I bought the CRAZIEST tech in Japan

I am abroad in Japan with abroad in Japan smart. I see what you did there Aon and we're about to spend $10,000 buying the coolest

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nology this country has to offer and then we'll test it to see how the Japanese

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nology compares. to the western technology that I spend most of my time with sounds good okay let's go oh my god yabashi camera the best electronics store in Japan and interestingly the largest technology store in the world are nine huge floors of basically pure technology. So let's ascend each floor one by one selecting the strangest and most unique things you've never seen before.

It's the only place you can buy virtually any camera on Earth. I love it. This is my favorite store in Japan. The bat, something I had never seen before. Solar panel bag. This is absolutely crazy. Each of these rows are just cases. People love fame cases in Japan, so this here is privacy glass, so if you look straight on you can see through it. but if you turn it you can't do it very well on a full train, could I say no? I look at nothing shady, this is really cool, hell it's absolutely miniature so you take your photos all day long, connect to this wirelessly. and print the photos.

I've never seen this at home and I'm wondering if there's a social reason why people love small things, yes it's that idea of ​​it being something cute, isn't it when you want to buy things that you just grab? tickets instead of things exactly everything you need to put in your basket looks depressingly empty, but that's great, very useful if you want to take things to the store. Wow, I'm struggling to process the depth of this store. On the 9th floor is the golf course, it's my first phone, so they're actually smartphones. I have never seen a watch like this, it has a built in camera and it seems to also receive its own signal, so the idea seems to be that this is not the case. just an accessory for a phone, but it is a phone.

I think the r1s is the way to go. We are only on the first floor. We have already seen many interesting things. This Aquas brand is a derivative of Sharp and Sharp. One of the big Japanese suppliers, Aquas, was very popular, but has sort of died out. Now it is still one of the big players in Japan and in fact has a top of the line flagship phone, the th000 plus, that you have to try. Oh, we're sitting, that's why I don't like buying phones in P. I think it's been 20 minutes, maybe half an hour, we're still waiting for our phone.

He did a little unpacking ceremony like when the hairdresser shows you around. the back of your hair, what do you do? Okay, thank you very much, okay, a miracle, an absolute miracle, so this is really interesting. Samsung phones don't say Samsung, they just say Doo, which is the supplier, and then Galaxy, and that's because Samsung isn't too popular as a Korean company, essentially what I'm trying to determine is which phones have flourished here, so Asus never sees that in UK stores compact phones seem to do well here, yes this must be one of the only ones.

Places where Sony phones have a massive presence is a shame because I think Sony phones are really good. I agree, but they just don't do anything special enough to stand out against Apple and Samsung. Yes, this is like the entire Sony line. oh, no way, no phone also in the store never seen before no, this is actually an Apple thing. What you need to do is create a separate part of the store that they call the Apple area, they have their own table. The decor is almost like an Apple store, isn't it like you've been transported to Bachi?

They definitely chose the tables like if you look at the Microsoft Surface table compared to the oak from the mountains of central Japan. Well, floor two finds the last one, just printer ink. See this printer ink everywhere. If I was a printer ink enthusiast, a guy, power supplies, motherboard and if you wanted to build your own PC, you could do it completely from this store and you can choose your chip until you like the best 4 9, a You call that a Wi-Fi Router, no, what is this? Do you feel powerful just holding that this is how you launch cyberattacks around the world?

Oh wow, they use this little cup for cooking and making soup. It's like a teapot, but it's a food teapot. try a chef's mug, oh hey pretty mug, I mean this is all desktop equipment, very cute and cuddly Mouse M Mouse like an extreme version of a doll, let's get one of those, her basket wasn't enough big, we got a wa, what the hell? is this, she actually has a little lace to crush a dog's butt, yeah, she feels pretty good, oh la la, this is like when mom says we have moue at home, she looks at this so ugly, but she me intrigued. first bounce, how was I supposed that was going to come out so you can know what's happening?

