2020 has been rough but gadgets are good
to us so what do you got
my favorite gadget 2020 is i think you
can see it right
there it's a big boy this is my kid i
don't buy as many gadgets as a lot of
people at the verge but this is a good
one
guilty very guilty we have covered over
a hundred
products on the channel alone in 2020
and there's countless more reviews over
on the site but
there's always a few gadgets that we
hold near and dear to our hearts
so today i'm asking the verge staff
what is your favorite gadget of 2020
my favorite gadget 2020 is this little
guy right here
this is the iphone 12 mini this is the
size of phone like this feels right in
my hand
it looks right in your hand okay so down
to the color is this your favorite color
as well
now the colors whatever here's the thing
that i've accepted in my heart
i'm gonna buy somewhere between two and
four phones a year this thing where
every phone company has a different
color of phone that's like their color
for the year
i just accepted yeah i'll get that color
and so like next year i'll have a
different color and it'll be fine
is it just about its size or is there
other things that you also love about it
the thing that i love about it is that
you get this small size without
compromising anything but battery life
you get the good cameras you get good
screen resolution you get
fast you know processor you get all the
stuff you want out of an iphone
it's just in a small size i don't know
if gadgets were just like
pretty good this year or it's just the
fact that we constantly need to escape
reality no the gadgets were really good
this year i'm writing an end to your
article the titles like the gadgets are
good this year
because they've been really good they've
been really good and i have so many
boxes that i
actually those aren't good the boxes
aren't good yeah wow
if i had to pick like one just off the
top of my head it's uh
it's this bad boy the the playstation 5.
oh yeah yeah i knew this was going to
come into my day at some point the
playstation 5 is one of the newest
consoles it's really hard to get one of
these things but one of my favorite
things about the console
is actually the controller the dual
sense
now this is one of the most innovative
controllers i have used in a long time
the haptic feedback technologies and how
it creates just
a massive immersion in a lot of the
games i found myself playing my ps5 more
than my xbox series x i've had both of
them
since launch day i've only played my
xbox series x like three times
whereas on my ps5 i've played almost
every single day
so basically when you're not working
you're playing your ps5 basically
the oculus quest 2. i cover vr
a lot and this is the first time that
i've had a vr headset that i actually
want to put on
no way it's fun i know that there's a
lot of people out there who are like i
still don't get vr
i can never see myself using that tell
me what makes you want to put this on
the oculus quest 2 the thing that makes
it kind of unique is that it is a fully
self-contained headset
so it's this is everything there is of
it
and these controllers and you just put
it on and you play it
oh yeah that's the other good thing
about it is yeah i tricked this out this
is
not the default head strap it's much
much better like you should
if you're buying an oculus quest 2 you
really need to get this other head strap
when did you realize that you loved this
piece of tech i think it was
the point at which i realized that i was
putting this on
for fun and i kind of wanted to do it
every day
there was just this moment where i was
like oh this is actually a thing that's
kind of part of my life now the way that
a game console will be
that's really cool okay but watching
addie
play beat saber is actually incredible
like she's she's actually incredible at
this game
ashley carmen how are you i'm good this
is my
room where i sleep and work
and eat and live you've got a gadget
that you love yeah so for the past
couple months
i've been testing out the bike plus from
peloton
i think you could see it oh there it is
poking out of the corner like a creep
take us to it this is our little weights
room we have
oh my gosh look at this beast do you see
how this is moving
yep and then i can also turn it this is
quite the apparatus
do you have a favorite instructor we
won't tell them i literally have dms
then
when i was like hi from a bike ride i
was like you're the best his name's ben
he does the best music he does these
house playlists and i love it
so i'm clipping in why are you in jeans
right now
i wasn't prepared oh my gosh you're
killing it wow
this is a real gadget this is like a
real
like big setup you have to be committed
it's huge like yes vogue my favorite
part of making this video has just been
making people
posed with gadgets 10 out of 10 would
recommend
nice i think you're going to like this
this is the exercise
glow up it's been really nice because
anytime i'm stressed or i just feel like
i've been cooped up for too
long and just need like a quick sweat
boom
boom right there like it's just making
me happier it's giving me
it's making me feel good and i feel like
that's just a worthwhile
thing and i love it again i'm
considering buying it it is really
expensive it's like 2 500
plus you pay for the membership as well
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there we go hello hi v how are you 2020
has been a year
