- [Matt] Why always with the table?
- I gotta just get my pre-Mystery Tech stretch in.
- [Matt] You have a floor.
- Ow wow,
that actually like, that hit me with some force.
So if you're familiar with this little device
called the Steam Deck,
it promises to give a ton of performance
in a Switch like form factor.
Well, as a lot of people point out,
Aya Neo have been doing something like that
for even longer.
And this is the new version,
which is called The Aya Neo
NEXT.
- [Crew Member] Yes.
- That's a very - Is that it?
Did I get it right?
- [Ken] It's a very boring name.
- It's the NEXT one.
That was not as satisfying as I thought it was going to be.
Explore the future.
Oh, oh my God.
Memorial name plate AYANEO NEXT, Austin Evans.
Can you see that? It's got a cool.
All right look,
I'm a sucker for things that have my name on them.
The reveal is,
oh, that looks like a switch.
All right, let's go.
Wow.
- [Ken] Why? Why?
(laughs)
What do you hope to gain from smelling all these products?
- You've ever been to a Payless shoe store?
(laughing)
I got this. (laughing)
Real talk though, first impressions.
This all feels like it's metal.
Well, this bottom is plastic.
But I think the front is actual metal.
Those are the USB-C on top and on bottom.
- [Ken] I like the big air flow
is also out of your touch points too.
- [Austin] Yeah, yeah. - It's like in the middle
and on the top.
- My concern with this as is the Steam Deck, right?
There's a lot of heft here.
If you're used to using the Switch,
I even use the Switch Lite.
You can play that pretty comfortably
for a long period of time.
This weighs more, right.
It's just simply bigger,
which means that you're gonna have
a little bit more strain on your wrist
because you have to hold it up.
But, that being said,
this should have a lot more performance.
So, this is a Ryzen 7 5800U.
Unlike the Steam Deck,
which is using the newer style of AMD processor,
it's a custom 4 core with RDNA graphics.
This instead is using an 8 core processor,
but the older Vega graphics.
We also have a 2 terabyte SSD inside.
How much is the Aya Neo NEXT?
'Cause this is in the go go at the moment,
or is this actually on sale yet?
- [Jared] So, the Neo Next is 1345 for the 2 terabyte.
- 1300 bucks.
That's a little bit more expensive than the Steam Deck.
Now, they did say that this is not a complete final unit.
So this is still early.
I think that they're still going
through the prototyping phase.
So, what I'm not gonna do is go through benchmarks
and all that kind of stuff.
Let's hop into a game of Forza.
I mean, we're getting like mid forties frames
per second right now.
So, right now I am running at medium settings
at 1280 x 800.
I'm a big fan of the triggers.
'Cause I believe the first Aya Neo
didn't have analog triggers, right?
- [Jared] No, it just had buttons essentially.
- [Austin] Which that ain't it,
especially if you ever play any racing games,
you wanna have full analog triggers.
To me, it's hard to justify spending over
a thousand dollars on any kind of portable gaming PC,
when the Steam Deck is so close.
The Steam Deck feels like it's really similar
in a lot of ways and half the price.
It's tough to justify it.
- [Jared] I just think saying,
oh, you just have to get a Steam Deck
is just not the exact comparison.
Although they're in the same class,
they're not the same product.
This allows you to go up to 2 terabytes of storage.
This is much smaller than the Steam Deck.
It has a bigger battery than the Steam Deck.
It's still gonna come eventually
with the same specs as the Steam Deck.
It's a more premium version of the same thing.
Sure, you can go buy a Civic,
but you can also go buy a Mercedes.
I'm not saying that you shouldn't go
buy a Steam Deck. - Yeah.
- [Jared] What I'm saying is
- You think this is better.
- [Jared] You should not discount this.
And I would think if I had the money,
I would rather have a smaller, more portable device.
That's more easy to put into a bag.
- Well, it sounds like is that we're gonna
do a head to head comparison between the Aya Neo NEXT
and the Steam Deck as soon as that comes out.
Make sure you're subscribed,
ring-a-ling the ding-a-ling bell
for Jared and I and our slug fest,
to determine what the best Switch replacement is.
That's, just buy the switch actually.
(dramatic music)
(packaging rumbling)
- Give it.
