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Inside this one envelope, I have a power bank, a phone case, an e-reader, a full-size keyboard, mouse, monitor, and an entire desktop class PC. How is that possible? Well, I've just spent $12,000 buying the next generation of thin tech. Tech that is not just slimmer than anything we've seen, but through feats of engineering might also be better than the big boys. So, let's say you wanted a really thin computer. You could take a PC tower and shave it down, or you could do what HP has just done and shove the entire thing inside of a keyboard. Just to be clear, they call this a desktop class PC with up to 64 GB of RAM. And it ain't even a particularly thick keyboard. My reading say 20.1 mm.
It's really easy, too, cuz it's one cable into a monitor, and that powers your PC and keyboard. And then you get this mouse included that's automatically pre-paired to that. I feel like this is designed around being in an office and hot-desking. The thing's even got an internal battery, so it won't just die when you unplug it to move to another desk. Let's do Rocket League in 4K. This actually looks sick. This is max settings. No complaints from me. Ooh. What is that? Those are some serious fans for a keyboard. I'm not sure if that is conducive to a pleasant office environment. Then again, I suppose if you're playing Rocket League in the office, maybe that's on you. That is
really loud, and it kind of makes sense cuz they're trying to compress a lot of cooling into not a very large body with not a lot of outlets. As a board, yeah, it's not in the slightest bit mushy. I could get used to that. Can't hear the keys at all because the fan's so loud. Aaron, can you turn your keyboard down? [snorts] Sorry, I'm busy. It's got speakers, too. One's firing out that way, one's firing out that way. And I can actually hear a stereo effect. Could you argue that this is just a louder bottom half of a laptop that still costs $3,000.
Maybe you could. So, what if we didn't try to cram an entire PC into our board? Well, we could go even thinner with the Lofree Edge. And while the last time we tried to cover an ultra-thin keyboard, it came with the slight drawback of no actual keys. This is a completely different This is a complete mechanical keyboard that is 16 mm. So, I'm excited about this. Clicky goodness. I didn't think that keys that were so light could have this much weight to them. Incredible. There's an obvious question about whether you need a keyboard to be so thin if it is just sitting on your desk. But then, how easy would this be to slip it into a backpack if you wanted to take it somewhere? And I could see
myself wanting to take it somewhere because there's like zero need for my wrists to bend upwards. It's so low down. Not going to lie, I am more of a fan of this even though this has more of a fan than this. What about this mouse though? Cuz can't keep using this chunkster. Well, last time I tried to find a super slim mouse, what we ended up with had all the ergonomics of a chocolate bar. But no longer because the My Air 0 Ori Mouse, a name clearly chosen by someone who never had to say it out loud, has two distinct states. So, when you want to take it somewhere, it flat packs down to just 14.1 mm. And most of that thickness is just the optical sensor.
Feel like if that didn't poke out, you could genuinely use this as a coaster. But then, when you want to activate it, damn. It's pretty clever, cuz it's done with a magnet, but the magnet actually pops inside of an enclosure, which stops it wiggling around when it's in. I mean, it looks potentially even less ergonomic than the last one, but this soft, squishy, PVC-like material is actually doing a lot of the hard work for it. If that was on the floor, I would have licked it. So, there is that element to it. It does have the glossy consistency of like a used Kit Kat wrapper, but weirdly, as a mouse, it kind of works. The clicks feel satisfying and responsive. It doesn't feel like it's going to fall
apart if I put too much pressure on it. One thing they've had to figure out a solution for is, obviously, you can't have a scroll wheel in something this thin. So, instead, they've turned this area at the front into a touchpad. It does the job. It's a little bit less precise than a scroll wheel. And I suppose, at the point where you're making this many sacrifices, would I just use the trackpad built into my laptop? All right, so, that's mouse and keyboard covered. Now, this. You can't have I think we should do this in post, cuz I think I found something better. What is wrong with me today? Something that, on first glance, kind of looks like Apple designed a chopping board.