Here it is, it has the optical sensor inside and so instead of tracking the position of the mouse on the table, it tracks the position of the ball very very interested the ball sounded like one when I dropped it which was such a noise horrible oh the mice keep going these are all mice these are keyboards let's go for this the noise is a little nice at first I think D I m yes how loud it keeps someone awake at night what is this? It almost looks like you suck on your teeth and then that builds up in the gas, yeah, so this thing spins extremely fast and as it spins you can sink it between your teeth, it's like proper dentist equipment at home, you can buy one right now and I can buy one right now8, which I will do, uh, this is very interesting, let's do it, tone your feet, it's supposed to imitate walking.

I think I've always thought about the idea of ​​exercise equipment that they can make you instead of having to do it, it sounds really lazy, well this could be, this could be, you can stand on it and it will move your feet and that's the same thing than walking, generally The beauty section here is extensive as is shaving and it makes me realize that very few men here have beards, they buy like a laser-guided shaver. I think it's a great idea, oh you have to understand what that ion is that increases moisture, hydrates your face and warms it up, it's probably the first piece of Cur technology I've ever seen, at least you have your thumbnail, oh right right come on Halloween face mask doing this for you Chris we were making good progress in the store but then we saw the camera section and it really stopped us in our tracks my favorite part every camera every lens every accessory If you like film photography this is heaven on Earth this is a $20,000 camera here it is very difficult to find this what do you have?

I got there, my God, I didn't even see the end of the lens. I can see another dimension with this technology that feels like a criminal guy saying 125x 4K optical zoom, so if I zoom in, wow, wow, oh my gosh, it still works. oh my gosh look at the size of the lens to get this kind of magnification you have to create a huge difference between the glass and the sensor oh my gosh don't make it look like an RPG look at the size of the camera and then the size of the lens looks like the kind of thing you would use to contact extraterrestrial life look that looks like hell oh they have shock absorbers here definitely get a couple of those oh my god those are configurable bang and olive panels so each of these panels is a speaker, the more you connect the bigger your speaker system becomes, yes my goodness you actually get so much sound separation because your audio source is spread across such a wide distance base, either That's wrong. so cool like it's a built-in piece of furniture that's also like a really good audio source, but it's very expensive, wow, that's interesting, yeah, in a suitcase, a record player in a suitcase with built-in speakers, balmuda, this is the company that makes the best toaster.

I have sometimes experienced that they have diversified. I'm curious what they're going to do with the speaker, but we have to find out by following his transparent transparency theme. It almost seems like the speaker is missing something. It's really strange. I think we need to put that Bal muda man everywhere here. What is this? Gohan, the rice cooker. If we get a rice cooker. We have seen these robots. This is called Lok. Look how incredibly animated the way he moves is. Do you want a? hug, oh, it's okay, they recognize, they remember your face and remember who you are, oh my god, it reacts to touch and seems to move in a very similar way to my cat, oh no, you want something, it's okay, oh, it's Well all.

I'm so sorry, I'm going to have to go. I feel like I just inherited two children. Oh God, what is he supposed to do. It says the most popular toy in Japan, but why? Great question, uh, I'm scared, it's a little scary. Yes this. It's all like Nintendo Switch. They have a real Mario brand racing wheel. I didn't even know it existed. I didn't know it existed. Jess that's crazy oh my god we don't have this in the UK what a buy. They have completely separate joycon styles that are much thicker than normal ones. I think it is essential.

I love upgrading my switch. It's like an improved version of the Nintendo Switch doc. We're going to need a bigger basket. Oh, this is interesting. Called a grip chip, it looks like an extra layer you can put on your controller that makes it grippier. Boltless trigger so you can improve the feel of the triggers. Yes, it's surprising that this is a first-person shooter assist ring. Apparently it will improve the controls when playing. on the switch, which to be fair, you desperately need what is this, oh it's headphones you don't need to wear on your head, it feels like an awkward hug, it's like plastic and cold on your neck, oh wow, ear cleaner keyboards, assuming so, is a way to clean. their electronic devices because they can reach spaces that most cleaners cannot, we have

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too many things, now it is time to convert our tickets into products and this took hours, since for each ticket the employees had to go to a warehouse and find them individually none of this makes sense in some ways

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ese culture is so automatic and intelligent in other ways it's so manual they just have racks and racks of the same phone and there are people handling all the moving parts we're going through each floor delivering our tickets and picking up recruiting supplies and shopping bags.

