- Today, I am going to shock
(lightning buzzes)
awe and amaze you with some Mystery Tech.
Okay, I was expecting that to come my way.
Because today, we're gonna look
at the RCA 15 SE Series LED TV.
The slogan is, "Made For Today."
I don't think a 15-inch LED TV is made for today.
If it's made for today, I wanna go to tomorrow.
- [Matt] You're really showing your privilege
on this one here.
(suspenseful music)
- It's a clear TV.
Why does this exist?
Oh, the remote's transparent too!
Why is the remote transparent?
- [Matt] So you can have a harder time finding it
in your couch.
(drum sting)
- We've done lots of videos on TVs,
but I don't think I've ever actually looked at one
that was so transparent
where you could really see how empty this is.
- [Matt] And how terrible their cable management is. (laugh)
- I mean, normally you can't see, right?
Is there a practical benefit to a clear TV?
- [Matt] So this is actually made
for the U.S. prison system.
Inmates are allowed to buy a TV through the commissary,
and it has to be clear
so that way they can't
smuggle any contraband in the electronics.
You can buy it on Amazon right now, just fine.
But this model specifically is sold in U.S. prisons.
- I don't know what to do with this piece of information.
Is it cool?
Is it not cool?
Is it an interesting use of technology?
Is it icky and disgusting and terrible?
- [Matt] You like to commit tax fraud, so.
♪ Commit tax fraud it's a felony ♪
♪ Do do do do do ♪
- [Matt] I just truly forgot just how tiny 15 inches is.
- When you forgot what 15 inches looks like.
What are you accustomed to these days?
- I'm accustomed to something much girthier.
- Girthier?
- Something- - You mean wider?
- A lot wider- - Taller?
- A lot wider than it is tall.
- Like a (mumbles) pipe?
- (laughs) Yes.
- [Woman] I love that the product page for this says,
"The unique transparent body
means it seamlessly fits with your current decor."
(Austin laughs)
- Hmm, boy, what a great display
to put with your brick walls and your iron bars.
Yikes, I'm making a lotta jokes
about something not very funny today.
(prison bars slam closed)
- [Matt] I'm not gonna lie, this actually is not terrible
for a prison TV.
I thought they would still be on CRTs.
- And you know what's actually is kinda cool about this?
If you flip it over, you can actually see the back light.
You see how it, that's actually lit.
How much does this cost, Matt?
- [Matt] It costs about $120.
- You could get a larger TV for this price,
a Smart and whatnot, but what you can't get is style.
And this is the height of style, elegance, and translucency.
- [Matt] It's a clear value.
- Ferro Liquid Speaker from Dr. Orange, the Doc.
Oh, I think I know what this thing is.
So ferro fluid is iron-based fluid
that will react to magnetic pulses and look super dope.
- This is like "Splatoon" for colorblind people.
- All right, let's cut the seal.
I'm curious, 'cause this could be neat,
or it could be really dumb.
As with all items on "Mystery Tech."
- [Matt] (laughs) I would vote the latter.
So it's in a box.
- [Ken] This could be a very expensive set piece.
- [Matt] This looks like something
that would show up in "Drake and Josh."
It's squareable. - It's hysterical!
- I'll say you got a little blob of ferro fluid in there,
which I better just kinda shake it up a little bit.
You just kinda- - Are the socks done yet?
- I will say though it looks like an eye, I don't like it.
- [Matt] So what does the fluid do exactly?
- [Ken] It goes ba-blam.
- Blaaaaa.
- [Both] Ba-blam.
- Also, I don't know what,
do you know what this thing does?
- [Matt] Oh, it's a pacifier. (laughing)
- [Ken] Oh god.
- So it does say you can use Bluetooth
which I think is the only way you can do it.
Oh, oh, oh, this is a handheld magnet.
- [Ken] What, oh to move the fluid.
- [Matt] You can move the fluid around.
- All right, let's fire this up, shall we?
Start switch is number eight, which is on the back.
Okay, I'm gonna press the button now.
- [Matt] Oh, that's sick.
- [Ken] Oh, it's even more eyeie.
- [Matt] I like- - No!
- [Matt] Oh, I like that, no.
- Okay, all right, all right, all right.
- [Ken] Why is it looking at me?
Oooooh.
Yo!
- Oh, this is some nightmare shit.
- [Matt] I like this so much.
The time is March, 2020.
The curse is spreading and it is biting in your body.
(all laughing)
- And then you can slow it down if you want.
(slow techno music)
Yeah, so you can just kind of adjust it
to see how active you want it to be.
I will say though, this speaker does not sound good at all.
Wait a minute, it's broken.
- [Ken] What?
- I literally, the speaker,
it's like literally just sitting down on the bottom.
- There are definitely like pegs for it
to like mount to something,
but there is nothing to like-
- Let's investigate.
I feel like this is actually broken.
(electronic screech)
Look, it's just, they're dangling.
I'm telling you that's where the speaker should be,
and it's just dangling on the side.
- [Ken] Yeah, you're not wrong.