This is the Sots Flip Action Elite Monitor. Yes, a monitor that is 14.3 mm. And it's not just a portable monitor, it's a portable monitor with a completely adjustable stand built in. More solid than I was expecting. And then, ooh, it rotates 180°. It goes all the way around. So, you could actually just have that up there and then you could stick your MacBook underneath that and have an entire second display. Also, being able to rotate it like that gives it an unexpected amount of height, too. Okay. It's also meant to have the color performance of a MacBook Pro or Apple Studio display. To be fair, I don't think they were kidding. This looks incredible. Wow, it's so bright, too.
And like seriously, this is pin sharp. Considering that this is a 16-in screen, the fact that its resolution is just over 4K makes it feel very much pro grade. Plus, it's fully aluminum, just like most Apple products. It's not quite vibing with my mouse. They've even squeezed in two USBC ports, mini HDMI, and an SD card reader. So, if I just go all the way up here, it even auto rotates. This is just such a sick product, whichever way you look at it. Now, of course, your other setup option, and actually the even slimmer option, is to combine all of those separate parts into one laptop. The ASUS ZenBook S14. That is a hell of a lot lighter than the MacBook that I'm used to.
Wow, imagine this every single day. That said, it does come with the exact trade-off you'd expect. Creaky plastic. But at least it's eco-friendly, meant to be recycled materials. But thickness-wise, we are all the way down to about 10 mm. At least when it's opened. So, the question is, which is the better experience? Do you bother with all of this, or actually should you just do what most people do? So, if you can play the game just as well, I think we might have our answer. Okay, let's open up Rocket League on both and see which does it faster. It was actually slightly, slightly quicker on the ASUS. That I didn't expect. The other thing you can tell, though, if you look at the blacks in this loading
screen, can you just see, as great as this Sotsu the is, that the OLED screen you get on this always wins for contrast. So we already know that the game runs smooth and it looks sharp on our desktop setup. So very respectable gaming experience for a set of products you could just shove into a backpack. Oh. Oh my gosh. Yeah, okay. So immediately this is actually running at double the frame rate that was because this screen is 120 hertz versus 60. It just looks and plays even better. I wasn't expecting that. Plus also I can barely hear the thing compared to the racket this thing's kicking off. I was also thinking, oh well, you know, it's a mid-range Windows laptop. The trackpad is going to absolutely suck.
It's actually really smooth and responsive. So I think in the pursuit of trying to build the thinnest desk setup, we've actually just built a deconstructed laptop and that is actually less good than just buying the real thing. But now it is time to flatten the biggest screen in the house with LG's brand new OLED Evo AI W6 TV, our sponsor. I brought this thing all the way to my in-laws' house cuz I want to surprise them with a living room upgrade. I told them I'm doing a video on the history of TVs and we needed theirs for some history. 3 2 1. Oh my god. You know, I've come to realize there's actually two reasons why they call this the wallpaper TV.
First that it's so thin it literally looks like you would have to paste it onto your wall. Cracking out the ruler, we are now in the 9 mm range and it feels even thinner than that because while most TVs they jut out a little bit from the wall, this W6 is designed to sit completely flush. But the thing that I'm struggling to grasp is not actually the thinness, it's the picture quality cuz within this sub 10 mm body LG's managed to cram in their hyper radiant color tech. Or in other words, all the perfect blacks and colors of OLED. Plus a level of brightness that you don't normally see paired with that thanks to their brand new Alpha 11 AI processor 4K Gen 3 and its dual AI engine. They've managed to fit in
reflection-free premium. And then if you're wondering how almost every cable disappeared, this thing is even true wireless. So, the only thing that it needs is this zero connect box tucked away anywhere within 10 m of the screen. And all of a sudden, anything that you need to plug in only needs to plug in to the box, and it will just wirelessly stream to the TV in visually lossless 4K 165 Hz. The second reason that they call this the wallpaper is while you have LG's Gallery Plus with thousands of art pieces that you can display, you can also turn it into your own wallpaper. Let's see how the in-laws react to this when they're back. And while we wait, I'm sure this has nothing to do with my current life
stage, but I've started getting a ton of ads for multi-tools. Usually, I ignore them. I don't really want to lug one around. Then I saw the next tool, 14 tools packed into a 7.4 mm gift card-size body to, for example, an unboxing knife. Yeah. That is sharp enough to cut a box. And because the way it locks in place, you can put a lot of pressure on it. There's a bottle opener. Oh, it's pretty clever how that one locks, too. No way. Wow, that's cool. Fresh can of Tech Cola. That works. It says zero calories on here. Isn't this full-fat Coke? It's Tech Cola.
