Did you know that on Facebook and Twitter about a quarter of the posts you see are ads? I'm serious. Go ahead and check for yourself. I'll wait. Now that you're back, did you buy or even click on any of that stuff you saw? No? Well, don't worry. That's okay 'cause we did it for you for an entire month. Our team forwarded every ad they saw to the procurement department, who furiously sourced everything from whatever this is to keyboard cleaners to this build-it-yourself conference room. Now, all I need to do is unbox them and see if there's any golden nuggets in the nasal cavity that is modern social media advertising. Now, there were some limits. We didn't buy any software or anime video games. It had to be a physical item. We also wanted things that were tech-related, and they had to be available in Canada, which is why we're starting off with this. Do you want to guess the price? I'm going to say $4,000. It was $10,000. 10 grand. Yes.

I mean, it feels pretty nice, but is that Canadian dollars or US? That's real dollars, Freedom dollars. At that price, it better keep you guys from hearing this. Our spor kiwi design upgrade your Quest 3 or Quest 3s with their G4 Pro Controller covers and K4 boost battery strap. They're designed to give you more battery life and better comfort. Learn more at the link in the video description. Whoa, did lights just turn on in here? Yeah, the sensors are behind here, so as we're moving everything out. Oh dude, it's got fans. Yeah, it's got ventilation. Okay, if I had known about all the features, I might have guessed the price a little bit closer. That's pretty cool. There's also some outlets back here that you're missing. Oh, not going to lie, a lot of this looks like AliExpress garbage. Correct, but the bedjet man, when I was a kid, this would have saved me so much trouble. I wouldn't have had to wet it myself. Oh my God, now that it's time to

oh, oh, okay, adjust the this one. That's probably that second light that Logistics didn't plug in. Oh, that makes sense. It actually took him about a day to build this. They didn't say it was tough, but it was just a long process. It's fine, yeah. Actually, Alex said that he thinks it's worth it because over the last two weeks that it's been installed, we've had several people actually just have their meetings in here and enjoy it. Okay, so here's the ad that sold us on it. Oh, I get to watch the ads. There you go, nice. In the emergency stairwell just to get some privacy. That was literally an April Fool's joke for us. There's no way anyone's actually. I mean, our inbox booths, private work pods, are the perfect solution to office noise and distractions. Doesn't look sold. No, I like it. That is a little pricier than some solutions we've looked into. We actually need some of these, but I can't fault the build quality, the features, or the overall vibe. Is this for

two people or four. It feels like it'd be an extremely cozy four. It'd be a cozy four, but it for sure confirms two people. This is actually their Tuesday Booth. I get it. So what would they call the four one fours day? Oh, I was going to go with four skin. We should remove this and that. Sorry. You know what else we should remove? Forkin. The sound. Anybody else hearing this conversation? And the only that I gu going to be the we can hear each other just fine other than it being a little echoey thanks to this big glass panel here. It definitely gets stuffy fast if you don't have the fan on. Speaking of stuffy, do you want to try the next item on our tech list? I do. All right, guess how much we spent on this. I would have to know what it is. It is a CO2 health monitor. You know, like canaries in the mine. So this dies if the air or sucks. Well, yeah, you mentioned it was getting stuffy, so I thought we could put it on the wall and see if we kill a

bird. I'm going to say 100 bucks. Uh, it was like 230. Shut up. I was already assuming that it was going to be overpriced. Yeah, it was really expensive. How much did we spend on all this stuff? Just over $14,000. More importantly, the booth was actually sent to us. Are we going to buy some? Well, if you use our affiliate code down below, they'll knock the price off for us so we can keep it. Please buy some. Who put you up to that? I'm not even kidding. That's the contract we signed. Thanks, Josh. Keep Calm. Open your windows. Oh, it like turns it. Oh yeah, it out right dies. I mean, okay, well, if we want to find out how bad it is, I guess we got to turn the fan off, right? Yeah, close this door. It's just a CO2 detector. Yes. Improve focus and productivity. Improve sleep and mental health. Yeah, this happy little bird would improve my mental health, I think. Okay, I'm going to pass out too. Yeah, the ventilation is uh, it's not

