My mom was in the hospital after a bad car accident end of last year. She was on a ventilator for a few weeks, and then had a tracheostomy. She couldn’t speak so I bought her a Jot to write what she wanted to say. She loved it, and we were all happy we weren’t wasting any paper and it was much easier than lip reading lol. I’d happily pay $20 if it’s needed again.
That s'mores thing is a complete waste of money and will end up in the landfill. Making s'mores is so simple and doesn't need a gadget like that. What's next? A larger version that helps you make a sandwich by holding the top piece of bread for you? Ridiculous. 😂
@@JohnnyK60 scorpion hunting (aka going around your property to find and capture/relocate or kill) is common in AZ too, so it is at minimum a southwest US "thing."
That and “don’t sit on that cinderblock fence, it has black widows in it” and “don’t let your dog walk in the ditch grass, there’s rattlesnakes in there”.
@@sodapop1794Always shake out those boots and shoes! The worst thing around here is dead mice the cat leaves, but venomous spiders or scorpions are scary!
I had an office job where those Jot boards came in handy. They were good for keeping temporary information retained as we went from file room to office/boardrooms, without later needing to shred paper notes with proprietary information on them.
As someone who currently works at Amazon. We have a transparency code we have to scan to make sure it’s the real item and not fake. You can probably make a complaint for Amazon selling you a fake item.
I got the Jot when I was working as a receptionist. It was great for taking quick notes on phone calls without wasting paper, or worrying about confidential information not being properly discarded
The kids version of the Boogie Board is fantastic. It writes in a subtle multi-color and is far superior in nearly every way to those crappy kids magnetic drawing boards. We have used it with our kid for cross country drives and long flights and she never grows tired of it. We have owned it for 4 years, take it on every trip big or small, and it is still going strong and no scratches on the screen even.
If the jot had any danger of screen burn, I think those smudges it had brand new on the package would’ve been very much permanent. It seems like it’s a very good quality one of those things, they’re usually very dark but that one looks great.
Those boogie board note pads are extremely useful for tabletop games where you need to track disposable information. For example, in a competitive game of magic the gathering two players compete to reduce the others life total from 20 to. 0. This requires accurate tracking, but can also be wasteful if tracked on paper. Players prefer to use those boogie boards for that reason.
While I'd prefer a spindown die or a specialized life counter for Magic there are a handful of card/board games out there that don't have a good way to track life/points if you're not using an app, like star realms or yugioh. Would also be useful to take notes as a dm for dnd etc
I remember using a D20 for MTG back in the day; though it never accounted for having more than 20 life when using something like my old vampire deck. This would be great for any kind of score keeping in general; MTG or otherwise.
I still have my dollar store whit board on the fridge I use for a list and then take a pic of it and I don't need an app, I hate downloading apps because they always want everything on your phone for some reason.
I used to manage a call center that handled sensitive customer information and had a pen and paper free sales floor where the agents would work. Because it was pen and paper free we only used basic boogie boards to write on.
Ok, the boggie board we have on our fridge, but its an older version, my mother in-law bought it for me as a Christmas gift, 8 years ago, it's still going strong, no battery change, no screen burn, and we use it for reminder note's, shopping list's, it's bloody brilliant device, but there isn't an app for it, cheers from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
I do like the Boogie Board. My kid drawing on it and allowing me to save it with the app sounds kind of cool. I will put that one on my wishlist and wait for a sale
The s’mores maker is definitely silly. I have poor dexterity and definitely don’t need that. I’d have issues getting them out! To each there own, I suppose.
I was wondering if it had a use case for someone with limited dexterity in their hands, or someone with only 1 hand or something. Sounds like there's MAYBE a super small niche who'd find it useful, but not enough to justify the production and distribution of the product. I'm sure they'll all end up in a landfill within a few years.
Yeah those marshmallows were not nearly done enough. I like to set mine on fire - puff them out - then use dark chocolate instead of Hershey's. The soft marshmallows melt the chocolate and squish nicely - no need for a contraption to get between me and my smore.
you guys are being over dramatic man. hey, I've got an amazing idea buy the product yourself and make a how to video. you know... cause he can't make a decent video... right?
I have a light similar to (but more functional than) that night light. It's a frosted glass sphere that sits on a base which you plug in, and can be picked up and carried around. It has an app where you can control the color and what effects it has on it, plus what changes when you tap it (color change, effect change, etc). I have it set so that it taps on and off. It's been my bedside lamp for years, and if anything ever happens to it, I'd buy another one without hesitation. Being able to take that light across the room with me when my husband wants to sleep and I'm staying up or carry it around when the power goes out is incredibly useful.
I use the Boogie Board Jot for game nights (mostly D&D and other TTRPGs) and it's great for quick notes and tracking temporary numbers. I don't think it replaces anything in my kit but it certainly adds an element to it.
The Boogie board is good for doing math problems. I have both the jot, A4 and small version. I was running into lighting issues where I couldn't see the screen. I actually love the Boogieboard. It doesn't get much use now as I have an iPad pro with pencil that accomplishes that task.
The s’mores gadget is one of those items that was offered with box tops and postage. Soon to be seen in Ollies Good Stuff Cheap for $1.99. Proving that everything cheap is not always good.
Did anyone else play with those things when they were a little kid that was black and it had the sheet of wax paper over it and you'd draw on it and then you lift it up and it would go away? That is what the JOT is. It's called Magic Slate Paper.
Its purpose is the same as the Magic Slate, but it is not the same thing. The JOT also has the advantage of completely erasing. If you lift up the white plastic sheet of a Magic Slate, it is often easy to see the last thing written of drawn indented into the black sticky material of the Magic Slate. For confidential notes, the JOT is far more secure.
