 Hello everyone, I hope you're doing fine today. I just thought I'd have a bit of a different live stream today where I'm going to talk about some studio gear for a change I know shock horror and but the reason is that I made a video about this little thing, which is a little cooling fan for Sony's or in fact any any camera I guess or a number of cameras that it will fit onto and it's from you lansi and it made me realize that actually I've got loads of you lansi stuff sort of lying around the studio or actually more importantly doing jobs in the studio And I don't really talk about it too much So I thought it'd be worth mentioning because these are often the little things that you find that you need need in and around the Studio apart from obviously the major things like camera, mic, lights and so on So that's the the plan for today and I might as well start off by just mentioning this one again I have had an issue with my Sony ZV-1 ZV-E10 I should say Shutting off from time to time due to overheating now There is a setting in the camera that allows you to increase the temperature threshold at which it's going to drop off But nevertheless, I was still finding issues with with it shutting off namely twice during the last recording of the creators pod podcast so I thought they needed to be a solution unfortunately you lansi have just bought out this little thing And as you can see it's just got like a little computer style fan in it Then on the the front it's got a charging socket over here because it has got a built-in battery for get the right side of it and then it's got a little power button and actually there's a tiny little screen on it as well Which gives you a bit of useful information? So first of all you can see or maybe you can't but there is a little temperature reading there And that's because on the back. There is a small little thermometer If I cover my eyes up so it focuses just here and the way that it works is You've got your camera like that and it just sticks onto the back with these little suction cups that you can see on there And then it'll work with the battery. So it's got two speeds One and two funnily enough So there's a little indicator on here that tells you how full the battery is and then there's a little zero one and two And zero being off so when you first actually switch the device on and then it's zero So the fan is not on even though the little screen is on but then if you press it again It goes to fan speed one and then fun speed two And if I put it close to here you can hear the sort of fun noise gets cut out with a noise gate You can hear the the fan noise from it. Maybe if I do it this way There we go. You can hear it that way But obviously you're not gonna have it right on to your microphone when it's away from the mic You're not gonna hear it at at all one thing to note is there was a load of people saying when this was first released Literally just in the last couple of weeks that it wasn't sticking to the back of their camera There is actually a film that comes with it So a little sort of sticky back film that you put over the back face of the camera because the the back face Of the camera is not necessarily completely smooth There's also some little small sort of gaps in it where the where the Due to the build of the camera So you stick this film on it first and then this will just stick directly onto the back of the camera And then it's pretty pretty strong obviously you can pull it off because it's just got suction cups But once it's on there, it's not it's not going to be not going to be falling off or at least In my experience so far after a couple of weeks as I say it's normally on my zv e10 So I just hope that that doesn't shut off while I'm filming this But yeah, a great little product from Yulanzi and it solves the the problem that I was having it's it's $40 So so yeah, you can get it from the Yulanzi store everything that I'm talking about Today is linked down in the description. I've also dropped a thing in the chat for just a link directly to the Yulanzi store So while I've got this in my hand, this is my zv1, which is normally my top-down camera So another thing that I've got from Yulanzi is this cage that's on it So you can see how that looks I haven't got a top-down camera to show you this because it's right here in my hand But it's basically let me just pull it up on the screen. This might be easier to actually show you this way This is what it looks like It actually clips to the camera via the the lens ring here So this whole sort of lens assembly here as you can see it slots over the front And then there's a little sort of allen allen bolt here That that screws into to tighten that shut or a little hex bolt, whatever you want to call it Um, it's got a little hand grip obviously so it makes it a little bit more Sturdy to hold on to but of course it does also provide a protection which is useful because I dropped it just yesterday One of the things that I've been doing recently is testing out this the yolo live in stream So that was I think one of my last live streams And I'll be doing a full review of that incidentally The in stream has just added in in a new firmware update has just added in multi streaming So now you can stream to multiple vertical flat platforms directly from the device I say multiple actually to the way that they've done it is you've basically got two different instances of your instagram app Facebook twitter whatever it happens to be so you can open two of those to stream to two simultaneously But this is basically just a massive android device. So it gets around the whole thing of not being able to stream to Instagram unless you're using their app. So you are still using the the regular android apps But what this allows you to do is plug in Your two cameras here over hdmi and also potentially a third usb camera as well And then you got lots of audio and and so on so anyway I've done a whole video about this or live stream and I will be making a full review video But I digress the point is that I've been testing out some different things with this So I've been playing around with different ways to mount it and so on So what the what I've been using this for is actually the camera to go into into that So I've been taking it on and off the the mount that is normally above my my head But the cage and so that's when I when I drop the camera Unfortunately the cage took the the brunt of the force there rather than the camera itself The other reason for using this cage though is I wanted to be able to mount the camera in a slightly different orientation Which is instead of mounting it that way around using the the little quarter 20 Shoe on the bottom not shoe quarter 20 bolt hole On the bottom. I wanted to mount it the other way round Obviously in ecam you can flip cameras in any case But it was more to do with just the position of the the screen and the angle of the screen So that when it was up mounted up above me, I could still see it And also it meant that when I was playing around with the little menu commands They were sort of the right way round for my fingers when I'm filling around with them when I can't can't see them So using this cage it gives you some other mounting options because It's got a whole load of different Mounting holes so more on the bottom. It's actually got an arca swiss plate So that is the method of sort of clamping to tripods So it's got one of those sort of built in onto the bottom of it