great here, but I feel like it would take a lot to knock this boy out. Okay, let's watch the thing. Award-winning Danish design telling you when to open your windows. It's so sad. Air out a voila good air quality. I honestly don't think we're going to trigger it either. I can't keep going. There's no oxygen. This bird ain't dying, bro. I don't know, man. I'm sure it's a good product or something, but it didn't. I yeah, okay, sure, cool. See you later. What's next? That was so expensive. Oh, what is this? A docking station. Oh, it's so cute. Micro SD, SD, power. Okay, you got some USB-A, USB-C, all the USB-A and Ethernet at the back, and wow, triple monitor support. Okay, okay, but hold on, hold on, hold on. That is a chunker of a power brick. Makes sense if you've got 60 watts of USB PD plus being able to power everything else that's connected to it. And I love that they've matched the aesthetic. How cool.

is that we're actually going to build a full desk setup in here for you. That's what it's meant for, right? So, starting with the docking station, then we'll add some monitors later on. Oh sick, oh it has a little cute calendar and clock. I love this thing. This is great. It had an ad just on Instagram that led us to Temu. I think they also have an official website you can go to, but this is where we purchased it from. I can't promise it isn't stealing your data, but I can promise you it's adorable. If you had to guess the price on this, what would you put it at? I don't know, 70 bucks? It's 220 Canadian, so it's about 150ish US. It is a docking station. Docking stations get expensive. Yeah, it just feels like a novelty one. You can change the colors. You have black, blue, and red. Wa okay, that's pretty cool. Swipe the side, they even totally just used the Apple logo. Oh no way, which I don't know

if they can get away with technically 3x 4K displays, though that's actually going to come handy 'cause we bought some screens. Okay, let's keep going with the setup then. Yeah, JSA, what was the name of this company? Sure, Jel. They made the docking station that was used in Sam's upgrade, and we actually complemented the quality and fit and finish of it. Yeah, well apparently they make these Flip Go Duo monitors, and they sent us both of these when we asked for one, so we get to pick now which one do you want. I want this one. Cool. Oh wow, that is like a whole laptop worth of monitor right there. Good Lord. Built-in USB hub though, that's pretty handy. Micro HDMI in, display port in though, that's cool. Button for changing the orientation, so just bip B. Is there a battery? Like does it just power on? It powers on by one of the USBC cables. Oh but there's no battery? No. Oh do they have any ideas for how you're supposed to mount this? I'm so glad you

asked they also sell stands for them. Oh, okay, but it doesn't come with any way of actually mounting this to anything. No, it comes. You have to buy the stand. Well, wait, what about this thing, positioning of the magnetic suction bracket? Yeah, that's what's in here. What? Seriously? Are you not messing with me right now? Like, there's absolutely, like, this doesn't hold it in any meaningful way, not that I could figure it out. It has to let me pull up the website. There's no way it just sits like that. You know, sometimes not everything needs a solution. You ever think about that? No. Oh my God, that magnet is what holds it. Yeah, it's pretty strong. Okay, once you get it lined up, it's actually pretty, yeah, it goes on there pretty, okay. I mean, it's a little scary, yeah, trusting your life on that is, okay, well, your monitor's life anyway. If you had to guess the price, I keep getting everything wrong, $400, $600, dang it. I hope this stand isn't more than

like 30 bucks. It's 40. Well, that's within range. Uh, okay, boom, just like that. Hold on, I'm switching the orientation. Overall, this would be a huge productivity booster, and it would be pretty much like carrying around two laptops with the way that it folds down. The stand leaves a lot to be desired, though. Okay, what's next? There's one more thing in here for your setup. Oh, 'cause you don't want to be typing on your keyboard and mouse. Oh, you threw it right at my junk. It's good quality. I bought them from an ad. Okay, we've got the block triple mode connection mechanical keyboard. Back to Classics. Yes, by the company Low Free U. And I've also got this triple mode wireless touch mouse. What's a touch mouse? You'll see. Oh yeah, that's it. That's kind of stupid. They make some extremely bold claims for this bad boy. Replaceable PBT key caps. Sure, if you can find that key profile again. Also improve comfort and productivity. I strongly doubt that.