I've been conned. Multi-functional pliers. Is there anything we've been struggling to unscrew recently? I'm sure. Oh. Easy as pie. And then when you're done with the thing, I love that snap. I like that a lot. I'm starting to understand why dads think they're so cool when they have a multi-tool. Does this bring the dads to the yard? I mean, it could literally, cuz the yard is where the tools are. Maybe we should just move on. But, if the multi-tool is impressive by being gift card-sized, what about a gaming console that's literally sold as a gift card.
I'm not guessing. This is how you're meant to buy a Gamer Card. You pull it off the rack, you pay, and then you play. That's probably why they've vomited out the entire instruction manual on the back of the thing, cuz that's all the documentation you're getting. So, there's six indie games preloaded on the thing. Can't say I've ever heard of these, but let's jump into Blue Kid 2. Oh, yeah, there are speakers here, too. Although, as you'd expect, pretty tinny sounding. Having had no experience playing Blue Kid, um this does feel like knock-off Mario. Oh, it is cool to see that they've actually built the game around the specific double control pad things that you have here. So, this isn't just a lazy port.
That said, I think this game requires a little more dexterity than these controls are able to provide. There's actually just a set of four buttons below each of these pads, and they're not quite as responsive as I'd want them to be. Then again, the screen looks kind of amazing, especially considering the thing's 6.7 mm total thickness. It's just a little bit strange that the entire purpose of this device is effectively to be an impulse purchase. The idea that someone would be heading towards the till, and then be like, "Oh, yeah, wait, I forgot my gum." and a gaming console. It definitely has the cool factor to make you think about it, but I don't think I would personally
pull the trigger. It actually has triggers on the back. It's such an interesting position for them to put my index fingers into little claws, and then is it too thin for its own good? Possibly. There's definitely an argument to be made that if you're going to buy a piece of tech that fits in a birthday card, that you might be better served with Xiaomi's ultra-thin power bank. But, just how thin is ultra-thin? 6.5 mm. 6.5 mm, and that includes the metal body, all the components for it to things both wired or wirelessly, the magnets to make it magsafe, and then the actual 5,000 mA hour cell itself.
Nice snap. Um Why does this look exactly the same shade of orange as the iPhone? Yeah, so it's like you cover up the Apple logo, maybe people will think it's a Xiaomi phone. Very cool though that even with this, it's barely losing any of the pocketability that it had because it's only a tiny bit thicker there than it is at the camera module anyway. They've even got four tiny little battery level indicators. Okay, so the phone's charging, and now if we plug some earbuds in, yeah, those are on too. It will charge both the phone and the earbuds at the same time. Now, I'm not normally a massive advocate of using a power bank to charge your phone wirelessly cuz you've already got this
very limited capacity and wireless just wastes more energy. But hey, if you're going to, I've not seen a more stylish way to do it than this. Yeah, I know, the earbuds are not thin earbuds. Disgusting. I didn't mean to drop that, by the way. But fear not because the Cyx Fold Buds should be the solution. Oh my goodness. I was ready for them to be thin, but I didn't expect them to be this tiny. I mean, it's minutes bigger than that. This is a set of true wireless earbuds.