which speeds up getting in and out of those things However, um, I use these yulanzi claw Attachments to attach maria my devices So this is what those look like And the thing about these is it's got the little quarter 20 thing there on the top on the bottom It's got a whole series of different screw holes And then you can just sort of squeeze it and pop out the thing there There is also a lock on it So it's not going to sort of come out when you don't want it to Incidentally, this also is a sort of arca swiss. I've got to keep covering my eyes dammit There we go It's got that thing and that's just this method of sort of clamping to Tripods and their different mounting devices. So I use these I forget how many of these I've bought now But I've got them on like all of my cameras to be able to quickly take them on and off Even the camera in the teleprompter if I need to make any adjustments Trying to unscrew it from the teleprompter is a bit of a pain But with one of these you just literally squeeze the thing and it pops off On some of my lights that I tend to move around like the little the the lights in the background For example, and then I'll have those mounted on these One thing that isn't yulanzi actually is this little cable attachment I've got on the side So that's actually u-rig but it does fit into the sort of standard spacing of these cables Or these screw holes on the side of the yulanzi cage And what that does is it's basically the mini hdmi And that plugs into there. So it's basically just doing the initial link between your hdmi and the And the the camera so that then you plug your hdmi cable into this instead of directly into the camera And what that means is because this is firmly fixed To the cage Then it means you're not putting any undue sort of strain onto the the cable there What I'll do though is I'll just pop this one back up in in here above me because this is where my top Camera lives. So then I'll be able to show you some of these other things So if I just plug in these a couple of cables here, and then it will be connected to my computer And this is what I love about this is it's just so simple to connect it I'm waiting for the camera to fall from the sky above my head and smash down on the desk As I'm demonstrating it. That seems like just the sort of thing that should happen, doesn't it? I'm going to lock it in place. So there we go So just like that I've now mounted my my camera Directly, yeah, directly above me. So let's see if if that scene is working or not There we go. So yeah, there we go. There's my my nice coffee and my top-down camera So this is the the claw then that I was just talking about And you can get all sorts of different versions of these actually or rather It's sort of integrated into a whole load of different things. So if I just take a look at some of those Here's the the cage This is what the claw looks like That's the sort of top plate. You can buy the plates individually. You can buy the bases individually as well So you can have these sort of spotted dotted around the place and just sort of swap in and out things as you need to There is also a ball head that comes with the the the mounting part Sort of already fitted. So this is like a complete unit Like this and then they've got a whole range of other Accessories that are all sort of used with this this one just down here If I just come over to that one, where's it gone? There was a picture there of the that's the underside Yeah, this is showing the you can see there the the arca swiss Attachment so that's where it just attaches onto the the top of the the tripod And so speaking of tripods Um, one of the things I was mentioning was that I was using this with with with this And so I was needing a second tripod to actually mount this all too and also needing a tripod for I'm going to be traveling soon. So wanted a A way to to mount this also. I've got this tripod from uh, yulanzi as well Let me just sort of drop it all down at the moment It's got this little contraption in the top Which is you can see it's got the claw there. So that is for mounting my my camera into This is for a light. Um, and then this is my my road wireless to be plugged into the Into this one and this one mounts onto the size of side of the yulanzi But I'll just take this all off for the moment because this little thing also just pops out with The arca swiss so that little uh, little contraption Um, but this is one of their travel tripods now I've been looking at various different travel tripods and to be honest with you Um, all of the the the trend these days is for these ultra lightweight carbon fiber tripods Which are about three or four hundred dollars I'm thinking do I really need a three or four hundred dollar Tripod and is the weight saving really worth all of that and uh, the decision I came to was no It's not worth that much money for a tripod. So I've got this one, which is their Uh, let me see what it's uh, what it's actually called their ombre. I think it's called Uh ombre ying great name. Uh, so this is their their tripod. Um, it's actually reduced at the moment But it's basically 70 dollars. It's pretty lightweight. It is metal. It's not um, um, it's not carbon fiber They have got a series of carbon fiber Tripods and as I say one of them is 350. There is the peak design So peak design is another company that I love. I love their products. I'll talk about some of those a little bit later Um, but yeah, they they're just quite expensive for these carbon fiber Tripods and for sure if I was you know a vlogger walking around all the time carrying my tripod with me I could see the advantage but for the use case that I've got and the limited amount of time I get out of my little my little hut here It doesn't seem that seem worth it But one thing that I love about all the yulunzi products is they all seem really well made and really sturdy And this is no exception really so there's a couple of versions of this actually There's one that has got this kind of head which is obviously it's got a little Screw thread there and you can turn this all around There's another one that's more like a video style head where it's got the little sort of arm coming out Which is I think about 10 dollars more or something But this is really uh, you know really quick to put up It's got a nice little ball head on it there with the arca swiss which means that I can also just drop this in so this is just to show this sort of arca swiss connector here You can just drop that onto here And then tighten it up. He says if I can do it there we go And that's how that would then convert into one of these sort of claw attachments that you just be able to pop your Pop your camera on and off doing a hard job covering up my eyes today so you can see all this But you know just great really sturdy quality and then it's got these quick release ones Those ones where you sort of have to twist the If you got like a tube and then you have to twist the the little clamps I find that they can be a bit A bit hit and miss sometimes, but this one's just got these really sort of solid clamps It is aluminium rich and hey, michelle. Sorry. Great to see you. Sorry for not saying hello And yeah, so it is aluminium aluminium And then let's see how how high it can go basically because it's got this bit here And then if it was standing up, it's a good sort of six foot two meters something like that by the time you pop this one up as well That goes up there. So yeah, you