(jazz scatting to himself)
(mellow music)
- I mean I wasn't ready for that one. I was,
I got to get like warmed up and ready for Mystery Tech.
I can't just like hop in and be like,
"Hey, I'm Austin, and today we got some mystery tech"
Whoa it's crazy.
[Ken] - You sound warmed up already. I mean,
- Yeah that was my warm up. I just snuck my warm-up then.
- All right, this actually calls back
to a video that we did a couple of weeks ago.
- Okay.
- Also I definitely didn't forget
to give this to you when, uh,
we did that video. Definitely not.
- Oh no Things are falling.
Silent Hills origins?
a PSP?
I'm legitimately confused to what I'm looking at right now
is this from eBay. This looks very E-bayish to me.
- It is from eBay.
- Okay
- This is not something that you can buy at retail.
- Okay.
- At least traditional retail.
- No way that's sort of the word traditional in there,
like, like, is this black market?
- I personally, I-
- Is this stolen property?
- I'm not saying that it's stolen,
- Wait actually?
- But it wouldn't surprise me.
- Is this a dev kit?
A firmware subject to license agreements.
(beep)
I can't show that.
Ken where did you get this?
Did you get this off someone on eBay?
- We, so, we tried to build the ultimate PSP
and I forgot we had this. Believe it or not.
(both laugh)
Believe it or not.
- So this is meant to be an ultimate PSP video. Okay.
Okay. Okay. Okay.
- I forgot about this big box that we.
- It wouldn't be mystery tech if it wasn't something
that had been sitting around for awhile.
I mean, it's a PSP from the front,
and a umbilical cord on the back
- Oh, that's all that is, okay.
- Now it's missing everything on the bottom.
There's no port or anything
There's just a power switch and a couple of lights on it.
- Kind of cool. Actually,
- So there's a little switch here,
which is kind of interesting
So you can switch between reading off of a UMD or DVD.
If you're getting close to finalizing your game,
you'll put it on an actual UMD like this,
it'll work no problem.
But while you're doing your testing,
You're not gonna want to burn a UMD everytime
So you can just put an DV throw it in here
and you get the same results
Hot, wait. Oh God. How much was this?
- How much do you think it is?
- These things I know, dev kits do not show up often. $800.
- Wow. That's actually on, spot on.
- Was is really?
- Yeah, that was a hundred percent what it is.
- Wait really?
- Yeah.
- Oh. That's not crazy for what really is
a piece of, of history.
Okay. Are we ready to press the button?
3, 2, 1,
whoooooo.
Things are happening, things are happening.
Oh yeah. Look at that.
Essentially, I'm just getting my screen mirrored here.
I mean, this does seem like a PSP debug settings.
So let's try that available, aw look at this.
Okay.
So you can change the available memory.
So this is one of those things that dev kits often do.
Is that while you're first, you know,
troubleshooting your game
and kind of putting it all together,
these dev kit's often will have more RAM available
so you can kind of get things up and running.
And then once you get a little more final,
you can limit it to the actual retail model,
but you'll have a little bit more space to work with.
Oh, welcome to silent hill. Oh oh, don't trust her.
Don't trust her. It's going to end poorly my friends.
This looks really good for a PSP.
Look, I'm at gonna play through the whole game here.
But it's clear that this works. Now, at this point, I mean,
it's certainly nothing more than a novelty.
A cool little piece of history, but I'm going to say,
even though this was $800,
this is a cool thing that we should definitely keep our
hands on until someone knocks on the door and asks for their
definitely, legally purchased property back,
not sus at all. Like at all.
thought you're going to pull a fast one on me.
Abstract art.
Okay so today in mystery tech
we're looking at abstract art.
- It looks abstract, but it probably doesn't sound abstract.
- What's an abstract sound?
like, is this an abstract sound?
(table banging noise)
- Can you just unbox the thing?
- Smife nit,
smarf nit.
- Use your english dude.
- This is not English!
- Symfonisk
- Oh, like symphony?
- Yeah, yeah, Yeah.
- Oh
can you fit that big brain through the door?
I don't think so.
And inside we have cardboard. Oh, it's a Sonos.
So this is one of the Ikea Sonos speakers.
- Yes.
- Wow. That's uh, hefty.
- Okay but real talk though, these Ikea Sonos speakers.
Fantastic.
- This is like actually like,
wall-mounted
- Yeah
- like actually it is abstract art.
- Yeah. It's abstract art and it's a speaker.
- Oh, look, abstract art.
Um, so, I mean, this is pretty hefty.
It also has an ethernet Jack, which is very strange.
So this is wifi because you can run an ethernet jack to it?
- Yeah all the Ikea sonos speakers have ethernet.
- We also have ACN and ACL.