I really don't know what people are watching right now. We test run and on our way back Chris decided there was one more highlight we needed. look while we were in Japan hello phenomenal it has like individual finger dexterity if I walked away I would just look at you now wow I'm scared a robotic waiter escorts us to a table we have four options here it says talk dance special game I feel very sad because my girlfriend left me Is there anything else you like to do and focus on to take your mind off things? Breath of the Wild game.

That's great. Playing video games can be a fun and effective way to distract your mind, it's definitely using chat too, the way it responds so quickly and then presumably that can take our order too, no, so we can't do that, it we do with a QR code, it's not that impressive, we try a casual dancing robot flying. basically scary this is part of the restaurant if you order ramen in this restaurant the staff will not come to the kitchen they will come to this vending machine there are so many parts to this it has like chives it has pork it has eggs that mushroom do you think the bowl is premade with all the ingredients in the right place and you're just putting in hot water?

Most likely it will go, it smells interesting, it's all there, it's kind of confusing if I didn't know it came. Outside the microwave you might say, "Oh, okay, Robin's restaurant, aesthetically it looks a notch above any noodle I've ever had before, it's a solid five out of 10, solid five, okay, well, that's the store." in person that I have ever done. in my life, so let's go roughly from cheapest to most expensive to see what Japan really has to offer in a real Japanese Dojo, so starting with all these cheap and cheerful Nintendo Switch accessories, what I'm trying to figure out is How These small and simple additions actually take this fairly expensive console to the next level, so for these joystick power-ups you get three different levels: you go easy, you go soft and then you go hard, which seems to correlate with how dense is the foam and, therefore, how much resistance. it will add to your joysticks and is a really cool idea because the foam is soft, it doesn't stop your joystick from reaching the end, but it just means that with the same amount of force you are now performing more subtle emotions.

They give them a seven out of 10 these trigger covers are also an easy win because they protect your actual buttons while also adding an incredible amount of grip thanks to this tire-like texture and then theseGrip pads are interesting, but they're not for me. They're like these very soft, almost rubbery stickers that you can put on your Switch like that and they further reduce the chance of dropping it. They feel good, I just think the switch already looks good as is. It doesn't need clutter, but now is where we can take these upgrades to the next level, so this right here is a joy and while there are a lot of things I like, how you can very easily put them on, take them off, how they help keep the console compact , they have problems mainly due to the fact that they are small and complicated with very tight and not very precise controls, so this build managed to make one better, I mean, by the time you put this in for the first time.

The answer feels like a very resounding yes. Assuming you have a little more width and depth to store them in, they really do feel like they go from a kid's toy to an adult's toy. Notice how much grippier and meatier they are compared to normal joy-cons, so your hands can really curve around them, the joysticks have much more height, allowing them to be less stubby, so you have more precise control They have an extra configurable button on the back and are lighter than joycons, which means that, assuming you're using your console in this handheld position when you put it down, this is a complete improvement, although in reality It just comes from the fact that it's not Nintendo that makes these accessories, so they don't have all the luxuries that they would have.

They come with that, so they don't have a built-in battery, they can't work while disconnected from the console, you don't have motion controls, you don't have HD Rumble, you can't use tabletop mode, and you can't just pick one up. give it to your friend and play with some friends in co-op who lack friends at the moment so I'll give it a six out of 10 but while we're talking about the switch this is the supposedly upgraded switch dock so I initially thought it was It's going to be a replacement for the switch base, isn't it? It actually clips onto the back and blows air into it.

I was really excited about it in the store, but seeing it used now I can't help but feel like it's a bit pointless because yes, it means you can take the switch out and put it back horizontally, but is that clearly easier than doing vertically? I don't think so, plus the switch console already has its own fan. on the inside, which is designed to start up when you put it in the docking station, so I've never come across a situation where I need or call it that 4 out of 10, but to properly finish this switch setup , first there are two things: neck speaker and second, the official Mario steering wheel, which looks surprisingly premium.