by the time you've got your camera on top of it You know, it's well above sort of head height. So it's got plenty of plenty of height on it You can also take this whole thing out as well And Let me just shut this up Like this This part here There's a little hook on the bottom And then you can take this out like that and then it means you can sort of hang it underneath So sometimes you'll see folks with their camera sort of slung underneath the tripod Depending on the angle that they're wanting to get so this will indeed do that Incidentally the the point about the hook is if you've got a tripod with a hook underneath it It's actually a good job to a good idea to hang some weight from it So if you've got like a small bag or something hanging the weight from it actually does help with stability of the tripod So that's part of the point of this is that if you hang a weight underneath from this Then it's kind of like pulling down on the legs to hold it to help to hold it steady So it's going to help prevent it from getting knocked over but also prevent it from from wobbling or anything like that So that is the the point of that Whilst we're on the tripods then another one that I've got a few of these lying around is just this little guy here Which has got a little attachment on it the moment. Let me take that off from something else. I was doing It's just this little extendable tripod It's this one is plastic or you know abs or whatever the material is that they use these days And it's this guy here So like 20 dollars reduced at the moment from 25 the mt16 They've got a whole range of tripods on their side actually So if you go to camera gear and then I go to where is it somewhere down here? They've got a whole series. Oh in fact, they've got a heading right at the top here So they've got a whole range of of tripods and they're they're various different types So you've got some aluminum here is that lightweight one that I was talking about $370 for me. That's a bit much for a tripod. I don't need something that That costly for the amount that I use it And this is that other variant that I mentioned So this is the one that we've just looked at But then there's this variant here that's got you know, like an arm So if you're sort of doing panning and stuff like that, you know with your video camera Then you may want to consider that one as well But they've got the whole range of these small little compact ones This is actually more like a light stand by the way. So there's this one which is carbon fiber light stand So if you were you know traveling and wanted to I think to put your lights on then this would be an option for that But yeah, lots of 47 different types of tripod So what I use this one for though Oh and to just mention then that they've got these, you know, the carbon fiber end of things Then they've got the aluminum side of things or aluminum side of things And then they've got a whole range of these sort of lower cost Lightweight but plastic type things And what I use these for is actually when I'm traveling, which doesn't happen too much But I'll use it for my yulanzi Not yulanzi my Nanlite pavo tubes there And they're great actually for if you're on a zoom call in a hotel room because usually in a hotel room You end up sitting facing a wall at a desk and the lighting is just terrible So yeah to be able to To illuminate your face on a zoom call then I just have those pavo tubes But there's rarely anywhere to actually put them So I always pack two of these in with two of those lights as well And so it's a great solution for just mounting those It's got a little ball head on the top. Obviously, you know, it's not intended for just lighting I have used it with a camera before as well So having it as a more like, you know, you can use it as a sort of Selfie stick that kind of thing but with your camera on it or just to get a different angle It has also got a a little cold shoe there So you can attach something like a you know a mic or whatever And this also rotates So if you want to You know have it out in front of you with a mic on it or something you can do that And then a little ball head and then the Mechanism on it is just this little screw head at the top there But of course as always you can always add a A Ulanzi claw to the top of it. They do do one of these As well with With one of these claws built in so I think you can get a small tripod that has already got the the claw attachment But yeah, these claw attachments. I use them on on everything basically So so yeah, that is the the Ulanzi tripod Another thing that I've I've used a lot and this is another one of their sort of metal things Realize my my monitors encroaching on the screen there Is this guy and when I was using my loop deck, which I've stopped doing since getting the stream deck plus But when I was using my loop deck, I actually had one of my stream decks on this So this is just an iPad stand But I had one of my stream decks mounted down there And then I had the loop deck sort of mounted sitting above it But it is a great Stand for the iPad I still use this now if I'm doing Not so much for telestration, but if you want to display something on my my my iPad Then I'll use this. It's really weighty. It's a really great iPad stand. So solid Aluminium again Really sort of stiff as well comes with a little allen key so you can tighten up these little Bolts here and here and then this you can basically angle it however you want. So for a little desk standing Stand for your iPad This is a great option One of the things that is in my yulunzi list at the moment So I was just going through looking at some things yesterday and one of the things that I'm going to add in is That's the the one that I've just shown you 20% off today as well It seems I don't know if you've got some Some current sale going on on loads of their stuff, but it does seem like there's a few things on discount But they also do this version. So I'm going to add in this one And because this would allow me to amount the iPad to the side of the desk and then have it sort of positioned somewhere one of the things that somebody suggested which was a great idea is If you're using your iPad with sidecar mode Actually, just drag your ecam comments Window onto the iPad. So when you're streaming, you've got them in front of you And then you can then presumably use the other touch to actually just tap on the comments So you want to bring up to the screen The other thing that I use my iPad for though in a sort of streaming context is for Streaming to amazon, which I've got to admit. I haven't done a huge amount of of late In fact, I think my last stream was probably at the end of last year. So But I do have a plan to Restart my weekly amazon live stream as well And I've got some a few thoughts on what I'm going to be doing on there But in order to do your amazon live streams, you need to have an iPad Or an iOS device that you actually kind of run the stream from it So you're streaming directly from ecam or whatever platform But actually to start and stop the stream Select products that you want to bring up into the the carousel and so on You do that all through the the iPad app And there's a couple of other use cases I've got where I'm using the iPad for something that is related to To the stream or whatever or the meeting and I want to just have the you know a good way to mount the iPad So this is basically the same top part here as I've got on this one So it's the