Shadowing Practice: I tested the most Futuristic Tech - it scared me. - Learn English Speaking with Video
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these clippers are from the future you pick a haircut
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that you want
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and they can apparently give it to you automatically i'm really sorry i i just had one
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so he's got to put this fade band on
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and then the clippers have a whole bunch of sensors
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that figure out how far they've moved from that band
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and they can adjust the blade length
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so all i've got to do is tilt it to keep this ball in the middle oh is
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that a fate if it makes you feel any better this is apparently impossible for me to screw up.
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Because if I tilt it at the wrong angle,
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it will just retract the blades. Do you know what?
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That's a hell of a lot better than I'd be able to do on my own.
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And we are just getting started.
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Because I've spent three months sourcing all the most futuristic tech on the planet, from gadgets that feel like they're from 2030 to stuff that shouldn't exist until 2050.
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I'm talking a band that changes your body's temperature, like an AC unit, massagers that work your muscles autonomously, a mouthpiece that lets you control your computer with your tongue,
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and even a pocket camera that transforms into a tracking drone.
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The only question is, are these companies actually building the future that we want?
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To find out, let's jump straight to 2030, where apparently we're all going to be wearing solar hats.
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So when sunlight hits a normal hat, about 10 % of that energy is reflected, and about 90 % of it is absorbed as heat into your head.
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Well, that sucks.
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So a solar hat still has that 10 % reflection, but now only 66 % becomes heat.
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Because the solar cells are able to turn the remaining 24
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% of this energy directly into usable electricity moment of truth it works i mean it might take a
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while to charge but what an insanely convenient form factor just redirecting the energy
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that was previously going into cooking my scalp into charging my
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phone how much is it going to charge well it's on one percent right now let's leave it plugged in
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and come back in the future to find out the The future, the only place where modular tech has ever worked.
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So I'm curious if the Kadas MindPro modular PC can break the curse.
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So this tiny little thing is the main computer.
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Kind of mad that they've crammed in a high -end laptop chip, 64 gigs of RAM and 2 terabytes of storage in the thing.
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And the specs actually used to be even higher.
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We just can't have nice things anymore in a memory crisis.
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But the key thing that they've actually invented here is the MindLink high -speed interface, a connection that lets you snap this computer onto any of the Mind family of accessories.
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Like, let's say you want a laptop -style setup.
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It works, and the screen looks great.
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The keyboard feels laptop quality.
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The trackpad is also laptop quality, unfortunately.
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But now, it's time for me to go to work.
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because generally when i'm at the office i like to lock in on the big screen
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so i got my pc on me now i stick
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that onto the mind dock this adds usb and hdmi port
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so you can have multiple monitors
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if you wanted as well as its own speakers volume knob
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and a fingerprint reader also do you notice how it instantly
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resumed even though i was moving it between workstations well that's
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because it has a tiny little backup battery inside they can keep it on standby all right that was productive So now,
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having accomplished absolutely nothing in my workday, let's say I want to sack off and game.
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And that is where the mind graphics comes in, containing a desktop class RTX 5060 Ti graphics card, which is clearly powerful.
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I mean, this looks sick and feels very equivalent to a PS5 Pro's level of performance.
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So everything this company has dreamed of actually works.
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I would say that if you are their ideal customer
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and you have these three specific zones where you do these
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three specific types of things then this whole system is like magic
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but what if you want to do something on the go you've got your pc
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but you can't do anything without a mains power source
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and all of your screens are in different locations besides to buy all of these different pieces
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that we're using to build these different workstations you're looking at like four
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and a half grand with
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that much money wouldn't you just buy the most powerful laptop in the world
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that has all of this functionality built in not to mention a hinge that supports the screen without a kickstand
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And the modular curse continues.
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But what if, instead of building a brain that needs a screen, you built something that uses the screen you already carry everywhere?
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Well, that's the idea behind the Kyra camera, and it feels a couple of years further into the future.
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Long story short, it's a professional mirrorless camera
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that just magsafes onto the back of your phone it's not the first to do this
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but they're saying it's the best
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obviously so it connects with direct wi -fi
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which gives us the live camera feed on the phone well that's a good start it's got tap to focus
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and you can swap out lenses because it uses a standardized micro four -thirds mount
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so you are definitely not short of shooting options
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and to be fair you could actually get away with
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that quality wise it's a little softer looking than the pro cameras we normally shoot our videos with
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but it's much closer to that than it is a smartphone.