Earbuds that even with their charging case are just 6.4 mm thick. Man, I never really thought of AirPods as a thick product, but next to these, they look like they're made for giants. Do we have a spare grain of rice? Just one. A small grain of rice. You know what? It's still thinner than that. That's mental. Cyx, what did you do? They're mini enough that they're actually designed to work in an entirely different way to a typical pair of earphones. So, they come with this adapter that plugs into the USB-C port of your phone, use a bit of 3M tape to stick it permanently to the back, and then you stick the earbuds case into that mechanism. So, that does not move anywhere now. I love the idea of your
earbuds never needing to be charged again, cuz they're just passively taking power from the iPhone. And if you want to charge the iPhone, it gives you a USB-C port back. It's actually quite nice to have a product that's physically stuck down, given my butterfingers today. Disgusting. Right, moment of truth. So, when you want to listen to them, put your finger around, lift the lid up. Wow. So, they're not just thin buds, they're actually transforming buds. Oh my god. So, they've got a tiny little spring inside them. That's what allows them to stay as thin as that when they're not in use, but then jump out to that when you want to use them.
Okay, I would say these sound about as good as Apple's wired EarPods, which is to say, they're not going to envelop you in a cloud of bass, but they're perfectly fine. The main thing I noticed though, or actually didn't notice, is the fact that they were there. Because they're so thin, they're also so light. I'm actually pretty impressed with that, especially considering how easy this just makes life in general. And you pop them back in when you're done. It's all magnetic. That shuts, and you continue on with your day. You can't lose them, or at least you can't lose your earbuds so long as they're in the case. That's the other benefit of them being stuck down. Notice too, metal casing. Again, which makes sense
when you're engineering for extreme thinness. Metal's going to be strong even when there's not a lot of it, and better at conducting heat away. Surprisingly well-thought-out product. I'm I'm a big fan. I feel like we're building a portfolio of things to stick on the back of your phone here, but what I wouldn't have expected to be adding to that list is an e-reader. This is mad. And then snaps to the back of your phone. Where are we now with thickness? 5.5 mm. So, you can import books or PDFs with one tap from the app. And then when you're in them, it's just forward with this right button, backwards with this left
button. I love how entirely and effortlessly one-handed this experience is. Plus, the screen actually fits a lot more text than I was expecting. It's a little bit slow to load new images, but I promise I read more than just picture books. I'm torn between two thoughts. One is that surely anything you can read on this you could also just read on the front of your phone. So, you're going to all this effort of buying, charging, and then carrying around this whole extra gadget all to read the same thing on a tinier screen. But then on the other hand, it blows my mind that you could carry an entire library in this. I love how distraction-free it feels. The E Ink display is better for eye strain than
your phone, and it uses such little power that even with its tiny size, this thing still lasts like 14 days on a charge. Okay. Yeah, I like this. Whoa. That's the drop counter again. Oh, yeah. There is also a newer Pro version, too. This has a backlight and a touchscreen, but they didn't quite align it with the back of your phone. It just protrudes out ever so slightly from the bottom. Why didn't they just position the magnets lower so it sat like that? Plus, it's also thicker, so get that out of here. What can I say? My standards for thinness are going up. Or down. And this thing probably ain't going to help that.