same, you know, really sturdy solid mounting But it's just on a thing that is actually connected to the side of the desk as opposed to This thing so you can see these sort of similarity in the components there There's basically just got this this extra little piece in the middle and then this way of mounting it Down to the to the desk So let's see where we're up to and There another thing which was the I guess probably the the first thing that I that I actually bought from me Lanzi was two little lights and they're currently repurposed So I've got one of them there that is sort of shining up on those mics And one of them on the other side there, which is shining up onto that little clapperboard So they just kind of out of view But they're these little guys and these are great for sort of travel. I guess as well Although they're just sort of permanently permanently wired in and it is these now the reason I bought these originally was When I started my youtube channel everything was green screen Because I was in my my basement and didn't want to go to any any hassle or expense of Making any renovations or changing everything in there to make it all look pretty like I've done in here um, well, that might be Purely subjective, but there you go But what I did do is I had this virtual background going on and it had a sort of colored lighting in the background And so as part of you know getting a good sort of green screen look Apart from having the the haircut for green screen One of the things you can do is to match your lighting in the real world versus what's going on in the background So because I had these sort of lights going on in the background What I did is I had two of these small little yulanzi lights one on either side That were sort of putting a shine of the the background colors So blue and purple or whatever it was onto the side of my my face To sort of replicate what was going on in the background And at $20, you know, they were perfect for that. You can see that they're more meant for They've got a little cold shoe there They were more meant for sort of, you know, using on top of a camera so a video light for a camera But they are sort of RGB so you can change from either a whole range of You know white from warm to daylight and then you can change through the whole RGB sketch spectrum They're not going to be, you know, massive powerful lights So you can see in the background They're on kind of full power. So that's how much light they're giving out Behind me. Those are two little ones. Where is it there? But it's just enough to add that little bit of accent lights So for $20 if you're looking for a sort of low cost light for for using either on a camera or, you know For some other purpose, then they are great for that But I think that that was probably the first yulanzi product that that I bought And they have just bought out a new light, which I'm probably going to be getting because as I mentioned I'm going to be traveling around a little bit And this is this one. It's a portable 40 watt light. So this has got a cob Chip on board. So it's like a You know a proper video light and the thing about this one is as well as being able to power it directly It has also got a built-in battery as well And from all of the reviews that I've seen of it and all of the the testing and so on It does look to be a really great little little light and certainly from a sort of portability point of view You know when traveling there, you can see the sort of size of it. It comes with this You can take the front off it. It's got a mini bow ends mount. So presumably you can get some sort of other larger You know softbox or diffuser if you wanted But it's basically comes with this one and then it's got this small little there They can see the other side of it. It comes with this small little silicon thing on the the front of it Um, so where was it the little silicon diffuser there? But from what I've seen of it, it really does put out, you know, an awful lot of a lot of light. So Yeah, great for Great for when you're out and about or maybe in a sort of mobile setting traveling whatever which I would say something I'm going to be going to be doing So that is definitely in my my list of things I just noticed I've got a cart full there that I need to To check out with at some point So the next thing that I want to talk about is sort of coming back to traveling just a second is Is about actually a non-ulunzi product, which is my tech pouch Keeley's just saying she she streamed with those pavo tubes and the lunzi tripod It's creepy. Is it a why is it a little creepy? I'd be interested to know what you mean by that The the to be honest with you the iPad when you're annotating I always um, I always find that it's much easier for me to to write when it's on the on the screen on the the floor There we go. That's right. I don't ever have my iPad on the floor I can do pedals with my feet, but I'm not not yet writing with my feet I have my iPad flat on the desk. I always find that's better for um for writing And although technically you could use this and you know, put it down and stand it up I just found that you know writing on an elevated thing was was just a little bit a little bit weird So I tend to just use my iPad with a little, you know, the the the built-in case popped up to give it just a little bit of of elevation that way um And you've got those, uh, is that the the the tripods over there? those um Those um, yeah those little those claws. I know you love those to michelle. They're they're definitely life Um, yeah, it's a great little light It's so compact like the the actual size of the body and the the weight of it's pretty good as well The battery life I forget exactly how long it is. It obviously depends on how much power you're using if it's on full power I think it's like a couple of hours, but I mean these lights that I've got in front of me They're 60 watt lights, but there's an option in it to make them and that's what I'm talking about. Here's these ones These are 60 watt lights, but there's an option to Put them down to basically half power so that you don't get the fan come on. So I've done that But then even then they're not running at full power in any case So this one here with this 90 centimeter three foot softbox is running at I think 90 percent of 50 percent If that makes sense So it's like at 45 percent of the the whole 60 watts and this one is around about 20 or 30 So actually although this is a 40 watt light You may find that you're only using it at a fraction of its power So then I'd be interested to see what the overall life is at those lower things But I'm sure you get plenty of you know hours out of it even just on a battery So fine for you know charging it up and using it for a live stream or or whatever You hate your big the the thing about this thing is you could certainly use it instead But you're still going to get the issue with or you know the thing the fact is that The size of the softbox dictates the like the softness of the light effectively So you're going to get a good quality light out of it, but you've still got a small point source So it's in exactly the same way as you know in my lighting setup here I went with a larger softbox for my key light This one is slightly smaller for the fill light But the the reason for the size of it is to give that sort of even Light over from a a wide diffusion source as opposed to a small point So although this does have a built-in