PickVidsBest Consumer devices & gadgets Videos
The 199 Consumer devices & gadgets videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 5 introductory, 23 intermediate, 166 for a general viewer, and 5 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a demo. What they share is that you see the result first and only then decide whether to follow the detail. Channels you will keep seeing include Linus Tech Tips, Technology Connections, Louis Rossmann.
Design Your Own Keyboard!
Ben Vallack walks through designing a custom keyboard PCB from scratch using Ergogen and KiCad, ending with a gerber file ready to order from a PCB fabricator.
The Antique Microwave Oven that's Better than Yours
Technology Connections examines an old feature-rich microwave and shows how it uses a humidity or steam sensor and lookup data to cook food well, arguing it beats many modern ones.
The Best Easy Way to Capture Analog Video (it's a little weird)
Technology Connections shows a cheap method for capturing analog video: a composite-to-HDMI upscaler feeding an HDMI capture dongle, aimed at digitizing home movies and VHS tapes.
The Art of the Bodge: How I Made The Emoji Keyboard
Tom Scott explains how he built his emoji keyboard, which turned out to be a series of bodged-together tools including AutoHotkey and LuaMacros.
How I Upgraded My iPhone Memory 800% - in Shenzhen, China
Scotty Allen of Strange Parts travels through Shenzhen's Huaqiangbei markets and learns to upgrade an iPhone 6s from 16GB to 128GB by swapping its flash chip.
The Smartphone CPU Review You NEED to Watch!
Geekerwan reviews smartphone CPUs by power efficiency rather than benchmark scores, with test methodology and chapters on Qualcomm, Apple, Samsung and Google chips.
This AI actually WORKS!!! - NVIDIA RTX Voice
A ShortCircuit (Linus Tech Tips) review of Nvidia's RTX Voice, which uses GPU-based neural networks to remove background noise from microphone audio.
Applied Sciences Group: High Performance Touch
A Microsoft Research demo from TechFest 2012 of a lab touch system that lets viewers feel the effect of different input latencies, down to about 1 ms.
Sensor Fusion on Android Devices: A Revolution in Motion Processing
David Sachs of InvenSense explains how gyroscopes, accelerometers and compasses work on their own and together, demonstrated on a modified Android handset.
Steve Jobs introduces iPhone in 2007
An excerpt from Steve Jobs's January 2007 Macworld keynote in which he introduces the original iPhone.
Microsoft "Courier" secret tablet
A short concept video of Microsoft's unreleased Courier, a dual-screen tablet designed as a digital notebook with clippings and annotation.
The 8pen
A demo of the 8pen, a gesture-based keyboard replacement for touchscreens that lets users enter text by moving around a circle.
Why I don't use Apple products
Louis Rossmann, an independent Apple repair shop owner, explains why he does not use Apple products, drawing on his experience of repairing devices he considers designed to fail and hard to fix.
The People's Republic of The Future
Bloomberg's Hello World episode in which Ashlee Vance visits Shenzhen, a hub of electronics manufacturing and cloning.
GENERAL MAGIC - Official Trailer
The official trailer for the documentary General Magic, about the secretive Apple spinoff that tried to build a handheld communicator in 1990 and whose ideas shaped the smartphone era.
Steve Jobs iPhone 2007 Presentation (HD)
The full January 2007 Macworld keynote where Steve Jobs unveils the first iPhone.
COLLAPSE of Personal Computing | Investigation Into the Destruction of Ownership
A roughly 3.5-hour Gamers Nexus investigation into rising PC component prices, driven largely by AI data-center demand for memory and other hardware.
This is the WORST Monitor Ever...ON PURPOSE! - Dasung PaperlikeU E-Ink Monitor
Linus Tech Tips reviews the Dasung Paperlike E-Ink monitor, asking whether an e-paper display makes sense as a computer monitor.
Smarter than a Smart TV! (Raspberry Pi Inside)
Jeff Geerling looks at a Sharp NEC commercial display with a slot for a Raspberry Pi Compute Module.
We need to talk about failing keyboards on these new Macbooks.
Louis Rossmann discusses failing keyboards on newer MacBooks, comparing a Dell keyboard repair with an Apple keyboard repair and explaining why Apple's design is costly and hard to fix.
A Day Made of Glass... Made possible by Corning. (2011)
Corning's 2011 concept video showing a future where specialty glass surfaces and touchscreens are woven into everyday life.
The horrible truth about Apple's repeated engineering failures.
Louis Rossmann, a Macbook repair shop owner, goes through a long list of Apple hardware engineering failures, from GPU defects to keyboards and repair practices.
Nest Protect is a terrible buggy product
Brad Fitzpatrick records himself struggling to silence a set of first-generation Nest Protect smoke alarms that keep beeping and triggering one another.
Blue Bubbles vs Green Bubbles: Explained!
Marques Brownlee explains why iMessage's blue and green bubbles matter, covering the technical, commercial and social side of Apple's messaging lock-in.