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For reference this is what that same shot would look like if you took it on an iPhone 18 Pro Max.
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Now this is still in beta and you can tell.
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You should be able to properly track subjects with focus but it's really finicky right now and keeps losing it.
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The baked in audio sounds really bad
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because it's only picking up sound from one of the phone's microphones and you're covering it when you hold the thing.
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Plus Plus, for a gadget solely designed to make things look better, Kyra's app is not particularly pretty.
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But the thing they're marketing as the key differentiator here is actually the intelligence, because they bundled in generative AI to edit the stuff you just shot without even leaving the app.
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Let's give it a shot, shall we?
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Change my ridiculous outfit to make me look a lot cooler.
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Oh, well, it's giving me trousers, it's giving me a black t -shirt.
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it.
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It's still hideous, but it's a marked improvement.
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This is powerful AI because it's using Gemini's Nano Banana, but I don't know, man.
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Buying a professional camera body specifically to take more authentically high quality shots only to then run it through generative AI.
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It feels a bit to me like going to a Michelin star restaurant, ordering their signature dish and then lathering it in ketchup.
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If you're going to do that, then why not just take a smartphone photo, run it through regenerative AI
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and ask it to make it look like it was shot on one of these because it's definitely capable of that.
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But if the Kyra lets you fake it till you make it as a photographer
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then the LiberLive C2 stringless guitar lets you make it as a fake musician.
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I'm noticing a bit of a trend with the future.
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So obviously I'm not cool enough to play guitar.
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Lucky for me I don't have to to play this
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because the strings have been replaced here with buttons
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and Guitar Hero style paddles that you just push down
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so just like a real guitar depending on how far up
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the neck my left hand goes the strumming is going to
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create different notes oh yeah plus that's a built -in speaker
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and a really good one too
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and then you use this wheel to change the key in
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which you're playing but then unlike a real guitar you can make this action sound like anything
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so one strum can lead to multiple notes one after the
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other oh it's even responsive to how hard you're strumming i can change the style of guitar
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that i want it to sound like for example warm electric
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that's even better
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but you can also just straight up turn it into other
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instruments entirely there's even a piano mode oh my god it's
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so relaxing all right i think the time has come
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because using this app you can also play along to different songs all right three two one oh my god
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so the neck is lighting up the colors i need to play this is very guitar hero
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it's actually producing something amazing i think we need to get this metronome in
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oh hey tell me that this is not the greatest rendition of twinkle twinkle little star that you have ever heard.
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I feel amazing.
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Now, there's definitely an argument to be made that as much as this looks like the real deal, it's not teaching you how to play a real musical instrument, that it's just a cool -looking musical toy.
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But if all you're after is just some no -strings -attached fun, you want to sound like you know what you're doing without actually needing to, then this is a ridiculously customizable,
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immensely polished way to do that.
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It's a real head, shoulders, knees, and toes kind of day today, because that's my hands taken care of, my head's still busy charging my phone,
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and the next few gadgets are about to work their way around the entire rest of my body.
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Because we've all got our ways of controlling temperature, right?
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Light a fire, crank the aircon, or hell, put on a jacket.
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But what if you could just press a button on your wrist with the Ember Wave 2?
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So you put it on kind of like a backwards watch.
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It already looked odd enough when it was the right way up.
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There goes my final traces of street cred, I guess.
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But the reason it goes there is because have you ever heard of
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that cooling tip about applying ice to the inside of your wrist to make your whole body feel cooler?
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Well, the reason people say that is
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because this area has some of the thinnest skin
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and also some of the highest density of temperature -sensitive nerve endings called thermoreceptors.
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And so the idea is this not watch sits there
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and uses a thermoelectric heat pump to either move heat towards or away from those receptors.
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With this button, it's actually really hot right now with this ridiculous jacket, so I'm going to crank it to its lowest temperature.
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Okay, my wrist is extremely cold, but is the rest of my body falling in temperature?
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Kind of is.
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I can feel on my wrist flashes of hot and cold, I guess as new blood is being pumped towards that area.
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But I feel more comfortable than I did a minute ago.
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And I quite like the fact that it's almost fixing the overheating problem on a fundamental level, as opposed to the temporary relief from getting a fan and just blowing it at your face.
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Oh wow, you can actually see the giant cool patch that's left behind on my wrist.
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So in its current stage, this is only going to make small differences to your overall body temperature.
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But the idea of each person having their own individual climate control is definitely an idea
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that I would like to see more of.