diffuser, which you know is going to help reduce that sort of harshness To a certain extent it's still only you know, whatever that is a few inches across So it's not necessarily going to be a replacement in a full studio. I would guess but we'll see Yes the iPad on the floor So so yeah, let me just talk about my mobile setup And I'm going to talk about something that non non-ulansi for a moment Which is my my go-to bag This is my daily bag and that I carry with me literally everywhere like around the house in the office whenever I go out everywhere And I mentioned just before the stream Keeley said like am I going to be updating my my phone there that you know, it's the pre-order day I'm still on an iphone 6s guys. So there we go. I'm not updating just yet But the reason for that is I use my my ipad when I'm out and about and I don't take care of phone calls So I have got unlimited data on my phone. So my my ipad is basically just tethered my ipad is my mobile device But this is what I carry everything in and it's from Peak design And in here, this is kind of like my mobile office. So I'll just mention a few things in here I've got my ipad obviously So when I'm using A video pencil or whatever on the ipad I'll tend to just have that sort of sitting on the other desk like that But with the ipad Another great thing which I'm still absolutely in love with I've over the years I've tried so many folding keyboards But this without a doubt has been the best one and it's just I'm using it almost daily when I go I drop the kids off at school go to the coffee shop And then I'm sitting in there with my ipad and this doing my work what I love about it is that it folds out to the size of A full keyboard and the other thing that usually screws up these things. Maybe I should just move this a little bit Maybe not Maybe I'll move this out of the way give myself a little bit of space The thing that usually screws up if I maybe zoom in that might help Zoom in on my my coffee The thing that usually screws up these folding keyboards Though is that you often end up with like a line down the middle of them somewhere Or where the keys are not the same shape, but as you can see this is exactly the same size The keys are exactly the same size as a regular Apple keyboard down to the the position of the arrows here The same is this one that I use The same as the you know the layout of the enter key the shift key The little like modified keys just down here. It is exactly the same and also The function key so that's something that's often missing on folding keyboards And it's just got this really neat little mechanism. So you can see how The keys you get to have these sort of full-size keys because as you're folding it It's actually folding like not in necessarily a straight line They've got this great little pivoting mechanism. So it means that when you fold it out it is completely sort of Almost seamless in terms of the keys and it's just looks like a regular keyboard The other thing about it is that because it folds from the these two points here When you when you fold it out you do actually have these little points Which mean that um, you can actually kind of sit with it on your knee in a pinch I don't prefer to do that You know, I like to be sitting at a desk or whatever or a table But you can actually sit with it on your knee because it's kind of supported there When you do open it out though and you're using it on a desk Then it's also got these little rubber feet So you can see how it's kind of slightly raised up just there So you've got these little rubber feet on the side that you just sort of fold down And that means then that also it doesn't slip round on the desk So one issue that I had with other ones is, you know, once you've got them They're usually some sort of plastic or metal enclosure But as soon as you are putting them down on the desk Then they're sort of sliding around whereas these little rubber feet do a great job of Of solving that. Um, you can connect it with up to three devices So there's these little things here And if you press this function key and then press one two or three you can then connect it to other Computers if you're not a fan of bluetooth Sometimes, you know, people want a wired connection. There is actually a you can connect it from the usb Micro usb here. This is for charging it. Um, but you can also just connect it directly to a computer as well And then you're using it wired as opposed to to wireless So I have this paired with my My ipad my phone and then also with my secondary computer So if ever I'm doing a sort of demo or a presentation rather where I'm using my second computer coming into my main computer Then I'll sometimes just pull out this as the as the keyboard to to use with that So as I say, I really love this. There is one a version of this that has a backlight So this one does not have the backlight, but that's not really an issue This is the version that does So it's called an eye clever. Let me just pop that comment down Eye clever bk zero five and this one has a a backlight as well, which you can either turn on or off So that's the one that I've I've linked to in there 50 53 dollars ish. There you go 52 99 at the moment in in amazon Best thing that I've bought In a long time and as I say I've tried so many of these different mobile Keyboards, you know this dream of being able to just work from an ipad from anywhere The ipad was always the thing that led it down for me. I'd never much for the apple build, you know the apple keyboard But this one means you can still use your ipad just as an ipad with, you know, a regular case or whatever And then yeah having this means that I can now work from From from anywhere with that the other thing just coming back to this this setup then in this this bag here Is I do actually also have an apple mouse. I'm not really generally a fan of the apple mouse at all However, the reason why I got this specifically was you can just pair this mouse with the the ipad So and what that gives you is whenever you're doing screen demos of an ipad Then it shows up the little cursor So it's actually great if you want to demonstrate things on an ipad to use a mouse with it because That's then showing, you know where you're tapping and where you're clicking So that was my actual motivation for buying it, but because it's so slim and lightweight I do keep that in there because then when I'm doing things on I'll often believe it or not edit my website in kajabi edit it on an ipad And there's certain things that don't really work well in the kajabi interface with touch But if you've got a mouse Then you can get to like little sub menus and you know right clicking on things and so on So so yeah the the mouse actually works really well for my little mobile My little mobile office in a bag Because it works with the with the ipad and so as I say for Things like that on on kajabi then it's it's great for for that One of the things that I was not sure about when I first bought this peak design was if the ipad would actually fit into it But it does so I keep my ipad in one side and then I keep my my keyboard in the the other The thing I like about this as well is it's got lots of pockets I've got my apple pencil in there a regular pencil This is the the tech pouch is designed for organizing cables So you can see it's got all these different pockets that you can stuff all your different cables in I don't have a huge number of cables. I've got a few in