So I guess if you want a daisy chain
this with a couple of other devices.
- Yeah.
- Okay. So I'm going to pop open some Spotify.
We'll just start out with a little episode of the test
drivers, as you would normally do and see how it sounds
- Kind of really isn't anybody better
to talk about it really.
So in case you don't know, hamas is the cheat
- It's like Mike's in the room with me,
that's pretty decent.
Let's actually listen to some music,
but before we do that just needs to find its new home.
So we're going to loop it down through here.
- Yeah. Yeah.
- Where's Marquez when you need him, now let's see if I can
connect to it yet again.
[Speaker system] - Question, Should you go out?
- That's pretty good.
Considering it's all the way back here.
[Speaker System] - Just a little bit more money.
- We need one more of these
[Ken] - So now imagine a full living room.
- Yeah.
- With these,
you can have the most invisible looking speakers.
- Yeah.
It's fine art. Right? So, uh, we'll keep this one here.
We'll get another one, we'll put it right over here.
- And then we'll get one for Ken's bathroom.
- We won't get one for Ken's bathroom.
It'll be a stereo pair.
And that means that for the next episode of mystery tech,
while you're watching these sweet b-roll shots
Ken will be jamming out to weed music
and I'll be listening to the new Kanye or something.
I mean, that's pretty on brand I think.
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(singing to self)
Hola
you can't throw stuff where you're throwing stuff.
I'm I'm not, I, I'm doing a gag to camera,
but if it's all dark and stuff.
Is that the brand new Samsung galaxy Z fold three, five G?
Is that the phone that cost $1,800?
[Ken] - It actually only cost me 600.
- You bought this phone for
- Sorry 500.
- Wait, are you using the royal we here?
- Yes.
It's with Street tech.
- Let's reveal the big chungus itself.
I will immediately say this feels nicer than the first one.
The build quality on this just feels nicer.
The tolerances are tighter.
It feels a little bit more substantial.
It also feels I could be wrong here,
but a touch like, maybe a little bit thinner.
- It is a, a hair bit thinner.
It's not really that much noticeable,
but I think probably because the edges are finally chamfered
it probably can feel a little slimmer.
I actually use this in place of like an iPad.
- Okay that is where I think you and I differ my friend.
- I think it gives me enough multi-tasking capabilities
in a smaller form factor where I like
carrying it around like a tablet.
- My problem with this phone since day one has been the fact
it's too big. Like the Z flip is nice, small portable.
I mean, this is a, this is a big chungus.
I mean that's, I mean,
is that a Z flip in your pocket or are you happy to, no,
Z fold! goddamn it I can't even finish my own jokes.
Galaxy buds too?
- I got them with my phone for free.
- Wait. So for $500, with a bunch of trade-ins,
you got the Z-fold 3 and the buds too?
- They gave me a $200 credit, which that,
fell right into place.
- That's pretty cool. Okay.
Let me take a look at the galaxy buds two.
- See I saved us money
- Sure, sure.
The galaxy buds have been,
some of my favorite earbuds for a while, right?
You've got the buds live,
which are super unique kind of being format,
that I was all about for a while.
And then the buds pro came out,
but the buds two offer actually kind of similar to the beats
that I have in my pocket,
which is really stuck around for a while.
They've got active noise cancellation, decent battery life.
But the main claim to fame with these, supposedly, is the
comfortability. I love there's so many, 1000 X mark fours,
the pebbles, that we took a look at on mystery tech
not that long ago. Great love them.
Terrific sound amazing A and C. Case is great.
Like everything's great about them, except for the comfort.
I can't really use them for more than an hour or so at a
time until my ears get really uncomfortable.
Oh sheee, That's cool.
I've got to say like they gave us the wrong color on the
buds, but it's a Panda.
All right, let me actually just give these a try
and see how they sound.
♪ (upbeat music) ♪
So, first impression, literally 45 seconds in,
I'm actually not that impressed.
Um, a little scoopy,
like a lot of emphasis on the highs. More than anything,
like almost to a slightly uncomfortable degree.
I don't think they're as nice sounding
as the beat studio buds.
Which to be fair, I mean, sound really good for 150 bucks.
And now I will just kind of remind you to subscribe and
Ringaling the Dingaling bell for more future mystery tech
shenanigans onto the next segment.
(Mimics drum roll)
I will keep doing that until editing finally leaves it in.
If you just saw me do this, (mimics drum roll) thing.
I've done that for months now.
And they always cut it out.
- Have they really not left it in?
- No, they never leave it in!
- Good.
- Hello my friends it's everything we need from wish.
So, uh, I guess now we just have to wait like,
three months for this stuff to show up
and see if it's any good.
I don't think it will be though.
(mimics drum roll)
- Okay, this looks, wow.