doubt this is cool though. Magnetic dongle holder. Oh, is that what that is? So cool. Oh, I was trying to figure out what it was on the keyboard, dude. Sick. Like the style of the keyboard, you know what? Sure, they might probably spend too much of their product development budget on Facebook ads, but they also spent a lot on design. Yeah, looks pretty good, right? She actually thought it's not bad, but the question is, uh, how much did she mean? Do you want to guess? Sure, I'll guess keyboards. I should, oh, 80 bucks. 170. No mouse. I don't know. It's pretty stylish. 70. Bang on. Now for something that's not part of our work setup, this retropixel Pro tiny computer. It's powered by an RK 3326 quad-core ARM CPU, and it features, and it's gone. Emily, Sden from our editing team, sent this ad over to procurement. Procurement clicked on the link, and the site was no longer working. And this right here is the biggest reason that this video took so long to take, because we would go to purchase.

items from obvious drop shippers or scammers, and they had already held the rug. So, guys, please take an extra 30 seconds to look over items before handing over your payment information, since you never know what people are on the other end of these companies. I actually almost gave my credit card to someone who had, um, they were like cheaper versions of those, uh, electronic water blasters. Oh yeah, and they were listed for like $27, and I was like, I've never heard of this site before, and I googled, Are they a ripoff? and it was like pages and pages and pages of negative reviews. So, 30 seconds, watch out, okay? What did we actually get next then? Another temu special, a 20 in 1 cleaner. Without looking at the box, can you find all 20? There's one, it just comes apart. I don't know if a SIM removal tool counts as a cleaning device, and the same goes for a key switch puller and a key cap puller. You missed one on in there. I missed something? Yeah, the lid.

itself what this yeah wipe a screen with it you know I'm not a screen but thank you I would not wipe a screen with this well you're at five keep going oh oh little Spritz bottle yeah that's pretty cool little air puffer yep it it moves air tampon airpod case cleaner right that makes sense lethal brush okay I'm bored yeah there's a lot of them yeah that's that's the gist of it how much do you think it was this has got to be 10 bucks it was five bucks yeah it's fitting that your mic battery just died we bought a battery tester hey they don't work for rechargeables they don't no oh rechargeables run in a different voltage range than alkalines oh well do you want to test it to make sure it sure I mean it works it works it's it it was $4.20 hey it's a good battery it's a good battery I hope so I just grabbed it from the Shelf these things are a DI of

dozen though, and I've seen much better form factors than this stupid system. So, if you paid more than like six bucks for it, then you got ripped off. I'm glad we didn't get ripped off this one. I think we did though. Take a look at this one smart light sound machine. Excuse, have you downloaded? Look at the size of it in his hand. What? It's a... This is a completely different thing. Yep, what the... That's a completely different product, correct? That one has a speaker in the front. This one, the speaker down here. The play button is backwards. What the heck? It's also like four times bigger in the video he's holding it. Why are phone charging though? I'm sure that won't light on fire. I... It didn't when I tried it. Oh wow, that quality speaker though. Would you like to listen to some music? I would like that very much. Oh, that's my phone speaker. Yes, good luck. It took me a while. I think we get the point. It sounds like garbage. Yeah, we don't know.

maybe it's got a hidden speaker. Okay, we can move on. Feel how light it is. Like our second last. Not this again. This is no longer available on Temu. Is it gone because of how dangerous it is? There's literally a warning right on it that's like laser class one and then it just beams it into this refractive dome and sends it fraking everywhere. How you supposed to not have a child or a pet or an adult look into this thing? It has speakers though and it came with the remote. What does the microphone button do? I don't know. This remote feels like there's nothing inside it. It is lighter than the battery tester. All right, you ready? What did just stop? I was going to check to make sure it's turned on. What is that? Wow, wow, that was the G button. Here's R, here's B, here's W, yeah, close. Hello, check, check, check, check, hello. Switches between red and okay, that's the M. It's music mode. Bluetooth is off. I hope I'm not connecting to someone's headphones right now. Bluetooth

is connected. Oh, that was it. That's me. I'm not going to give it access to my calls and logs. This sounds so bad. No, like you imagine you put that in your, you know, six-year-old kid's room. They're vibing. Okay, imagine this for a second though. Can I roll that for a second, Andy? Literally world's better. If I'm going to need the phone and I'm going to need to be in Bluetooth range, I might as well just play it off the phone. It's not the same vibe though. The thing I connected to is this what. Oh, you got it working. I connected to the wrong one. This even has Bluetooth apparently. It's even worse. The price uh 10 bucks. You'll be happy. It's only eight. Okay, our last temo item. Industrial endoscope. Yeah, does it scope your end? It can actually. Oh wow. Yep, that's Elijah's nose. You can flip it upside down so that's pretty useful. Black and white versus not black and white depending on what you're trying to make out. That could actually

