What's up guys, Lou here, and as you can tell
the space is a little cramped right now --
thats because I have teamed up with
Best Buy to put together the ultimate back to school gadget guide
These are my picks.
And I've got a reason for every single one.
So, stick around and let's get into it.
This is from the RL series, Ben Q.
Now, I chose this one for a couple of reasons.
Its an incredible gaming monitor.
It has some of the best input lag.
Or lack of input lag.
Of any monitor on the market.
That means,
when you have an input on your controller,
some kind of instruction, a button press etc.
It's going to happen on screen incredibly quickly.
That's different than response time, but when it comes to response time,
this thing is quick
as well - 1 millisecond, to be more specific.
So its a 27 inch display
Its got dual HDMIs, so a couple of different sources.
Another cool feature, witch is
this little hook on the side
and this is used to house your headphones.
so you always know where they are, and they're up off the desk,
and out of your way.
Now on the back.
you also have, a headphone out and a line in.
It sort of acts like a mini reciever, if you will.
It's also got a DVI port,
and a traditional VGA port.
So there are some options for interfacing with some other stuff.
I almost forgot to mention is this little ridge here
This might just look like a design feature
But, check this out..
There's actually some rubber up here.. and
That's gonna be the perfect spot
To house
Your controlers
A really, well thought out little feature
Your always looking for a place to put these
BenQ RL series
My monitor choice for the ultimate dorm room
Next up
We have a mouse
This is my favorite right here
The MX Master from Logitech
Incredibly comfortable
These are sort of leaders in the space
When it comes to precision mousing
I said precision "mousing"
Plus this can use bluetooth or a receiver
It'll work on Mac or PC, and,
It can be paired to multiple devices at once.
This thumbwheel on the side
For horizontal scrolling
You've also got this really unique free-spinning wheel
In your tradition scroll wheel section here
Very satisfying clicks
This is just a fantastic package
Up to 40 days of battery life
If you want the best in the business
It is probably the MX Master from Logitech
So this gets my vote for the mouse choice
In this ultimate back to school gadget guide
What do we have next AJ?
It's an external hard drive
I know.. not the most exciting thing in the world, but...
Your gonna be doing alot of work and
It's not any good to you if you lose it all
So this is a place to back it up
It's also a place for all your multimedia
You know I'm always thinking about the entertainment side as well
This is a one 1 terabyte, thunderbolt bus powered drive
In this case that means up to 110mbps transfers
It's a little bit rugged as well,
so if you do drop it, bump it,
it has a little bit of extra protection
Lastly, the cable is built right in...
it sort of just slides around the outside
and there's a little - is it a flap? It's a cover,
that keeps it contained.
Say you happen to your friends...
dorm room
and they don't have
computer but you still want to share files this still has USB on it USB 3.1
to be specific so no matter what computer you're interfacing with
recovered
so I talked a little bit earlier about entertainment and I think it's important
for your dorm room lifestyle your back-to-school lifestyle it really all
starts right here this is a playstation 4 i'm sure you've seen one before
combo kit comes with the new batman arkham knight heard fantastic things
about this game this was a very tough decision
going with the playstation 4 over the xbox one obviously they're very
passionate people on either side of the console spectrum there are many cross
platform games available and i think the most important thing to consider when
deciding on the console you want to take with you off to your college
just consider which one of your friends on which one are they gaining on and
then that's probably the best one for you in my case its PlayStation
headphones
very important have a very intimate relationship with my headphones
this is the new version of a pair of Sony's that i've been using for a year
now
maybe over a year the MDR ZX 770 BTW this is their latest in wireless
bluetooth headphones now the reason I've chosen these is because they're
versatile they can be used with a wire or without they also don't feature
active noise cancellation
I've never been a huge fan of active noise cancellation requires more battery
life gives you that odd sense of of compression on your years at least for
some people know this is this is subjective they make an active
noise-cancelling version
it's got a microphone in it too so when you pair this with your cell phone you
can go ahead and answer phone calls now this is going to work with your
PlayStation as well as your laptop with or without cables and as you can see
here even has NFC that's one of my favorite features
it means that when you want to pair with a new device say your phone for example
i hope it features NFC simply tap the two were then paired and you're
listening to your favorite podcast or whatever it is that you do with
headphones these are capable of up to 17 hours battery life and in my testing
they get very close to that so as you imagine you're not charging them that
often and you pretty much always have juice when you need it
seventeen hours to go to Tokyo can i get to Tokyo 17 hours
tokyo baby you're probably going to need a backpack to carry all this stuff
around
this one is from a company called the wall I hope I'm pronouncing that