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All right, now that we've looked after our wrists, we might as well move further down with the air zoom hyperslides.
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And these sound very much up my feet.
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They're a collaboration between Nike, who's providing the air zoom cushioning, and then Hyperice.
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You know that company making high -tech sports recovery gear?
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Shout out to Marquez and his long boots.
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And they're the ones providing this magnetic recovery pod.
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So the idea is that the pod snaps onto there.
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You pick how hot you want it to get from one to three and what level of vibration you want.
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We are good to go.
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Oh, the Hyperice logo glowing through.
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That is sick.
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Oh, this is really strange.
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First of all, they are louder than I expected, so you couldn't be working in an office while using these.
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The cushioning is incredible.
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I love that my feet don't slip out.
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They feel really firmly planted inside the sliders.
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I would say, as both a slider and a massage enthusiast, that these are really close to my dream product.
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The only thing I would change is that the massage feels a little bit too vibratey, as opposed to the really satisfying kneading of a person giving you a foot massage.
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I will be keeping these, though.
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But honestly, with the amount of time that I spend hunched over a desk, it's my back that needs the attention more than my feet.
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Enter the RioFit A1, the world's first hands -free, AI -powered automatic foam roller.
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Wow, this looks like a weapon.
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And it kind of functions like one too.
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The thing's got 84 massage nodes, which are designed to attack every stress point in your back, while thankfully avoiding the very fragile spine area.
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Three, two, one, do me.
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Oh, I think it's using the friction of my body to pull itself up.
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Ah, my back.
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Oh, that feels good.
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That's good.
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That is good, right?
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I guess the roller becomes the rollie.
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a click that time i feel like this is either going to cost physiotherapists their jobs
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or schmucks like me their backs it's very powerful
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but i gotta say it is incredibly efficient
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that it's covering the entire width of your body every time it passes up
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and down oh hell yeah i like the bar area oh oh Ooh, I feel great.
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It feels like it's done a 60 minutes massage worth of pressure relief in about five.
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The thing can even create a personalized stiffness map to be able to then target the parts of your body
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that need it most.
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The most exciting part is this is not the only physiotherapy robot in this video.
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Because how do you one up a robotic roller?
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three robotic rollers this is therabot
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and apparently it's supposed to be able to travel up
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and down your leg to massage entirely on its own now this is a pre -production unit
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so it might be a little janky or it just goes completely rogue
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and breaks my entire leg off oh so
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when you turn it on it expands to its max size and then slowly contracts until it's around your leg properly
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whoa oh my god what
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that's tight it's got serious clamping force look at
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that look at the way my leg moves around it ow
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that's insane look at the way it jumps across my knee
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and it's not sliding down my leg either it's got enough
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friction to properly adhere we're about to do max intensity now Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
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no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
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no. turn
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it down less strength whoa hell yeah okay i mean i'm not going to be maxing
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that out again in a hurry
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but what other form factor are you going to be getting
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a 360 degree leg massage with zero hands required this literally feels like someone hacked the timeline
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and brought something back
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that wasn't even meant to exist right now i'm telling you
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i think i can see all three of these in my future okay it's finally time to check the charge
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so it's been just under two hours drisha's prediction is it's
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charged 12 i'm not massively optimistic we've had pretty bad experiences
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with solar charging 42 42 you're kidding me that's the future i want
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so apparently Dyson is no longer satisfied with merely cleaning your house.
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In the future, they want to clean inside you with a toothbrush.
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Oh my goodness, this looks like it literally just landed from space.
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Yeah, I'm not actually sure me and my earthling brain know how to get inside.
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Oh, right.
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That'll do it.
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Wow.
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This is the camera jet.
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An electric toothbrush, a flosser, and a camera.
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All in one product.
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I feel like Steve Jobs right now.
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They're saying that the camera here analyzes 28 images per second, so that while you're brushing your teeth, it'll identify the gaps between them and target them with the flosser at the same time.
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oh it's definitely firing it's actually counting how many auto jets it's shot very aggressive sounding
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but it kind of feels like you're getting shot with a cap gun every two seconds well
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if you apply too much pressure it just keeps beeping
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and then stops and then if i just try scrubbing like this
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which is bad technique it gives me a different kind of warning okay
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so three minutes and 70 auto jets later that feels pretty amazing actually and then when you're done button,
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you click it back into its space pod thing to send it home, you press this button on top, wow, it refills the cleaning fluid.
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It's just, I think they rushed it out the gate, because they're clearly having hardware issues.