be pretty useful. No recording, unfortunately. That's a bummer. Yeah. USBC charging. You know what? Pretty cool. If this was less than, let's say, 50 bucks, I'd say it could be useful. At least this one at this length was $54 US. Yeah. You know what? I like it. Thanks, Temu. That endoscope kicks off the camera gear category. Got an advertisement for the Opal Tadpole, a tiny webcam with a clip. Wait, these are the guys that Marquez invested in, correct? Okay, what's the pitch? It's the world's smallest webcam of this class. Okay, Sony sensor. Yes, correct. The cable doesn't open the whole way because I don't know. You, I guess. Yeah, I was confused by that. I don't really get it either. Oh, and I guess we get to try it now. Yeah, let's test it. It's better than what we had. It's better than my laptop for sure. You want to guess the price? Oh God, it's probably like $150 or something. Bang on. Really? Yeah. And you can get a carrying

case which will bring it to 168. Yeah, I wouldn't spend that kind of money on this. This next item I think is a scam. Is this supposed to change your phone to like a wide-angle lens or something? Oh yeah, yeah, it's for a camera. We bought the Sony e-mount variant. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. So this just goes like straight onto your C. This is a lens, correct? This is just like crazy glued together, correct? This is garbage, correct? It was $50. Who would be stupid enough to buy this? Do you want to try it? Yeah, I do actually. Could they have at least invested in a decent 3D printer? Okay, here, we'll go with our LTT desk pad, Northern Lights design. Very nice, beautiful. Oh my God, this, it feels so wrong. What the hell? I got to say this like works better than I thought it would. That's not really a sales pitch. No, no, no, no, no. Yeah, no manufactured e-waste for sure. Apparently, we're shooting the next one on that lens now, so way to go, look.

at what you've done, Elijah. Perfect. This is what we were shooting on. That's garbage. That cost money. Oh, this looks better. Shut up. It's actually a good thing you mentioned that it's better 'cause this device promises to help you take your photos better. The intelligent camera assistant, camera body, meet camera brain. Dude, was this a Kickstarter way back in the day? Correct. I think I remember this thing. It's compatible with a certain list of cameras. You basically clip it onto the top. It'll calibrate your environment and then help adjust your settings on your camera to help you take a better photo. Okay, so it's auto mode, correct? Have we had our camera guys look at this at all and like discuss it? 'Cause surely it wouldn't still exist after all this time if it was completely useless. I think their main target is going to be amateur photographers, right? They're not going to be targeting someone who knows their camera inside and out. So I think that's probably why they still exist. They're also one of the products that is always on sale. You

know it's marked at 430, and it's 130 off, so we paid $300 for it. Shut up. Yeah, we got three of them. Why? Well, 'cause I thought if they work, you know, we didn't. There's another one. The other one's at the studio. Why did you buy more? Well, 'cause if they work. But what if they don't? Okay, stop. What? What are you not telling me? They sent it to us. I just wanted to scare you. Okay, well, how do we trust this camera? Is one of the compatible ones? Okay, so let's plug it in and give it a go. Okay, so hitting the take photo button. What it'll do is you should notice some settings adjust after I hit the button. Yeah, hit it. Whoa, look at that. Whoa, jeez. It even hit the shutter. Yeah, it takes the photo fully for you. Wow, that's pretty cool. Okay, I took a picture. Now I'm going to try. Now you're going to optimize it. Um, I definitely saw some settings change. I mean, it didn't change that much.

