I'm hearing the Menards jungle from my childhood. 🎶 Save big money at my nards!🎶 (Not sure if they still use the same jingle since I haven't set one of their ads in over a decade or two.)
You can get those same sorta watches on Wish - they come is all sorta styles but their mostly all based off cheap MTK arm chips - meant to be clones of the DZ09 or genuinely go into the U8. From what I found it is possible to modify some versions of the the chips they run to run another smarthwatch (linux) OS over the top of the existing one (coined nucleus by MTK IIRC) - However as the bootstrap is not open source and almost all chips have pitiful storage - with the latest versions using proprietary compression by MTK to get the size even smaller. As far as I have found it is very difficult if not downright impossible to flash a linux kernal on these devices and most of what you would consider "modding" would just be customising binaries or writing apps for the godforsaken things, although again, you will not find much documentation for using their chips. Fun fact - a watch for 10 bucks on amazon 4 years ago was the same damn thing you hold today. P.S. - Great BT headphones: iWalk "Crazy Duo", got em for 50 total: Capacitive touch "buttons" and each bud can play independently so you can listen to one while the other charges - case It came with charges via 2 contact pins for each bud and has a segment display for the battery percent and a usb out to be used as a battery bank. Fits in coin pocket.
Yes, back in the 50's Fisher was making quality products. Then someone bought them for the name only and started selling crap under the name. A good name brand that people had heard good things about so had a half a leg up on other junk devises. Most items were made by the same junk manufactures but sold at a slightly higher price point. Increase those margins on a clueless public. Sunbeam and others did the same.
@Camaro 68 I'm still finding it hilarious four days after seeing it for the first time. I swear, one of these days someone is going to mention "Menards" to me and I will use this in some manner in conversation. The problem is, there are no Menards anywhere near me so it's not likely to come up in conversation anytime soon.
When I was a kid in the early 80s, I remember reading something in a book that said in the future electronic devices would be so inexpensive that we’d find them as prizes in cereal boxes. Just about.
@@electronerd These things really aren't all that expensive to produce, not even the higher end ones, they just shove a bunch of other tech in them (and a better screen, screens are expensive) and that runs the price up. Plus with how old the tech is now I'm not surprised at all to see one this cheap. Then the software development and marketing of the devices really ramps up the cost. But the hardware itself? Pretty cheap to make. I'll stick with my mech watches though, don't have to plug those in.
THAT'S WHAT IT WAS! It was so familiar and I could not place it. I thought it was from like the Wii main menu or some royalty free thing. It was freaking MAPLE STORY! Thank you!
Friend of mine was the maintenance man for a company that makes bluetooth wireless everything, and he rescued a bunch of "defective" stuff from the dumpster during his tenure... I have some headphones that supposedly came from a batch that had a few battery problems. He straight up told everyone he gave them to that if they caught fire to just dump them and don't tell anyone. Been working fine for a number of years now.
Years ago I bought a set of cheap, chinese earbuds from Amazon and was showing them off to a coworker. His immediate response was "I don't think I would trust cheap 50mah LiPo cells directly in my ear canals." I had not considered that and lived in fear for months before getting a set of actual AirPods.
@@pv2xeek watch some Louis Rossmann videos on yt. You’ll learn that apple devices are for the most part built like shit and should be trusted very lil more than bargain bin China electronics.
"I can use this screen for something worthwhile." I seem to remember someone showing us how difficult it was to use a random screen we scrapped out of an electronic device, and telling us that we should just use screens that are "known". Who could that have been? "Heck," I don't know.
except that by law *(in most countries) even without a sim, cel providers are required to give access to emergency 911 dialing. Kids get these as a toy and just inundate emergency services with false calls. Often times they have a shortcut like 'keep pressing the crown button for x time' (lookin at you apple) that dials automatically, even without sim.
@@frollard They could also call 911 at home with your phone. You wouldn't buy this to them if you couldn't trust to use a phone. This seems like a decent and cheap communication device.
@@oKrikket They could, but most people protect or monitor their phone - and assume something like this (or an old phone with no sim) is incapable of calling thus deeming it safe.
