- This video is sponsored by Fiverr.
For this episode of Mystery Tech,
we've got a little bit of something different.
You know that little bit of a different thing is?
Whatever Ken's about to throw at me
to start this section of Mystery Tech.
Oh my gosh, it's a present.
Is it my birthday?
- [Ken] We went to Jared.
(Illuminati confirmed music)
- Kay.
Did one of you guys wrap this?
- [Ken] No.
- [Matt] No, this was an option for $1 extra
when we bought it.
- Wow.
Wow, you'll never guess what's inside.
Oh, you know, I can guess something bad.
Is that Austin Potato?
Is that an Austin Potato?
Did you send an Austin Potato?
I love it.
- [Ken] Holy crap.
(Ken and Matt laughing)
That's really impressive.
- The resemblance is uncanny.
Do not eat this potato.
Potato Parcel is not liable for any illness
if the potato is eaten.
- [Matt] Take a bite.
- No.
This is great.
Can I ask how much the Potato Parcel cost?
- [Matt] $26.
- [Austin] Why?
But if you've ever watched the BROKE vs PRO series,
you'll know that Potato Austin shows up all the time.
I don't actually know how long Potato Austin's been around,
but every time I watch one of our videos,
edit team keeps putting more
and more Potato Austin's involved
and I'm honestly very, very excited about this.
- [Matt] We don't need Potato Austin anymore
cause now we got our awesome animation characters
from Fiverr.
- Are we about to have one of the Fiverr animated characters
pop up right beside Potato Austin right now?
Right there?
There?
Whoa, so lifelike and realistic.
Wait, here, watch.
Josh is gonna kill me.
- [Matt] What are you going to do with that Potato Parcel?
- I'll put the Potato Parcel...
Here, we're gonna give it to Roboraptor to guard, okay?
So, just Roboraptor, don't let anyone steal my potato
until it rots and we have to go plant it in the ground.
Now because this episode of Mystery Tech is sponsored
by Fiverr, they actually have given us the opportunity
to do something a little bit different.
So if you're not familiar with Fiverr,
it is an excellent online marketplace
that is entirely dedicated to give you access
to a huge variety of freelancers.
Now of course, we make a lot of video content
and while I'd like to think that we're pretty good
at making video, we aren't necessarily as talented
when it comes to something like, oh, I don't know,
graphics for Mystery Tech or a jingle for Mystery Tech,
maybe even some little characters
to help spice up the episodes.
So why don't we take a look at our fine sponsor Fiverr,
see we can find something that ups the game a little bit.
- [Ken] Do they have new hosts?
(Matt laughs)
- Are you trying to replace me
with a freelancer from Fiverr?
- [Matt] Yes.
- That hurts.
So here's someone who will do Twitch emotes
which is not technically what we need
but this is clearly someone who is talented
at creating character art.
So, we can do is let's hit up a few of these people.
Let's get some quotes, explain to them what we need.
And then you, dear viewer will be able
to see exactly the fruits of our Fiverr handiwork.
- [Matt] I like how you say
that we're gonna be doing anything other than...
- No, we're just asking for some help
from the kind freelancers at Fiverr
and they're going to do some amazing work
to make Mystery Tech a series
that you actually want to watch.
So if you're working on your next project,
definitely be sure to go check out Fiverr
at the link in the description.
And if you use the promo code AustinEvans,
you can get yourself 10% off.
(upbeat music)
Oh, what?
I couldn't even finish my jump!
All right.
The smart tech handcrafted calculator.
A smart tech calculator.
Well there's clearly a big lump here.
Do I attack the lump?
It's like a tumor.
- [Matt] The tumor.
- Oh, wait a minute.
Is this a wooden keyboard?
Ken, did you find a wooden keyboard on Amazon?
- [Ken] Yeah.
Should be a whole set too.
- Healthy, eco-friendly, and fashionable.
Three things I love to see out of my wooden keyboard,
mouse, and bamboo solar calculator.
How much was the wireless multimedia bamboo keyboard
and mouse combo featuring a calculator?
- [Ken] It's about 50 bucks.
- It's actually not bad.
It's not bad.
- [Matt] For all kit?
- Hopefully, it doesn't feel too wooden.
- Well, that's a, that, that's...
I mean I'm not sure what I expected.
To tell you the truth, I don't know how I...
Okay.
- [Ken] It actually doesn't look that bad.
- [Matt] No, I agree.
It looks kinda nice.
- I mean it is full wood everywhere, everywhere.
We've got our bamboo mouse
which I've gotta say is hilariously small.
Oh, I need batteries.
Look at that, look at that.
