I am always a sucker for noise cancellation, and when I heard there was a pair of Sony noise cancelling headphones also with dual connectivity, I was sold. I saved up my money and purchased it as soon as I had enough. As a disclaimer, I had bought a used pair off of Amazon with the title ‘Used- Very Good’. The headset packaging was extremely damaged, but the headset was fine. Amazon didn’t say the packaging would be damaged, but I suppose that’s what I get for buying a used pair of headphones. Anyways, after using this headset for a few days I’ve already come to realize it’s pros and cons.1. Dual connectivity is AMAZING for me. As I am always on a call while playing games, now I don’t have to put an airpod in and only have one ear of my headphone on. However, with this being said there are two cons I have: You can only use the microphone in one place. So if I am on a call and then decide I want to join game chat, I cannot use the mic for both calls and instead I have to either switch headsets and put an airpod or not talk at all. Another con is that (on an iPhone) the game audio sometimes is way louder than the phone audio, and I have my phone audio all the way up. It makes it hard to hear, but there is a simple solution- turning my game audio down in the volume mixer and turn it up when I’m off the call.2. The noise cancellation is also AMAZING. It’s wonderful to not have to hear the background noise of my fan while playing a game. However, the slight con is that this noise cancellation is nothing like airpod pro or air max. Though it is still great, apple has a much better noise cancellation. So if you are hoping the noise canceling will be just like that, instead think of it as noise cancelling with the ability to still hear some things unless your audio is turned all the way up.3. The headset has a long battery life. It lasts me two days without charging, and it also takes a USB-C which has nice since assuming you might be getting this for Playstation, you can use the same charger for your controllers and headset.4. One of the most annoying Cons about this headset is whenever you want to switch it from PC to Playstation, you have to move the USB bluetooth adapter. Which is fine, whatever just a bit annoying. However, as most people have said the EQ does NOT transfer to Playstation. This is very annoying, but I’m keeping my hopes up at some point this will be fixed and maybe there will be a phone app that we can control the headset from.Overall this is a pretty amazing headset. But do I think it’s worth $300? No, that’s why I bought it used and for $25 cheaper. But is it an amazing headset? Yes. It is lightweight and has everything I need. If you’re willing to drop the money, I highly recommend it. But sometimes the audio can get glitchy, only for a moment, though.**UPDATE**I recently returned my headphones in exchange for a new pair since they continued to glitch. The headphones still live up to what I have said, and now work better. Thank you Amazon for the great customer service :).

Headphones,AILIHEN C8 Lightweight Foldable Headphones with Microphone and Volume Control for iPhone,iPad,iPod,Android Smartphones,PC,Laptop,Mac,Tablet,Headphone Headset for Music Gaming(Grey/Green) by AilihenThis is a really nice pair of headphones that are working really well for me and my family. They produce some pretty great sounds that are very clear with no static or hissing even when turned all the way up. They are made well and the cable is nice and thick and attached to the earbuds really well. I have no problem plugging the 3.5 mm jack into my Samsung Galaxy S6 and my wife's iPhone 6, even with a case on. They fit my ears nice and are comfortable to wear even for long periods of time without causing any types of ear aches or pains. It has inline controls for playing or pausing the music. The headphones also fold up so they are easy to store or travel with. Love these headphones.I am a fan of the mid sized over ear headphones. These fold down for storage and have a nice braided cord with an in line volume control and a single button that functions as your home button on an I phone but also plays/pauses and answers calls. There is an in line mic as well that has decent audio quality as well. I appreciate the low profile 3.5 jack that fits around cell phone cases. Sound wise these work out well with clear highs, appropriate mids and, tight punchy lows. The low lows are not completely there but overall the soundscape works well. These wear comfortably. I will be using these for my kids tablets mostly. I hate having to mess with Bluetooth pairing for them and the cords just work.I had been looking for foldable headphones for the gym. I often use Bluetooth ones, but I like having corded ones for long bouts of cardio after having a few instances where my Bluetooth ones died and left my bored for the remainder of my cardio session. These are perfect for my needs. Here are some brief thoughts after getting some use out of them:-Sound: The sound is on par or above expectations for headphones in this price range. The sound is clear and crisp. The bass is medium, but better than expected. When turning my phone to max volume these are loud. No worries about them being loud enough.-Comfort: These have ample padding around the ear. When wearing them for longer periods I forget I'm wearing them.-Style: In my opinion these look really good for a $20 set of headphones. I got the lime/gray color and I really like how it looks.Overall, there's nothing bad to be said about these. They work great, look nice and are super comfortable to wear. I was sent them for testing and review purposes. That has no bearing on my rating or review of them.I got the Lime Green and Grey colored headphones and they match the online pictures perfectly in color and design.I purchased this product at a discount / free for me to test and review. I am not affiliated with this company and make no promises of a good rating while reviewing the product. I test the product thoroughly and do my best to provide detailed reviews to other Amazon customers so they may make informed decisions.

