB charging hubs, Anker do pretty much anything and everything to do with USB,
so, if you're after a lightning cable for your iPhone or a USB C cable for your 4K monitor
to your MacBook, Anker have got you covered.
Every single USB cable, pretty much, in my house is an Anker one.
They're durable and the best cables out there.
Not sponsored.
You can look in my draw.
I use them myself.
This is the Evapolar.
Now, if you've been around my channels for a long time, you'll know that this is something
I received last summer, something that I raved about last summer and then something, I, well,
I'll let you guys know.
I put it away and it collected loads of dust and I never used it.
Now, if you've been around in the recent weeks, you'll know that I've taken a short break
from my vlogging channel.
By the way, I'm back on vlogging again now so you can check out my channel, MarzBarVlogs.
But in that short, three day break that I had from daily vlogging, I found myself sat
at my desk in my, well, new office space.
It was getting really hot and in arm's length was my dusty Evapolar.
I dusted it off, filled it up with water and it's been sat on my desk ever since cooling,
cooling me down.
Pretty much, this is an air-conditioning unit.
Now, please don't buy this thinking that it's going to cover an entire room, because it's not.
It's pretty much just going to cool you down right, right at your desk and that is it.
It's not going to do anything else.
It's not a, it's not a magic machine.
It has a cool LED light on the side of it which is either a gimmick or cool.
You can change the colour of it and it has a really cool display on the top.
But this thing isn't a gimmick - it really does pump out cool, cool air.
Not just a normal fan - it does cool the air down.
Not to an extreme degree but it does cool that stuff down.
Now, the reason why I'm excited about this is because EvaPolar have actually got a KickStarter
campaign going on right now where they're designing their, I want to say "Version 2" EvaPolar,
which is fixing a lot of the issues that this one had.
Did I say KickStarter?
It's an IndieGoGo.
An IndieGoGo campaign.
Link's in the description.
It has features like, well, apparently, you're going to be able to control the thing with
your Google Home, your Amazon Alexa or your, your Apple Home Kit from, you know: Hey Siri,
what's the temperature outside?
I'm definitely going to be backing this version 2 of the EvaPolar.
It seems to have fixed all of the issues with this one and controlling it with, well, a
voice assistant just puts the icing on the cake.
Let's move on.
Now, I believe that this is called the Zendure Power Bank.
And, yeah, it's a normal power bank but the reason why it's in this top 5: It has two reasons.
First one is its size and it's 26,800 mAh.
Second one - this is the only USB power bank that I've found that can maintain a significant
charge on my brand new 2016 USB C MacBook Pro, 15 inch retina model.
Now, this thing, I've tested it out.
I have no proper, sure fire way to test it.
It is 100% 26,800 mAh.
But this thing, I've charged it twice and used it for about a month now, taken it to
numerous trips, I've been to Portugal with it, I've been to London overnight with it
and it never seems to drop down.
This thing, I like it.
And best of all, it looks sexy AF.
Moving on, getting a little bit more personal now, in number two.
This is the Nox Sleep Light.
I've got this thing next to my bed and I genuinely thought it was a bit of a gimmick.
So, I saw recently Unbox Therapy cover a little device that put out what we call "white noise."
And he said that he needs white noise to sleep and I've never needed this before or I've
never experienced it before.
Now I've experienced it.
Wow.
So, the Nox Music Smart Sleep Light plays soothing sounds and emits a light if you want
to create you, to full asleep a little bit easier than you otherwise would.
And for me, it really works.
But this is a subjective thing.
You can choose from numerous different sound effects to fall asleep to and then, once you're
asleep, the sound effects will turn off after, after a time period.
And the thing will also wake you up in a calm and de-stressing manner with a soothing light
and some soothing sounds.
And one thing that I always complain about, if you've been watching my vlogs, is falling
asleep and getting my sleep schedule right.
This thing, I think it's helping me to fall asleep easier and waking up in less of a grump.
Very subjective but, again, this is my top 5 tech.
Let's move on to number one.
Looks pretty cool, right?
This thing, it's a Bluetooth speaker.
And, it may look like a gimmick but, in real life, this thing, it really, really turns heads.
It's made out of plastic but it's really, really cool.
So, it has these touch capacitive buttons on the front which allow you to pause, play,
skip, change the volume, turn Bluetooth devices on and off, switch between the Bluetooth and
auxiliary input and it also has these really cool blue LED lights up the side.
Now, I recently took this speaker for my "testing purposes" to Manchester where I stayed in
a hotel room.
And with it, I took a power cable that it came with.
When I arrived at my hotel room, I realised that this thing actually has a battery in it.
I thought that you had to have it plugged in to the wall and then I realised that I
unplugged it and the music carried on playing, I was like: Woah.
The reason why I thought that this thing had to be plugged in was because it's fairly big
and bulky in size.
It also creates a massive amount of sound that sounds absolutely awesome for a Bluetooth speaker.
In my humble opinion, on par with the Bose Sound Link Mini.
But, obviously, taking that and being a lot louder.
Because this thing is so cool, I actually always keep a Bluetooth speaker in my car.
In there at the moment is a massive JBL speaker that I have taken to numerous places and even
had it around a campfire (hence why the front of it is all burnt and misshaped).
I'm now going to replace that speaker in my boot, that JBL one, with this Cybertron because
it's really cool, it's really loud and it makes some amazing sound.
So guys, that's been it for this month's top 5 on TechFlow.
If you have enjoyed it, please smash us up with a like rating and if you have any tech
that you want us to check out, please let me know and we will try and, err, do a video
on it on the channel and, maybe, it might get featured in one of these top 5s if I end
up using it enough.
Again, these top 5s aren't just any random tech.
This is stuff that I have been using personally over the last month.
Guys, this has been TechFlow.
We'll catch you in the next one.