- So what we can do
is not judge this based on it's audio quality,
which is mediocre at best,
but in fact on its spooky fluid action.
I still don't think it's worth $500 or 350 bucks, though.
Like if this is like 80 bucks,
it's kinda like a cool piece to go.
But like, I mean, to be fair
this does look like it should be like a prop.
- [Matt] That's the whole point of it.
It's an aesthetic piece.
You're not buying this for the practicality.
- Like we can leave this on the back of the set
and have it just like slowly bouncing,
and actually would look really cool.
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(package whooshing)
That's heavy.
(box drops heavily)
What is it? - Oh, I know what that one is.
- Alternate Tech Life.
What's the Alternate Tech Life?
Have I been living the Pleb Tech Life.
- [Matt] Metaverse.
- If this is the Metaverse,
I'm gonna personally complain to the Zuck.
I'm opening the box now.
Okay, wow that's-
- [Matt] You're gonna need a very specific tool
to get into this box.
- Oh no, is this one of those like promo boxes,
where you have to like unlock it or something?
- [Matt] Yeah.
- I feel like we could just pop this off.
- [Matt] No.
- But there is a pull tap right here, so I'm gonna rip it.
- [Matt] Nope, no, no!
- What am I supposed to do?
- I don't know if that, wait.
- No, do do the pull tab. - Do the pull tap, okay.
- Do the pull tab.
(dramatic music)
(tab snaps)
(Matt laughing)
(crowbar smashing)
- I have now opened said box, and it is open now
to reveal that it didn't open.
It's a Lego piece.
Nope, it is open.
- No, no, that ruins the whole thing!
- Wait, oh look, it's closed and you turn it.
Oh wait, oh I locked it.
- [Matt] You did it, thank you, thank you.
- So do I need to use MagSafe to unlock it?
Okay.
- [Matt] it's really MagSafe?
Look, get the hell outta here.
- It's locked with MagSafe.
- [Matt] That is so stupid.
- Oh, oh, I get it now.
Oh, okay.
- [Ken] He's finally understanding it.
- I finally understand.
♪ Da da da da da da da da da ♪
(all laughing)
So I've got a MagSafe battery bank.
Oh, there's a case for, this is for 13?
- [Matt] Oh, we ordered this a while ago.
- So are you trying to say this is for a phone
that is outta date now?
- [Matt] Oh, MagSafe is timeless.
- This don't fit, lovely.
- [Matt] What do you notice about your phone,
and that dock right there?
- [Ken] Oh my god.
- [Matt] Is this, what do you ever do?
So you can, yeah, you don't even need the case.
You just, yeah.
Oh yeah, yeah see, is it a fun?
- Esk.
(lively organ music)
Priority mail.
Is this like an unreleased Intel CPU or AMD CPU?
Is it DDR6?
Yeester LLC.
- [Matt] That's all the hints you need.
- Friend of the channel, Mr. Yeester,
my arch nemesis at Microcenter,
and my compatriot when it comes to testing TikTok Tech Hacks
has recently launched an exciting new business venture.
Yeester Paste.
Yes, this is an actual real product
that you can actually check out
in the link in the description.
He sent a lot of Yeester Paste.
This is, this is-
- [Matt] Have you seen the way he puts on thermal paste?
This is gonna last you half a build.
- So we've got ourselves the Yeester Paste,
which has 12.8 watts per Millikelvin, and it's 3.5 grams.
Oh, it's so cute!
Look, it's a little smiley guy to hold your thermal paste
on the side of your system.
He's just a happy little guy.
He wants to hold your thermal paste.
So this actually is pretty cool.
So essentially it comes with this practice tool
where you could say draw your little pattern
and then you take this, you push it over the top,
and you can see just how well it actually spreads out.
I'm gonna just try to gently do this.
I'll do one, there you go.
So watch and behold how amazing this is gonna look
when I squish it.
Everybody ready?
Three, two, one, and squish activate.
(duck quacks)
Well that's so-
(all laughing)
So I just gotta push it down a little bit more.
[Matt] You look like you've built a PC before.
- Ha ha weird, huh?
Check out YeesterPaste in the link in the description.
You can learn more about how to be better at Thermal Paste.
I'm gonna take some tips from the Thermal Paste man himself.
Hasbro Selfie Series.
Oh, it started with a selfie.
Now when you look inside this box you'll find
a customized one-of-a-kind action figure, of yourself.
Not too long ago, Aaron, our fine editor
over on "This Is" just put a phone in my hand and said,
"Hey, can you just like take some pictures here?"
And I was using some app that was like scanning my face.
And because "This Is", I always assume
that there's gonna be some wacky shenanigans.
Well, I'll say it's not like sealed.
(whistle heightens)
Wait, is it?
Wait, I accidentally peeked it a little bit.
It's a a "Ghostbusters" thing.
Am I a Ghostbuster?
♪ Da na na na na ♪
♪ Da na na na na na na na na ♪
♪ Royalty free ♪
The reveal is...
(deep chortling laughing)
Look at that, look at that high quality face.