(laughing)
- I thought you were gonna fall for it.
I thought, I actually could grab it.
Hello, friends and welcome to the Razer Zephyr mask.
Oh, I didn't even think you would think of me like.
Aw, I'm so excited.
So, if you're not familiar with our friends over at Razer.
They make some wacky stuff sometimes.
We made an entire video on some of the goofy stuff
that Razer makes.
But this has gotta be top 10 weird things.
This is a Bluetooth mask, that has not only RGB
because Razer, it also has changeable filters
and it has (indistinct), right?
(laughs)
Oh boy, it's got a motor inside.
So, you're not just breathing in and out.
You're being pure.
- [Matt] You're circulating air.
I have a way that we can test this
that you may or may not approve of.
- Fart on my face.
(laughs)
- [Matt] That's how you get pink eye.
- No. (laughs)
- Oh, activate.
(motor whirring)
It's a nice little hump.
Gotta say if this is actually how loud it is though,
that's kind of wild.
Put the bottom strap around my nape.
What's my nape?
- Is this? - Oh my god.
- The back of your neck. - The back of your neck.
- Oh, well I can breathe.
I can hear the fans, like
- [Ken] I don't like that I can you see your mouth.
(laughs)
No, no, no, no, no.
(laughs)
- So, when it comes to the Zephyr,
I have a few different functions.
So right now I'm on low fan speed.
I can kinda do this, although honestly,
I feel like I want it on high just cause I need more airflow
and now I can change my internal lighting, right.
So, you see my mouth right now. So I'm going to go blue.
- [Ken] God, that's even worse.
No, no. (grunts)
That's slightly better.
(grunts)
- Would you guys wear one of these?
- [Jared] Nope.
- [Ken] Nope with a 10 foot pole.
- [Matt] Not a chance.
- [Ken] I don't want people hyper-focusing on my mouth.
Those two LEDs next to it,
Look really cool,
but when it lights your mouth, no.
- I personally don't think that being able to see my mouth
is the most important thing for me,
but I understand that
for a lot of people - Do you know what it is?
- that actually is a major selling point.
- [Ken] No I figured it out.
The, the way that the plastic is curved on it.
- Yeah.
- [Ken] It magnifies the size of your mouth.
- [Matt] I don't no, no, no. You stop that.
- [Jared] Is that white?
- This looks like Logic [censored] Annoying Orange.
(everyone laughing)
(dramatic music)
- Activate Mystery Tech, Ultimate Ears.
Are these headphones?
For your ears only.
Follow these simple steps to find your perfect fit.
So, typically when it comes to doing
these fully custom in-ear monitors,
you have to actually go to a space,
they need to measure your ears
and they essentially build a custom set of headphones
that are exactly meant for you, right.
This is what you see like artists,
when they're out there performing and stuff, you know,
they have that custom in ear piece in.
Ballers essentially.
- [Ken] So, these are actually not too bad, 250.
- That's it?
So, just for context, these custom in-ear monitors
typically will cost you, I mean,
I think starting at 500 bucks,
but they oftentimes will go up to
and above a thousand dollars.
I mean, they're very expensive.
Because think about it,
you're not just buying a nice pair of earphones.
You're buying something which has been completely
custom molded to your ears.
All right, so, we're gonna take our case,
we're gonna open it up,
place our earbuds in, try them on.
Okay.
You mold both sides at the same time.
Okay, so we're basically, I'm going to put them in my ears,
adjust them until they feel comfortable. Okay.
I mean that pretty much immediately feels pretty good to me.
So, it's just playing a little bit of like a beat.
So, I just need to like gently adjust them until I find it,
where it sounds the best.
Oh, they're about to start getting warm
and molding to my ears.
Oh boy.
Oh, it's getting warm. Whoa.
Okay. They're very warm right now, but it's happening.
They're essentially curing the tips.
Yo, this is very cool.
So, I' am gonna go ahead and put them back in the case now
and install the software update.
- [Ken] Battery life apparently is eight hours
of earbud battery life,
- [Austin] Okay. - 20 hours with the case.
- [Austin] Okay.
- [Ken] 10 minutes of charge for 60 minutes of listening.