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Like the first one we bought with these broke within 10 seconds of the first clean.
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And from everything we can find, they seem to be issuing some sort of soft recall from stalls.
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But at some point in the future, this is going to improve people's lives, so excited.
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Now that it's all clean in there, let's stick something even more futuristic in my gob.
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This is the mouth pad.
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It's kind of like a retainer, but one that's going to turn the roof of my mouth into a control pad
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that I touch with my tongue, and then...
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Whoa.
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That's insane.
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not sure you could quite get away with this as a stealth operation
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but look at the software it's showing what it's picking up as i move my tongue around
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and it does feel like 95 as precise as a finger trackpad
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so let's say we're using the opera browser our sponsor to
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learn more about this thing can i activate opera ai just using my tongue
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so navigate to the corner oh yes i can left click
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is really simple you just tap the roof of your mouth
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but right click is kind of weird you have to do a sort of micro suck
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but it is
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so cool seeing how this software is picking up all of these micro mouth movements in real time
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so let's ask the ai is the mouth pad also compatible with smartphones oh yes it is ios
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and android also can we just take in for a second
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that i'm controlling my entire mac using just my mouth real hands -free kind of day
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but there is another layer to this mouth pad because it also has head tracking thanks to inbuilt gyro sensors.
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I've set mine up so that as I'm moving my head, the cursor follows.
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It really does work.
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Okay, let's go to the top.
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So this is Opera's new vertical tabs, which actually makes a lot of sense
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because let's say you're diving into some research and you want to be able to see all the titles of the tabs.
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Now you can.
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And then I can also just scroll by holding the top
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or bottom of the trackpad
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but yeah you can start your next project with opera linked in the description i'm
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so curious how this translates to a game that's crazy
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so i can cycle through my items by scrolling
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and i can look around with my head i'm sure i could even map it
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so that my cursor actually moves him
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okay i mean obviously this has some very serious benefits to people with disabilities but the execution is good enough that
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I'm also just wondering
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if this could be used by nerds who like to get a lot done
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and love the idea of bringing an extra appendage into play.
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We're now down to the most bleeding -edge, state -of -the -art sounding gadgets.
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It's 20 .50 and you've just bought yourself a Hover Air Versa.
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So it's a pocket action camera.
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It's got a rotating screen to help you record in both portrait and landscape.
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That's pretty cool with a three axes gimbal baked inside.
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There's nothing extraordinary.
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And the quality is fine.
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It's 4K.
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It's a decent sized sensor.
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It's basically smartphone quality video, but with above smartphone quality stabilization.
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So what on earth is it doing in this video?
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Well, it flies.
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You can literally buy a flight kit, which includes a set of propellers that will literally just magnetically attach onto the camera.
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You pick the mode that you want to take off in.
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Inception mode oh wow
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that is cool i think i'm just going to do follow then in theory i should just be able to
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and then without a controller it's just going to follow me with ai tracking what
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oh jesus christ get away from me he actually navigated through
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that tiny little sliver in the fence
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and then this is inception mode oh my god
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that is crazy cool you can literally see the camera slowly rotating on the gimbal as it's flying towards me
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and in theory
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if you just stick your hand underneath i love the future
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the last thing i want to try is orbit mode
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so you set your radius you set how fast you want it to go
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so it's moving into position all right screw it finger guns oh my god that's fast
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i honestly thought this whole attaching detaching camera thing would be ultra gimmicky
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but this is not just ludicrously cool it's useful
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but now we have reached the single most ridiculously futuristic product i've maybe ever seen the roborock saros z70
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Oh, whoops.
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That's what I get for trying to unbox aesthetically.
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Let's get into it.
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So we've all seen Robovacs at this point, and a lot of them are clever enough now to figure out
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when objects are in front of them and clean around them.
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But how about a Robovac that can instead pick those things up
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and move them out of its path with a retractable robotic arm?
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So what if I just...
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Oh, wow.
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I can actually see the live feed from its camera.
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And there's a remote control.
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Damn, look at the suspension on you.
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It's actually way more handy to be able to drive something like this around than a remote control car, because you can actually see what needs cleaning.
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Oh, it actually recognized it as footwear.
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It says confidence level 93%.
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Okay, go sort.
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What is it going to do?
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Come on.
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I still don't quite believe it's going to do what it says it's going to do.
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Oh my god.
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It's happening.
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Oh my god.
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This is insane.
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It's not going to have enough clamping force, surely.
