Online shopping isn’t for everyone, but those who get it can save a lot of money by
buying their things from various online retailers, some of which charge for the same things less
than others do.
AliExpress tends to be on the cheaper side, but for many people a deterrent has been that
you have to wait for a long time to receive their products.
And while it can’t compare to Amazon Prime, the packages shipped with E-Packet usually
arrive within 10 to 14 days, which I consider a reasonable timeframe.
In this video we will see 12 things that you can get from AliExpress with free and pretty
fast E-Packet shipping.
An expensive gaming mouse can run as high as $200.
But unless you are a hardcore or a pro gamer, or if your parents don’t own a factory that
generates the amount of wealth equivalent to the GDP of a South-American country, it
probably doesn’t make a lot of sense to blow that much on a mouse.
Instead I present to you a mouse from a moderately well-known company called RAJFOO, with a 3200DPI
sensitivity, and 6 programmable buttons.
Wireless waterproof earphones.
I’m actually not sure if I should call these earphones or headphones, because even though
they are in-ear, there still is a headband.
They feature a 3.0 Bluetooth connection, which isn’t ideal but sort of expected for the
price.
With it enabled, they last for around 4 hours, but in case there is a need for the longer
play time, there is SD card slot.
Granted, the quality of the sound isn’t the greatest, but again, if we take into the
account the $5 price, they are pretty decent.
A TDS, which stands for Total Dissolved Solids, water tester is a device that is used to determine
the quality of water and to see if it needs further purification.
It can test for three kinds of impurities, and I’m just reading it off the items description
here, soluble salts - like calcium and magnesium, heavy metal ions like chromium, zinc and lead,
and ionic organic compounds.
If this stuff sounds like something you don’t want in your drinking water, get one of these
things.
When I have my laptop hooked up to the TV I had to occasionally stand up and press play
because Netflix sometimes randomly stops when I binge-watch episodes of Archer.
But thanks to this device I can keep laying in the bed without moving.
This thing comes with a USB bluetooth receiver, that has a working range of approximately
8 meters, or around 25 feet.
It requires 2 AAA batteries, which will make touchpad signal notchy at the end of their
lifespan.
I’ve had mine for over a year now, which, in case you are wondering, works just as new.
Personally, I am not a big fan of smartwatches.
I’ve had a few, and even though I liked all of them, the battery life never did it
for me.
However, if this is something you can deal with, and if you like technology just as much
as me, you see, you can get the watch that not only show time, but counts your steps,
measures your heart rate, takes pictures and tells you when someone is calling your phone,
or sends you text messages, always and forever.
Superlux HD681 headphones are one of the highest-quality headphones in this price range on AliExpress.
These are semi open-back over-ear headphones.
They can play sounds as sensitive as 10 dB, and frequencies as low as 10 hz.
Superlux is basically the Grado of the cheap cans, they’re not mainstream but for the
people who value the quality of the sound and are poor I can’t think of a better option
than these.
And if you want them even faster, you can get them for $27.99 on Amazon - just to mention
they are marked as Amazon’s Choice for the impressive price-quality ratio, just as indicated
in the raving reviews left on both sites.
For the photographers, videographers, or people who need to transfer a lot of data around,
a universal SATA / card reader dock can come quite handy.
Ain’t nobody got time to safely remove the hardware, so keep it plugged in and use this
dock with 5 card reader ports, 2 USB’s, as well as ports for the IDE and HARD disks
of any capacity, except high speed Western Digital hard drives, which probably none of
you cheapa$$es use anyway.
If you decide to leave your house for whatever reason and hit the beach or something, a waterproof
speaker might come handy.
I never used one, and I can’t really think of a scenario where I might need it, but different
people have different needs, and different speakers have different waterproof capacities.
Which is IP67 for this one, that makes it more like splash-proof, so it wouldn’t be
a good idea to fully submerge it in water.
For space-efficiency and for the lack of need, most, if not all ultrabooks do not have CR-ROMS.
I don’t even remember the last time I needed to use one for anything.
But if you need to take an urgent trip to 2006, or you have an ambiguous device that
doesn’t have a manual or a driver that you can download online, here is a portable CD-ROM.
It may also come handy if you need to burn a disc for your oldsmobile that doesn’t
have an AUX input but only a disc-reader.
Mechanical keyboards aren’t for everyone, but I have a feeling that some of you nerds
might enjoy it.
I have been using one since summer, and man do I love it.
The sound it makes alone is worth it, and the feeling of the precision sends shivers
down my spine each time I use it.
Mechanical keys better handle several keys pressed at once, you can replace the broken
ones individually, and they also last much longer.
Mechanical keyboards also tend to wear much slower, and it is significantly more difficult
for the keys to get stuck.
Right now would be a good time to get an action camera, it should arrive before Christmas
so you can give it as a gift, and it will be ready in time for the summer.
One of the cheapest and at this point the most purchased action camera on AliExpress
is Eken H9, which is a generic Sunplus SPCA6350M processor-based camera, the processor that
is used in a lot of budget-level cameras.
As you can guess for the price, it is not real 60 FPS, and not real 4K - both are interpolated,
but it doesn’t mean it is a bad camera, at this price point it would be a sin to complain.
If you want a true 4K camera, you can’t beat the value of a Xiaomi 4K+.
Everyone nowadays, possibly including myself, wants to be a video blogger.
If you are familiar with Gimbal stabilizers, you know how expensive they are.
Granted that this Zhiyun stabilizer can’t be called cheap per se, it is definitely less
than half the price of the aforementioned Gimbal.
A 3-axis, which is an important distinction, stabilizer will make the footage a lot more
smooth by keeping whichever camera that you decide to use in a more upright position and
smoothing your turns and bumps, so you can better film your swollen face with your shaky
arms after a night of heavy drinking.