Don't do this. Don't ruin a child's Christmas. If they want/expect an apple watch or Samsung watch get them what they want. If you can't then don't even bother with something this cheap.
I'm surprised how often I find references to Ashens. I had been following another channel for a while when I discovered the channel name was a reference to a random joke in one of the old food specials.
This was great. I could definitely watch more pro/hobbyist style breakdowns of cheap electronics. Looks like these things had some good salvageable parts, too.
I've played and taken a lot of these apart. They are amazing for the price, looking at the hardware. The issue is the crappy software. It would be nice to have a good open source OS for this.
I'm very saddened what has happened to once very well respected and high quality American brand names. These companies are in theory no longer in business but Chinese companies bought the brand name to stick on their cheap crappy products to make it appear to be legitimate.
I imagine that it's so you have to search for the thing you went in to buy, increasing the chance that you'll impulse buy other stuff. Look at what happened to Ben - he went in to buy one thing and came out with three.
Apart from the camera and the SIM and SD slots, as far as I can tell it's exactly the same as the Lilygo T-Watch, which is an open-source smart watch I bought two of a while ago and did nothing with.
Uhhhh so apart from the COMPLETE ELECTRONICS you wanna say. Liligo is an ESP32 and this is MediaTek, one of those feature phone all-in-one chips. I bought an identical MediaTek watch for $6 from China a few years ago because i knew Bunnie Huang was reverse engineering a similar chip, so i was hoping there would be some progress, but while i was tinkering with it, it died. Or was accidentally deaded by me. More like a long chain of accidents, including someone (not me) sitting down on it and then a long chain of attempted repairs (by me) which each broke it a little more. An actually open-source watch would be a huge head start, but there's no way i can afford a $30 device like that.
@@SianaGearz haha fair point! The entire design of it other than the main board is identical though... I took a chance when ordering them because it wasn't clear whether the screen was an always-on energy efficient display or not... It is not (and in hindsight if it wasn't specified I should have assumed it wouldn't be...) Now I don't know what to do with them... They didn't come with usable firmware so unless I make my own or some community project forms around it, it's useless to me...
@@vicnet Well i assume there are at least functionality demos. Makes me wonder though, there's an abundance of cheap Nokia clone LCDs - monochrome, 84x48 and 96x68 varieties. Phones used to run them always-on and would still last a week and a half. Why isn't someone making a mass market smartwatch based on those?
@@SianaGearz They do come pre-flashed with some demo code, but most of it is just a mock-up so other than telling the time it doesn't do anything useful. I haven't checked the status of the official repo in a while but I doubt I'll revisit them. Pebble was kinda "the" king of the always-on smartwatch before they got bought and killed by Fitbit. Now there's some Chinese brands like Amazfit that make always-on e-ink smartwatches but the idea of an open-source one really appealed to me... Ah well, good lesson in avoiding impulse purchases I guess... They didn't cost me much but I do feel bad every time I see them in my drawer 😂
Was surprised to see the MyArcade/DreamGEAR finally show up in a Ben Heck video! I got one last year with the intention of hacking it to be useful. I never got around to hacking it to be useful.
Well, in other parts of the world 11 USD isn't really crazy cheap, I could get 3 lunches at a normal place for that much in my country. But it's still mighty impressive because even better smartwatches from Xiaomi cost around 20-25 dollars
Its like 20 30 dollars for 20 cigarettes in my country :( im saving up to leave and find somewhere better but i cant afford to save much money cos my cost of livings so much!! Sad but true still i shall try my best to leave one day
@@BenHeckHacks like i said in my other comment, this smartwatch might be a cheap solution for an elderly person who says they hate cell phones(I've worked with seniors for almost 17 years now, and I've had, and still have clients like this), just to have on them incase of emergency with speed dial numbers programed into it.
@@CommodoreFan64 I think there's better watches for elderly people. This one is too small, has too fine of print, the interface sucks, and elements are too small to tap. It's crappy across the board unfortunately. I used to have a similar one (same board and firmware, just different camera and button placement), and those were my biggest gripes about it
The wireless earbuds are actually not that good (can be found in germany under the grundig brand), the charge controller in the case gets really hot and dies eventually :D
The problem is not the charge controller, it's the power supply that you use. It needs an USB adapter that provides 500mA or less. Basically you need to charge it from an 2.0USB port from your computer.
