5 Gadgets to Start 2018 #Helpful Post

this video is sponsored by bitdefender

hey guys this is Austin

it is almost 2018 and here are five tech

items to get your year started up right

to kick things off we have the

BitDefender box - you guys have probably

heard of fit defender before for their

antivirus software with the box they're

stepping it up to the hardware side of

things to protect your entire network

but on top of being able to cover things

like your phone as well as your laptop

it also can help protect against your

smart home devices from being attacked

that's quite the flowchart they've got

right here pull this guy out of the box

and it's actually surprisingly light so

there's really not a whole lot to this

guy you essentially get power in you get

Ethernet in and you get Ethernet back

out so after a quick setup we have the

box up and running all we need is the

BitDefender central app for iOS or

Android and from here we can control

pretty much anything so you can see

notifications if it decides that there's

any kind of vulnerabilities in your

network you can also make sure that all

your devices are protected if they need

attention or if they're unprotected

while the box will protect your device

when you're at home on your own Wi-Fi

the included total security software

will also protect your other devices

like Mac Windows Android from threats

when your stay on public Wi-Fi since

this is Hardware level security you can

do some pretty interesting stuff with it

so not only is it going to do its best

to filter out any kind of suspicious

activity but on top of that say you're

on a website that isn't secured and

you're trying to put in your credit card

or your social security number well box

is going to try to catch that and give

you a warning saying hey are you sure

about that

you're also getting some protection

against brute-force attacks as well as

ransomware and because it detects all

the devices on your network and gives

you a full status report say you connect

a old laptop that hasn't been updated in

a while you're going to get a

notification saying hey it's time to

kill the update on that guy Windows XP

is not cool anymore so if you guys want

to check out the BitDefender box - for

yourself like always the link will be in

the description the next item is the

Google home now this isn't brand new

however I've just gotten a whole set of

Google homes for my house and I love

them well there's a lot to like with

Alexa and I'm sure Syria on the home pod

is going to be great if you have like

400 bucks

Google Home has really had a nice sweet

spot between sounding good as well as

having these super useful Google

assistants the real sweet spot for me

though is the Google home mini so these

guys launched at $50 which is a pretty

decent price for what is still a nice

speaker and gives you all the

functionality over for the next little

while

guys are $30 and at that price I've got

like three of them in my house but this

doesn't matter at all to anyone besides

me probably but even though the Google

home does sound better I kind of prefer

the many just because this to me looks

like an air freshener hurt I don't know

I just I don't like the way this thing

looks where is this this is cool you can

just slide this on like a desk or

something and no one would ever really

look twice there's a lot you can do with

Google home but the main things I do is

listen to music do like alarms as well

as listen to a little bit of like

podcasts and some news but for 30 bucks

you should definitely consider checking

this guy out

continuing on the Google train we have

the chromecast ultra now the chromecast

has been one of my favorite ways to

stream video for a few years now but the

ultra is the way to do it in 4k if you

guys caught our iPhone 10 is it worth

the video this is actually how we were

able to test HDR on YouTube so what we

did was we would upload the video to

YouTube wait for it to process for like

three hours and then we would play it

back on a OLED TV using the chromecast

ultra to actually see what it would look

like once it was fully processed this

guy is pretty powerful considering just

how tiny it is it's also really stuck in

there so it is a little bit bigger than

a standard chromecast but really not by

much the same basic idea where you plug

it in via HDMI to your TV there's a

micro USB lead here for power once you

set it up on Wi-Fi it's pretty

straightforward so you get just a bunch

of generic wallpapers at the beginning

but you can stream pretty much anything

to it from the app or from Google home

hey Google Play the latest awesome Evans

video on YouTube

that is so cool so what's really neat

about this is that not only can you

control that with voice as well as of

course from your phone but you can also

have multiple Google homes as well as

multiple chromecast set up in your house

all these gadgets are great however

you're probably going to want an actual

phone to control everything which is

where the Moto e 4 plus comes in this is

the phone actually did a video on a

couple months ago and I think it is Loki

one of my favorite devices of the year

so it's nice is is that for a phone that

cost less than $200 you're getting a

metal build a good screen good camera

fingerprint sensor there's really not a

lot to hate on one area a lot of budget

phones skimp on is the screen and

thankfully the Moto e for Plus isn't too

bad so it is a 5.5 inch panel with the

1280 by 720 resolution no yes that's

going to be a little bit on the low side

but thankfully it's a good panel with

solid color inside the specs might not

look impressive with a snapdragon 427

processor 2 gigs of ram and either 16 or

32 gigs of storage but what really puts

this over the top is the battery this

guy is rocking a massive 5,000 milliamp

hour battery put that in context that's

almost double the size of something like

the iPhone 10 no yes it does mean that

the phone is a little bit chunkier than

it might otherwise be but especially

considering these fairly low-end

internals this guy is going to last

forever but that battery is really what

pushes it over the edge for me this is

hands-down the best battery life I've

ever tried on a smart phone and when you

consider that that's again less than

$200 you should really give the Moto e

four shots but say that a smart phone

isn't what you're looking for this year

well that is where the Acer Aspire d15

comes in I've actually wanted to do a

video on this for a while for one big

reason it is one of the most highly

selling laptops on Amazon period right

now you don't exactly get a lot in the

box though so on one hand we get the

laptop itself with some wonderful

cardboard there's some cardboard

shavings on paper it looks pretty good

so you're getting a core i3 70 100 you

four gigabytes of RAM as well as a one

terabyte hard drive there are some nice

features that separate this from other

budget laptops starting with the display

so it is a 1080p panel and while yes

it's maybe not the best-looking 1080p

screen in the world but it is a lot

better than other laptops in the three

to four hundred dollar price range nice

touches like having a backlit keyboard

as well as a full number pad is nice and

the port selects

is interesting on the website we have a

good selection including a pair of USB

3.0 ports an HDMI VGA Ethernet as well

as USB type-c now on the other side we

get the headphone jack another USB 2.0

as well as the DVD drive because you

know laptops with USB type-c ports and

DVD drives are all over the place remove

three screws and pop off this bottom

panel though in only do we get access to

the hard drive which is actually kind of

slow and I would probably swap with an

SSD but also our memory for gigs is fine

for now it would be really simple to

upgrade this guy to eight gigs Asia

claims this guy has up to 12 hours of

battery life and while the build quality

does leave a little bit to be desired at

350 dollars there is a ton to like with

this laptop I see why everyone keeps

buying them as always links to

everything I talked about including the

box - will be in the description of this

video so I'm curious which of these

products would you guys want to pick up

for 2018 let me know in the comments

below and I will catch you in the next

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