For those that don’t know Project Farm, and are ready to hit ‘back’ after hearing him talk for 2 seconds, stick it out.
He’s incredibly thorough and detailed in how he tests and ranks things. And he tests all kinds of things, from drill bits and bed liner paints to portable battery banks.
Exactly, I was initially put off by how weird his videos are, but dude has serious conviction to presenting pure content with no fluff. He pays for all the stuff himself, and reviews kinda weird things you wouldn't expect.
I've bought a few things based off of his recommendations, like bungee straps and wrenches. Not always his top pick because I don't always agree with his weightings, but he flashes the raw data so you can make your own calls.
I got bored with his shtick. He could condense each of his videos to the 3 or so graphs that he puts up, in the middle and at the end. Sometimes I fast foward to those if it's something I'm interested in. But he's usually too superficial anyway.
Torque Test Channel is a lot better and more watchable imho.
Some of his videos are result of testing things for a couple of years, like headlight restorers.
Also, some of the things he shows are pretty through. If it was a wall-of-text sans videos or images, it'd not have this kind of details and information.
Because as everyone and their horse say, while he has a ranking and weighing, you can decide what to buy (if you need it) through the video by seeing how it's applied/works/fails/excels. This is hard to convey with text only.
Eh. AvE was amusing for a while, but the shtick grew old to me and it all feels much more theatrical and artificial (not necessarily artificial as in faking data, but artificial as in the entire process designed to be amusing rather than useful) as opposed to the no-nonsense "here's the methodology and the data" of project farm.
Yup. He lays things out in a way that gives you power to make a decision. Perhaps you don't like his methodology or his weights, totally fine, you can understand what's important to you and feel pretty happy with a different pick.
Style wise, he's like a product reviewer version of kipkay lol. I do think that I'd prefer an NPR whisper version of his reviews though.
No, sorry. I just can't listen to him for more than a few seconds, it's something about the way he speaks, the fast cuts, the flashing, it's simply too much for me.
I hate that all content that would be better off as text has to be presented as videos now. Thanks for nothing, big tech.
This guy is an absolute gem of a scientific reviewer. He tests real world use cases for damn near everything. Before I buy anything I search his channel. One of my all time best YouTube subscriptions.
Are there really zero reputable companies who make these products? I did some searching of my own too and all I can find are ones from ones from other trademark loophole alphabet soup brands like these.
to some degree this alphabet soup brands are a direct consequence of well intended but not well working Amazon policies :/
Not only did Amazone more or less force all the OEM/White label seller to pretend to be "proper brands" instead of just being honest, it also made them realize that they can use this to doge all responsibility and most reviews and has not done anything (working) to fix that situation (or other problematic situations on it's side). To make that worse even if you search for "<brand> <product>" the first results might be from random cheap copies of companies which branding is all just a hollow make pretend, further pushing off brand clones. Amazone really does a bunch of harm in not so obvious ways in addition to all the more obvious issues :/
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Some clarifications:
- I'm not speaking about brands which pretend to create their own product but sell OEM, I mean companies which very obviously sell OEM
- I also don't have an issue that when searching for "<brand> <product>" I also get off brand alternatives, I have an issue with this alternatives being multiple of the first search results in combination with the intentional UI design of all sellers "looking the same" (as in you have product images but no seller theming/branding on product pages), in combination with the oft not so grate product "sheet" etc. That lead to Amazon effectively deceiving people (especially older ones) into buying products they do not want to buy. (E.g. a cheaper but very unreliable clone of a product instead of the more expensive but for the customer very affordable original product, and yes, sometimes the clones are better then the original, most times not).
> but you can't find any meaningful review because they are white labels
Which is one of the reasons they exist. You fortunately for more commons stuff have the original manufacturer+product name which gets rebranded into alphabetsoup as soon as it get's popular. If you can figure out the original name, or if it's advertised as, you can maybe lookup some reviews. Otherwise: stay away, but normal consumers tend no to know that because "it's on amazon" (or equivalent).
How does a 'camera detector' (/hidden device detector) detect the hidden camera/device? (curious as to whether they give many false-positives when used in real settings, e.g. airbnb or hotel room).
For those that don’t know Project Farm, and are ready to hit ‘back’ after hearing him talk for 2 seconds, stick it out.
He’s incredibly thorough and detailed in how he tests and ranks things. And he tests all kinds of things, from drill bits and bed liner paints to portable battery banks.
Exactly, I was initially put off by how weird his videos are, but dude has serious conviction to presenting pure content with no fluff. He pays for all the stuff himself, and reviews kinda weird things you wouldn't expect.
I've bought a few things based off of his recommendations, like bungee straps and wrenches. Not always his top pick because I don't always agree with his weightings, but he flashes the raw data so you can make your own calls.
I got bored with his shtick. He could condense each of his videos to the 3 or so graphs that he puts up, in the middle and at the end. Sometimes I fast foward to those if it's something I'm interested in. But he's usually too superficial anyway.
