hey friends welcome back to the channel
in this video i'm going to take you on a
little tour through the 36
items of tech all around my home
last year alrighty so let's start off
with
the desk so the first thing here we have
the m1 mac mini
connected to the ts3 cal digit
thunderbolt dock
because i'm not one of those heathens
that uses windows up until next month
next we have the kanto u2 speakers which
are nice
white and shiny and make my voice feel
more bassy when i watch my own videos
back i have two keyboards on my desk we
have the iq unix
l80 and we have the apple magic keyboard
now
it's really nice having two of them
because i prefer to type on this one
but if i'm in a business zoom call and i
want to play world of warcraft it's
better for me to have this one
where they can't hear the sound of my
typing as as loudly on the left hand
side i've got the magic trackpad from
apple which makes scrolling through
twitter a more pleasant experience
and item number five on the right is the
razer pro click mouse
the only reason i got this over the
logitech mx master was because i wanted
everything to be white
and if you ain't white you ain't right
moving along item number six is the
shure sm7b microphone connected to the
rode psa1 arm connected to
the uh what's this called the cloud
lifter preamp thing connected to
the focusrite 2i4 audio interface and
this makes my voice
sound far more bassy when i'm on zoom
dates and over on the other side of the
desk we have my
airpods max now i don't use these very
often but when i go around out and about
in town or in coffee shops
i love wearing these to show that i'm an
apple fanboy moving downwards we've got
this little uh
box that hides all of my cables with
amazing cable management and over here i
have the professional
ipad 12.9 inches which is what i use for
my drawing lessons these days
at the moment we are studying the human
form which is very nice
and underneath the ipad we have the
professional macbook this is the 13-inch
m1 model from 2020 and this is what i
use when i need to do work in the toilet
which gives a whole different meaning to
the phrase toxic productivity item 11 is
what i often wear when i'm out and about
town this is the
apple watch series 6 with the blue
leather strap which lets me signal my
elegance and sophistication around other
people
and also on the desk we have my
professional airpods and these go
absolutely everywhere with me and help
me listen to stuff and watch stuff at
two to three x speed which is a far more
productive way of doing things
item 13 is this very camera this is the
sony a7s3
which is what helps this video appear in
glorious 4k and to get to item 14 we go
behind the window and
we find another camera connected to this
pole this is the sony
a73 which is my overhead camera to get
those fantastic shots
and this is connected to a huge ass boom
arm which
i can tie onto the ceiling if i ever
want to get overhead camera footage oh
this is quite heavy
15 is currently hidden behind the
kitchen this is the sennheiser mkh416
microphone which is connected to an xlr
cable which is how i get audio for my
videos mostly and next we have the
aputure 120d
mark ii which is the light that i use
for most of my videos and it hides over
here behind the curtain when it's not in
use
item 17 is the godox sl60 light
which is connected to an aperture space
light softbox
which is what provides the lighting for
some of my videos and my zoom calls and
podcasts
and item 18 is the light bulbs that i
have in all of the lamps and all of the
ceiling lights around the living room
and these are the philips hue which i
can control
using the handy app and i can set all
sorts of weird setups when it comes to
the lights
and these are particularly good when i
want to set the mood
when i have a friend over and we want to
be productive together item number 19
is behind my little spider plant we have
an amazon echo which i also have in the
kitchen which
which is what plays my music and i also
have a homepod in fact i've got two of
them but i don't really use them because
i don't really like apple music so i'm
not including it as part of the
household tech tour
moving into the kitchen now item number
20 is this cordless
dyson animal v8 hoover which i bought
purely for the purposes of hoovering up
spiders and pests from around the house
and item number 21 is the nutribullet
600 series blender which is how i make
my huel
and also my protein shakes to try and
look more like zac efron next to that we
have the starg
ekg fancy ass electric kettle which is
very very nice indeed
the only problem with this kettle is
that it pours really really slowly and
so it forces me to be mindful
when all i want is a cup of coffee next
we come to my favorite piece of tech in
the house which is
the simple human bin this is actually so
good it's such an absolute joy and
pleasure to use
and everyone comments on it whenever
they visit the house and they use the
bin
they always like whoa this is an awesome
bin moving along
the hallway we come to the utility
cupboard at the front of the house
which is where i have a big ass color
laser printer for those
two occasions a year when i need to
print off a label to return something
and now moving into the bedroom we've
got some more funky tech here so let's
start off with
my trusty analog alarm clock this forces
me to wake up in the morning to turn
off the alarm on it so that i don't stay
in bed for too long and i've got this
thing which is sort of like a laptop
desk that i use
in bed if i want to play world of
warcraft with my mx master 3 mouse while
i'm in bed which is very nice and handy
and it also functions as a pretty good
standing desk if for some reason i don't
want to work in the living room
continuing the bedroom tech we have the
dyson cool fan
which i often joke is my biggest fan
that i have in my bedroom at all times
and next to that we have my trusty
amazon kindle which is what always stays
with me
on my bedside every time i need to read
and i've got these uh blue light
blocking glasses that i almost never use
apparently they're good for you
but whatevs final item in the bedroom
setup is
the aura smart ring now this apparently
tracks your sleep
and lets you see stuff related to your
sleep so i wear it most nights just to
track things but i haven't really found
it
very useful beyond that and it comes
with this little charging station where
you can
put it to charge back into the living
room we now end with the music and
entertainment setup so this is the
yamaha p125 keyboard which is what i use
when i want to
uh play piano and sing along
and next to it i've got two guitars this
is a i don't know what this is but this
is a guitar that i've had since like
2015
and over here is the martin mini electro
acoustic guitar
which i guess counts as tech because
it's electro acoustic which means i can
plug it into an amplifier if i want and
next to that i also
have an electro-acoustic ukulele for at
some point when the world opens up again
and i can do busking in town
i want to busk with my ukulele because
i'm really cool before we get into the
entertainment setup i want to show you
around my uh
really fantastic ethernet setup so we've
got an ethernet cable slot over there
and there is a long ass ethernet cable
which snakes
all of the way around the living room
all the way around the sofa behind this
behind these plants behind
these eight keyboards from iq unix i'm
going to be testing out very shortly in
terms of finding the best mechanical set
of quick keys
cable goes around goes around goes
around goes behind the tv
and goes into the entertainment setup
overall and behind here we have one of
these ethernet switches
which is what allows wired internet to
go into
all of the tech that is powering this uh
media setup over here so let's start off
with the older trustee sony playstation
5 which is what i use these days to play
horizon
and a little bit of call of duty with
the boys underneath that we have loads
of board games which don't count as tech
but something that definitely does count
as tech is the oculus quest
2 virtual reality headset along with the
controllers
this has actually been quite a lot of
fun recently and if you guys like i'm
going to be planning a review
about what it's like to game on a
virtual reality experience moving
upwards this tv
is the lg 50 inch oled i think it's the
c9 tv which i will put a link to in the
video description if you want to check
it out and finally we have the apple tv
4k which powers this whole setup that is
how we watch netflix it's how we watch
disney plus and it's also how we watch
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liked this tour of my household tech you
might like to check out this video over
here
which is my productivity desk setup that
goes into all of this stuff
on this desk in much more detail thanks
so much for watching and i'll see you
next time