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My name is Alex and this is TechFlow!
This video marks the first TechFlow Top 5 of 2017!
Let's do this!
Now, coming in at number 5, in no particular order, we have the Anker Sound Core headphones.
Now, the actual name for these are the SoundBuds Sport NB10's and now, with the release of
the brand new Apple EarPods coming in at a whopping $150, I thought that this would be
a brilliant product to show you in the first Top 5 of 2017 - a wireless pair of headphones
which are under £30.
So, as the name suggests, SoundBud Sport, these can be used for anything including sporting
activities.
I personally use these when I go running - that's when I've been doing the majority of my testing
with these bad boys.
They connect to your phone via Bluetooth and you charge them with a micro USB cable which
is included in the box with the carrying case, extra buds, micro USB cable and user manual.
You obviously get the headphones presented front and centre - they have a cable that
connects in between them - this sits behind your neck whilst the headphones, obviously,
live in your ears.
Now, the headphones look fairly appealing with an Anker logo on each earbud - there's
three little buttons on the left earpiece in your ear which you can use to pause and
play tracks and also activate Siri and for sound quality, they're really good for the
price - like, really good for the price.
They're a really good set of headphones.
I'd easily recommend them if you're looking for something to go running, to do some
sport in, and you want them wireless - they stay in your ear and they're really cool.
Let's move on to number 4.
So, coming in at number 4 we've got the Insta360 Nano, 360 camera and I've checked this out
in one of my vlogs recently and everyone in the comments absolutely loved it.
So, this is the Insta 360 Nano from insta360.com and the model I have is the FOV210 F2.0 FishEye HD.
It has a lightning port on it and it connects to your iPhone.
Now, Insta360 do a load of different cameras.
If you go on their website, you can get them for all different smartphones and just stand
alone 360 cameras if you want without the smartphone compatibility.
Now, you charge this thing with a micro USB which is included in the box - you also insert
a micro SD memory card to store all of the videos which you take on this thing.
You go ahead and download the app from the app store, plug this thing in and make sure
it's all charged and then once you've launched the app, you can actually have a live view
of 360 video whilst you're looking at your phone.
Now, to be honest with you, I thought this was going to be really buggy - I thought the
app was going to be really buggy and keep crashing but it didn't crash once and it was
really, really, really user-friendly.
So, the first day I got this, I took, obviously, a 360 photo with it and I uploaded it to Facebook
because Facebook at the moment is one of the only social media platforms where you can
post compatible 360 images - I'll try and drop a link to that in the description if
you want to check it out - so yes, it takes 360 photos in the app - you can look at the
photo in a fish eye, do a thing called a "small world," which makes you look like you're stood
on top of the world, you can also record 360 video and the box is even a set of VR goggles
so that you can put your phone in there and look around and watch a 360 video.
If you want a proper explanation of this, go and check out the vlog - it's called "The
best iPhone accessory I've seen ever" or something like that.
So, I'm going to be playing a lot with this - this is really, really cool and I absolutely
love it - it actually won "Innovation Award" at CES 2017.
That's number 4 in the top 5 - let's move on to number 3.
Coming in at number 3, we have the SlimPower Wallet from CaseCrown.
Now, I am quite big on my wallets - I love having a rocking and nice wallet and I know the qualities
that make for a nice wallet.
I have, actually, a Luis Vuitton wallet which doesn't have any space for any notes in.
Now, I know that that could really annoy people but that doesn't annoy me because I don't
really carry notes on me at all and this thing doesn't really carry notes on it which is
why I like it.
I like to go for something minimalistic, small and thin and that's exactly what this is but
here's the kicker - it's minimalistic, small and thin but, inside it, it has a back up
battery for your phone.
So, you're probably thinking: "Hang on a minute, how big is this back up battery?"
Well, it's 2500 mAh - it's going to charge your phone pretty much from zero to 100 once
which is absolutely fine - this if for an emergency situation and it's actually really
cool because it can charge more than just your phone with its versatile connector.