I didn't have high expectations for the solar camera set but it really surprised me, especially at $239 price point.The install is straightforward and the Android app is great. Motion detection and alarm zones are fully customizable, you have an option to block out a portion of recording for neighbour privacy, a way to adjust night mode to work with any additional lighting, etc. It also works well for live playback, 2-way talk and watching recorded events.The signal is strong! I have one camera at 35m (115ft) away from base station with one wall in the way and another at 28m (92ft) away with 4 walls in the way. In both cases I get 3/4 bars ("rather strong") signal and no signal drop issues. The only thing to note is that the base station needs to be connected to your router via an ethernet cable so if your router is in the basement and cameras are farther away then you might need to run an ethernet cable to place the base station in a better spot. It should work as is in most cases though.The video quality is not as good as in stock pictures in the ad but in my experience, it's great for a wireless system and on par with wired 3MP camera systems. I included a 13x crop of an Amazon delivery van thats ~7m (24ft) away from the camera to give you an idea of what to expect.The motion detection on the camera is good as well. I've only had 2 false positives in 3 weeks (due to heavy rain) and I have the cameras set to notify immediately (there is also an option to use AI to verify event before notifying). I've also only experienced a few missing events - my toddler waddling down the driveway (under supervision), but I can't fault the camera there because he looks tiny when he's 8m (26ft) from the camera, especially if he's also wearing a grey sweater that blends in.Finally, I was wondering if the Solar Cam version is a gimmick but I think that's actually the version to get. I had a problem with a microphone in one camera, so the customer service sent me a replacement "wireless cam" (customer service is awesome btw!). I found that "solar cam" has slightly better range and motion detection. Take that with a grain of salt, since that's a sample size of one but solar panels are also doing a great job keeping cameras charged in mid-November, even with 10+ events a day.I usually try to balance my reviews with both the good and the bad but in this case I really don't have any cons. I'd like for motion detection to have an even more sensitive setting (I have sensitivity turned all the wayup in the app and want more), even at the risk of increasing false positives. Also, even though the video is stored locally on the base station, it's accessed over the internet and you don't really know who you're giving access to your video and audio to. That's also true for most other brands aside perhaps from Amazon Ring and Google Nest.I put these cameras in locations that aren't sensitive so benefits these provide heavily outweigh any privacy concerns. Both the app and the cameras are working really well - I wish more companies could provide experience this good! Hope this helps!!

I was really hoping to get to review this headset, it’s been on my radar since before it became available on Amazon. Sony doesn’t typically making gaming headsets that aren’t strictly for the PlayStation console, so this hardware is kind of a big deal (especially when you look at it alongside their game releases on PC, which is starting to get more frequent of a thing).Obviously, these still are designed to match the PS5 (even if it’s compatible with PC and kinda marketed for both platforms). This headset shares a lot of the same DNA as the WH1000 XM5 headphones, the headband is almost exactly the same on both and so is the pleather material that lines the ear cups and headband. I do know that they don’t share the same drivers because this headset is using 40MM drivers and the XM5 use a new 30MM size. As this supports both Bluetooth and the 2.4GHz dongle (concurrently), I’ve been listening to a lot of music while gaming on my PS5. Yes, you can play music on the PS5 while gaming anyway, but you are limited to the streaming services that have an app for the PS5 and this leaves a lot of them out and sometimes the game audio will completely block out the music or it will stop playing during a cutscene. I could use these as headphones if we were only talking about sound quality, they are really good and I would NOT say that about the sound of most gaming headsets.There are a small number of 1st party integrations with the PS5, like when you adjust the volume on the headsets’s volume knob, you get a on-screen pop up that shows the volume level, same when you mute the headset (and the microphone light on the DualSense controller will turn orange to signify that your mic is muted). There is also the option to “Adjust 3D Audio Profile” in the Sound Settings, under “Audio Output”. It’s possible that this is available for all headsets that support the PS5’s Tempest 3D audio, but I swear that I don’t remember ever having seen it before with my Razer Kaira Pro headset connected.The one big feature that the H9 has over the H7 is Sony’s well regarded Active Noise Cancellation technology. By default, each time you press the button, it cycles through the available options. ANC on, ambient sound mode, both ANC and AMB are turned off like a normal headset that doesn’t support either feature. This is pretty standard for a pair of over-the-ear headphones designed for music, but it’s worth remembering because I was super disappointed with ANC until I realized I was in the mode where ANC and ambient sound were both set to off. I feel like the question that a lot of people will want to know- “Is this headset’s active noise cancellation as good as their flagship headphones?”…I would say that it’s very close (like 90-95% as good).Ultimately, this is still quite pricey for a gaming headset, I think that you need to have an affinity for Sony Products and own either a gaming PC or a PS5 (but most importantly), also have a need for active noise cancellation while you are gaming. Otherwise, this probably just isn’t worth it and the H7 starts to look like the sweet spot in their lineup of headsets.