@@mawamatakama5150 The actual issue is not that it gets hot while charging its internal battary, the issue is that the dcdc boost part in that shitty chip gets really hot after some time while charging the earpieces. Thats just staight up a design flaw that shortens the lifetime of the product.
That startup chime on the watch is exactly the same one that a cheap "phone watch" from 2006 had, that I bought out of curiosity. It was bulky and ugly compared to this one and MUCH more expensive! It had a resistive touchscreen as well and a little stylus that you could store in a small compartment on the strap. I guess those things will never cease to exist :D
TXD and RXD labeled pins (plus vcc and gnd) RXD is probably Rx and TXD is probably tx, the pins needed for a uart serial connection. Correct me if I'm wrong.
My earliest android cellphone had a plastic capacitive touch screen and it sorta looks like that one, so ... I'd say it was capacitive, just... 5 tech generations old :P
Question about the headphones: My wife bought those last year from Menards. She noticed one side discharges faster than the other. Any design reason you think that would be or just cheap electronics/one battery has less capacity than the other?
1:57 I'm very sure that the unbranded version of that would just show a generic "Welcome" at that point instead of the Sylvania logo. 4:46 I feel as though Sylvania is just licencing out their logo or just slapping it on whatever cheap items they find on alibaba.com that they think would sell. 5:19 My dad tried the unbranded version of that, and it only supports 2G service. 13:49 I detect an NES on a chip setup with an integrated bootleg cartridge.
I’m from New England but I work at a camp in indy for a week every June. They look like your version of ocean state job lot. I love their green buckets lol Oh and that game system was sold at cvs for $10 a few years ago. It’s like one of those 1000 in one nes carts but as a portable
I guess for an elderly person who does not like smart phones, or want to carry a phone on them period, then this could be a cheap solution long as it has 3G for something like AT&T's Cricket Wireless service just to have something on them in case of emergency.
I enjoyed how surprised he was to find a battery in the earbud case, partly because that that's a prime feature of every one of these types of earbuds, including all the knockoffs, but mainly because the light on it was lit up.
10 years ago that watch would've been amazing (not too different from the early ones like the Sony SmartWatch in 2012), and here we are making fun of it for being $9 at Menard's
I once bought an 256mb mp3 player("yepp") for $4 about ten yeats ago, it has original price tag for $99 which are covered with markdown price stickers. Military post exchanges like AAFES are goldmines for old techs because they don't get to junk away old outdated merchandise.
Given that the watch in this video takes a micro SIM it seems like it's an older design. Maybe a rebranded watch that would have been more expensive 5-6 years ago?
What would have been hilarious is if you had found a gloppy top. Hey Ben yeah you need to edit this video if you can to remove or blot out your mom's number.
Yeah, it's like ashens but you're tearing it down seeing what's inside and giving more in depth comments about it. Really like this video super entertaining and inspiring. Gives me a fun ideas to get this cheap good stuffs to play with.
Menards, for a few straight years from 2015 through at least 2017 sold a totally unbranded projector with built in DVD player on Black Friday for around $30, and I managed to buy one. It's cheaply built as expected, and the projection quality isn't that great. But, it's region free, can play MP4 files off a USB drive or SD card, and has a hidden feature... NES emulation. I was able to get a ROM of SMB to start, but the emulation was pretty bad and the particular projector that Menards sold that day covered up the two USB ports needed for game controllers.
looks like mt6261 watches have been around for 4-5 years, so maybe it['s so cheap because these the design and tooling has long been paid off and there's some factory that just keeps cranking them out
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I'm not a smart man, but I'm fairly positive you need to get Doom running on that watch.
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When you said "M'nards", sound like you're talking about your nards. As in "I need a $11 bluetooth 'smart watch' like I need a kick in m'nards".
I'm hearing the Menards jungle from my childhood. 🎶 Save big money at my nards!🎶 (Not sure if they still use the same jingle since I haven't set one of their ads in over a decade or two.)