here my little gym pass my little my little 70 cent wallet There we go And also my my car key and so on and there we go the pride of place the ecam key ring With my house keys and so on So that's all I really keep it in there headphones are in there as well But the tech pouch is great for organizing this kind of stuff. It's got all these different things in it So this is actually the peak design tech pouch mark two So I did actually start with the mark one and I should just mention What the the differences are and then I've got something really weird to point out about these these things on amazon So basically inside they are more or less the the same. I think there's one difference inside I can't remember quite what it is apart from the change of the material inside has been changed slightly But the actual layout of this this one. I do keep cables in You've got these these three Pockets in the side there. You've got three pockets in the other side You've got the two Pen holders on either side and you've got these internal pockets These two in here. You've got this one in the middle and then if you open this up You've got a thing to keep little connectors and sd cards and stuff like that So the inside is largely unchanged. But what they changed from the oh and by the way, there's a Pocket on the side here that's got a pass through into the interior So I keep my my battery is in there my power bank and that goes through to to this side Where I then keep my my my my aging phone But what they changed on this was There was these little sort of grab handles all over it So you've got a grab handle on either side That's where I usually can see that one's a bit stretched out now from I think I've had this one for I think about three years or something. So maybe two I can't remember But yeah, this is what I used to carry it with and I literally carry this round light with me as if it's a handbag This is my this is my mind bag But there was the sort of connection points here that you can connect their peak design Little clips that are intended for camera straps But you could also have it attached onto this and so that was a way to connect a strap But apart from that and these straps on the bottom You know bearing in mind that this is designed for your sort of tech gear So, you know pulling it in and out of another bag But if you are using it as I am like pretty much like a handbag Then then what they added in the peak design Tech pouch version two is there is now this really sort of solid grab handle on the top So you can just sort of pick it up by that I have got a some sort of third-party strap So if I ever want to use this like as an over shoulder thing, then I can clip it onto there Really great really well well made they've I mean they they they stand up to being thrown around Literally, this is like going everywhere with me. So I'm constantly picking it up putting it down Throwing it around putting it down on the floor putting it down everywhere. It's and it still feels You know really solid and well made One weird thing though when I went to go to get the the the links for these on amazon The original tech pouch. So this is the peak design tech pouch v2 black. Okay, so that is the new one with that new strap what they've done is they've They they've still got the original one round, but they've changed the name of it Now you tell me what you think about this They've changed the name of the original peak design tech pouch instead of peak design tech pouch v1 They've changed the name of it to peak design women's packing organizer What the hell is that about? Why is that a women's packing organizer when it's actually just the original version? It does not make sense. I don't get what they are doing there with that that naming So they've just basically it's the exact same thing But now they've decided to call this one a women's packing organizer. So that is on the peak design store I don't get it Whether they're trying to just come up with some sort of differentiation because you can see how actually the original one Which is arguably not as full featured is now 69 95 But the peak design v2 which is everything that the first one was Except it's got this extra strap is actually cheaper So if I'm you I would I would go for the peak design v2 because it's actually just better That's that's the the bottom line So it seems that they've just rebranded this one a women's packing organizer And it's now at a higher cost. So Yeah, not not a big fan of that peak design But anyway, I wanted to just mention coming back to uh, yulanzi And rich. Yeah, that's the thing. I mean they didn't even they didn't even make it pink. What's going on? I mean, it's just terrible, isn't it? I don't I don't get it Um, how often do I go out and about working in in coffee shops? Um, actually pretty often and it's all the things like the um, I don't believe that you can There was this there was this trend with you know as iPads got better and and so on that You would get these bloggers that were talking about how, you know You can now just work everywhere from your iPad and it was this big big thing that I noticed with a lot of tech journalists And the thing to note about was that It is fine if you are a tech journalist who is largely just writing blog posts It's very easy to work exclusively from coffee shops on an iPad if you are a tech journalist Writing that's very easy because all you need is the iPad and a keyboard I do do a lot of my like, you know responding to comments responding to emails a lot of the messages in discord You know, I'm I'm often writing on my iPad Either in a coffee shop or in you know, my kitchen or wherever it is And just just having this with me to be able to write like that is is fine I do do things like website updates. Um, I I do a lot of planning of stuff in Chat gpt for example, so I'll do that on my iPad as well a lot of the time All of that kind of stuff I I can I can do it on the iPad, but I um Yeah, the actual kind of real work and you know, I don't do any design work in there I'm not using the photoshop mobile app for example to do thumbnails Definitely not doing any editing because well, I don't do any editing But all of that kind of stuff. It's it's just largely for more sort of text based stuff That's the kind of thing that I do on on my iPad So I do find that there's some some benefit to doing that like getting out of the the studio into a different environment Then there's certain things if I need to just sort of think about stuff It's a great place for doing that and you know ideation Making lists and all that kind of stuff. So I do do quite a lot of stuff on my iPad actually um So so yeah with the peak design just having been talking about that though I will just mention that given that we've just seen that that is uh 60 dollars Um, yulanzi do have their own version of that There was a lot of companies that came out with very similar products So let me find out where that one is and it's this one It's their tracker tech pouch. So this is 40 dollars And as you can see, it's a similar sort of affair inside. It's got these different pockets slightly different design It's not just a complete copy obviously, but the same kind of principle I've been able to organize all of your things one thing that's slightly different about this is it opens out like a sort of Whatever you want to call that clumpshell design, I guess And it'll open up like that. It's got the the same sort of handle on there