Now what I've really been trying to figure out with this speaker is why it exists, obviously, someone thought it was a good idea, a board of directors approved it, engineers designed it. What is the purpose of wearing speakers around your neck because at first glance it seems like a silly idea? Well, it doesn't take long using them to realize that it isn't. It's like having a team. of four speakers that fire directly into your ears, perfectly placed for gaming, like if you're playing a first person shooter game and a character behind you moves because the speakers are placed around your head, you'll hear those footsteps behind you. you.

Oh, and it also has a microphone built inside so you can talk to your friends while you play. Obviously, this is something that a good pair of headphones can also achieve, but it's only that because it's on your neck rather than being something suffocating. For your ears, nothing beats the comfort of this. My only complaint is that it doesn't have the base hit that I would like to feel, like say being shot at in a game of cod. It happens a lot, so Slayer's sound is a solid seven in terms of steering, although I have to say that this feels like the deluxe Mario Kart experience.

I've had a few of these wheels in the past, like the PS2 and PS3 Gran Turismo, but what's really amazing here is that this Mario Kart wheel is actually the most realistic, right after a massive spin, look how the wheel goes back to the center position, you have a lot more button options than on a normal joy-con, even these paddles on the back feel fantastic and the steering wheel grips too, they're probably plastic but they're definitely similar quality to leather. All that said, I don't know how much I can recommend this. I mean, for starters, it's City cable, over here, the steering wheel has a cable, the pedals. it has a completely separate cable, nothing is wireless, but it's also Mario Kart.

I'm not saying Mario Kart doesn't have skills, it absolutely does, but it just feels strange using such a prolific team for a game where the randomly generated turbo mushroom at just the right time will be the difference between winning and losing. The game is almost too accessible, as it actually has a built-in option to have your character drive on your behalf, at which point you feel a little silly investing almost $200. on a proper steering wheel to try to be as good or this whole activity works up a bit of an appetite, so it's a good thing we now have two pieces of Japanese technology to help us cook first: the cooking cup. which is what I'm going to use to make soup, so the cooking mug is a pretty simple but pretty interesting idea, so let's say you live alone and cook mostly just for yourself, then the concept of this product is that you can cook and you will be able to eat from the same receptacle, so here we have a sweet and sour noodle soup that I

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this morning at the supermarket.

One thing you will learn very quickly about Japan is plastic packaging B. Put it on everything, so open it. The noodles look good. and raw, look at those fresh vegetables, oh wow, that smells really good, smell it, oh wow, you're back for a few seconds, so we've got boiling water, we're going to pour it into the fill line, you plug it in and then you basically select which one. configuration you want to run it in now, I will say that some of the practical features are not quite there, like for a product that is designed to be picked up and dropped off and picked up and dropped off, there has to be a docking system or something. as opposed to this huge cable sticking out the back and then this handle doesn't actually fit in my hand, maybe it's just my problem, but we'll save the verdict until I've eaten and then the second part of this equation.

It's the Balmuda rice cooker because, honestly, the Japanese have everything rice, now I personally am one of those fools who just cook like rice in a pan, but here in Japan it is very normal to carry a rice cooker and this should be the one. best of the best, so my first impression with this was that it's premium, but there's also a lot of wasted space here, then I realized something, you know, the balmuda toaster that I keep talking about, the one that basically cooks bread using a stream of water vapor around it that cooks the outside but keeps the inside soft and fluffy.

This makes something very similar to rice, so basically it has a bottom chamber that is filled with 180ML of water and don't you just love the small container? So this is the water that's going to turn into steam and then on top of that is where you put your normal rice cooking stuff, so it's basically rice and water in a 1:1 ratio, so we're just going to use one of these cups that we'll fill it with water something really zen about the rice ritual and seal it and let it do its thing, so the idea here is that the rice is going to cook to a normal level using the water that we're already putting it in, but then the steam comes in by taking the cooked rice and then almost stirring it so that it has this individualistic grainy texture instead of this kind of sticky substance that sticks together, that's the idea, but we'll only know for sure if it works when we go back and try it at the end and while that's happening, I think it's time we built a proper work setup right here at our very authentic looking Japanese table.