@@MatthewStinar They still do.
You can get those same sorta watches on Wish - they come is all sorta styles but their mostly all based off cheap MTK arm chips - meant to be clones of the DZ09 or genuinely go into the U8. From what I found it is possible to modify some versions of the the chips they run to run another smarthwatch (linux) OS over the top of the existing one (coined nucleus by MTK IIRC) - However as the bootstrap is not open source and almost all chips have pitiful storage - with the latest versions using proprietary compression by MTK to get the size even smaller.
As far as I have found it is very difficult if not downright impossible to flash a linux kernal on these devices and most of what you would consider "modding" would just be customising binaries or writing apps for the godforsaken things, although again, you will not find much documentation for using their chips.
Fun fact - a watch for 10 bucks on amazon 4 years ago was the same damn thing you hold today.
P.S. - Great BT headphones: iWalk "Crazy Duo", got em for 50 total:
Capacitive touch "buttons" and each bud can play independently so you can listen to one while the other charges - case It came with charges via 2 contact pins for each bud and has a segment display for the battery percent and a usb out to be used as a battery bank. Fits in coin pocket.
I bet that those ear buds sound amazing. LOL
Awwww Ben's mom loves him
Yes, back in the 50's Fisher was making quality products. Then someone bought them for the name only and started selling crap under the name. A good name brand that people had heard good things about so had a half a leg up on other junk devises. Most items were made by the same junk manufactures but sold at a slightly higher price point. Increase those margins on a clueless public. Sunbeam and others did the same.
Menards the sound you hear when you kick a pirate in his family jewels.
I laughed too much at this...
OMG This needs more upvotes! puhaha
@Camaro 68 I'm still finding it hilarious four days after seeing it for the first time. I swear, one of these days someone is going to mention "Menards" to me and I will use this in some manner in conversation. The problem is, there are no Menards anywhere near me so it's not likely to come up in conversation anytime soon.
I'll sue for big money, I'll sue for big money, of you kick Menards..."
I hear this with an Irish accent
The perfect camera for capturing pictures of big foot.
Or UFO's
Great Video!
@@devrim-oguz Any flying object photographed with that camera would be unidentifiable.
@@bradnoyes7955 yeah but... oh now i get it
It's like a Big Clive video, but instead of Poundland - it's Menards
Woke
Ashens as well
Little LGR with that game system
Big Clive fan lmao
Let me just get myyyyyyy spudger... And it went bang.
When I was a kid in the early 80s, I remember reading something in a book that said in the future electronic devices would be so inexpensive that we’d find them as prizes in cereal boxes. Just about.
Well, they once gave out raspberry pi zeroes for free in a magazine. I think that's close enough?
@@purplegill10 Pretty sure that was a Pi Zero launch promotion.
@@Saavik256 It was
The worthwhile quality electronics are still expensive though.
I got a little star wars electronic robot thing from a cereal box once
For $11...that watch is a damn good deal. Even a “basic” watch that ONLY tells time cost that much at Wal-Mart....
I wonder if it's repurposed salvage or something
I got 2 of them the other day. Not sure if for gifts or just to screw around with though.
The basic watch is better
It makes you wonder what kind of margins the big tech companies are making on their better watches
@@electronerd These things really aren't all that expensive to produce, not even the higher end ones, they just shove a bunch of other tech in them (and a better screen, screens are expensive) and that runs the price up. Plus with how old the tech is now I'm not surprised at all to see one this cheap. Then the software development and marketing of the devices really ramps up the cost. But the hardware itself? Pretty cheap to make.
I'll stick with my mech watches though, don't have to plug those in.
"I could give this to my little brother"
2 seconds later
"I licked the screen"
Older brother test passed
Ben is being a window licker.
Apple: No there is no space for a SD-Card slot in a Phone, Tablet or Laptop.
So true
The menu theme for that awful handheld is from an old Korean mmorpg called Maple Story.
THAT'S WHAT IT WAS! It was so familiar and I could not place it. I thought it was from like the Wii main menu or some royalty free thing. It was freaking MAPLE STORY! Thank you!
Henesys!
