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The "New Toys" Thread

Matt2000 said:
The Prime sale strikes again!
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Speaking of!
Apart from the new saddle for the indoor bike, which isn’t tech and which I’ve complained about already in the things that annoy me, I got myself:
  • AirPods 3 - they really are quite a bit better than the 2s. Actually did not expect that…
  • An 18V water pump in case the basement gets flooded… neighbors tell stories of the canal flowing back into the house in really bad rains. We do have a valve thing to prevent that, but better be prepared, right? Also will allow us to just connect a hose to the rain water tanks we got recently.
  • Edit: well… this didn’tt work. So here, I got this thing I posted about over here also: https://forums.finalgear.com/threads/the-power-tools-thread.3556102/page-20#post-3638913
I think that is about all that can be considered toys/tech…
 
Just bought a set of JBL Endurance Race Bluetooth headset. The sound on it is really good, and it stays in my ear fairly well (they still fall out in intense exercise), but the biggest problem for me is the JBL Headphones app. It won't allow more than one JBL headphone at a time (even just paired). I have another JBL Live650 noise cancelling bluetooth headphone that I paired to my PC and phone, That caused the Endurance Race headset to not work on my phone. My phone would show it as paired, but no audio will play on it. I had to make the phone forget the Endurance Race headset and uninstall the JBL headphone app to even get audio out of my JBL Live650 again. So I guess they really don't want you to own one set of JBL headphones at a time. I'm returning the Endurance Race headset.
 
Before you return the headphones: do you even need the app for the headphones to work? That shouldn't be normal, what does the JBL support say regarding the issue?
 
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yeah that was a thought: what does the app even do? I know I had a beyerdynamic app that was completely unnecessary… didn’t offer anything of value, really.
I mean… i get the point of just sending a message. It seems like a very dumb design decision that should be „rewarded“.
 
I got these for jogging, it has an ambient aware passthrough feature that I want to use for safety reasons. That feature requires the JBL app.
 
Having to use the app is bull, my Sony noise cancelling headphones have an app (that works very well) but there's a physical button for changing between noise cancelling/passthrough/off. No excuse for not having that, unless they have a more expensive set with the button...

My Airpods Pro do this too if you hold the 'button' but that's a different price point.
 
As far as I can find, the function can be mapped to a gesture, but that's mapped in the app. So at the end of the day, to toggle the ambient aware passthrough would require the app.
 
Matt2000 said:
Having to use the app is bull, my Sony noise cancelling headphones have an app (that works very well) but there's a physical button for changing between noise cancelling/passthrough/off. No excuse for not having that, unless they have a more expensive set with the button...

My Airpods Pro do this too if you hold the 'button' but that's a different price point.
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Same with Bose. You can change settings with the app or set them to "quiet" and "aware" (ambient sound pass through) with a haptic interface on the headphones themselves.
 
Thanks for the info, I might have to look into Bose. For my JBL Live650 it didn't have ambient aware, but it has Active Noise Cancelling, that feature can be turned on an off from the headphones' dedicated button without the JBL app.
 
I've been kinda wanting one for a while, and a brief discussion on Telegram finally made me check prices and place an order for the Insta360 X3.

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Brief test filmed at home after unboxing. Edited with a single button press in the app, no manual effort at all. Imho, pretty neat.


View: https://youtube.com/shorts/IdArUUC-Nbo?feature=share
Already got the necessary adapters to put in on a suction cup inside the car for the roadtrip and Ringmeet. It can film in "dashcam mode" aka looped recording, saving the last 10 (15, 20, 30) minutes after something actually interesting happens. At with the 360 mode, I get the interior shots and audio + nice view outside.

Time will tell if I use this any more than my previous GoPros and whatnot. But it's definitely a fun new toy.
 
Ooohh I was intrigued by that one as well, but scared off by the price tag… so i got a go pro 11 mini last week for about half of what that thing there cost - which is fair enough because it’s basically half the cam right? 🤣 let’s see what I use it for… mostly put it on the bike I guess.
 
That seems to work very well indeed. I've been really interested in the Go 3, the idea of being able to take the lozenge shaped camera and stick it on something while still using the main body as a monitor is honestly a brilliant idea. I've seen great uses of it by the likes of PeterSripol and RCTestFlight.
 
Ooh shiny. I realise now that it would've been better with the box the other way up.


It's in my server with data being copied on to it as I speak, the goal will be to slowly replace the HDDs in there with these things.
 
Needed a soldering iron to attach the Dupont pins to the ESP8266 board for my smart meter readout device project, so got a semi-decent battery operated one off of Bezos' Penis Rocket Fund.
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All the Lightning cables I've collected over the years and use all over the place are going to be obsolete fairly shortly, so I went to the Ugreen store and clicked some buttons. This is a 65 watt charger with a pair of Type-C ports and a Type-A. Really neat.

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I also bought a handful of 1 and 2 meter C-C cables and a pair of A to C for the car and other places where I can't get rid of the Type-A port, but everyone knows what a cable looks like.

Now all I need is a decently sized Type-C power bank to replace my old Anker and that should be it.
 
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