I know by the way this seems very uncomfortable, but once you are in, I discovered something, it feels great, plus look at this sliding armrest, so the mouse pad, or should I say catm, is as we expected, nothing, uh, technologically innovative, but I like it, I mean, other than bringing images of cheerful cats into the workplace, it's very sticky, so it's not going anywhere, it's literally easier to move the table than the mouse map and all these very soft, very comfortable little tfts and I don't know if they did this on purpose or not, but it actually creates three different and very comfortable angles that you can reach at your desk, the only compromise is that it doesn't really leave much room for the mouse will move, but that won't be a problem for us because this right here is our mouse ball and there's something that feels really futuristic and also very old-fashioned, like the idea that now you can move completely around the screen without having to than physically moving your wrist at all, it's very liberating and definitely requires less overall effort.

Naturally I keep trying to move it like this. just to say oh my gosh, yeah, I don't have to do that anymore, it's just that for me, at least, if I really want good control over this ball, I can't just rest my thumb on it, I actually have to lift my thumb. thumb. and use the tip to guide it and at that point it feels like a pretty unnatural stretch to have to hold it, so for me this is a keyboard file, although I'm really starting to rate it, so this is made by Logitech, who in Japan really calls themselves great because I guess that's how you attract the younger generation, but the product itself is very well thought out.

I paid $80 for this and so I have 85 keys, each with its own individual Cherry MX Brown switch mechanism, giving a nice satisfying hit every time you hit the actuation point without making too much noise, you can connect it to up to three different devices at the same time and then switch from one to the other using the two three buttons, there is a dictation button for when you want to talk. something instead of typing it and that works pretty well too, but what makes this the pop-up key keyboard are these. These are basically instant emojis so they will do the heart phase which will do the crying phase this will open the menu for all your emojis and they have even given you alternative options so let's say I want to change the heart emoticon to fire .

I simply remove the cap from the key, put the key cap on, and then open the Logitech software to reconfigure what that key does not sit on. It seems like a super high-end product to me, but it doesn't feel cheap either, so for $80 I'd give it an 8 out of 10. Oh, I just noticed that it started smoking theatrically, that's actually kind of nice and now it's time to May the cake resist. I've always been curious about the idea of ​​an air duster and this one here is everything I hoped it would be. It is simply a smart product.

Basically, this body channels air from one side to the other. It has two different power levels, so that's just the number. one and that's true, so what does that mean to begin with? It means it can explode, so let's say I'm really dirty eating a cookie on my new keyboard. God, this is painful, you just lift it up, move the mouthpiece in that direction and then because the air travels back and forth in theory. I should be able to delete this, oh my god, that's phenomenal. There's a little one left there that you don't approve of, so my keyboard doesn't have Chrome, nothing else is, but I guess this is where the other side comes in, because the air goes in and out, this side can be a vacuum cleaner, so if we put the filter and then whatever nozzle we think best suits the situation, it really does look like an interplanetary space gun. not bad at all, look this isn't going to do Tik toks ASMR right now.

The fact that it also has bristles at the end allows you to remove the parts that are stuck in the nooks and crannies of your products. it's an easy nine ok that's enough of me sitting down it's time for some

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ese style exercise this is the fit of the sixpad foot and sixpad clothing and from what I could gather from the sales staff this is something that it's growing extremely fast here for people you're starting to feel unhealthy and I'm guessing you want shortcuts to getting in shape 3 2 1 well this is pretty tight and it's actually about to get tighter because essentially you have to make sure that each of the contact points is in complete contact with your skin.

Well, this is the top driver that will go inside our jacket and then this is the bottom driver that will go into our shorts and the idea of ​​these drivers is that they will send electrical impulses through my body very, very quickly. to force my muscles to contract, but like 100 times a minute, maybe more, oh my gosh, oh, I've done something like this before with the Slender tone belt, but that was literally just ABS, this is, ah, It's everything that happens as if it were my entire body. as if it beats at the same timetime, it comes and goes and explodes, so I fully believe the experts in this field when they say that things like this are not entirely real, but at the same time my heart rate increases, my muscles contract and I am starting to sweat a lot. bit, so I'd be very surprised if this actually doesn't do anything.

