- Hello my friends, and welcome
back to Mystery Tech, where I have a very special guest.
Construction noise.
(construction taking place outside)
Oh!
Oh, what's up?
I caught it, I'm so fast like, Sanic.
All right, first item is, (sighs) I already don't like this.
Oh, is this the stupid MHKBD thing,
or whatever it's called?
- [Ken] Yeah.
- So, recently on Twitter, I found
that there is a company, called MHKBD, or MKHBD.
It looks like MKBHD, and every time I read
the name, I feel like I'm dyslexic.
But they make these wonderful little
wood creations, like this,
which is a phone stand, right?
- [Ken] Yes.
- All right, so, let's give this a try.
Wow, how lovely that is.
Truly, a magnificent side hustle
for Marques and his secret wood working company.
But look how nice this is, I can have it rotate
around, I'm not entirely sure why this moved,
because I don't see any reason for it to move.
Oh, oh okay, I see.
So, you can rotate the moose so you get
different angles on your phone.
How,
- [Ken] That's so smart.
- He's, what a, what a clever gentleman.
That Marques.
If only we had recently done a This Is episode
with Marques, all about whether or not
he can guess tech and phones correctly,
linked in the description.
- [Matt] I'm definitely taking that.
We can put it right on the fun station.
- Here you go, man.
(Matt laughs)
It's all yours.
- Look it.
(soft music)
Yay!
(snaps fingers)
- I hope you have some headphones, Ken,
I'm feeling in the mood for some music.
(thud)
Hey!
Wait, did you actually have headphones already ready?
Okay, cool.
These are the Razer, Opus, wireless
noise-canceling headphones, so, I've actually
heard a lot about this, so, we actually
got a really brief look at this at CES earlier this year.
But essentially, the idea is that these
are very similar to something like
the Sony 1000X Mark 3s.
However, they're only $200, and by most accounts,
they are almost as good in certainly
most categories, and obviously a lot cheaper.
So, Ken, I know, you spend a lot of time
with the 1000X Mark 3s.
So, generally speaking, they're regarded
as some of the best sort of over-ear
noise canceling headphones.
However, at 350 bucks, they're very expensive.
So, if these can even get close
to the same level of comfort, noise,
well noise rejection, I suppose,
as well as audio quality, I'll be really impressed.
Wow, I mean, these look almost identical to the Sony's.
But that's not a bad thing, I feel
the Sony's have a very classic design,
it's just very unusual, that of all companies,
Razer are the ones who brought these out.
I mean, yes, they're certainly not
gaming focused headphones, but of course,
you have to consider Razer makes
a lot of other products, including their own phone,
only natural for them to get
into the sort of, higher end audio space,
that's not just necessarily just for like, a gaming headset.
- [Ken] And they also own THX.
- They do own THX.
Oh.
Okay, initial impressions.
The passive isolation is nuts on these things.
Like, legitimately, I could believe
that these were on, just by putting it on.
Like, that's actually a massive difference.
Usually, I'm not a big fan of downloading apps,
for well, most of the things on Mystery Tech.
However, I will download the Razer Opus app
because not only, I'm sure they use
this for things like updating your firmware and what not.
But supposedly, you can actually tune it
fairly accurately, I guess, with the EQ and everything.
So, I'm connected, Auto Shutoff.
Oh, Auto Pause, Resume, when the headset's removed
from your ears, that's a nice feature.
Obviously, with a lot of sort of like,
in-ear buds, you know, you take out
your AirPods or whatever, it'll pause your music.
It's a little bit of a less common
feature for a proper full-sized pair of headphones.
It's a really pleasant sound.
Like there's nice sound stage, but it's not.
It's very easy to listen to, it's not
like, sort of like cranked up on like the highs
and especially the bass, like a lot of headphones,
especially like Bluetooth headphones.
All right, verdict.
- So, I do agree, there's definitely
not as much of a punchy, bassy sound to it.
The one thing I really like is that this actually
has physical buttons instead of the Sony,
where, the Sony has touch controls
that, I feel like get in the way of everything.
- I like these, almost purely for the fact
that they like automatically play and pause.
Like, I've really gotten used to that with Bluetooth
headphones, with like the Galaxy Buds
and like AirPods and stuff.
That's a really nice feature.
- That is really seamless.
- It's super quick, the one thing
I don't like is when you turn on and off
ANC, the music pauses for a second.
Which sounds kinda like jittery.
- These sound really good for $200.
- All right, okay, well I see more Razer stuff.
Is this just the Razer sponsor
episode, Ken, are you just sneaking
your sponsors in already?
- [Ken] Well, I kinda need to eat.
- So, we have the Razer Kishi,
another item that we did take a look at at CES.
We also have the TCL 10 PRO.
Wait, hold on, walk me through this for a second.
Have you bought anything in this episode, yet?
Have you just been fully, like,
taking advantage of that sweet sponsor
money the entire time?