correctly there are sweet in this one sort of checks all the boxes for things
should be looking for and include something that's a little bit unusual
this safe zone up here which is like a hard portion for storing something like
sunglasses or important
electronics & gadgets as you can see here to put sunglasses back here you put
your phone up top
it's also water resistant so if it rains should be ok on the inside of this
little pocket here you can feel there's like a coating
plastic coating so that water hopefully when penetrate and zippers themselves
very satisfying
you have a big compartment in the back or a laptop as well as an ipad and this
front compartment here some organizational stuff for pens various
school-related stationary and then there's a really big main compartment as
well
you'll likely be using for text books
unfortunately sound very important
I'm a big fan of sound and this is going to improve it
compared to save the speakers on your phone or your laptop it's the JBL pulse
and what's special about it compared to other bluetooth speakers is that it
lights up your college and you might do a little bit of partying and when you
show up with this thing people are going to know i'm going to see the the lights
moving along like an equalizer
they're going to know that you mean business party business now often people
think that a bluetooth speaker will only work with bluetooth but many of them
like this one actually have an auxiliary input as well meaning you could connect
this to the stationery set up that I proposed earlier with the bank you
monitor and even the laptop and playstation and everything connected you
can take auxiliary out from the monitor and that will essentially take both of
your hdmi inputs from your computer as well as your Playstation and send that
audio through to this speaker which is going to be better than either of those
things independently
that said this works incredibly well as a bluetooth speaker also somebody comes
over to visit you and your setup they might be visiting your set up first and
then you
the 15 they can connect to be a bluetooth on their smartphone and stream
music that way so it's a versatile solution without the need for a lot of
outboard gear something that's easy to travel
now this one is not something that you absolutely need this is just something
that I'm really into in a very intense way this is the new rx100 from Sony
pretty much the best pocket camera ever made the perfect companion to a
wonderful college experience
this thing has an incredible lends an incredible sensor and now shoots 4k
video and high frame rate video for slow motion stuff with the giant aperture on
the lens
you're going to have a much easier time taking pictures in low light which is
probably what you'll be dealing with at those parties i'm talking about the new
rx100 mark or from another camera
this is a different kind of camera meant to actually stay in your space it's the
new camera from nest which has an incredibly wide field of view this is
going to help you to protect all this stuff I'm talking about very important
comes with a slick application for checking in on your space right
you know seeing if anything unusual going on you can also set up alerts so
you're the first to know anything fishy goin down
why have all this cool stuff if you're not even going to protect it
cables a necessary evil but believe it or not something that I'm incredibly
excited about I like innovations in the cable space in a few of these here are
representations of that one of my favorite manufacturers happens to be
tilt for that very reason
you can see this flip duo here is not only both a micro USB and lightning
cable but it also now has a reversible USB connector so you can't plug it in
the wrong way that is a win my friends also from tilt this flat short cable
which believe it or not is incredibly convenient it will never be tangled when
you're looking for it and when you don't move
that extra cabling this is a way to stay organized
we've also got this battery pack one of my favorites again it's very slim and it
has built-in cables so built in lightning as well as micro USB his fits
in your back pocket
incredibly slender one of my favorites couple of extra hdmi and audio cables
can't go wrong with those and then my new favorite accessory this surge
protector from belkin which features rotating this rotating outlets so no
matter how big your power bricks are you can actually use all the outlets at UK
for you know the drill
you need power a phone
this is the bonus round you might already have a phone
but if you don't and you're looking for one to complete the ultimate gadgets set
up for back to school
this probably it this is my favorite this is what's in my pocket
it's the s6 active a tough rugged version of the galaxy s6 from Samsung
this one is going to give you water resistance is going to give you a little
bit of extra shock resistance as well
overall great package fast incredible camera
that's my smartphone choice for the ultimate back to school
gadget guide so there you have it my ultimate back to school
gadget guide for 2015 i hope you guys found this useful if you did make sure
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big thanks to best buy for making this video possible all of this stuff is
available on bestbuy.com I'll have all the relevant links down in the
description if you want to check out
pricing and availability on any of this stuff hopefully you pick something up
and it improves your college experience potentially making it the best college
experience possible
thanks again guys I'll catch on the next episode later