Could you just be like read a book and get on with your D? I actually really like the fact that it's a full body experience rather than just a belt because like me If you're going to feel uncomfortable, you might as well feel completely uncomfortable and actually get all the benefits of it , it's pretty scary but also really cool. Tech, it's not like you get hit, it's like you know you're at the end of your workout and your friend is shouting in your ear just one more rep, except you have nothing to say, but there's more, so this is the Foot Fit Plus and it's pretty much the same thing, but for your feet and your bottom. legs there is also a connection at the top of the leg but it fell off, my legs were already covered and this is actually the product of all the sixpad stuff that I could see myself using regularly because you don't have to strap yourself in. a tight wetsuit, so there's a bunch of different modes, there's training, there's conditioning and there's walking, which is meant to simulate the gains you would getWhat happens when you do a lot of steps when it's on low power is like a feeling tingling and then when you start turning up the volume, oh my god, I turned it up too much.

Can you see my muscles tense as that happens? I got a little brave with the level, this one is 20 out of 23 and it feels a bit like a torture device, oh that's so weird when it sends the signal, my toes curl naturally and I can't straighten them out, oh Oh my gosh, so this is really cool technology, this is all really cool technology and I'm so excited about the vision that I just need to see some more conclusive proof of the benefits before I recommend it now, this little camera I'm really excited about because it almost feels like that.

It's designed specifically for the Japanese market, they seem to really like cute technology, but in this case it's not just an aesthetic thing, it also has a very functional benefit to the point where I would actually consider using this on a day to day basis, would you? because? Well, you know this whole idea that I really started to love about leaving the house without your phone and just taking a Polaroid to capture photos so you can be more present in the moment. Well, the problem with that is that Polaroids are huge and So what the INS have done here is basically separate the camera component with the printing component, so you leave this at home, this is what you take with you to that you can take up to 50 photos and you do it like this, say peace, oh, here we are.

Go and I know people's instinct is to pick it up and move it in the air, but what you really want to do is just put it on the flat floor, we're just going to put it in this dark room for a little while. a minute so the quality is good, like all cameras in this category it's not the best but there are some smart features like being able to choose the aspect ratio your photo is printed in or choosing the sound your photo makes. camera while capturing, but by far the Best thing to say is that you take a selection of photos and you don't want to print each and every one of them.

You can do this to make it look like I'm printing a normal photo right now, but let me reveal that this is one of the photos. we take, but also in the corner there's a QR code, so you have this as a physical souvenir that I could imagine would be like the cover photo of your vacation and then you want to see more, you scan it with your phone and it takes you. For the rest of them, I think it's a very good idea. I'm going to give this product a nine at that point. We have the ion boosting face mask.

I have to say it sounds like a lot of marketing nonsense, but here's the idea, so average. Nowadays people spend a lot more time and money on skin care products, we have moisturizers, toners, night and day creams, and this is not an addition to that, but it is designed to enhance the effectiveness of that. The whole routine apparently uses the power of positive and negative ions, my goodness, well if this isn't the mask from the next Scream movie, I'll be completely disappointed. I really hoped he felt something. It's getting very hot. It would alarm me, but.

If there's one thing I trust the Japanese with it's skincare, they know how to do it when you get used to it, it's actually quite nice now, it's obviously very hard to rate as I'll have to wait 20 years for it I told them It really has improved my skincare routine, but they could have made it look a little better, right? And while we're talking about beauty, it turns out that the toothbrush-looking object I picked up is not a toothbrush, it's in fact, a dental polishing kit and don't get me wrong, I think this is an amazing concept.

Anything that means I can spend less time visiting the dentist. I'm interested, it's just that the execution of this product is a little strange. I mean. Even without taking into account the fact that the front of the box says as soon as possible with the prevention of your mouth and I hope my mouth is not prevented, the thing runs on AAA batteries. What smart toothbrushes were abandoned 10 years ago and also the whole experience just feels like a really unsatisfying squeaky toothbrush, what I'm saying is there will be a way to polish in a way that feels better than this three out of every 10, okay let's quickly see how our food is doing, wow, that's going to take a while this one oh, you can actually hear it boiling oh, stay here for 2 minutes, okay, moving up further up the price scale, it's speaker time.