- [Ken] This one of the cheapest Mystery Techs
we've ever done.
- Well thanks, after the last one
was like $400,000, I'm pleasantly surprised.
Okay, now, so, let's start with the Kishi.
Okay, that's a pretty straight forward looking controller.
Oh, yeah.
- [Matt] I would not do that with the, no.
- [Ken] Why do you subject your Galaxy Fold?
- Flip, my Z Flip, you know what?
No, the Z Flip is durable.
- [Ken] One bad moment,
and your phone's gonna be cut in half.
- No look, it's even sturdy, look,
it's like the Fold’s not gonna flip in half.
- [Matt] Oh, that's not sturdy.
- Look, it's fine.
- [Matt] There's so much flex.
We gave you a phone to use.
- Oh right, I forgot.
I will immediately say one thing, I like
the gray finish on the back, that actually
does look kind of unique.
This is every bit as good as a OnePlus,
or a Galaxy, it's nice sort of,
metal machining on the sides.
You've got a tapered edge, which honestly looks
like it's straight off of something like a OnePlus 7.
Oh, we've got a headphone jack.
How wonderful.
Although I will say the notch is looking
a little, a little on the old side.
I was about to say, "what a nice
freebie in the box," but Display Greatness
is burned onto your case, so I don't like that at all.
All right, well, I mean I'm not impressed
with this fingerprint, sensor right now, it is taking
like a solid 2 seconds for it to register right now.
Maybe it'll be a little bit faster later.
Choose dominant hand, left hand or right hand?
So this is a Snapdragon, 675, which is
actually pretty solid, 675 is probably,
we'll see in like Pixel 4A or whatever.
Oh, my God.
It burned in a watermark, a TCL watermark.
Display Greatness, Display Greatness,
Display Greatness.
Selfie portrait.
I mean, wow.
- [Ken] Whoa, what?
- Did you see how far like, delayed that was?
I mean, that does not look good.
That is not my best selfie.
What the fu, okay, so we have three
cameras running right now.
- [Ken] Whoa, that's cool!
- Original, ultrawide and low light video.
- [Ken] That, that, what?
What?
Oh that, that's, that's gonna haunt
me forever, four Austins?
I thought one was enough.
- Hey, guys!
This is a phone!
Okay, so, you know what?
The camera seems to be about as good
as a $450 dollar phone should be,
unless your name is Google Pixel.
Why don't we try a game here?
One slight problem with this, it covers
up the proximity and the light sensor,
so, the phone immediately went completely dark,
I've to manually adjust that up.
So, now that we have Fortnite downloaded,
there are a couple of issues.
So, first of all, the Kishi
does seem to work, at least for the menus
and all the buttons are being registered.
The problem is that the phone is defaulting
to low resolution at 20 FPS, so I cranked
up the limit, but I don't have high hopes
for the performance of this guy,
wouldn't even let me turn up the graphics to medium.
I didn't think that the 675 was that sort
of low end, but like, it looks terrible.
Like, it definitely looks like it's running
at like 360p or something.
Wow, it's not even 30 fps right now,
I'm at like 21, 22.
Yeah, this thing is not impressive.
- [Ken] You know what phone would play this really well?
- What?
- [Ken] The iPhone SE.
- iPhone SE would absolutely do a great job.
Do you see how the world was like
spawning in as I walked around the corner there?
Look, the thing is, the controller,
I'm on board with, this feels good.
It's not a perfect fit for all phones,
but something like this, I think it works well enough.
The problem just is with the TCL,
it's a nice bit of hardware, but the performance
is bad, like there's no other way around it.
Like this just looks terrible.
Whoa, what the?
I had no idea how to play Fortnite
but, they’ve added a lot of stuff since the last time I played.
- [Ken] You say that every time you play Fortnite.
- Sunny tech.
Okay, what is this?
What is that?
I see a capacitors and is this like the Tesla coil?
- [Ken] This is part two.
Yes!
Okay, nevermind, I'm excited again.
- [Ken] So this Plasma Loud Speaker is $80.
- Excuse me, did you say the words,
Plasma Loud Speaker?
- [Ken] Yes I did.
- This looks so nefarious.
I don't even know where to begin.
So, we have what looks like a power supply
here and then we have like a motor or something?
And then it goes to this, which is, I guess
just a couple of copper contacts.
Are you sure there are no instructions of any kind?
- [Matt] You're the one who opened the box.
- There was nothing in there.
- [Matt] I'd say just go for it.
Coward.
- [Ken] Oh, look to see where to you plug
in the headphone jack.
- What the (beep) was that?
Okay.
- [Matt] There's plasma.
- What is that, how do you do anything with this?
- [Ken] Turn it off.
- [Ken] Oh, that is definitely.
- Okay.
(video playing on the phone)
Whoa, did you see it's jumping over?
What the f.
- [Matt] I hear it crackling.
(crackling)
Oh, oh!
- What is happening?