- That all sounds pretty solid.
8 hours is actually pretty good considering
that most earbuds like AirPods and Galaxy Buds
are usually a little closer to like three to five,
I think is probably the norm.
There are a couple of concerning things,
as far as using these as like daily earbuds.
The case is big, right.
I'll try to fit it into my little pocket, but like,
this is always the test.
Can a pair of earbuds live
in your little coin pocket, right.
'Cause if it can't,
I'm not gonna say I'm not going to carry them all day,
but I only have so many pockets
and this is my earbud pocket.
Ooh, that's chunky.
I could carry these.
That's borderline too big,
but I think it might work.
I'll immediately say,
I think the left is a little bit of a better fit
than the right.
I hear a little bit more bleed from the right,
but let me actually do the test and see.
It looks like your ear buds are fitting well.
I said everything's okay. And it's like, great.
Everything's good.
The thing that I just kinda paused a little bit
with these though, is the sound quality.
They don't sound bad.
I would put them in the same category as something
like a pair of AirPods,
but that's not a ringing endorsement, right.
If you think about the Statuses that we take a look at
on a previous episode of Mystery Tech,
excellent sound quality.
And they have that really long battery life
admittedly in a chunky sort of case,
but they're certainly not this expensive.
If the fit is the most important thing you're looking for,
then yeah, these are great.
But the problem is is that there are other headphones
that are cheaper, that deliver similar sound quality
and a whole lot more features, right.
With active noise cancellation, with the transparency mode,
with the ability to easily swap between devices.
These really have one claim to fame.
And while it's good,
I don't know if it's $250 good
when so many other great Bluetooth headphones exist.
(dramatic music)
Hey Ken, I have a proposition for you.
- [Ken] Mm-hmm.
I'm gonna run this segment of Mystery Tech.
Hello, it's me, Austin.
Greetings friends.
Today, I'm gonna share some of my favorite tech
with the room,
except that I'm going to keep it all,
but you guys could get to watch me open it.
(packaging rumbling)
The tyranny is over.
This right here is the Analogue Pocket.
Now Analogue has made a number of different
retro inspired devices over the years.
In fact, back in like 2016 or something,
we actually did a video on the Analogue, what was it?
The NES, whatever they called it, the NT or something,
but the Pocket is without a doubt,
the most ambitious console they've done yet.
The Analogue Pocket. Oh my god.
I'm so.
This thing is, mm.
I am gonna touch it for the first time.
It's plastic.
I definitely thought this was metal.
If you've played a Game Boy or any kind of,
sort of more old school console that uses a 1989 LCD,
you know the screens are terrible, right.
No back lighting.
The thing with the Analogue Pocket
is that it has such a modern high resolution display
that it can not only play the game,
but you actually can get all of the little sub pixel detail
and accurate color and what not.
From what I've seen, this thing is next level.
I'm gonna update the OS, but Analogue were very kind
to send over quite literally all of the accessories.
The Game Gear adapter.
So, the nice thing is this out of the box,
will work with Game Boy, Game Boy Color
and Game Boy Advance games.
You can just drop them right in.
But if you wanna play some other titles,
including Game Gear games,
you can add the little adapters
and it'll work for that as well.
Whereas of the Analogue Dock.
So, if all this wasn't enough,
you can hook this up via USB-C
and then you are able to play your game
in high-quality on a TV, which is nice.
Although, let's face it.
I wanna play it on the actual display.
The OS is incredibly simple.
Nanoloop is the digital work station for GBA.
I'll make music.
I'm making music first.
(music beats)
I don't know how to make beats. We're just gonna move on.
I'll leave that to Josh. Okay.
Josh know what he's doing. Okay.
Let's start with the original Game Boy game.
(old school game music)
Oh my God. That looks great.
Let's go, boys.
Let's go. Oh, no get out of the way, Lewis!
- [Ken] Blue flag, blue flag.
- The way that it emulates the Game Boy's screen
is incredible.
Because you can see the individual pixels.
You also see like the lines, the go around the pixels.
Oh, that is sweet. All right.
All right. All right.
I get the idea.
Let's actually play a game that's not terrible.
Polaris SnoCross.
Is this a 60 FPS game on a Game Boy?
Holy crap.