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So where are you going to take that?
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I can't quite wrap my head around just how complex that is to pull off.
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Let you think about the fact that it's got to know the shoe.
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It's got to realize how it's got to orient itself.
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It's got to then pincer at just the right point in the shoe to pick it up properly and reliably.
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And then it's put it back in our shoe zone.
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I'm speechless.
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And you might look at that and think, oh, that's really gimmicky.
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You know, I can just put my shoe back in five seconds.
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But the number of times I've had a robot vacuum cleaner stop on me, and the reason it stopped is because something has got in its way, is uncountable so that actually solves a very real problem
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that these things sometimes have in such a cool way charging
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yeah you deserve it buddy turns out there's a lot of companies building the future that I want
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “I tested the most Futuristic Tech - it scared me”. This video has 333 sentences and 4085 words to shadow. The speech runs for 24:31. The speaker talks at a natural 167 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 82% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| guitar noun | /ɡɪˈtɑɹ/ | A stringed musical instrument, of European origin, usually with a fretted fingerboard and six strings, played with the fingers or a plectrum (guitar pick). |
| massage noun | /məˈsɑ(d)ʒ/ | The action of rubbing, kneading or hitting someone's body, to help the person relax, prepare for muscular action (as in contact sports) or to relieve aches. |
| laptop noun | /ˈlæp.tɑp/ | A laptop computer. |
| wrist noun | /ɹɪst/ | The complex joint between forearm bones, carpus, and metacarpals where the hand is attached to the arm; the carpus in a narrow sense. |
| shoe noun | /ˈʃu/ | A protective covering for the foot, with a bottom part composed of thick leather or plastic sole and often a thicker heel, and a softer upper part made of… |
| smartphone noun | /ˈsmɑɹtfoʊn/ | A mobile phone with more advanced features and greater computing capacity than a feature phone. |
| insane adjective | /ɪnˈseɪn/ | Exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind; not sane; utterly mad. |
| opera noun | /ˈɒp.ə.ɹə/ | A theatrical work, combining drama, music, song and sometimes dance. |
| roller noun | /ˈɹoʊlɚ/ | Any rotating cylindrical device that is part of a machine, especially one used to apply or reduce pressure. |
| whoa | /woʊ/ | Stop (especially when commanding a horse or imitative thereof); calm down; slow down. |
| microwave noun | /ˈmaɪkɹoʊˌweɪv/ | An electromagnetic wave with wavelength between that of infrared light and radio waves. |
| robotic adjective | /ɹoʊˈbɑtɪk/ | Of, relating to, or resembling a robot; mechanical, lacking emotion or personality, etc. |
| modular adjective | /ˈmɑd͡ʒəlɚ/ | Consisting of separate modules; especially where each module performs or fulfills some specified function and could be replaced by a similar module for the… |
| finger noun | /ˈfɪŋɡɚ/ | A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, (often) exclusive of the thumb, and the corresponding part, irrespective of including a thumb, in many other… |
| pocket noun | /ˈpɑ.kɪt/ | A bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| pick up verb | To lift; to grasp and raise. | |
| figure out verb | To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce. | |
| find out verb | To discover, as by asking or investigating. | |
| get away with verb | To get away, or escape, taking (something) with one. | |
| light up verb | To illuminate, to bring light to something, to brighten. | |
| move around verb | To relocate to new homes repeatedly; to not live in any one place for long. | |
| pass up verb | /pɑːs ˈʌp/ | To refuse (not accept); forgo. |
| pull off verb | To remove by pulling. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Do you know what?
- Let's give it a shot, shall we?
- You know that company making high -tech sports recovery gear?
- I love that my feet don't slip out.
- Because how do you one up a robotic roller?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | they've moved · I've spent · has ever worked |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | is reflected · was shot · have been replaced |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | card, which is · nodes, which are |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 71 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, you're, they're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/, width /ˈwɪtθ/, toothbrush /ˈtuːθ.bɹʌʃ/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: massage /məˈsɑ(d)ʒ/, shoe /ˈʃu/, friction /ˈfɹɪkʃən/, inception /ɪnˈsɛpʃən/, cushion /ˈkʊʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: ridiculous /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/, automobile /ˈɔː.tə.məˌbil/, ridiculously /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs.li/, temporary /ˈtɛmp(əˌɹ)ɛɹi/, electricity /ɪˌlɛkˈtɹɪsɪti/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like guitar, massage, laptop.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.