- [Ken] It's jumping.
- It is like going all over the place.
- [Ken] That's sick.
- So, the thing is, this is a really interesting device.
The problem though is this is not
all that loud, it's very cool,
they're literally using electricity
in a plasma arc to listen to music.
But it's incredibly quiet, you would never
wanna listen to this as like, a real speaker, right?
You'll almost hear sort of more of the hissing
than anything else.
But that being said, as a Science toy,
it is actually really interesting.
It also scares me.
But I mean, what else is new?
Lots of things scare me.
Oh wow, what lovely background noise,
if only I had my active noise cancellation headphones.
Oh well, instead I have a PS4 controller.
Wow, oh gee, whatever can I do with this?
And, what the (beep)?
What the (beep), Kenneth?
- [Matt] This is a family channel.
- This is the May Flash, Magic-NS Wireless
Controller Adapter for Switch and PC.
Are you trying to tell me that this turns
a PS4 controller into a Switch controller?
- [Ken] In theory.
- All right.
My friends, I come bearing a solution.
This may look like a normal TV to you,
but in fact it is not, because it is the ultimate
Nintendo Switch Pro that we very carefully
customized on the Building the Ultimate Nintendo Switch.
I'm using this because I wanted
to show off my craftsmanship, not
because I can't find another Nintendo Switch dock
which is not glued to the back of TV.
That looks really bad on camera,
why did I even talk about that?
- [Matt] It looks even worse than I remember.
- 'Kay, so, this is pairing, that's probably
a good, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
it worked, it worked, it worked, wait.
Wait, why is it not, what?
Wait.
Wait, it paired, it's paired, what?
It's paired, it's paired, do you see it’s paired?
Can you see it's paired right now?
Look how blue that is.
This should be working, why isn't this working?
- [Matt] I don't see a single positive
review past 2018.
- Okay, you know what?
This thing doesn't work, we're moving on
with the, you know it's fine 'cause the ultimate
Switch doesn't need a PlayStation controller,
it's good enough as is.
- [Matt] Now, we put that in the trash.
- What is that?
Why are you giving me more things?
I don't even have room on the table.
Is that another Roboraptor, Ken?
Did you give me another (beep)
Roboraptor, what the?
We've had Robraptor, we've had Roboraptor X.
That Megaraptor, we've had that weird
pink raptor, we've had like five or six
others that I can't recall off the top of my head.
But now, we've completely given up
and now we have Robosapien, a (beep) Gundam.
- [Ken] You know Robosapien is like
the more famous cousin of Roboraptor, right?
- I mean, it's from the same company.
Are you trying to tell me that Robosapien
is more popular than Roboraptor?
- [Ken] Actually, yes.
- Really?
Who doesn't want a robot dinosaur?
- [Matt] Who doesn't want a little brother?
- I have one of those, and that’s not worth it.
- [Matt] Oh, whoa. - [Ken] Whoa.
- [Matt] So.
We should really take those knives away from you.
- That's okay.
- [Matt] You watched too much Naruto.
- Dattebayo...
- That was the most yikes moment of my life.
- [Ken] I am leaving.
(running footsteps)
(silly music)
(music grows a little upbeat)
- You know, I wonder why people
don't take me seriously sometimes,
and then moments like this, I'm reminded
of why no one takes me seriously sometimes.
- [Matt] Austin "I make tech on the internet videos" Evans,
thing, I messed that up.
- Can we name this "the Cringe Episode of Mystery Tech"?
Or is that just every episode?
(Roboraptor growling)
'Mkay, all right.
He's not happy about his new-found brother.
- [Matt] Put his hands back on right now.
- I'm putting his hands back on.
Yes, yes, there, there, calm down.
Okay, so we have Robosapien,
he doesn't look as high quality as Roboraptor,
he's just black and just generic looking.
- [Matt] Wow.
He is (voice fumbles with Austin's)
- That's kinda cool, actually.
- [Ken] That's why Robosapien is actually
really popular, he's most known for dancing.
- [Matt] What are you?
What?
Why are you like, what?
Oh, God. - [Ken] Oh, Jesus Christ.
- [Matt] Why are you the way you are?
- He has two feet full of batteries.
(laughs)
- [Matt] Do we have that many?
- I don't know, I need a screwdriver to find out.
- [Matt] What is that, like eight AAs?
- (coughs) I assume 4 and 4.
Oh (beep) no, they're two Cs.
- [Matt] Two Ds!
- Oh (beep), you're right, yeah, two Ds.
Double Ds my friend, Double Ds.
Did you just break your nut?
did you nut so hard you broke it?
- We don’t have Ds?
Are you trying to tell me that this Mystery Tech
is officially over now that we don't have batteries
for Robo-Lamo?
What do we do now?
- [Matt] Chipotle?
- Yeah, sounds good.
Thanks for watching, see you guys next time.
(boxes crashing lightly)
Robo-Lamo.