So we actually have like a little like a foam pad inside
but it is actually full bamboo.
I don't see any plastic on this at all
besides, I guess, maybe a little bit where the sensor is.
The fit on these batteries is atrocious.
It's almost like they're made out of wood or something.
Woo.
- My eyes!
It's on.
Yeah, the mouse works.
- [Ken] It looks really nice with our table.
- It's actually not like crazy bad, right?
I will say, looking at it, I mean, it's a little weird,
you can see some of the bigger keys have been jointed.
So there's a joint here, joint here, joint here.
Like it certainly a lot of pieces that they're all been
kinda like down machined down or woodwork down.
What's the phrase for woodworking?
- [Ken] Woodworking?
- Woodworks down?
I don't think that's (keyboard clicking drowns out speaker)
(keyboard clicking)
74 words per minute.
That's actually not crazy far off my normal typing speed.
It's a little strange, right?
It does feel a lot like a membrane keyboard
which is most certainly is.
The big thing that really makes this different
and the actual usability side is just the fact
that these keys are flat.
They're very flat, like the actual little like scoop
for where your sort of finger rests in the keys is next
to non-existent which if you're a confident typer,
you don't really need that help.
But I find like my fingers almost slide around a little bit
on the keys.
I mean, this thing looks cool.
It might not necessarily be my style, right?
I mean, I need that RGB Razer Chroma action.
Not the, I'm a person who lives in the woods
and I have a key cap...
What's my summit, Matt?
Reach your summit, Mountain.
Oh, okay keyboards.
Oh, is this a good keyboard instead of bad keyboards?
- [Ken] Yes.
- Oh, wow.
I actually feel honored that I'm looking
at good keyboards today, okay.
Woo.
Okay.
What's the deal with this?
I've never actually even heard of Mountain before.
- [Ken] So, they sent this out to us.
It is a relatively modular keyboard.
- Oh my goodness.
Oh, wow.
That's a lot of stuff.
Holy.
This is one keyboard.
Do you see this?
This is all one keyboard.
Look how much stuff comes in the box.
- [Ken] It seems like with everything.
- Uh-huh.
- [Ken] $270.
- So the number pad can go on either side.
So it's got a couple of USB Cs and you just slide it out
which one you want to attach so-
- [Ken] Oh, that's cool.
- Woo, we got RGB.
So we've got our little display here
as well as we have our display here as well.
(keyboard clicking)
When you look at the keyboard space,
beyond stuff like building a full custom keyboard,
there's not a lot of crazy differences, right?
Like, oh, I have this more RGB here, there, whatever.
Like typically you would have to get into the custom space
to find something which is truly different.
But when you look at how many modular abilities
that this keyboard has and honestly, how smart it is, right?
The fact that I can just take this off,
flip it around, and in like five seconds,
move it over to the other side of the keyboard,
it's cool, right?
That's a cool feature.
The fact that I can just take this off, look at that, right?
Completely reconfigured the keyboard in like 10 seconds,
But having all of this in a keyboard
which, yeah, it's pricey but compared
to some of the other high-end gaming keyboards out there,
it's not crazy.
I'm legitimately really happy with how solid this thing is.
So with this point of the video,
you've likely seen the fine assets that we've gotten
from the freelancers on Fiverr.
However, at this point, I actually haven't.
So the first thing we've got is the Mystery Tech jingle.
(upbeat music)
Yo, that's really like mystery techy.
This is all a completely original music too.
Wait, let's see the other options.
(upbeat music)
Do you know how much we paid for someone
to make this completely custom Mystery Tech music?
Just take a guess.
- [Ken] $150?
- $89.
- [Ken] That's it?
- That's it.
- [Ken] Wow.
- It's actually really good.
So, we also have a bunch of other assets that we've got.
So, you've definitely seen this in the video already
but we basically have all of these little emotes
of the team which previously, we have like Potato Austin
and whatnot but now, we have everyone.
So the next thing we sent out is a Mystery Tech logo.
So this is what we got back and honestly,
I feel like it captures the vibe of Mystery Tech well,
but it's not just the logo because then we took this logo
and we sent it off to be animated into the transition
that you can see right here.
(upbeat music)
I am really happy.
So, big thank you of course,
to Fiverr for not only sponsoring this video,
but for also spicing up some Mystery Tech action.
Is that a PS One?
Is that what I see?
Is this a PS One screen and a PS One?
Okay, so, if you are born in the nineties,
you might be familiar with this little console
called the Sony, the what do you call it?
The PlayStay, Stayed, Splay, Play, Placate,
the Plays, a PlayStation.
Yeah, that was it.
That, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So this is the cool kid version,
which was not only incredibly tiny compared
to the original PS One, but importantly,
had the five-inch LCD screen.
It was like when we built the ultimate game cube
except five years before that and probably better
in every single way.
- [Ken] This is also official.
Our local store,
- Kay.
- [Ken] Mind you, they definitely upcharge us
a little bit but
we wanna support our local- - They see you walk in,
they go, "Oh, Ken's wasting money so it's fine."
- [Ken] Well, we support local businesses here.
Especially, you know, mom and pop video game ones.
- Just tell me how much the stupid things were.
- [Ken] $300 each.
- Actually, it's not terrible.
- [Ken] Not the best, especially, you know,
if you shop around online, you can definitely find them
for probably like, you know, one to $200 cheaper.
- Yeah.
- [Ken] But for ones that we could just get right away
and can actually see in person,
- Oh, yeah.
The PS One controller.
Not to be confused with the PlayStation One controller
cause this one actually says PS One on it.
Wow!
Gee whiz pa, this is great.
Are you sure this isn't brand new
cause this looks completely brand new.
- [Ken] If it isn't brand new,
It's really well taken care of.
- It has this, wait, it has a sticker on it?
Oh, this is definitely used.
Someone put a sticker on it.
Look at that.
Oh, this is actually kinda interesting.
So it actually gives you extra ports.
So normally, the PS One just has the power and the AV out.
This also has headphone jack and AV in.
So you can now use this screen to say, watch Nickelodeon
or something, but you also could plug
in a pair of headphones.
Nice.
We'll start out with some Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit.
Best Need for Speed of all time.
Don't @ me.
(retro game music)
(Austin exhaling)
Hmm, right in the nostalgia, woo!
Who needs drugs when you just listen to that?
- 3, 2, 1, go!
- [Ken] Dude, these graphics are better than I remembered.
- Dude, this game does not look bad, right?
I got weather effects.
I will say this screen is not the best though.
It's very much one of those late nineties like LCD panels.
It's okay but if you have the viewing angle
even slightly off, like you're sharing
with like your little brother or something,
it's really hard to see.
Let's swap over to some Harry Potter.
I don't think our copy of The Sorcerer's Stone
is any good anymore.
You can hear the disk is it's not reading.
Look at that.
Voice acting in the PS One game.
- [Matt] Who needs to read the books when you got this?
- Look at that.
Look at the power of the PS One.
So this is that early sorta game where it's third person
but like I can't control the camera, right?
I'm just being able to use the left like analog stick
to move around.
This game was incredibly ambitious for the PS One though.
There's a lot that was going on.
Wow, I don't actually remember this game running
at such terrible frame rates.
I didn't even know what a frame rate was back then.
Dude, I'm so, so happy.
This is legit.
This is the dream.
This is the 2000 dream.
- [Ken] I think in the year 2000, you wanted a PS2.
- No, you wanted the PS One, Ken.
There was no screen to attach to a PS2.
What, are you gonna carry around a CRT on one arm
and your PS2 on the other?
- [Ken] No, they made PS2 screens, dude.
- Wait, they did?
- [Ken] I mean not official, but, yeah.
- Oh.
So we're getting that for next episode of Mystery Tech?
- [Ken] Actually.
(upbeat music)
- Woo, Euler's Disk.
I hardly knew Euler.
- [Matt] What?
- Euler's Disk, spinning science into art.
You won't believe your eyes or ears
as the disk spins faster and louder.
So if you've watched Mystery Tech before,
you'll know that we have a propensity for taking a look
at slightly more fun and unique items such as things
that zip, zap, zoop and zop.
Now, today, the Euler's Disk seems very much
like the kind of product that will just fit right in.
So we've got the Austin mirror where I can stare at myself.
So basically, hold it up right, slightly angled
onto its rolling edge and give it a easy twist.
Is that right here?
Angle it...
Whoa, whoa.
Oh, I feel the magnet, okay and then just twist it.
(upbeat music)
What?
Wait, it just keeps going?
I think it's going for a very long time.
It just doesn't wanna give up.
Yo, this is trippy, man.
It's still going.
This is the first time I've spun it.
Is it about to disappear out of existence?
- [Matt] There it is.
Whoa!
That was like the coolest like sci-fi sound I've ever heard.
Ooh.
All right, here we go.
Okay.
Dude, this is trippy, man.
Dude, it straight up looks like it's just like appearing
and disappearing right now.
I really wonder what this thing looks like
in slow motion right now cause like to my eye,
it just looks like it's like flickering
in and out of existence.
Oh, man, look how fast that is.
(Austin laughs)
Yo, that is so cool.
(upbeat music)
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
This is like a hanger.