Well, that makes such a big difference to the responsiveness
compared to like F1 race,
which is like five frames per second.
We can use Game Gear, we can use a bunch of other things.
But, what I'm curious about is how it handled
a Game Boy Advance game,
which has not only a different resolution,
but also it has a different aspect for the show.
Yo, wait, wait, wait.
I can tell if I look super closely,
it's not perfect scaling on the Game Boy Advance,
but it's still very sharp.
(Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire music)
And also sounds great too.
(Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire music)
And the nice thing is if you're done playing for a minute,
hit the button, it goes to sleep.
You don't actually have to like restart your game
or save or anything like that.
All of you should always save your game.
Now at first, I was a little bit turned off
by the idea that it's plastic,
'cause I thought, like in all the images it looked metal,
but the more I use it, it's a nice sturdy plastic.
It's a little bit matte, but also, it's a Game Boy.
Kinda actually want it to be plastic I think.
I had no more.
I kind of use it, like the buttons don't have
like some super high-end field.
They're not like really tactile or clicky or anything.
Like they're still a little mushy,
but they're mushy in the exact same way
that the Game Boy was.
In fact, I'd say they're actually slightly higher quality
than the kind of buttons you got on a Game Boy.
Jared, can you help me out here for a second.
- [Jared] What's up?
- What are the ship times on this, on the website right now?
- [Jared] Fulfillment group C, 2023.
- [Ken] 23?
- What are these going for on eBay?
- I will sell a sponsorship on this channel
to formally ask for one of these ahead of 2023.
I don't even know if I'll make it to 2023.
- You probably won't.
(dramatic music)
This isn't the end of the segment.
I got more items.
(Ken grunts)
We ain't done, son.
This is not something that normally lands on Mystery Tech.
Right?
But I received something in the mail
that I just have to share.
Can you see this little Pokeball on the letter?
For Austin, from John P. Age 10,
please put in a wistery tech.
Well, this is Mystery Tech,
but how can I say no?
You put a Pokeball on the front of it.
Very excited.
Thank you, John,
for your kind contribution to this episode of Mystery Tech.
Oh my goodness.
Look at this.
All right. So we've got ourselves a note here.
Dear Austin, first of all,
I love your videos and your podcast.
Shout out, John.
- [Ken] He listens
to the Test Drivers? - Listens to the podcast.
- He has a $138 MSI graphics card.
Also should I use 16 gigs of RAM?
I hope you love what is in this envelope.
Your best subscriber, John, age 10.
P.S, please feature me a video.
Also if Ken wants one of these envelopes,
I can send him one.
(laughs) - [Ken] Oh,
nevermind, I'm all happy now.
- John, I would say that a $130 MSI graphics card,
probably a good idea,
because it's hard to get your hands on graphics cards.
I'd be a little curious on which MSI graphics card it is.
And also 16 gigs of RAM is an excellent amount of RAM.
So, sounds like a plan to me.
Let me see what you've made 'cause this looks very cool.
Whoa.
John.
John,
did you just make the Pokemon 11 card Surfing Pikachu pack,
a custom pack of Pokemon cards, apparently cost $30.
I don't even want to open this. This is so good.
Look, he's literally written everything on the back.
You can even flip it up here.
It says 9 commons, 1 uncommon, 1 rare and a promo,
ages 5 and up, copyright 2021 by John.
- This is well thought out. - John.
Thank you my friend.
Oh, well yo,
it even opens like a regular pack of Pokemon cards.
You can open it from the top and separate it.
Yo, let's go.
Oh, okay.
Okay, for a second I thought he drew all the cards.
All right. Let's see.
See what we got from the John limited edition pack of cards.
Energy, we've got a Fletchling. Wow.
This is the old school. That's from Steam Siege.
And Espurr.
Yo John, these are like old school cards.
These are like from 2017, 2018,
this is a Dragonair.
John, I appreciate the attention to detail
that you also included a reverse
and our last card is, oh my goodness.
Do you see that shine? That's a full art.
Oh, it's a promo.
It is a, Eternatus V promo.
John, that's sweet.
Yo, thank you, my friend.
All right. We gotta hook up John now.
We gotta hook up John.
That's so thoughtful.