Whoah
I love the idea of having a lithium ion battery almost in your ear canal 😂
Friend of mine was the maintenance man for a company that makes bluetooth wireless everything, and he rescued a bunch of "defective" stuff from the dumpster during his tenure... I have some headphones that supposedly came from a batch that had a few battery problems. He straight up told everyone he gave them to that if they caught fire to just dump them and don't tell anyone. Been working fine for a number of years now.
Years ago I bought a set of cheap, chinese earbuds from Amazon and was showing them off to a coworker. His immediate response was "I don't think I would trust cheap 50mah LiPo cells directly in my ear canals." I had not considered that and lived in fear for months before getting a set of actual AirPods.
@@pv2xeek watch some Louis Rossmann videos on yt. You’ll learn that apple devices are for the most part built like shit and should be trusted very lil more than bargain bin China electronics.
@@alvarojm750 That's becayse apple uses the trash bin to source their parts and children to assemble them.
"I can use this screen for something worthwhile." I seem to remember someone showing us how difficult it was to use a random screen we scrapped out of an electronic device, and telling us that we should just use screens that are "known". Who could that have been? "Heck," I don't know.
Ben shows a little more respect when it comes to opening those cheapo headphones than Dankpods does.
The handheld gaming device looked like the 1 Grit opened it however.
Hey Ben, just FYI at 3:05 your mothers phone number is visible.
Ben, you can edit the video through TH-cam, and blackout the number.
Yeah I can't see much
@@pompshuffle562 I just double checked by dropping down to 1/4 speed, and the whole number is definitely in frame.
@@realifethunder Yeah I see it. In the last video he said where he lived and then said his neighbors name effectively doxing him too
@@pompshuffle562 thankfully his community is pretty small and chill but still hope he fixes it
Ben, at 3:12 your mother's phone number is clearly visible. I case you weren't aware.
Yeah I jumped into the comments to make sure this was posted
Time to call her?
I sent him an email in case this comment doesn't reach him
I can't see it, just wanted to see if it is blocked out completely
looks like it's been blurred out, alright
"Save big money at Menards!"
Perfect stocking stuffers for kids who are going to loose them anyway.
except that by law *(in most countries) even without a sim, cel providers are required to give access to emergency 911 dialing. Kids get these as a toy and just inundate emergency services with false calls. Often times they have a shortcut like 'keep pressing the crown button for x time' (lookin at you apple) that dials automatically, even without sim.
@@frollard They could also call 911 at home with your phone.
You wouldn't buy this to them if you couldn't trust to use a phone. This seems like a decent and cheap communication device.
@@oKrikket They could, but most people protect or monitor their phone - and assume something like this (or an old phone with no sim) is incapable of calling thus deeming it safe.
Don't do this. Don't ruin a child's Christmas. If they want/expect an apple watch or Samsung watch get them what they want. If you can't then don't even bother with something this cheap.
If you only ever buy a kid cheap garbage, they will treat their things like cheap garbage.
As a fellow brit, good to hear a callout to my master of tat Ashens. Just released his second movie this week too.
I'm surprised how often I find references to Ashens. I had been following another channel for a while when I discovered the channel name was a reference to a random joke in one of the old food specials.
He makes a lot of references to other channels. Ashens, EEVBlog, AVE, etc
I watched the gamechild movie on release and am really excited to see the new one
@@simpleanswer8954
I see you are a fan of SummoningSalt as well
I second that
I wonder how much current you can draw off that " tiny little lipo™ "
I really liked this video. Its not every day we get to see 'local' cheap stuff torn down and looked over.
This was great. I could definitely watch more pro/hobbyist style breakdowns of cheap electronics. Looks like these things had some good salvageable parts, too.
First he reads us his junk mail, then tooootallly redeems himself with cheapo electronic tear downs.
This video gets 100 miles per gallon
The Menards jingle is forever etched into my memory. "Save big money at Menaaaarrrdddsss!"
When you have a house it's more like "Spend all your money at Menardssssssss"
@@BenHeckHacks 😂
Bro try working there. Haven't worked there in years and the damned jingle gives me PTSD
About the "police colors" headphones, flashing Blue and Red is the standard for indicating Bluetooth pairing mode.