Torque Test Channel is a lot better and more watchable imho.
Some of his videos are result of testing things for a couple of years, like headlight restorers.
Also, some of the things he shows are pretty through. If it was a wall-of-text sans videos or images, it'd not have this kind of details and information.
Because as everyone and their horse say, while he has a ranking and weighing, you can decide what to buy (if you need it) through the video by seeing how it's applied/works/fails/excels. This is hard to convey with text only.
Luckily, we can enjoy multiple channels. Thanks for the recc!
...and when you're ready to up the skookum level by a couple notches - for similar content - check out AvE.
Eh. AvE was amusing for a while, but the shtick grew old to me and it all feels much more theatrical and artificial (not necessarily artificial as in faking data, but artificial as in the entire process designed to be amusing rather than useful) as opposed to the no-nonsense "here's the methodology and the data" of project farm.
AvE was a big supporter of the truck convoy in Toronto which I find very off-putting
It's hard to find unbiased information on that. Care to elaborate? I feel that all the news articles are missing some critical context.
Yup. He lays things out in a way that gives you power to make a decision. Perhaps you don't like his methodology or his weights, totally fine, you can understand what's important to you and feel pretty happy with a different pick.
Style wise, he's like a product reviewer version of kipkay lol. I do think that I'd prefer an NPR whisper version of his reviews though.
NPR whispering every video seems like a great app for AI.
No, sorry. I just can't listen to him for more than a few seconds, it's something about the way he speaks, the fast cuts, the flashing, it's simply too much for me.
I hate that all content that would be better off as text has to be presented as videos now. Thanks for nothing, big tech.
This guy is an absolute gem of a scientific reviewer. He tests real world use cases for damn near everything. Before I buy anything I search his channel. One of my all time best YouTube subscriptions.
> Brands: JMDHKK, KAXYUYA, JAXTIN, HUYNL, NAVFALCON, SMHAWK, AORDERN, Abyliee, Obsitwy, Suntony, SEVENPARK, PolesNow, MGMCM were tested.
Are there really zero reputable companies who make these products? I did some searching of my own too and all I can find are ones from ones from other trademark loophole alphabet soup brands like these.
Most of these alphabet soup brands are just reselling the same OEM/White label product from China.
Most of them time, they kind of works... but you can't find any meaningful review because they are white labels =/
> Most of these alphabet soup brands
to extend on that
to some degree this alphabet soup brands are a direct consequence of well intended but not well working Amazon policies :/
Not only did Amazone more or less force all the OEM/White label seller to pretend to be "proper brands" instead of just being honest, it also made them realize that they can use this to doge all responsibility and most reviews and has not done anything (working) to fix that situation (or other problematic situations on it's side). To make that worse even if you search for "<brand> <product>" the first results might be from random cheap copies of companies which branding is all just a hollow make pretend, further pushing off brand clones. Amazone really does a bunch of harm in not so obvious ways in addition to all the more obvious issues :/
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Some clarifications:
- I'm not speaking about brands which pretend to create their own product but sell OEM, I mean companies which very obviously sell OEM
- I also don't have an issue that when searching for "<brand> <product>" I also get off brand alternatives, I have an issue with this alternatives being multiple of the first search results in combination with the intentional UI design of all sellers "looking the same" (as in you have product images but no seller theming/branding on product pages), in combination with the oft not so grate product "sheet" etc. That lead to Amazon effectively deceiving people (especially older ones) into buying products they do not want to buy. (E.g. a cheaper but very unreliable clone of a product instead of the more expensive but for the customer very affordable original product, and yes, sometimes the clones are better then the original, most times not).
> but you can't find any meaningful review because they are white labels
Which is one of the reasons they exist. You fortunately for more commons stuff have the original manufacturer+product name which gets rebranded into alphabetsoup as soon as it get's popular. If you can figure out the original name, or if it's advertised as, you can maybe lookup some reviews. Otherwise: stay away, but normal consumers tend no to know that because "it's on amazon" (or equivalent).
How does a 'camera detector' (/hidden device detector) detect the hidden camera/device? (curious as to whether they give many false-positives when used in real settings, e.g. airbnb or hotel room).
It's an RF field strength meter. I watched about a half minute of the video then shut it off.
what other comments said + characteristic reflection of camera lenses observed through the snake-oil-looking dichroic sighting glass.
RF or EMF detection, magnetic field detection and an IR light plus filtered lens for visually checking for camera lenses.
Ye old k18 is still the $50 go to for foiling airbnb perverts.
This thing is great when traveling. I guess I'm gonna get one ($30 is just good enough I guess) just to scan my hotel/airbnb rooms.
a good spy cam doesnt have strong RF emitting output. Noway those cheap gadgets will detect those spycams.
...in testing. Clickbait title IMO.
As are most of his videos. But the content is usually quality.