This light is BRIGHT. I was comparing it to a couple of 60 watt lights, as well as a 70 watt light, and this is considerably brighter than those. I haven't tested the actual output to see if it's really putting out 200 watts, but I want to do that at some to verify it. At this price point, I definitely think it should put out what it's specs say. With the power rating on this light, it's ideally suited to be a key light, but because you can dial it back precisely, it can be used as a fill or even a hair light if you have other lights filling the key light role.This light comes with all the accessories you need, minus one. I'll get to that in a minute. It includes the super heavy-duty power supply with a connector that looks like an XLR microphone connector. Don't get those confused if you do audio! It includes some diffusers in several different colors, which is excellent. I use gels with clips on my other lights, and so the fact that this includes some colored diffusers is great. One weird thing is that several of them were in plastic bags, while a couple of others weren't. Seems like an odd QC issue. As you can see in the images, the light definitely moves into the 6-7K range with the blue diffuser attached. If you want a bluer light, a gel is needed. The diffusers are elastic, and are quite tight around the reflector, so using two at the same time is probably not possible.This light is a 5600K LED light, so its output is going to be on the cool side. You can adjust that, obviously using the included diffusers, or with the use of gels clipped to the included included reflector. The fact that it uses bowens mounts is great, because as a standard, you can attach softboxes or anything else that uses this ubiquitous mount. I have some softboxes that I'm going to test with this light at some point.This light includes some light effects that to me, seemed a bit useless. I tested them out briefly, and they really didn't impress me that much. Each effect has 3 settings, I, II, and III, with the higher number increasing the frequency of the flash. On the III setting, it seems to flash almost constantly. I've seen this feature on a lot of lights recently, and while I've seen it implemented well on some, I'd prefer a light that does what it does well, rather than trying to do it all, and implementing added features poorly.The one thing I wish this light had included was some kind of carrying bag or case. At this price point, I would have loved that, and the inclusion of that would have pushed this from a solid 4 star product into the 5 star range. While this is probably aimed at more of a studio consumer, where the light won't be moved much, if at all, there are a lot of traveling photographers/videographers who would likely appreciate this light, much more so if it had included a padded case of some kind.Other than the few issues I've pointed out, this is a really solid light. If you want a good, professional-quality key light at a moderate price, this is a good light to look at. There are cheaper lights out there as well as more expensive, but for the money, this one checks nearly all the boxes.

I have not been paid for this review, nobody solicited me to write it, I have no relationship with the manufacturer, and I purchased this at full price after reading about it online.This is one of those products you have never heard of, but when you use it, you immediately wished you'd found it a long time ago.As someone who has multiple monitors in front of my eyeballs all day long, I have dozens of windows/apps open across multiple screens and virtual desktops. I have many productivity and utility apps to help me manage all this information that's always screaming for my attention.The Stream Deck gives me a whole new way to interact with my data. In addition to the myriad of keyboard shortcuts, app launchers, menu bar customizers, trackpad gestures and more that I use all day, this thing lets me access some of my most important workflows (and create new ones) by simply pressing a single key. This isn't just a glorified app launcher (although it's a really good at that too). You can chain together a limitless set of actions across your entire system. The dynamic keys mean I can also re-arrange them, create folders for less used actions, and much more.There are also a few 'plugins' that run right on the keys themselves. A have a digital clock and my current WAN IP address always ticking away right in front of me, at a glance.I've only had this for a day, and already I'm starting to experiment with how best it can work for me. Right now I'm finding the volume controls most immediately useful. I can swap between headset, system audio, mute audio, mute microphone, and more all with a simple press of a button. This is way faster than even some of the best third-party audio management apps I use. Example: on video calls… mute! While I can certainly use the app's mute/unmute feature, I always find that I am switching between apps and windows during calls, and the audio controls are not always immediately available. The built-in keyboard audio-controls for Mac/Windows systems are not always reliable. But now I know exactly how to mute/unmute myself regardless of which virtual desktop, full-screen app, screenshare, etc. that I am using. I can quickly put my headset on and press a button to make it active right away. No more having to hope that the OS does the right thing with my audio, while I have a room full of people watching me explain something for 20 seconds before someone is able to remind me “you’re on mute” … NICE!There are some more cool features, like profiles that are activated when a certain app is being used. That means I can dig down into specific applications and create super-efficient workflows on a per-app basis.I'm hardly an expert with this after just a day, but I see a ton of potential here.It's a bit expensive, but it's also a niche product that will easily justify its cost for certain people... me included.

