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here 2018 is here but before we dive

into the new year i want to take a look

back and now on my favorite tech but the

tech i use most in 2017 now 2017 was an

amazing year as far as smartphones go

but if i were to look back at a single

feature that impressed me the most

hands-down it's got to be the camera on

the google pixel - so in 2017 dual

cameras on smartphones were super

popular with that came to term you're

probably most familiar with portrait

shots this emulates pictures you'd

normally expect on something like a DSLR

with that beautiful blurred background

and then Google comes along it's like

yeah we could do that with one lens and

they did really well some of the shots I

got on the pixel to still blow my mind

of this day to the point where it almost

doesn't make sense that this kind of

image came out of a smartphone and it's

not just port removed the camera as a

whole on the pixel - is stellar from its

low-light performance dynamic range

sharpness it kind of all results in this

really well-rounded package now as

impressive as that is it still gets

better with portrait selfies and there

was a lot of hype around the iPhone 10

and what they were gonna do with

portrait selfies but hands-down the

pixel 2 outperforms that in every single

way so yeah the Google puts - and more

specifically its camera are kind of

outstanding next up from there though

our Apple earpods

yes err pause I know you think to

yourself why on earth would you include

err pause those kind of sucked the thing

is they're actually kind of amazing so

what exactly is amazing about air pods

honestly it is the convenience the w1

chip inside these things something I

wish was in every pair of bluetooth

headphones ever yes that initial setup

is stupid simple but what's especially

special is once you set up air pods of

one device every device after that

essentially is paired and ready to go

thanks to iCloud so with your dump from

your phone to your laptop to an iPad or

even upgrading phones because of iCloud

those air pods are there and ready to go

now yeah I was a little skeptical with

these things one how they looked too or

they easy to lose and three how did they

sound as far as looks go yeah they still

look a little goofy there's no denying

that but I will gladly deal with that

because of how well they work as far as

how easy are they to lose I've never

lost a pair of air pods or single air

pod

because the case is how you charge them

you're constantly in the habit of

putting them back in the case when

you're done so losing them is actually

really hard to do as far as sound

quality I think they sound good they

don't sound amazing but they definitely

don't sound bad my only real complaint

with these as far as sound quality goes

would be noise isolation because they

don't do a real good job with that at

all again it comes down to the

convenience they're small they're

compact you have great battery life and

it's something that you can just keep

with you at all times in your pockets in

your bag and your person more

importantly it's something you don't

think about it just works now next up

this one you're probably not gonna see

on most tech lists out there it's not a

smartphone it's not a pair of headphones

it's on a computer but rather lighting

so if you're a videographer pay

attention so this is pretty much two

awesome products that when combined

together make something even more

awesome the main component is Westcott's

flex light which is a really cool

flexible LED mat in this case this is

their one by two one foot by two feet by

color so it's gonna output all the way

down from a really warm 2,800 Kelvin all

the way up to 6,000 now what made these

especially popular was the flexibility

the portability you could essentially

stick and take these things anywhere

that's cool and unique but honestly it

never really truly appealed to me that

was until I saw this there flex drum

softbox which transforms the Flex lights

into a beautiful portable softbox now I

will be the first to tell you if you

don't need the flexibility or the

portability there are many more

inexpensive light and obviously which I

will link to down below but will change

the game for me was the ability to take

high quality lighting essentially

anywhere I went the 1 + 5 t video I shot

earlier this year was in Brooklyn and

some random Airbnb the entire video was

lit off this lighting setup so when you

combine that flexibility in the

portability and end up with this

beautiful evenly dispersed soft light it

is a killer combination now speaking of

lighting again huge shout-out to today's

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your lighting with your voice this is

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bright vibrant color lighting so if you

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link to down below last up is something

that barely barely made the list and was

released at the very very end of 2017

this of course is the iMac Pro and

become my videos earlier this year this

is one piece of tech that I was super

excited for really looking forward to

and now that it's here it hasn't

disappointed if you want to learn more

of a performance in speed in benchmarks

and numbers I will drop a video to that

link down below but again what the iMac

throat was kind of one of those products

that changed my workflow up I talked

about it before but aka raw footage is

incredibly taxing and incredibly

demanding and with the iMac Pro I'm able

to edit that aka raw footage natively no

transcoding no optimizing I can hop back

and forth between the raw settings the

ISO the white balance you have buttery

smooth playback in your timeline and the

absolute craziest thing about this is

you can take that aka footage transcode

it to a 4k or ready YouTube file and do

that essentially in real time which is

mind-blowing so yeah the mi pro is

fairly new but it has quickly become one

of my go-to favorite pieces of tech

along with everything featured in this

video hopefully guys enjoy this thing if

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button I would love to hear what your

favorite gadget or piece of tech was in

2017 this is Jonathan and I will catch

you guys later

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