I've got some clips here that you can attach things to and then similar sort of size And just to show that it does fit an iPad An iPad into it and you can see there those are the little pockets So it might be a a similar Um, sort of product that you may want to consider if you are thinking about the the tech pouch Um, and you don't want to play the the woman's premium that they've stuck on So so yeah, it looks it looks pretty good Uh, I have got one product which is all of these things that I've been talking about so far Are things that either I've bought or that are in my uh, my my my wish list My my cart as it happens to be Yulansi did actually send me one thing for review, which I haven't reviewed yet This was uh, I received it about a month ago, but I've been there sick But it is this which is their tracker pouch or tracker bag, which is a sort of shoulder bag Um, I was looking for something that was a little bit larger than the the peak design for taking like a mobile setup and whilst this is great for My ipad and my you know my mobile office, you know everything that I've got in here And I can technically fit the you know one of the cameras the zv1 or the zv e 10 in there Although not with Prime lens you can only fit the zv e 10 in if it's got you know the the built-in retractable lens So when I was luster away on holiday I was taking the zv one with me and I'd have that in the bag as well And it did did sort of fit in a bit of a squeeze But it did did fit in but it's obviously not meant for carrying camera gear around So this one here, I'll just mention this If if I just come over to this page, you can see a few of the pictures of it This is obviously designed specifically for as a sort of mobile camera bag And you can see how you can fit a lens in it So as I say everything that I've covered so far I've bought and I'm a I'm a fan of you Lindsay, but they did send me this one specifically For review, so I'll be adding a review of this onto my My amazon and maybe onto my main youtube channel as well But it's got a built-in strap It would be nice if this strap would actually be Detractable detractable detachable But it has never less got this there's no sort of movement Or no way of detaching this it looks like that's you know, like a large sort of presto type thing But it doesn't actually just easily pop off Then the strap itself one of the things about this although the the whole bag itself Looks, you know really great and the same sort of quality similar material to the peak design So this whatever they call this there's a name for it some kind of nylon But there's really sort of tough and hard wearing and slightly rubberized the the zips are all sealed It has still got these these kind of like plasticky Clips on it. So I mean that it's not necessarily a premium clip One of the things I love about all the peak design Products is you know, all of their hardware as well is on a par with the the actual You know the actual bag if you look at some of their their larger bags But basically this one has got a couple of compartments So it's got a rear compartment which is for an ipad and just to give you a context of the size compared to the peak design The the ipad, you know, it's got plenty of space in there and one of the things I've been looking at this for is You know for carrying around something like that if I was going to do some sort of mobile mobile thing going on You know when I'm when I'm traveling but in the the front pocket here Get that out The the little packing paper there It's got a large pocket at the side, which yes, you can Fit something as large as that in obviously I'll take off the a little mounting there That's got a little magnetic clasp as well that to just clicks in there And then in the other side, we've got a zipper pocket And that's got some similar sort of organization Um, obviously this is not the you know the tech pouch from either yula yulanzi or peak design is intended as a You know a thing to organize your cables. This is more of a sort of camera bag So it's not got quite as many different pockets in but still plenty in there But then it's got this little thing in here, which are common in a lot of bags these days These little sort of folding origami style shelves So you can sort of segment the inside if you want to have a place for your sort of camera and your camera lens To rest on there or maybe you want to put some stuff underneath it And then it's just sort of like a a hard little extra bit of protection And something to give a bit of structure to the bag And then finally there is a little zipper pouch going on on the front But obviously this is intended to be like a say not necessarily a tech pouch But more of an over the the shoulder thing So as I say that one full disclosure is From yulanzi to to check out but here is what it looks like on the inside Um, so yeah, that is that is where I'm up to with a rundown of the yulanzi products that I currently own as I say I've got a lot of A lot of others that are pending that I've just got to pull the trigger on Um starbucks will not allow you to mount your three screens for the table You know what actually there's a another thing another device speaking about that mounting multiple screens I don't if you've seen it for if you've got a laptop and it fits basically like over the top of your laptop screen But then the it's got two screens that are behind it that you can then basically pull out the screens from either side So you could have a a three monitor mobile setup Actually, just with your laptop. There's another great product from What is it 12 south? I think it's called. Let me have a look to see if I'm going to find this Which is for mounting an ipod so to the side of your screen. I think it's 12 south. Let me see ipod mount Um, what's it called now? I've got one of these. I just don't have one of them to hand. Is it 12 south or it's someone else Let's have a look ipad laptop mount Get there in the end It's something like this. Yeah, this is the one So it's this uh thing here. I'll just drop it into ecum. There we go. Look at that Um, I think it's called mounting. Oh 10 one design is the the thing. Let me just go to their site and I'll grab the thing um 10 one design is the uh the site And it's called, uh, I think it's called mounty mounty plus, but what yeah what it is is it clips onto the side of your monitor And then uh, I'm just going to drop this in it's on their their homepage or drop this into the chat Um, yeah, and it clips onto the side of your monitor And then you can clip your ipod to it and your your iphone So I do actually have these as well when I'm when I'm out But they yeah, they work really great. They um, yeah, they they clamp to the side of the the The uh, uh, the computer and then clamp to the ipod. I think you can see how those how those work I've just got to figure out how to get this off my screen There we go. Uh, yeah, those are really really solid and well built So if you are looking for a a mobile solution with multiple screens Then just using your ipad with sidecar or two ipads with sidecar can work I know you're only joking, uh, michael, but nevertheless you can do that um The uh, the low pro bags. Yes, they're they're um, they're always always great. I've got a great low pro bag that is uh, my um Let me just go grab it one sec this This is my uh, my low pro bag But the reason why it's extra special is because it is my ecamm mod squad back But yeah, the uh, low pro make a