So there is a trend of truly wireless earbuds going around, started by the AirPods. However, security cameras have used the "wireless" moniker for many years, once they found out a way to CONNECT wirelessly to your phone. Before that, you had to buy an expensive CCTV system with the cameras, recorders, and monitors, which combined cost in the thousands. Not to mention the costs of all the professional wiring and set-up needed. It wasn't a problem for those who used the cameras indoors to watch their kids or their belongings in their home. But for those who wanted an outdoor security system (to watch their front door/porch, garage, barn, garden, yard, etc., you had to go that expensive professional set-up route, or attach your camera near an outdoor power outlet. Many people, like me, didn't want that expensive professional set-up, so we resorted to extension chords. But even then, it still limits your options to where you can mount it, especially if you want to mount it somewhere high so intruders and troublemakers can't mess with it.Now, with security cameras having a solar-energy power system, backed up with a rechargeable internal battery, it can finally become truly wireless, free from outlets and extension chords. What I really like about this particular camera is the orbital shape, which makes it look more organic and warm, instead of the rectangular CCTV style cameras you see in the movies. It also makes it much more compact and easier to mount, especially if you have to reach while doing it. Finally, because of its compact shape, the solar panel mounted over provides a somewhat shade/protective awning over it.Set-up is quite simple and straight-forward. Power on the camera, download and run the app on your smartphone, which connects with the camera and allows you to use it as a hub. You can view the live video feed as well as the saved videos on it, as well as to control the camera, such as panning and tilting. The videos are saved onto a microSD card within the camera, but you can also save the videos into your phone once it's been stored into the camera(the videos are saved into segments). There is a microphone on the camera, so you can also hear from your phone of the live feed. There is also a speaker on the camera, so you can communicate to the other side. This is useful if you have a family so you can communicate with your family members when you are away, especially if you have young kids. There is a night video mode, which automatically kicks in when not enough light is detected. This camera stands out in that it has color night mode! I'm sure there are others out there, but this is quite rare, and is the first camera I've owned which has this feature.Overall, I am extremely satisfied with this camera. It allows me a peace of mind when I'm away, and gives me the freedom to mount it anywhere outside my home. And I can change the spot any time I want, being free from chords and the power outlet. The other extremely useful benefit from this is you no longer have to worry about a power outtage. When science and technology meets and comes up with a product such as this, that is a beautiful outcome. Now I can finally travel with peace of mind. The only cause for worry is if you live somewhere that constantly rains the whole day for a week lol.

With my usual remote-work setup, my laptop's built-in camera isn't an option, as I use attached monitors instead of the laptop screen. That's really no loss, as the built-in camera is...let's go with poor quality to be charitable. But that means I'm in need of a decent webcam and a light, as my workspace does have a window that faces me, the daylight can be obscured by the trees outside, the shadow of my monitor and plain old clouds or darkness.While I'm not so sure it's necessarily a good thing for my colleagues that this camera/light combination is good quality, as they're stuck seeing me relatively clearly, it does provide a professional appearance that's a step up from the older, lower quality webcam I had been using. With the light built in, it also saves me space atop my monitor, and a USB slot since I need only one.For some context, my most usual conferencing service is Teams, and I use a separate headset/microphone. With that in mind, I've found this camera to be reliable, easy to use and capable of delivering a high-quality video call. I also use a portable green screen behind me most days so that the background feature in Teams works a little better, and this camera is far better than my previous one at making the background look smooth--few weird bits of my room/screen tend to show on the screen, just me and the backdrop.The 1080p quality is noticeable, and that's the step up from my older 720 camera. I look...less fuzzy, for lack of a better term. I can still soften the focus with Teams's filters. I always looked a little harsh on the previous camera, now I look more "real," without the odd sort of jagged edges. The built in light also helps with that, as it directly surrounds the camera, instead of needing to be mounted next to it, and angled awkwardly, creating an inevitable "Phantom of the Opera" type shadow effect on my face. I also wear glasses, and while I do sometimes see some reflection of the light with this camera and light, it is nowhere near as bad as the annoying circle of light I would see reflected in my lenses before, with a fairly standard ring light setup. The light has three modes (I usually prefer the cool mode) and you can control the brightness by holding the button at the top of the camera (a light tap switches mode, a press and hold changes the brightness).I'm also a fan of the somewhat narrower field of view on this camera, 78 degrees. While still considered wide, this is, to me, far better for a single user than the 90+ degree cameras out there. Those tended to make me as one person on screen look ridiculously small relative to the background. It also might be better to have a narrower field of view if you want to keep people from having too much of a look around you at home.Also easy to use is the built-in privacy slider. In lieu of an obvious cover over the lens, you simply slide a lever and a red disc slips over there camera letting you know it's covered up and should slide it back before trying to go on camera.All things considered, I'm quite happy with this webcam/light combination. It's been an improvement to my remote working, and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it.