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- Hey, what's up guys?
Linus Tech Tips here.
Footwear, love it or hate it, everyone's wearing it.
Footwear has more daily active users
than Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and WeChat combined.
So when a longtime rival gets to market before me,
YouTube's foremost apparel salesman,
you know that I'm gonna be first in line to check it out.
So I've had these for about a week
and I gotta say, Marques, you more than anyone
know that it takes courage to change an industry.
- Courage.
- And I gotta respect bold design decisions.
I mean black and red?
I wouldn't have done it, but it's undeniably you
and that is one of the coolest things about making clothes
bringing a bit of yourself into the world.
I do feel like we're too close
for me to lie to you though man.
I'm a little confused
by the way that you've constructed this sandal.
I've never made footwear myself
but I have made hats, available at lttstore.com,
and what is a sandal, if not the hat of the foot?
So I feel well qualified to provide you
not only with praise for what I feel you've done right
but also valuable feedback from my lab
on what you can do to improve your spiffy new kicks.
That's right.
I can spend six figures on a robot too, you know.
(bell dings)
I mean not my own money, of course.
Thankfully, the knuckle draggers at dbrand
who have dogged me for years
making my devices more wrapped and my life more worse
have agreed to open their purse strings yet again
to give the community what they want, prettier devices,
and the real story of the MKBHD x Atoms 251.
Give them hell boys.
(shoe clunks)
The 251 is what the kids, and I guess trendier adults
would refer to as a hightop sandal
and is reminiscent of iconic designs like the Air Jordan 1s.
The upper is made of recycled mesh and synthetic leather
and the soul is made of rubber
using a zero waste injection molding process.
Kudos for aiming for sustainability.
Embroidered on the heel is the number 251.
A reference to the length of young MKBHD's first video.
It definitely lacks some creature comforts
compared to what I'm used to.
I mean, laces, what is this Rome?
It definitely screams Marques Brownlee
and I've gotta imagine that that's what his fans want.
Let's move on to our lab tests though.
Knowing Marques's reputation
as "The best tech reviewer on the planet"
we felt it prudent to focus on the tech of the 251s.
Everything from the tops to the under buns
to the all important tips.
First up is what we call Don/Dofficiency.
That's how fast you can put on or remove the sandal.
Honestly speaking, we're off to a pretty rough start here.
I alluded to this before,
but the laces slow you down immensely.
And while it doesn't look that bad in a vacuum,
as soon as we add the leading market competitor to our chart
it's clear that if time is of any importance to you
this is the wrong sandal.
Next up is our swampiness test.
We took a heavily moistened sock and placed it
inside the sandal recording the time to reach a dry state.
And unfortunately, this is another bad showing
for the pretending to be located in NYC hightops
at this rate of swamp dissipation, any puddle mishap
could easily lead to Wrinkly Toe Syndrome at best
or Trench Foot at worst.
Don't Google that.
Both of these results indicate
a low Beach Compatibility Factor.
And here's the thing.
I don't like sand.
It's coarse and rough and irritating
and it gets everywhere.
But if I have to go to the beach,
then I wanna make sure that I can efficiently swap
between land and sea
without bringing home half a pound of unrefined silicone.
And unfortunately, the 251s fail here in a really big way,
but there's still room for them to impress.
To evaluate thermal performance,
we mounted one of our samples on our 13900K test bench
and ran both Cinebench and MSI Kombustor for 30 minutes
measuring the resulting temperatures and clock speed.
Unfortunately, compared to our NH-D15 reference heat sink
the 251s represent a very poor value for CPU cooling.
But just because it can't cool a CPU
doesn't mean it couldn't cool a foot.
So we devised a test to find out
but the results were again, extremely unfavorable.
This is by far the least breathable sandal
that I have ever encountered,
which does not bode well for our olfactory test suite.
This one involved wearing the shoes for two days straight
through my usual mix of badminton, Beat Saber
and sleeping in the nude
then recruiting a panel of brave volunteers
to assign an odor mitigation grade or OMG.
The results were well,
kind of upsetting for me personally actually,
and it was clear that after just two days,
my unique blend of nerd sweat and sporty tri-hard aroma
were permanently caked into these
unique non-removable side panels.
Finally, we tested out Ground-Orthogonal Locomotion Distance
which is an all important stat for the vertically challenged
and they did pretty okay here, probably the best result yet,
but still fell well short of our control test
with my daily driver sandals.
So it's clear Marques that with my history
as a connoisseur and taste maker in the sandalverse
I have a responsibility to show you
how with just a few modifications
you could turn these 251s into 10 out of 10s.
I am so excited to unveil the all new
Linus x Marques x Atoms x dbrand, 2.5 foot 1
sandals minus sock.
This one of one drop represents the greatest design ideas
from the past, the present, and dare I say, the future
it's just a whole new breed of footwear.
But look, don't just trust me, bros.
Trust the numbers, they don't lie.
Our Metatarsal Liberation Window
massively improves breathability
over marques's flawed design
decimating our swampiness values,
and as an added bonus they are completely hot sockable,
allowing the user to customize their style on the fly.
We've also snipped the tip,
freeing those crowded little toesies.
This not only boosts the effectiveness
of our MLW technology, but it also provides extra comfort
and size compatibility for those with 11 or more toes
and optionally exposes nature's most potent natural weapon
the toenails, giving our wearers a boost
in their self-defense stats.
And now I'm really proud of this next part.
After extensive negotiations with NASA,
we've reached an agreement to use
the same Swiss designed hook and loop fasteners
that are found on the International Space Station.
These are almost solely responsible, pun intended,
for our record breaking Don/Dofficiency scores
and the weight reductions
that resulted in massively improved GOLD scores,
ergonomics and sneakability.
As for what dbrand contributed,
well nothing of substance like usual
but their overpriced stickers are available in every color
meaning that you don't need to be
locked into a red and black color scheme
on the new 2.5 foot-1.
However, effortlessly cool
the red and black might make you look.
This, not this, is how you make a sandal.
- It's supposed to be a shoe.
- What, it's a shoe, it's supposed to be a shoe?
Oh.
Uh, well that makes a lot more sense.
I guess that's pretty good then.
Congratulations, Marques.
I wish you nothing but success in this strange venture
who buys a shoe in this economy.
So much wasted material.
If you guys enjoyed this video
why don't you check out the time Marques
showed off our screwdriver in a sponsored PC build.
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