great sort of camera Camera bags and camera gear bags. So yeah, that is my uh, that is my out and about uh bag with my my camera gear Yeah, if you want if you want a 32 32 and 43 screen Yeah, starbucks may have a slight issue with that. Have you thought of a projector? That would be interesting, wouldn't it short to short to starbucks? You get your little laptop out sit close to a wall and then just pull out a little projector and You've got some privacy concerns there, but uh, yeah Um, so yeah, that is my little rundown of the yulanzi products that that I use in and around my office And as I say, it was just prompted by the fact that I was making this video about this little yulanzi fan, which has uh, made a big difference in uh In that I don't have to necessarily worry about my camera switching off But I realized that yeah, I am using a lot of yulanzi stuff Incidentally yulanzi is my sort of go-to for all of these little small little pieces around the the studio that hold things together Another company that I rarely mention Um, but is the equivalent for cables is ugreen. I just got another delivery yesterday of a load of them, but uh, Yeah, ugreen for cables. They make really great. Um Cables connectors. I've got a um an hdmi splitter that I use for Splitting from one monitor into into actually into that that in-stream device Um, I also do a thing with um with my main monitor where I'm actually splitting my hdmi from my main monitor and taking that back into the computer as A webcam so that with ecam. I'm actually sharing the screen Rather than doing it like this one here rather than doing a natural screen share This is actually a split off of my my my monitor Then going back into my computer over a cam link So ecam is seeing this as a as a camera rather than a screen share and there's a couple of reasons I'll do that So one of the primary ones is because I demo ecam a lot if I want to show a particular window of ecam You can obviously bring that window into ecam itself Um as you know just as a screen share overlay select the ecam window and then you can have it pop up on the screen But you don't get your little mouse pointer over the top of it Whereas this way I can just do a screen share and show a very specific set of ecam controls like this for example and still get pro mouse That would not be possible without doing this little method because Um, yeah of the way that the way that ecam works and what it allows you to do The other thing though is that with ecam Uh or with anything actually when you're doing screen sharing it's a lot more processor heavy So actually bringing it in as a camera is a lot sort of lower processor impact than doing it through a screen share Um, so that's just one of the reasons I do that But anyway, so that is that is a ugreen splitter that I'm using for that all of the cables I've got around the place. So the hdmi cables that I'm using XLR cables as well, although road did send me a very nice package which included More XLR cables than I'm going to need in my lifetime. So I do tend to use those ones now But yeah, every other sort of cable in the in the studio is always ugreen. They make really great quality quality products They actually just bought out as well whilst we are talking about little random tech gear They actually bought out a What do they call it a display link hub? So this thing I've been able to run multiple monitors on a mac And requiring, you know, there's a there's a limit to how many monitors you can actually physically use with a regular mac So too on the mac mini for example So you need to have a hub that has got display link capability And then you use this little display link app to then connect, you know, as many monitors Do you want all not not quite a bit more monitors? So uh ugreen bought out this um display link, uh doc Uh I get doc and hub mixed up sometimes, but it is a display link. Uh Doc is the the word that I'm looking for And it is So where's it gone? There we go. It's this one here. So given that there are, you know, there's a lot of these with cal digitor and so on so this is the This is the this one that's got display link It's not got loads of ports on it, but it has got a couple of hdmi's on there And then a display port as well display port not to be confused with display link Display port is that socket that looks like an hdmi, but with one flat side and one sort of uh with a little shumford edge Um, but display link is the technology that it's got on board that allows you to um connect multiple monitors Um, so that is that's that's a display link just there Um, so yeah, these um these docs, there's you know, there's quite a few of them around I actually use a wavelength is the doc that I this I use Um, is there a link for you green? Uh, hello, david by the way. Sorry. I'll have to say, uh, say hello Great to see you here. Is there a link for you green? Um, I haven't got I haven't got like an affiliate link or anything like that But I do just use them for everything But uh you green dot com you'll find all of their stuff. I'll just drop it into the the chat Um, but they are on, you know, they're on amazon and everywhere like that. So Um, and I the the the app that I use to buy all of these little cables and stuff Usually is we've got a thing here in southeast asia called lasada. Um, and so there's just like a you green store in there So I'm just there are they're on speed dial as it were Um, so yeah there but you green are are great for that. I'm just looking at this weird thing What the hell is this? The you green nexode rg go up charging. What the hell is that that does look quite cute It is a five port fast charger that looks so sweet But here they've got a load of other stuff. The other thing I've got is these fast chargers as well. So uh, like the The things that I'm plugging in on my desk are all plugged into something like this as well So they're over just a high powered USB charger And I've got a few of these for traveling. Look at that. That is just the cute. That is just the cutest Um battery power banks as well. They do all of that But yeah, it's just one of these things that people don't talk about these sort of companies too much like, you know Yilanze and and you green but they're actually what I use for all of the other stuff in my in my studio apart from you know, the The regular kind of things like cameras and stream decks and row casters and all the kind of main stuff that we talk about These ones as well. I've got a couple of these that are for my my laptop and I've also got one that I've literally I nearly said something that I shouldn't say then I've got something that I ordered Which is to allow me to plug in a usb Into the into the ipad and it's effectively usb c doc for or hub for the ipad That then gives you multiple usb inputs and Headphone jack input or output and then also pass through for power. So there's this great one That's just like a strip that fits on the bottom of the ipad Some really things really interesting things happening with ipad with the new ios beta I'll I'll leave it there. But yeah some really interesting things happening So having more inputs and outputs on the the ipad is a is a great great feature Anyway, there we go. I will wrap it up there for anybody watching on the replay though I'll leave a link to some of my other studio videos over here on the the right hand side And feel free to let me know in the the comments or the chat any cool new Tech gear that you're using