"can I get a Apple watch"
"you have a Apple watch"
the "apple" waatch
Nice profile pic
@@pompshuffle562 Thanks, lol
I've played and taken a lot of these apart. They are amazing for the price, looking at the hardware. The issue is the crappy software. It would be nice to have a good open source OS for this.
LOL at the maniacal laughing when you unbox the gamepad ....and Ben MOISTURIZE your cuticles you crazy genius.
next video:
how to make a 11 dollar smart watch into a 40 dollar one!! 😂
Ah man when Fisher used to be a real brand
I'm very saddened what has happened to once very well respected and high quality American brand names. These companies are in theory no longer in business but Chinese companies bought the brand name to stick on their cheap crappy products to make it appear to be legitimate.
That watch was quite impressive for the price, I mean nothing I'd actually use but still.
Menards has the most nonsensical layout.
Festival Foods is even worse.
It’s done on purpose so they can cram more stuff in each store and save themself a warehouse. I guess that’s how they also get the price down.
FleetFarm is the king of nonsensical layouts though.
I imagine that it's so you have to search for the thing you went in to buy, increasing the chance that you'll impulse buy other stuff. Look at what happened to Ben - he went in to buy one thing and came out with three.
@@snoballuk yes, some shops do it for that
Apart from the camera and the SIM and SD slots, as far as I can tell it's exactly the same as the Lilygo T-Watch, which is an open-source smart watch I bought two of a while ago and did nothing with.
Uhhhh so apart from the COMPLETE ELECTRONICS you wanna say. Liligo is an ESP32 and this is MediaTek, one of those feature phone all-in-one chips.
I bought an identical MediaTek watch for $6 from China a few years ago because i knew Bunnie Huang was reverse engineering a similar chip, so i was hoping there would be some progress, but while i was tinkering with it, it died. Or was accidentally deaded by me. More like a long chain of accidents, including someone (not me) sitting down on it and then a long chain of attempted repairs (by me) which each broke it a little more. An actually open-source watch would be a huge head start, but there's no way i can afford a $30 device like that.
@@SianaGearz haha fair point! The entire design of it other than the main board is identical though...
I took a chance when ordering them because it wasn't clear whether the screen was an always-on energy efficient display or not... It is not (and in hindsight if it wasn't specified I should have assumed it wouldn't be...)
Now I don't know what to do with them... They didn't come with usable firmware so unless I make my own or some community project forms around it, it's useless to me...
@@vicnet Well i assume there are at least functionality demos.
Makes me wonder though, there's an abundance of cheap Nokia clone LCDs - monochrome, 84x48 and 96x68 varieties. Phones used to run them always-on and would still last a week and a half. Why isn't someone making a mass market smartwatch based on those?
@@SianaGearz They do come pre-flashed with some demo code, but most of it is just a mock-up so other than telling the time it doesn't do anything useful. I haven't checked the status of the official repo in a while but I doubt I'll revisit them.
Pebble was kinda "the" king of the always-on smartwatch before they got bought and killed by Fitbit. Now there's some Chinese brands like Amazfit that make always-on e-ink smartwatches but the idea of an open-source one really appealed to me...
Ah well, good lesson in avoiding impulse purchases I guess... They didn't cost me much but I do feel bad every time I see them in my drawer 😂
Ashens + BigClive all in one.
Big Brain comment here.
Damn, remember how much an 8GB PSP card cost?
Both PSP and Vita had that issue, luckily we got sd options at least.
Man, now I feel the need to run to Menards! It's just a ~20 min bicycle ride.
Ben!!!! Your moms phone number was fully displayed around 3:05 and 3:12!!! Might wanna do something about that!
I love how he just cuts to the handheld already chopped to bits.
Me: “Hope he doesn’t use a screwdriver for separating the back, that would leave those nasty marks”
Ben: \*cuts to the chopped game*
Was surprised to see the MyArcade/DreamGEAR finally show up in a Ben Heck video! I got one last year with the intention of hacking it to be useful. I never got around to hacking it to be useful.
"$11 for all that! Crazy world we live in...."
