hey tech late here welcome back to
coffee time now with the holiday season
approaching many of you may be wondering
what gives what tech gifts gadgets and
gear should you get yourself or your
loved ones now as an ex-googler X
Facebook tech lead a minimalist and the
multi-millionaire I thought I had some
gadget recommendations that I think are
going to improve your life improve your
productivity for me christmas came early
and i just went out and bought all the
stuff that i'm getting this year i'm not
gonna get anything more for christmas
but i want to show you what i got for
myself personally first of all you may
have noticed that i have upgraded my
home office set up we got a new
beautiful stand invest and this chair is
new as well let me tell you about these
so this is the smart desk to built by
autonomous which is a very reputable
company they're trusted by over 130,000
corporations and this desk looks almost
exactly like the type that i've been
using over at google and facebook when I
work there now what I like about this is
it's a very elegant and minimalist
design and it also feels very solid the
surface doesn't scratch it easily at
first I thought well maybe I don't need
the standing desk until I realized one
of the biggest benefits of this is that
you can just adjust it just right to the
perfect height that you need you don't
necessarily even need to use the
standing capabilities but if you wanted
to like sometimes I'm just sitting and
my shoulders get a little bit tired I
just want to stand up change my position
I just press a single button and this
desk goes to a pre-programmed
position in which I can stand and work
and so now I actually find myself using
this standing configuration several
times a day because I work probably 12
to 16 hours a day I'm just here all the
time and the best part is the price for
this is actually very reasonable it's
like 330 dollars or so right now with
the Black Friday sale so check them out
there will be a link in the description
below as well as links for all the other
items I'll be referencing all right next
up is this brand new chair also built by
autonomous it is known as the Ergo chair
too it comes in that only $320 right now
with that Black Friday sale which is a
very reasonable price and the quality is
so good it's got so many features let me
show you a few things that can do you
can adjust almost everything about this
chair the tilt of the angle the tilt and
strength up the back I can lock it in
place as well and that just lets me
relax I like to sit back here check my
phone sometimes when I want to get back
to work i unlock it of course you can
adjust the seat high
the height of the arm rests and you even
have some neck support here which is
pretty nice so this is kind of my new
office furniture setup and the great
thing about office furniture is it's
actually a great investment compared to
say electronics which pretty much get
outdated every two years or so office
furniture will last like a lifetime if
you take good care of it not to mention
the best thing is the reasonable pricing
for really professional grade equipment
this is the type of stuff you may find
that Google or Facebook really so I'm
pretty satisfied that my does set up now
really feels very professional and again
if you want the stuff there are Black
Friday deals running now so check those
out now moving on I also want to show
you some other really cool gear that
I've got set up one is recently I was
over in Las Vegas you know as a multi
millionaire I'm living the high life and
I've checked out the new razor store
where I saw this keyboard the Huntsman
and it is so cool it lights up it's got
all these special effects voted one of
the best using optomechanical switches
which are essentially light switches
that reduces the travel time your
fingers have to press for someone who
types very fast like me I will type out
like 140 words per minute that actually
makes a difference
there you go hunter forty words per
minute text like a machine gun
the razor Huntsman keyboard opto
mechanical switches and it looks pretty
cool too and as a software engineer and
someone who makes their living on the
internet this is such a cool keyboard it
lights up cycles through colors and I
can type so fast on this thing now to be
fair I can compare it with say that
Apple magic keyboard which is what I
have been using previously and this is
actually a great keyboard and quite
frankly it's probably the more elegant
keyboard I can type about just as fast
on both keyboards so they're both very
good but the thing about the Razer
Huntsman is it just makes you feel so
cool using it way type on it it's
actually kind of loud and almost sounds
like a machine gun like you're out to do
some real damage here it's really built
for a PC but it works fine for the Mac
and I use a program carabine your
elements to remap a few keys and
actually if you connect the PC and
configure the keyboard you get even more
special lighting effects like you can
get lighting ripple effects whenever you
tap on any of these keys so that's the
Razer Huntsman and in addition when I
was there I also know this these really
cool mouse pads they had that actually
light up and cycle colors and so what I
have here is the razor gala theist
extended mouse pad which just looks
really cool it cycles between colors it
gives a really cool effect that night
it's just it's so pro and beyond that I
guess is functional but I do like the
extended mouse pad because it helps me
organize my workspace and I know exactly
where my keyboard and mouse are now
another new item this year has been the
MX master 3 Mouse which is a successor
to the wildly popular MX master 2's by
Logitech these mouse are great they're
just really well-built they feel good in
your hand the scrolling mechanism is
good there are extra buttons on the side
including a scroll wheel which are all
programmable the MX master to us will
probably be cheaper maybe like 60 bucks
or so the three is going to run you
about a hundred bucks or so and overall
the biggest thing about these is the
build quality is so good the biggest
difference with the three is the scroll
wheel it just feels a lot more solid and
robust whereas the 2's it feels a little
bit cheaper on both of these you can
press a button to unlock the scroll
wheel and that just lets you scroll very
fast
your pages if you want to get to the
bottom really quickly and then you can
unlock it if you want the ratchet
through a page more slowly what else do
we have here well a few more other tech
gadgets that I might recommend this year
some of my favorites
well what is this Bank you desk lamp I
got this lamp over a year ago and it's
just been serving me well every single
day it has a broad swath of light over
my desk you can adjust the color
temperature you can adjust the
brightness it's got two hinges with a
broad reach and has a very pleasant
light that makes me productive any time
of day I almost always have this on even
during the daytime this ultra wide
screen monitor some of you guys have
been asking about it it is the Bank UX
3501 arm monitor I actually enjoy it
quite a bit as a minimalist I was at
first skeptical about monitors but it's
actually just made me so much more
productive having that extra screen real
estate plus it features a 100 Hertz
refresh rate which makes scrolling
through documents reading documentation
easier on the eyes the pricing is pretty
reasonable it's about 650 bucks or so on
Amazon right now this year on my wish
list also are the Apple earpods pros
with noise cancelling I just have to
normal one so I probably won't upgrade
but I think if you travel a lot on the
airplanes the noise cancelling must be
pretty nice the brand new macbook
16-inch also looks quite good with the
new keyboard i used to have to overlay a
keyboard on my laptop all the time
because the keyboard was so much but it
seems like they fixed that so that's
looking pretty nice if you're in the
market for a new laptop and then I might
personally recommend getting a camera or
microphone to start a YouTube channel
perhaps or build up your Instagram
influence because social media just has
so much potential these days it's a
great hobby I personally use this only a
6400 camera and I use a zoom h1 audio
recorder with a lavalier microphone the
last thing I might suggest getting for
the holidays is taking a trip you know
investing in good experiences and
memories is almost always worthwhile I
think usually that's what I would get
myself for Christmas or for my birthday
I would just invest in these experiences
and good memories so they'll do for me
remember if you want any of the stuff I
mentioned there'll be links in the
description below take advantage of the
Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals
there are some pretty good sales going
on and let me know what is on the top of
your list for your holiday wish list if
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