Hi Res, oh, okay.
That looks like some Sony action.
MDR-M1ST.
Let's see what our friends over at Sony have
to pleasure me aurally.
- [Matt] Aurally.
- [Ken] Wait, no, no.
- [Matt] Aural.
- [Ken] No.
- Aural bliss, man. - [Ken] No, no, no.
That was the worst one though.
That was actually the worst one.
So these are the successor
to the most popular studio headphones in Japan.
- The 7506's?
- [Ken] No, but the next step up to that.
They are the CD900ST's.
- Okay. - [Ken] They're literally
in every recording studio in Japan, more or less.
- Ooh, wow.
These are actually very nice.
These actually have like some really nice leather to them.
It's certainly a little more of like a modern style,
which makes sense cause they're gonna be making these
uninterrupted for the next 30 years.
How much were the MDR-M1ST's?
- [Ken] 300 bucks.
- Uh-huh.
I also got you a spare cable that Sony also sells.
- Can we just not pretend
with words like I got you a cable.
Can we all just
be in agreement? - [Ken] I got us a cable.
- Keep going.
- [Ken] I got me a cable. - There you go, that's it.
So, to test these headphones,
I don't listen to any of your fancy high res audio
that this DAC and headphones are designed for
so I'm gonna listen to Spotify with my 80 dollar cable.
- I literally have
Amazon music unlimited HD. - It's fine.
It's so okay.
It's fine.
Oh, wow.
You know what, I immediately have a problem with these.
These cushions do nothing.
- [Ken] Are the drivers too close to your ears?
- I'm literally, it's...
Yeah, exactly, like-
- [Ken] Yeah.
That's a common complaint.
We need to also get third, sorry,
I have to get third-party pads for this.
- Really?
Nah, man.
I don't wanna be rude.
- [Matt] Great way to start it?
- But, (Ken laughs)
- I'm not impressed at all.
Maybe they just need to be burned in a little bit.
It sounds a little too airy to me.
I don't know if it's because the drivers like so close
to my eardrums, it's just, they don't sound good,
they sound fine.
But certainly for the price, I don't know.
- [Ken] Let me actually see.
- Jump in, jump in.
I'm super curious.
I'm not feeling it.
- I kinda see what Austin's saying, but I do feel like,
yeah, these are definitely...
Where did he go?
I can see why- - Hello, welcome to my
much better headphone corner.
These are the Grado SR325x's.
The headphones that are gonna sound far better
than your nonsense and-
- I am surprised that you've got
an actual legit pair of headphones
and not- - Handmade in Brooklyn.
- I'm from Brooklyn.
- I know, you were handmade in Brooklyn too.
(Austin laughs)
(Matt groans)
These are their latest generation.
They've got like some new drivers and stuff.
They were fairly expensive.
They were...
- How much is fairly expensive?
- [Matt] I also just wanna point out
that he always get mad at us
when we don't have the prices immediately available.
- Yeah, Austin.
How much are these?
- $295.
- $295, all right.
- Less than your nonsense.
It's your show now.
- Okay, okay.
- Everyone likes you more for some weird reason,
I don't know why.
- Wow. - Go ahead, go ahead.
No, no, no.
Unbox.
Show it off.
Show off why the Grado's are great
and why your headphones suck.
Why I'm a better host. - You know-
- And why Fiverr can't save you now.
- It's great cause finally,
the boss acknowledges you for once.
Man, this box looks really, really nice.
All right and oh, these look like the SR80's,
just silver. - What?
They're metal.
Those are totally different.
Look at the stitching on the headband.
- Cool, I guess.
These feel like they will hurt a lot.
Do you see how little padding that is?
These are really, really well-built though.
They feel nice in hand.
- You see the girth on them?
- It is meaty.
Not that Austin would know what that's like.
I mean, these are definitely a better listening experience
for the average person, I'll say that.
- Almost like it's better for UrAverageConsumer.
- These headphones are just as good as Austin say they are.
They're very warm.
The vocals sound very rich.
I like this a lot.
They're great.
Are these for you?
- Yeah, these are mine.
- Okay, cool.
I thought so.
Well, you take your $300 headphones
and I'll take my $300 headphones.
- Wow, it's almost like it's happily ever after.
Wow, your heads really large.
Have you ever-
- [Matt] Where's my headphones?
- He called my head large.
Oh, well, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- You've got a big head, man.
- Thank you.
- You walked through (stammers).
(Ken laughs)
Big thank you to Fiverr for sponsoring today's episode
of Mystery Tech.
Don't forget to go check out the link in the description
and use that promo code AustinEvans to check out
to get yourself 10% off.