Well, in other parts of the world 11 USD isn't really crazy cheap, I could get 3 lunches at a normal place for that much in my country. But it's still mighty impressive because even better smartwatches from Xiaomi cost around 20-25 dollars
$11 is a full day's pay in some countries
Its like 20 30 dollars for 20 cigarettes in my country :( im saving up to leave and find somewhere better but i cant afford to save much money cos my cost of livings so much!! Sad but true still i shall try my best to leave one day
Damn it Ben, You're better than that. Always check under the stickers for hidden screws.
Ben..... your videos make my heart happy. Thanks man.
those my arcade systems are surprisingly good, i have the bubble bobble one and its pretty decent for its price
It looks pretty good for the price
Should do a series on Walmarts new ONN. brand. Actually have got some good finds, other times though you know why it's so cheap
Lol I bought one to break down and if it's good I also got one to keep.
It's.... Not awful for $11.
@@BenHeckHacks like i said in my other comment, this smartwatch might be a cheap solution for an elderly person who says they hate cell phones(I've worked with seniors for almost 17 years now, and I've had, and still have clients like this), just to have on them incase of emergency with speed dial numbers programed into it.
@@CommodoreFan64 I think there's better watches for elderly people. This one is too small, has too fine of print, the interface sucks, and elements are too small to tap. It's crappy across the board unfortunately. I used to have a similar one (same board and firmware, just different camera and button placement), and those were my biggest gripes about it
I work at menards and love this video thank youuuuu!!!
The wireless earbuds are actually not that good (can be found in germany under the grundig brand), the charge controller in the case gets really hot and dies eventually :D
The problem is not the charge controller, it's the power supply that you use. It needs an USB adapter that provides 500mA or less. Basically you need to charge it from an 2.0USB port from your computer.
@@mawamatakama5150 The actual issue is not that it gets hot while charging its internal battary, the issue is that the dcdc boost part in that shitty chip gets really hot after some time while charging the earpieces.
Thats just staight up a design flaw that shortens the lifetime of the product.
Wow what happened to Grundig? They used to be a quality brand.
That startup chime on the watch is exactly the same one that a cheap "phone watch" from 2006 had, that I bought out of curiosity. It was bulky and ugly compared to this one and MUCH more expensive! It had a resistive touchscreen as well and a little stylus that you could store in a small compartment on the strap. I guess those things will never cease to exist :D
TXD and RXD labeled pins (plus vcc and gnd) RXD is probably Rx and TXD is probably tx, the pins needed for a uart serial connection. Correct me if I'm wrong.
My earliest android cellphone had a plastic capacitive touch screen and it sorta looks like that one, so ... I'd say it was capacitive, just... 5 tech generations old :P
A vibration motor? You mean... a... *TAPTIC ENGINE* 'Vibration, re-imagined'
I was thinking this video Ben was being a mix of Ashens and Big Clive.
Question about the headphones: My wife bought those last year from Menards. She noticed one side discharges faster than the other. Any design reason you think that would be or just cheap electronics/one battery has less capacity than the other?
You should check out Menards' action cam. It's marked as 720p on the box, 1080p in the camera's menus, and only records in 480.
1:57 I'm very sure that the unbranded version of that would just show a generic "Welcome" at that point instead of the Sylvania logo.
4:46 I feel as though Sylvania is just licencing out their logo or just slapping it on whatever cheap items they find on alibaba.com that they think would sell.
5:19 My dad tried the unbranded version of that, and it only supports 2G service.
13:49 I detect an NES on a chip setup with an integrated bootleg cartridge.
I’m from New England but I work at a camp in indy for a week every June. They look like your version of ocean state job lot. I love their green buckets lol
Oh and that game system was sold at cvs for $10 a few years ago. It’s like one of those 1000 in one nes carts but as a portable
If these were sold for $500 and had a strong brand name they'd be flying off the shelves.
These cheap internet things are all waiting for order 66. You know that right?
12:45 Ashens reference was spot on, he posted a handheld garbage review the other day :)
Is there a reason for the black pcb? Aren't those more expensive to produce?
the game system had maplestory music for the main menu, anyone else notice?
