Favorite Tech Under $200! #Helpful Post

Hey guys this is Austin. Welcome to my favorite tech under $200. Kicking things off we have

the Sony MDR-450 headphones. Pop open the box and you’ll see they’re actually pretty

good looking, I’m usually not a huge fan of on ear headphones but the 450s are comfortable

even for longer periods. The giant Extra Bass on the box might give you a hint to how these

sound but for the price I’m impressed. They really shine when listening to bass heavy

music like rap with a serious punch in the low end, they do overpower the mids a bit

but they’re absolutely fine for normal use. The cups rotate to make travel easier and

there’s a built-in mic and controls for taking calls on both iPhone and Android. For

less than $50 the MDR-450s are pretty awesome. Next up we have the new View-Master Virtual

Reality viewer and big thanks to Mattel for making this video possible! Pair this with

an iOS or Android smartphone and you’ll have a serious VR headset, it works with Google

Cardboard but it’s a lot nicer with the classic View-Master look. In the box it comes

with a starter pack but you can expand it with separate packs like National Geographic

Wildlife, these are AR discs which you can look at to check out the experience. Just

download the View-Master app for your pack, slot your phone into the mount and you’re

good to go. It’s a pretty awesome experience, you can explore the wildlands of Africa or

my personal favorite is the Space pack. Even if you’ve used other VR headsets the View-Master

is solid but if you’ve never tried virtual reality it is straight up awesome. Something

I use almost every day is the Samsung T1 portable SSD. This little guy is absolutely tiny and

is great for moving around files quickly. It’s based on USB 3.0 and with read and

write speeds of over 400 megabytes per second it’s perfect for giant file transfers. I

keep my Steam library on it to easily move between computers as well as editing 4K video

on it. For less than $150 this is probably the most useful thing on this list. Continuing

on the storage train we have the Sandisk Ultra flash drive. This is also USB 3.0 and even

smaller than the T1 but it has a trick up it’s sleeve, it also features a MicroUSB

port. You can plug one end into your computer to dump incredibly important files and then

plug it into an Android phone where it should work just fine. It’s simple but for less

than $15 it can really come in handy. Next we have the Asus Chromebook C201. I recently

did a more in-depth video on this but for less than $200 it’s hard to argue with an

actual laptop. It has an 11.6 inch screen which is totally usable and a nice, thin design.

The basics are all here, the keyboard is properly sized and easy to type on and the trackpad

could embarrass a lot of Windows laptops. It’s running Chrome OS which while not as

full featured as Windows makes a lot of sense for a laptop like this, especially if you

already use web apps like Gmail and Google Docs. While it might not be super cool the

new seven inch Amazon Fire tablet is impressive for another reason: price. At $50 you shouldn’t

expect much but this really isn’t bad, it has a decent seven inch screen and average

build quality but seriously, this is $50. It runs Amazon’s Fire OS which is vaguely

based on Android, there’s tons of Amazon stuff preinstalled but the App Store has a

decent selection as well. You’re missing Google apps but the browser works fine for

things like YouTube and it even has a pair of cameras. You might not be able to take

the greatest selfies in the world but did I mention this is a $50 tablet? You’ll have

to deal with sponsored wallpapers which is probably a big reason why Amazon was able

to build a usable tablet for so cheap but even if you only used it as a Kindle it would

be worth the price. So what’s your favorite piece of tech on this list? Let me know in

the comments below and I will catch you in the next one.