I honestly can't get enough of audio products, they are the best, so first. is the record player, something I would say I didn't fully appreciate until about 2 months ago, when I bought one for my fiancé and we spent all night curled up on the couch listening to the same record over and over again and again, now most turntables need a separate preamp and a separate set of external speakers, so what's really interesting about this, aside from the fact that it's a suitcase, is the fact that it's everything, it's the turntable, it's the amplifier , it's the speaker, because and it's a battery because everything can be used on the go, so the question is how does it sound.

I recently realized that Mozart has no royalties, so that's what we're going to listen to. Oh wow, I love that warmth, oh my goodness. that's the charm of listening to a record, whether or not it actually improves the quality is questionable. Well, I heard you right and my opinion is that I don't think this product makes sense. I want to like it as all-in-one vinyl. solution, but I think either you decide you want portability and you choose a proper mini Bluetooth speaker or you decide you want the vinyl experience and you sit down, you get the setup, you get the preamp, you get the external speakers because you can I mean, the sound of this is very committed and not taking full advantage.

Sorry I really like the aesthetic of this company Bal Muda so this is their speaker and although for the price you don't really get a lot of speakers what you are getting is some major style and character just look at this this is the matchmaking animation, it's so sick that if you look closely you'll see a bunch of little lights inside, it has six inside those tubes. the middle and then six in this ring outside and actually watching them dance to the music that you're playing, especially at night, it's fascinating and I know I'm acting like this lighting is God's gift to humanity, but I want to emphasize that There's more to it than meets the eye, it's one thing to build a speaker with a set of lights that pulse when the bass hits, that's what this outer ring does, but look, the inner ring is completely different, it reacts to the middle notes. and high and So what you get is very much like a full three-dimensional lighting experience that captures not only the drops but also the entire vibe and shape of the music, but let me show you the good song that plays until you reach a drop, but look how it continues.

It lights up and now it lights up when the base drops, so you still have impact, but even in the meantime it's very much like following the beat of the song, so yeah, in case it wasn't clear, I really love this speaker. but that doesn't necessarily mean it's the most practical, because if they spent a little less energy focusing on lighting, they could have a bigger battery and the sound, I mean, it's very well tuned for what it is, but there's a lot It can hit you in the face with the bass when it's so small, so I'll give it an eight, but that shouldn't be a big problem for our next product, the transparent speaker.

Wow, it actually comes with a pair of gloves. for the unboxing makes sense and actually highlights one of the disadvantages of a transparent speaker in that any fingerprint will be visible from all angles, but that doesn't take away from how pretty it looks when set up, I mean the whole thing. transparent technology that I have tested in recent memory the TV and the drivers, this is by far the most effective because it does not affect the functionality, all a speaker needs is a large air chamber and then a way to push the air and then B is also one of the most unexpected products to see in this transparent form.

I like that the controls are hidden away from the glass so there's less chance of messing it up plus they feel so good, oh yeah, and the audio quality is definitely a step up from the balmuda. I'm still paying more for style with a product like this, but at the same time I'd rate this audio quality at the higher end of consumer speakers, so if I were to review their overall price to performance ratio I'd give them a seven, okay, let's talk about phones, so there are two phones here, there's the r1s watch phone, which is for kids, and then there's the actual japanese flagship phone.

Now I have to say that this watch phone is the least convincing packaging I think I've ever seen. It comes with a phone, it really feels like a toy, it's designed to be your child's first phone in Japan, so what makes it good to start with, it's actually very easy to use, you know, sometimes when buy a new smartwatch, you feel like you have to go around a virtual maze to figure out how to do the things you want to do. This is literally the watch face and then scroll down to see some of the additional parts you can customize on your watch. face by holding it down and there are two rows of different options here, the bottom one is fully animated.

I mean I as an adult could see myself having a lot of fun with this and then there are a lot of thoughtful little touches like for example brightness when you click on brightness it doesn't open a new slider or menu you just tap it to toggle between the different ones brightness levels completely tool-free SIM card tray has a cool music interface has a camera How often do you see a smartwatch with a camera, but the quality is so bad that you'll only use it if you absolutely have to, but here's the crux of the matter.