Definitely looks just like me.
(box whooshing)
Okay, so there is some real weight and heft behind that one.
- [Matt] Where's it from?
- Is this what you call tape?
We've got, hear, here.
Oh, oh, there's a bunch of stuff in here.
So we've got ourselves the Focal Bathys.
- [Matt] Aye oh.
- That sounds sounds like a "Game of Thrones" character.
On top of that, they also sent over,
oh, these are the open back reference headphones, The Clear.
So these are traditional like reference headphones,
which I'm gonna take a look at a second.
The Bathys though are,
I mean these are very high-end looking Bluetooth headphones.
Oh, look at that.
My favorite things.
Noise canceling headphones with High-Fi sound
and French design.
- [Matt] French design, oui, oui.
- The thing with Focal, generally speaking,
they make a wide variety of headphones
and speakers and stuff,
is that this is very high end, right?
So we're not talking your Ford Focus.
Oh no, we're talking about your McLaren F1 of headphones.
All right, let's unveil.
- [Matt] Whoo hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo, gee!
- Aluminum, those are actually surprisingly light.
So something interesting about these
is that while they seem like they've got an open back,
they're actually not, which makes sense,
because these do who have active noise cancellation.
So traditionally when you get to very high end headphones,
they'll have what's known as an open-back design,
which will help with things like soundstage.
But at the expense of everyone else in the room
hearing exactly what you're listening to.
And in the case of Mr. Kenbolido,
sometimes that's a little bit embarrassing.
If he had any shame to give.
- No shame.
- Look at the app.
The app looks very fancy.
Hello, welcome rich person to your brand new headphones.
- [Ken] Yeah, I feel like I owe someone money
after this app.
- I'm one percent down with firmware, so I'll be right back.
Actually here Kim, show me this.
- [Ken] Woohoo.
- I need gloves to wear these.
You know that you bought something really high end and fancy
when there's no plastic wrap anywhere.
Like you pull it outta the box,
and it is perfect and ready to go.
So when you're saying open back, that is wild.
They're also so lightweight.
So these are aluminum and magnesium wow.
- [Matt] I love the shine on that.
- So I always listen on Spotify because Spotify is the best.
The problem though is the Spotify does not support hi-fi.
And honestly look, I feel like most of the time
you can't tell the difference.
For me, I can't tell the difference beyond going
from like a 320 kilobit MP3 to like FLACs and stuff.
I know some people can hear the difference.
For me, I'm not quite that sophisticated of an ear.
Okay, what's some Apple Music on an Android device?
I think I need to call Jony Ive
and report you to the police.
- [Ken] No, the only person-
- [Matt] He doesn't work there anymore.
- Good point, he didn't give a shit.
- [Matt] He don't give a, yeah.
- So we'll do is this, I will use the Hi-Fi Apple music
to listen to the crazy high-end headphones.
And then for the Bluetooth headphones
I will just use Spotify because that's the way
that a normal person should listen to music.
- [Ken] He's making a face.
He's experiencing oral bliss.
- [Matt] Aural.
- Ah, holy fuck. (laughing)
Ken, come over here for a second.
Play it for 30 seconds.
Wait for the drop.
I may have pooped my pants.
(Matt and Austin laughing)
- The bass is nice.
- Dude, that drop was wild.
I was not expecting that.
- The fact that they can do that with these
is kind of impressive, 'cause there's a wide soundstage
even with these being closed back.
- Matt is an experienced audio engineer
who will be impressed by nothing.
Not even the most bliss of world bliss.
- I will say it's a little bassy for me personally,
but still really crisp.
- These are the best sounding Bluetooth headphones
I've ever heard, full stop, no anything.
And that's not even plugging the in via USB,
and getting the true audio experience.
Am I gonna honestly tell you to go
and spend $800 on Bluetooth headphones?
Of course not.
These sound better than AirPods Max.
But what they do not do is they don't give you
quite that same like transparency mode
and the noise canceling of the AirPods Max.
Like these are definitely meant more for an audio file.
We've listened to the Bathys, the Bluetooth options.
Now let's listen to the big boys.
(quiet mellow music)
Wow, it's like I have literally nothing on,
like there is no difference.
- [Matt] It's like wearing nothin' at all.
- You ever get into trouble, all you need to do is-
- Feels like I'm wearing nothin' at all.
Nothin' at all, nothin' at all.
- [Matt] And we could hear it too. (laughs)
- The clarity is wild.
That's immediately what I hear.
I hear just everything.
I'm hearing new colors right now.
There's like a buzz on the back of the instrument.
I've never heard that.
I'm not gonna lie though, as much as those sound amazing,
this is the move.
To me, I don't have time to sit down and appreciate music
and to blast the whole room with what I'm hearing.
Shout out Headphones.com.
If you wanna send us some more headphones for "Mystery Tech"
I'd be happy to thoroughly evaluate.
- [ Matt] Yes, send us.
- No, no, no.
- [Matt] Send us headphones.
- Don't do that.
(guitar tones)