Okay, we're in. So, this is the MOFT laptop stand. So, you stick it to the bottom of your laptop, and I guess that's the benefit of it being so slim. You practically forget it's there. Because of these rubber feet, I'd actually go as far as to say that adds 0 mm of thickness. And it means that anytime you want some better working posture, you just Oh my goodness. That actually can take a serious amount of pressure. And then if you want to lower it, this piece folds outwards, and then it settles at that height instead. Well, hello. Where have you been all my life? There's definitely some clever physics going on here. I mean, this is a proper load-bearing structure. And what is this? Like 3.1 mm? It looks
borderline two-dimensional. I would go as far as to say that massively improves the ergonomics of using a laptop. And if anything, that addresses the one weakness that this previously had over the desktop setup. That's awesome, to be honest. So, I have no idea what that makes this, the thinnest phone case in the world from Nomad. I'm not sure we can accurately call this a phone case considering it doesn't actually cover the sides at all, but at the very least it's an alternative to one. And you can see the appeal. Let's say you weren't worried at all about dropping your phone, and really it was just the build-up of wear and tear over time, then why not just slip on one of these magnetic leather backs? It keeps
the look and feel of your phone, but just with a fancy executive twist. MagSafe still works. It feels solidly attached because it's not just a magnet, but also four sticky pads. It's got a raised lining, which is going to keep your cameras protected, and even just a nice bit of grip to it, all while adding just 2.2 mm of thickness. I think the idea of this completely works. It's just this particular iteration of it feels a little plasticky compared to what you'd expect when you order fancy leather item. Oh, and I just scratched it. I just tried to brush a piece of dust off it with my nail. I also think I'm too attached to my built-in phone case stands to use one of these, but it's a
choice I would respect. The other thing that every executive needs is a pen. And you might be thinking, "Aaron, no, that's not thinner than the previous product." But with the Jetstream Edge, it's really all about the tip. This is the thinnest ballpoint nib in the world. We're talking about 0.3 mm. I can't even see it with my eyes. Thankfully, our macro lens can. Can you just about make out that tiny little ball at the end? Well, that should mean that we're getting both immense precision, but also the smooth fountain pen-like writing experience that you expect from a ballpoint. So, with a regular old ballpoint pen, what is the smallest subscribe I can write? Okay, at about that size, the letters are turning into
an indistinguishable mush. So, what's the smallest I can write with the Jetstream? Whoa, this is sick. Can you even read that from where you are? No. Can our lens do this? That's the question. Wow. That's next-level. Feel like I've just approached the limits of human dexterity. So, that's the smallest subscribe with a normal pen. This is what I could do with the world's thinnest. Now, hey, you'll ask, "Aaron, before you surprise your in-laws with this TV, what products do you plan to top that with?" Well, how about the world's thinnest light, made so thin by the fact that you can literally paint it on?
Not an exaggeration. This company, LumiLor, has figured out that when you spray a surface with these four specific layers of paint, it becomes electrified. Layer one, the conductive base layer. Basically, this is a layer of copper paint. Two, this is the insulating layer. This stops the light from shorting out. Basically, it just makes sure that it works. Three is the phosphor, particles that emit light when placed in an electric field, which are also fluorescent. So, the best way to see what I'm painting is getting them under some UV. Uh I can't say I've done this before. Four, another conductive layer, which turns this into a circuit. Now, this layer has to be transparent, so you can see the phosphor beneath it. But Oh my gosh,
it's working. So, as long as I make sure this layer covers the whole surface, and as long as it's dry, hence the heat gun, we have light. And so, obviously, this is me, we had to do this to the absolute extreme. So, here is my complete PS5 paint job. 3 2 1 Go. Oh my god. That is beautiful. That's way better than I expected. This is definitely above the pay grade of our little ruler, but um safe to say this is thin tech. Just to clarify how insane this is, this means you can paint light onto anything, any shape, any contour, and it's water-resistant, it glows through fog or rain while being so energy-efficient that it is cool to the touch. So, people
are using this for all sorts, from making their cycling helmets light up for safety to getting their cars to glow well, I guess just clout. Ooh. We better go. We did a little upgrade. So. Look at that. Do you notice something a bit strange about it? It's just like to the wall? It's like basically to the wall. Oh. Pretty incredible, right? Like they call it the wallpaper TV. Oh, wow. Look at the colors. Oh my god, I can't believe it. And the sound bar? Oh, you're welcome.
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