This is what I think would be the reason most parents consider purchasing one of these. This button here is an SOS button, press and hold it for 5 seconds and all your family members will receive a notification, get your exact GPS coordinates and a 30 second voice recording of your situation, which is great and also on the rear heart rate monitor. A parent can set what they want the upper limit for their child's heart rate to be and then whenever the child exceeds that limit, the watch will tell them to take a break from what they are currently doing, so don't let that you like this toy.

To fool you, this is a really useful high-tech equipment. He would give it a nine and now, just before our next level race. From another dimension we got the Aquas R8 Pro that we worked so hard to get our hands on and I have to say initial impressions are a bit tainted, it seems like the carriers have a lot of control over the Japanese market and this phone is a good example than what happens when that happens, from the moment you set it up the phone is riddled with extra menus and extra data collection and it's pre-installed with a lot of bloatware and also these companies like dok control the entire way you buy a smartphone , there's so much friction and honestly it sucks, but it's actually a shame because the phone itself has so many interesting ideas like the fingerprint scanner, for example, huge.

You put your finger anywhere in this area. It will work, or if you swipe up on something with two fingers, it will start auto-scrolling. Why is this the first time I've seen that feature? You can take screenshots by simply touching and holding one of the top corners. I love how eachEvery time I lock and unlock my phone, both the lock screen and home screen wallpaper change. You have the ability to not only set the refresh rate to Auto. but it actually forces some apps to run at higher refresh rates, making the camera, for example, feel really smooth.

What about the cameras? Well, the first time I tried this I was completely wrong: the room we stayed in is right next to Tokyo Tower, so the first thing I did on this phone when I turned it on was go out and take a photo from the side next to that very lit Tower with this on the iPhone 15 Pro Max and honestly, sadly, this was a better photo, although a bit unique, as I continued testing it with the iPhone it became very clear that overall it sticks It completely feels like it's five generations behind, so the way I see it, these are really cool ideas that I wish were present on all international phones. but just very lackluster execution, like I can't believe the company would actually pass up menus like this, it often looks bad, five out of 10, the right meal is almost ready, let's quickly talk about the shocks.

What's really different about Shocks is that their entire brand philosophy revolves around outdoor technology, so being immersed in your sound, yes, but still being aware of what's going on in the world around you. surrounds you, I remember buying a pair of cushions years ago for that very reason and let me tell you, they have come a long way since then and In fact, here in Japan you see a lot of people using them, so they are the new open headphones from Shock and the key technology behind them is air conduction, so instead of a normal pair of headphones that block the ear canal and therefore the ability to hear anything.

Otherwise, these shars sit outside your air channel and use a really cool self-developed technology called direct tone, which means you can hear your music, you can hear the world around you, but the world around you can't hear your music and this has two main advantages: the first is comfort, the fact that nothing goes inside your ear means it's very easy to forget these things are on and I had doubts about the bass because of that, but let me telling you that the bass hits you like a truck and the second part is the awareness every time I'm in public and I see someone else wearing traditional noise canceling headphones, whether I'm crossing. the road or driving a car, I won't lie to you, it makes me a little nervous, it's very important to be aware of other people, so the open settings fill that gap, not to mention the build quality is A+, the speaker unit on the inside it is made of carbon fiber 20 times stronger than steel and the actual pads are ultra soft silicone Link in the description for more information yes, okay, look what is cooked so that the rice grains They are as promised, still very far apart, it doesn't feel like it's stuck together in one substance, so the idea of ​​this kitchen mug is that as soon as you're done cooking, you unplug it and it has a nice warming function, so that put some rice in there now, let's see, oh my goodness, it's subtle.

I'm not going to change the very definition of rice, but normally you know that when you eat curry with rice and you're there for the curry and the rice just caresses the food, I didn't feel that way here the rice is actually, it's its own distinctive character which which adds up, so I'll give it a seven and a nine. I hope you enjoyed our little Japanese cultural trip. I'll see you in the next one.