it went with a faster shutter speed. It did open up the aperture a bit more, so you get more of a pleasing depth of field effect. But the question for me is, is that what I wanted? Because I might have wanted more of the object in focus, so that's debatable. The theme of the shoot is dumpster photography. I think it definitely helped. Yeah, the only difference is full auto went with a slightly slower shutter speed. M. But the way we're using it as soon a particularly unsophisticated user like I don't know if it's adjusting more than just shutter speed aperture and ISO, which like I can do, and I'm not exactly a photography expert. Yeah, Andy described it as spend the $300 on a book and learn how to take a better photo. You know what though, if most of what you're after was just the remote functionality in the app sa for wildli photography, I could actually see it being pretty useful. But as a you know training wheels for camera oper, I don't know guys, picture this, your

children won't get off their phone. What do you do? Tell them to get off their phone. What if they don't? Then I use family link and I lock their phone. Well, this product can do that too. It is a box that you can plug in and then charge up to four devices. Okay, why are they all lightning? You can switch them out. Okay, okay, all right, but then what happens is you close this. Yeah, using their app, you can magnetically lock it with a timer so that, hey, you know in 2 hours you can go get your product. Huh, you thought I was going to hate on this, didn't you? Yeah, but how much do you think it costs? Oh, oh, oh, if it was a hundred bucks, I'd be like, you got to pay app developers somehow. It's a niche product, they probably don't sell that many, but this is a pretty trendy-looking product literature. Mhm, crap, it's like $300, isn't it? It is $250 US for the box. Do you want to know the best part?

you can't even use it without paying for their subscription. No, oh, you can charge your devices. It will not do any of the timer or locking without a $180 a year subscription. Linus, does the membership cover my entire family? I should sure as hell hope so. We'll charge five phones at once. I think there is more like I only see four slots. Oh yeah, how will it charge five phones? That's just an outright lie. Great concept, the price is way off. $100 one-time fee? Sure, if you're this desperate. I'll take $100 a year from you to hold on to your phone and give it back to you when you want it. Okay, so hold on to this phone. Okay, okay, no, no, you don't need the Box. No, I still want to use the Box. What, you don't? You paid for the box. I'm just the subscription. All right here, thank you. Okay, now give me my phone. No, you have to wait. Nope, give me the phone now. No, I need the ad cred. I need the admin passw.

you don't have the credit card. What's the password? I don't remember. Sucks to be you. I have a product that doesn't require a subscription: the Photo Stick 2.0. One-click photo backup. You plug it in and run an exe. Uh, can we go ask Luke if we can test this really quick? Sure. Okay. You know, with a name like this, I got to wonder what kind of pictures it backs up. Luke's not here, so we're going to talk to Sean instead. Um, we would like to use the Photo Stick. The instructions are to double-click on the Photo Stick Windows.exe, and it will back up our photos. Uh, no cool. All right, see you later. One of the selling features: it works with Windows 7. 40 bucks. It's $60 for a 32 gig. You're not backing up. Okay, onto our last product. This is the BedJet. Uh-huh. It's basically an air conditioner/SL heater for your bed. That sounds amazing. Yeah. Do you want to give it a try? I do. Okay. Wow.

that's something. It's a White Noise generator too, yeah, bonus. It does Heating and Cooling, and that this sheet is only the single Inlet, but you can actually get a sheet from them that'll do like a his and hers side, so you can have one side that's hotter, one side that's colder. You would need a second machine, yeah, I see that, yes. So it doesn't do heating and cooling, it does heating or cooling, yes. Where is the air going? So it actually goes between the two layers of the sheets. Oh, okay, so this is my warmed bed. Good night, sweet prince, not dying. It does look like it. How does it feel though? Can you tell it's warmer? Oh yeah, okay, oh yeah, no, it's great, it's warm. Well, let's cool it now. I don't expect it to be as sophisticated as something like, you know, eight sleep with their subscription nonsense, yeah, um, but I also expect it to be a lower price, correct? I'm going to say 300 bucks. It's 600, but it's one of

those products that are always on sale, so we actually got it for $430. Okay, you could jank together something on your own for a lot less than that, or you could just not. Yeah, do you need a subscription? Nope. Okay, oh, that's interesting. It definitely cools starting at the bottom and that whoa she's she's flowing. Wait, no, our AC just kicked in. It's pointed right at me. Andy, the Cold's definitely coming from inside the sheets as well, but I don't know if it's cold so much as it's like it didn't warm up. You know, like when you get into the bed and the sheets are kind of cool, like it feels kind of like that. I think that's the whole point though. I don't think it's necessarily supposed to be like an air condition replacement. Do you think this could help some people? 'Cause I don't think it's actually a bad product. No, yeah, it seems. Seems. Czy Alex actually wanted it. He was considering buying it before we did it for this video, so he's asking if it can go in the

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