but there's been a lot of cool gadgets
this year i gotta admit like everything
that i tested has been
pretty amazing what have you liked
escaping with the most
a bunch of stuff but as you can probably
tell over here there's a little drone
uh the dji mini 2 anyways it's the
little tiny drone that you probably
heard about 249 grams which
makes it so you don't have to actually
register with the faa
i love it everyone who's doing video
probably knows this but like
you often have back problems and your
bag hurt all the time and i spend a lot
of time walking
around the city with a lot of gear good
change for my back
it's so small it has 12 megapixel photos
4k
30 video and photos look great video
looks amazing
it doesn't have any sensors so you got
to be careful how you fly it i actually
feel like i'm more adventurous with this
thing than with the bigger drone so how
much is it
450 if you buy the fly more combo it's
600
but you get two extra batteries couple
of props the charging hub
the case and if you do the math the 600
it makes sense you might as well just
get the combo if you're gonna buy it
oh no this is so bad after this video
i'm gonna want
a new laptop a new phone a new drone
can you fly it here
no gps signal let's just do it oh my
gosh
yeah this is a bad idea
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oh it's so quiet
oh my gosh oh you're such a good drone
pilot it's like
mind blowing oh there we go it's in
focus
oh my gosh it's so close to the mac wow
this is like
number one why i love working at the
verge yeah i'm pretty sad i'm gonna
have to send it back but i could just
i'm just gonna fly it back
yes everybody comment below that you
want me to make a video about this
because i also want a video about this
so that when i buy one i feel a little
bit more justified
yeah bite the wing bite the wing
okay that's enough
i love the landline are you sure the
landline phone isn't your favorite
gadget
this is the dell xps 13 21
here it's a laptop and you can fold it
and here it's a tablet it's really light
so you can bring it all over the place
with you
and it's really powerful it can do
pretty much anything you want it to as
long as it's not like
really intense games you know other less
demanding games you can play like league
of legends you can play overwatch
rocket league why am i like not
believing you it's it's completely
unbelievable it's the type of thing that
if i went back in time to like 2017
i was like something this light is gonna
be able to like
play overwatch at 60 fps i just would
have been shocked or i would have been
like that must cost like seven thousand
dollars
yeah how much does it cost well there
are a bunch of different prices
from the 1000 up to the 3 000 range i
think that this model which is 1649
um and has a regular uh 1920 by 1200
touch screen um is a great model for
most people
so how often do you find yourself in
tablet mode like if you're being a
hundred percent honest
what i mostly use talent mode for is for
watching stuff like if i want to like
sit on my couch
i can just like flip it around and like
pull it up like that
what is kind of cool i play the piano
and i will use this
until i put my piano music on i'll put
it up on the piano and um it has it
has auto rotates like a real tablet and
battery life on this what's that like
battery life is pretty good i averaged
about eight hours
um in my daily workload it's not
necessarily that there's
like one super flashy feature that's
just like no other laptop has i think
it's just the combination
of everything being really good you know
the it's so sturdy the hinge is so
sturdy the touchpad is so great the
screen is so nice to look at
it's really bright
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i have to admit a lot of this was based
on your video review
i got some beans oh guilty buds live
yes okay so controversially i will say
that i don't think
everyone should buy these i don't think
they're for everyone but for like my
specific needs they're like absolutely
perfect they take every box
because the thing i use them for is
cycling i basically want something that
doesn't have a thing coming down so it's
not going to get in the way of like
the helmet strap or whatever and i want
something that's going to be open rather
than having that like a little bit of
silicone on the end
because i basically want to be able to
hear what's going on around me oh i i
totally hear that i totally hear that
are they as good as you thought they
were going to be
the pairing process isn't quite as as
good
you have to download samsung's app but
then honestly like
once that's done i haven't had any
pairing issues whatsoever
my favorite thing about them though is
just the way that they totally like fit
in that part of your ear perfectly that
i never knew was a bean shape but
actually is a perfect bean
shape we've been working with beans this
entire time i know
we have these little little bean
cavities john thank you so much
it's always good just chatting with you
there was so much more to this that
y'all didn't see because we cut it out
and my favorite gadget of 2020 was
probably the least techie gadget i
tested all year long it's the insects
sq1 there's no screens it literally
just shoots instant film and i'm happy
to see that fuji went back to the basics
with this camera
anywho i hope that you guys are well and
we'll see you in 2021 thanks buds