Same cheap products sold at Aldi during the holidays.
"The one that always comments on my Halo Reach t-shirt."
That absolutely sounds like the Monona Menards.
I guess for an elderly person who does not like smart phones, or want to carry a phone on them period, then this could be a cheap solution long as it has 3G for something like AT&T's Cricket Wireless service just to have something on them in case of emergency.
Ben's mom reminds me of my grandma betty haha, she was 92
That smartwatch was designed by a guy who fell in to a coma at the OG iPhone reveal
Wait, it's actually a telephone as well?
Sylvania Smart Watch - probably same quality as the Sylvania Laptop from the mid '10s!
Anyone who also watches dank pods instantly recognizes those earbuds as the free whish headphones
Thank you junk mail for giving us this hilarious entertainment :D
time to start moisturizing those digits, Ben :D
I enjoyed how surprised he was to find a battery in the earbud case, partly because that that's a prime feature of every one of these types of earbuds, including all the knockoffs, but mainly because the light on it was lit up.
Your mom is so sweet. Maybe that watch _would,_ in fact, be useful for people like her!
I listen to lore and his cabinet of curiosities Podcast.
Well everyone knows that you can save big money at Menards!
TTGO smart watch has an Esp32 and can be programmed by arduino ide
i saw this exact smart watch on sale at an Aldi's for 50$
Woo ben ashens hecks my new fave channel lol
Haha the whole time you were pulling the arcade handheld apart i was thinking, is he going to check if there is a cover over the face?
10 years ago that watch would've been amazing (not too different from the early ones like the Sony SmartWatch in 2012), and here we are making fun of it for being $9 at Menard's
I once bought an 256mb mp3 player("yepp") for $4 about ten yeats ago, it has original price tag for $99 which are covered with markdown price stickers. Military post exchanges like AAFES are goldmines for old techs because they don't get to junk away old outdated merchandise.
Given that the watch in this video takes a micro SIM it seems like it's an older design. Maybe a rebranded watch that would have been more expensive 5-6 years ago?
You gotta quit chewing on those hangnails, Ben!
It's little things like not having a Menards that makes me miss living in Wisconsin. :(
You must have lived in the fancy part of the state, I don’t recall ever having seen one in Appleton as a kid.
Racine, WI born and raised.
@corey Babcock Woah, when did that happen? I’ve been gone way too long.
@@thomasmathew13 ah right on, used to pass through there on the way to Kenosha. Been wayyyy too long since I’ve been up there.
Good thing we know Ben has a cat otherwise the scabs on the arms would be awfully sus......
I'm trying to wean him off play biting.
Haha I love your turn of phrase.
You know its a good day when Ben uploads 2 videos so rapidly together
Finally something to watch
What would have been hilarious is if you had found a gloppy top. Hey Ben yeah you need to edit this video if you can to remove or blot out your mom's number.
"Not just stealing roms" re skinning them first
Aww, your mums so sweet! She should do the next spam mail video!
$11?! You certainly saved BIG money 😉
i'll bet that the handheld is a NOAC with shitty "Homebrew"
I KNEW IT
Yeah, it's like ashens but you're tearing it down seeing what's inside and giving more in depth comments about it. Really like this video super entertaining and inspiring. Gives me a fun ideas to get this cheap good stuffs to play with.
Dang... this is the earliest ive been, and im not gonna lie im excited for this video.
Doesn't even have Chanticleer Hegemony, 0/10 would not buy
Menards, for a few straight years from 2015 through at least 2017 sold a totally unbranded projector with built in DVD player on Black Friday for around $30, and I managed to buy one. It's cheaply built as expected, and the projection quality isn't that great. But, it's region free, can play MP4 files off a USB drive or SD card, and has a hidden feature... NES emulation. I was able to get a ROM of SMB to start, but the emulation was pretty bad and the particular projector that Menards sold that day covered up the two USB ports needed for game controllers.
appreciated the Ed Wood reference.
looks like mt6261 watches have been around for 4-5 years, so maybe it['s so cheap because these the design and tooling has long been paid off and there's some factory that just keeps cranking them out