Holy.
Did you get me gold bricks?
- No. This was something that you actually know about
a friend of ours sent this.
- Is it the keyboard?
- It is the keyboard.
Oh, okay.
All right. All right.
There's a long story here.
I'm going to open it up and I'll tell the story.
I'm very excited. I'm very excited.
Are you all ready? And,
okay. That's slightly less dramatic
than I thought it was going to be.
(laughs)
Oh, I can start.
I'm starting to see it. I'm starting to see it.
Look at this. Look at this
- Oh my.
Oh, okay, okay, okay.
So the story behind this is the other day I was watching
Betty from switch and click. She did a video on,
it was a collab I'm making like the loudest and the quietest
keyboards. I saw that video.
I'm like, oh,
what a great idea for a video completely randomly.
Like a couple days later, she emailed me saying, Hey,
do you want to do a video together? I'll build a keyboard.
I was like, huh, yeah, I do.
And this is the result. So, okay, hang on.
So let me run through what exactly Betty and Jake did for
this. It's been Cara coded in Corvette yellow colorway
with an additional paint splatter design.
- Remember when you asked if we got you gold bars?
- Or is there like solid?
- Look at the back of it.
- Yeaaah.
- That's solid brass?
no wonder it's so heavy. Oh my God.
The switches are the Boba U-40s,
a tactile switch known for its distinct bump and thunk
on each keystroke.
They were hand lubricated with crytops 2 0 5 G O
to improve the acoustics and feel.
Let me just sort of prepare my fingers for oral bliss.
- What?
- Oral
- No! neither one of those words.
(typing sounds)
- I'm a changed man.
I can't go back. I think I'm wrong.
I think I just have to use this keyboard now.
This makes every other keyboard
I've ever typed on feel terrible.
This is Austin's keyboard. No one touches it.
Thank you very much for watching.
Make sure to subscribe to the channel.
Wrangling the ding-a-ling button.
Go check out Switch and Click.
They, uh, are talented.
And I like the keyboard and I'm going to keep it.
Take it out bye.
I'm just going to give this right back to you here.
- No,
- No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
- What do you got there champ?
- Okay. If you have the patience of,
someone from Lego masters,
you can build this thing.
Matt purchases this with company money
and he's going to build it
and take it home because he wants this for his Lego diorama.
You know what, you can, I'm done with this episode anyway.
- So despite what Austin said,
I did not just buy this just for myself. I mean,
that's very true.
I definitely wanted it and I'm going to keep it, however,
I do have some ideas for it.
That will definitely be mystery techie.
What I want to do,
is I want to install this screen inside the TV
and make this actually a working emulator.
And I've already gotten started on my super basic little
guy. It's a raspberry pie holder.
That's held in completely with Legos.
- Oh, that's really cool.
- Yeah this is kind of a monster build. I mean,
it can't be that bad, right? Like.
- Oh, oh, whoa.
Oh geez. Okay.
- Okay. Remember when you said I only buy stuff for myself.
- Yes,
- I did that.
- Oh, you build the Lego in yes.
- Yeah, but I did some modifications to it.
I put a screen in it.
- Wait. for what?
- I put a full raspberry pie in here as well.
So this right here is a retro gaming station.
- Whoa whoa whoa whoa woah
- If we power this bad boy up.
- Oh my god. Wow.
- So I made a custom splash screen for it
- Wow you even got the right fonts and everything?
If Ken put this level of work into all of the dumb things
he buys from mystery tech the show would be even better.
So I'm just going to say, like,
I haven't actually looked at this either. I mean,
the NES makes sense.
I would figure if you would do something like this,
you will put it inside the NES,
but you basically gutted the inside when you built it and
you have the raspberry PI and you got some kind of custom
LCD as well. Cause that actually the fit is really nice
on that.
- And if I take the, take the top off here,
- Oh, I see the screen. Wow.
So you really took that whole screen apart, huh?
- Yeah.
So originally it was in a case like this
- Mmm, yeah.
- took it all out of the case here to fit in here.
There is nothing in here that's not Lego approved,
- Is it an illegal build?
- It is not an legal build
- Wow. I'm so proud of you.
- There's no glue. There's no nothing.
Everything in here is held in 100% with Lego.
- I'm massively impressed. Look,
we do a lot of stuff for mystery tech,
but I think you get a gold star for effort on this one
Matt, and I look forward to the next time we look at more
Lego stuff on mystery tech?
[Ken] - No, but we got, we got some ideas
for custom stuff. Matt, Matt is, uh is scheming.
- Look, if this is the beginning of your scheming,
consider me on board.
[Matt] - Perfect. I already ordered a whole bunch of stuff.
- Of course you did
- With your credit card.
- Yes.