Season 2018 2018

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We're FINALLY reviewing the Ergodox EZ mechanical ergonomic keyboard- but this classic board has a new trick up its sleeve...

How does the Thinkpad 25th anniversary edition compare to the Thinkpads of old? We resurrect a 20 year old one to find out.

Looking for a little assistance to help you wake up in the morning? Here's 5 gadgets designed to do the job...with varying degrees of success.

Depending on your expectations, you might need to settle - But is that really such a bad thing for a smartphone these days?

The GPD XD+ is an Android gaming console

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UPDATE They never seem to have delivered any of these products in spite of what appears to be "finished box" product photos on the website. Let me know if you actually received one.

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We finally rectify the mistakes made in Mining Adventure Part 1, and show you guys how you can build a rig to mine cryptocurrencies like Monero, and Zcash.

Sponsored by Enermax!

Who says you need to see the tops of the key caps? Yogitype is an ergonomic keyboard that gets a lot of things right. But not everything...

The Cary42 by Love Hulten is a beautiful portable arcade box whose craftsmanship is matched only by its price tag. Can good things truly come in such small packages?

Intel Optane promises theoretical latencies up to 1,000x lower than NAND. Could it possibly live up to such a lofty claim?

If gaming on the go is your thing, but Android and iOS games just don't cut it, then the GPD Win 2 may be a VERY interesting product...

We actually spent almost $1,400 USD on this fancy Japanese wooden keyboard from Hacoa. But how much nicer is it than a cheap one from Amazon?

Just how good is the security at the new Amazon Go store? The answer may surprise you... (but not really - it's pretty damn good)

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Apple's new iMac Pro is both like and UNlike any iMac we've seen before... But is it a positive step in the right direction, or is it a mixed blessing?

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Thanks to ASUS ROG & AMD for sponsoring this video!

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A desktop Ryzen 7 processor - in a laptop? Oh yes, and the multi-core performance is insane.

The commonly held wisdom is that you can get by with 8GB of RAM, but with how much Chrome and Windows 10 use does this still hold up in 2018?

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Does it make ANY sense to make your OWN SSD from Micro SD cards?

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We tour General Fusions insanely high tech nuclear fusion research facility!

Here's a modern-retro fusion product for people with giant retro game collections! But can it be used for MORE than JUST the originals...?

AMD's bringing back the APU in a big way by marrying Ryzen CPU cores with Vega GPUs - But what do you really get for your money?

ORWL is a tamper-proof PC that will erase all your data if someone touches it the wrong way! Now that's cyber-security!

Analogue's Super Nt is a third-party clone of Nintendo's SNES which claims 100% compatibility with a unique modern-retro experience. Can it really be that good?

Today's handy tech items have a retro nintendo theme...except for the fingerprint lock, that one's just in there.

Can the lower temps of liquid metal be worth the chance of bricking your laptop?

Engineering samples sent to reviewers perform better than what hits retail shelves, right? Today, we're going to find out...

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Small, quiet, powerful - normally you have to pick two - but Compulab thinks they have changed that with the Airtop 2.

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Our 1 year airflow experiment FINALLY comes to it's stunning conclusion - this stuff, it's dusty.

It's a really bad idea to put Liquid Metal in your phone - so we're going to try it.

Some of these cases are cool. Some of them are REALLY cool.. and some of them might be a little dumb.

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RIP NCIX - press F to pay respects. Let's see what kind of deals we can score from the bankruptcy auction...

Will we get the silver play button? Will anyone find some insane deals on video cards? The NCIX Bankruptcy Auction saga continues...

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Ever wished your thumb drive were faster? What if you could build one yourself, with your own SSD?

We all know by now Optane is fast… But can Intel’s latest SSD FINALLY bring Optane into the home? Or is it just half-baked and overpriced?

Despite its "pro" marketing, the iMac Pro still has a Vega 56 inside - Can it possibly hope to drive that beautiful 5K display? And can we do better?

Forget ultrawide monitors, Samsung’s CHG90 is a 49-inch Super Ultra-Wide, high refresh rate gaming monitor!

We build a completely bonkers PC into a completely bonkers prototype case from Singularity Computers.

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Can the Surface Book 2 possibly be good enough to justify it's price tag?

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What made the very first SLI system awesome?

By harvesting TIM from old Intel CPUs we can finally find out just how bad it is.

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Hard drive mining... could this be the solution to the GPU crisis?...

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UPDATE: This project appears to have disappeared and its backers are left with unfulfilled orders.This video will remain up, however, this should not be taken as an endorsement for the project.

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