So, on the end of it, it has a micro USB which is great for charging all types of Android
phones but if you have an iPhone, like me, then how are you going to charge that - do
you need an adaptor?
Well, it actually comes with one.
Now, it's really cool - you plug the micro USB adaptor into the charger and then pull
it out and it pulls out a lightning cable from the micro USB - honestly, you have to
see it to believe it.
And the wallet design itself is really slim and really sleek.
You've got a card slot in the back and two card slots in the front - you could also slot
some cards inside of here if you really wanted and I suppose you could even put some notes
inside of there because you can see that there's a lot of give there - very, very cool with
these elastic sides.
Let's move on to number 2.
Now, this is actually a product that I've had for quite some time - literally quite
a few months - and I've never really used it up until this last week when I've been
out and around travelling and I've actually had a lot of use out of this bad boy, hence
why I'm including it in this month's top 5.
This is the Puridea portable pocket projector - yeah, portable pocket projector - a projector,
that fits in your pocket.
Wait a minute...
This thing.
So, pretty much this is a portable projector with a little speaker in it and nothing more
than that - it has four buttons on the side of it - power, volume up and volume down and reset.
It has a micro USB port on the side of it so that you can put in a SD card and charge
the thing.
And it also has an auxiliary out so you can, you know, plug it into a speaker so that you
can get some better audio.
I would recommend doing that because the inbuilt speaker is really shoddy.
This thing actually sends out a WiFi network that you can connect to via your Android device
or Apple laptop, Macbook or iPhone.
You can AirPlay to this thing, you can do mirroring to this thing - you can play pretty
much anything to this thing and you can also use it as a network projector as well so you
can connect this to your home's WiFi.
So what you can then do is stay on your home's WiFi with your phone like you would do and
then it will just show up in your AirPlay devices on your iPhone or it will show up
as a Cast device for something for you to cast to from Google Chrome - how cool is that?
And it's so small - it has a battery in it but, of course, you can mount it on to a tripod,
leave it hardwired with a Micro USB and it will never run out.
This is really cool and it can project up to a 50 inch image.
I've had it bigger, but obviously the quality gets bad, but I've had a 50 inch image out
of this thing - it's really cool and I've even played some games on it - obviously only
from my phone and it was 8 ball pool - but still, I've played games on this thing, it's
really cool and and if you're in the market for something like this, if you've got a wall
that you want to project on - put this above your bed and watch a film - it's really cool.
I'll drop a link to it in the description.
Let's move on to number 1.
So, coming in at number 1, and, obviously, our top 5 techs are in no particular order
whatsoever - we're not saying that this product is better than the previous ones because it
just isn't - this is the Netgear WiFi Range Extender.
Now, we did a video a few weeks back about how to make a budget Mesh system - it wasn't
really a Mesh system but it acts like a Mesh system - to create a massive WiFi network
throughout your house so you never lose connection.
Now, we used these little Netgear wireless range extenders to make that video possible.
But these range extenders are much more than that - they can also be used as wireless access
points so say if you have a really old wireless router in your house that doesn't have WiFi,
you can plug one of these things in via an ethernet cable and it can act as a dual band
access point.
And the range on these things is absolutely phenomenal.
I'm a WiFi head - I love WiFi and I know what I'm talking about.
The range on these things are really good and I have proper UAPs in my house, like access
points - business class access points - comparing these to them, the up-time of this thing,
well, it never went down.
It was always on.
I was getting reliable speeds to my network attached storage from it and it also has the
added ability to be a wireless WiFi range extender and it has Fast Lane technology which
I described more in the "How to make a budget Mesh network" video.
I was really impressed with this thing and, for like £30 when I bought it in the sale
(I think it's £40 now), it's an absolute steal to improve your WiFi but if you want
to pick it up I'd recommend watching our other video which we did two weeks ago about how
to improve the WiFi using these little devices but, honestly, I've absolutely loved this
thing - using it over Christmas and testing it out - it's been an absolute pleasure to
use and that's what these Top 5's are about; pleasurable products that we like and we want
to recommend.
So that's been this month's Top 5, this has been TechFlow and we'll catch you in the next one.