 Hi everyone, welcome back to GameDev Academy. I'm Shane and today I want to talk to you about the screenbar plus by Ben Q So what that is? It's this thing that I have up here, which is essentially just a desk lamp But it's a very clever and might I say very sexy desk lamp that works to Really help with eye strain when you are working spending a lot of time in front of a screen like I do And I sort of have to do a lot of work towards YouTube and my creative stuff in an evening when I'm not in the day job So having a light like this that's not going to cause strain to my eyes is a really Welcome addition to my little setup here So the reason that we're talking about this today is because this was sent to me by a nice lady called summer at Ben Q For the purposes of creating this review video. So that's what we'll do today So what it does what it's all about is as you can see it's a light bar It has LEDs inside and these are designed to shoot straight down so it illuminates this area of a desk So if I turn that off you can see the effect that it's having Turn it back on. There we go So it does that and one of the main strengths that that has is that it doesn't create any screen glare at all Which is nice. It also lights your desk up pretty evenly So obviously my case I've got a longer desk But the area that I'm using so I need to be able to see my keyboard And all that kind of stuff I can see really clearly and I'm not getting any kind of spots of light It's all filled in nicely which is much easier on the eye another feature that I really like about this Because my desk is usually full of crap is that the screen bar plus sits on top of the monitor So that means that it's not taking up any space whatsoever on your desk Which really does help me out the way that it does that it's just got a really nice weighted clip I'll show you let's take it off Here we go So you can see it's got this is just a weight and it just clips on to your Monitor and there's that's really all there is to install it. So if I now just throw this back on double here There we go, and that's all you've got to do to install it nice and easy And the final thing the kind of pièce de résistance the difference here between the Screenbar and the screenbar plus is this little bad boy here. This is the dial So you can use that to turn it on and off which is pretty straightforward, but it also does other cool things So if I just do that That button is checking the ambient light in the room That's the reason it turns its own light off and then it illuminates it as much as it needs to To reduce the ice string. It's big selling point. We can also use the dials There's a little button that I can use to drop the brightness of the light all the way down or I can bring It back up and if I press that button again It'll change it to allow me to change the color temperature of the light as well So if we go this way it goes really warm towards the orange side of the light spectrum And if we go the other way it goes that kind of really clinical looking blue and I tend to like it somewhere in the middle It kind of matches the the backlight I've got there, which I quite like it comes in This box. It's really well packaged Everything is well, there's only like three things to it. So you get the light you get a USB cable Which plugs into either your monitor or your computer and you get the dial that's part of the USB cable And that's it. Oh, and you get the weight as well You got to clip it into the weight the instructions are ridiculously straightforward You see it consists of a b and c it really is that simple and one thing that I have found incredibly useful about this Is that it comes on with the monitor. So if I knock the monitor off here You see that the light goes off and the room gets much darker when I turn it back on The light comes back on immediately and remembers the settings that you had last time So my thoughts on this overall are that I really like it. So it is quite expensive about 90 pounds here in the UK And I'd normally wouldn't personally look to spend that much on a lamp, but now that I have it Let's say that in the future. I get to build my own. Let's say YouTube office I've got my monitor. I know I'm going to be working at night I would definitely add one of these to each monitor that I'm planning to work on I do think they're that good, but it's one of those things that I think you've got to see for yourself Experience the benefits to kind of understand what you're missing. I could get most of what I'm getting here from a Normal lamp. There are color-changing lamps, but it's just convenience It works for me and I do really like and I'll be keeping this and using it for you know as long as it lasts It's not all positive one of the downsides of this I tend to use webcams to shoot a lot of my tutorial videos And you can see with this clipping to the top it means that I've had to move my webcam to a different monitor Which is not bad because it allows me to have a bit of an angle, but it does remove some flexibility for my setup So yeah, it's not all amazing. There are some downsides as well. So in summary Yes, it's expensive, but I do like it and next time it comes to creating a Full setup for my workspace. I would include one of these. I do think they're that good So if you want to check the product out, I'll put a link in the description below So go and have a look if you liked this video Then do the thumbs up thing if you didn't like it do the thumbs down it will hurt my ego But you have that power so you enjoy it if you've got any thoughts on it then drop a comment down below as well Thanks to all my super duper patrons over on patreon You guys continue to help me make these videos and I genuinely appreciate it. Thank you so much for that So that will do it. Thanks for watching and I will see you in the next video Which hopefully will be coming very soon. I'm working on a new Maya tutorial. Okay. See you later