S'more gadgets are almost always useless to me. I've always just thrown the s'mores into the oven. Open and on a plate if in my small convector oven if I'm making 1-3. Wrapped in foil and into the big oven if I'm making more. The idea of microwaving a marshmallow (including in a s'more) is something I abandoned once I was allowed to start using real ovens. (Used to microwave them frequently, but that was when I was around 7)
9:46 Remember back in the 70s when they had the tablets that had a sheet that fell down on to the tablet. You would write on it with the included "pen" which would push the sheet into a black backing. Then to erase it, you just pulled up on the sheet. It worked better than this thing.
I use the boogie board for work.i use the extra large one. Great for my daily todos. I had text written on that thing during covid at my office for two years, came back, wiped it. No screen burn.
12:10 super cool invention.. revolutionary…. I like the idea that you could capture what’s on the screen of that forever with that app…. Or.. you know….. if you don’t have the app…… you can just use your camera app and take a picture in the exact same way. 😂😂😂😂
Are there actually humans out there who put half a chocolate bar on each s'more? I use 2-3 wedges and have chocolate exploding out of the stinking thing. Can't imagine the unholy mess of putting 6 wedges on it!
The s’mores maker is definitely unnecessary. If you’re making s’mores with little kids, they just grab stuff so fast and eat it. They don’t have the patience for such a gadget.
IT wouldn't be the first time something like that happened. Many years back I found that there was a motherboard manufacturer that sold the exact same motherboard as a premium brand sold. It turned out they had contracted that Chinese manufacturer to produce one of their boards. But they didn't have the right to sell those under their own brand. The people at the company that had designed the motherboard were pretty pissed and cut all contact with the Chinese manufacturer. They were also able to stop them from selling the motherboard, or at least they stopped advertising it in the Asian Computer Industry magazine where I saw it.
2:38 wtf is this item?????? I genuinely can’t even wrap my head around why it exist?????? You literally make the entire thing and then at the very end you add an extra step to the process????? Why???? Lol
When you said "s'mores maker" I, recklessly, assumed it "made" the s'mores, like in the microwave, rather than just assembling them after you prepare the marshmallows separately.
I had something like the Jot back in the 90's. If they're similar, then it's just a tinted film with a sticky back, and a neon green plastic plate behind it, pressing on the "screen" causes the film to stick to the neon backing, revealing it's color. if you have dark-tinted sunglasses, you can put some neon material behind it, which is revealed when you touch it to the glass (slime/putty/gak work best due to high surface contact). The eraser button, however, works MUCH better on the Jot!
That is not the real Boon Glo Light. I had one when i was younger. And it did work. The glow was surprisingly bright right after removing the ball and did last longer than expected 😁.
The problem with the real Boon Light was the coating on the balls. The coating wasn't good for you if you ingested or breathed in some of it. So it was discontinued. Many fakes.has popped up. But everyone was as bad as the one in this video.
I actually really like the Jot. I could draw and save art with it. But the Smores thing just seems silly to me. It reminds me of a giant cassette case for some reason.
There's a kid's version of something like this. It's great for quick little drawings or for me to teach him some math, etc. I've also seen versions of this so people can make notes without leaving scraps of paper behind for security and privacy purposes.
I like the boogiboard thing for the fridge. But i almost returned mine because you cant leave it attached to the fridge and pop the pencil out at the same time. Major design limitation imo. Feels cheaper than it ought to, also.
The NON-digital, electric erasable board, is great for young children to practice drawing. (You referred to it as digital.) We have a couple of the cheap ones the grandchildren use daily. Never experienced any image burn, and they have eliminated the rapid depletion of my printer paper. I just downloaded the Jot app. It works with the cheap knockoff.
I have to agree with you. These products are ALL unnecessary and just a WASTE of you're hard earned cash! As far as the Jot pad you can just use your phones camera to save the contents and then further edit the photo to your liking changing the tint, brightness, or whatever and would NEVER spend $20 buck for this. This is just my opinion and others may actually find the Jot pad useful in a multiple person home situation to convey notes/statements. A MUCH CHEAPER dry-erase board does the SAME thing on a fridge and is actually NOT so easily erased with an accidental button push.
I really really really REALLY hate how you always have to hold things toward the camera at an awkward angle. 90% of your products fail SPECIFICALLY because you do that!!! You can leave it on the table my dude we can STILL see it perfectly fine and things will always work better that way.
I use knock off boogie boards. Some of them are real winners. Currently have like a six inch one that's like the size of an iPhone Plus, and is my go-to grocery list maker. Since otherwise on the S24 Ultra, you have to either turn on off-screen memo, and keep on that screen, or open a memo app, keep that open, and it's annoying. The LCD writing displays just make that so much easier. Edit: I do have the fancy BT boogie board as well. They stopped making them, but it actually worked amazingly well and had little lag, in the limited time I had with it. I want to say it was called the scribe. No, it was called Sync; and it would literally show what you're writing on the boogie board in semi-real time, save for like a 2 second lag.
* S'more thing is super pointless. It's not like it can be used to microwave the marshmallow so little kids can make a treat and you have to clean the tabs anyway so it's still messy. * 'Boon' Glo would be nice if the orbs actually glowed in the dark. I imagine waking up and grabbing one of the glow in the dark orbs to navigate to the bathroom. Maybe the OG product was better? * The problem with the Jot is that the second they have you pull out your smart phone, WHY would you ever need to use the Jot? If you have your phone, "Hey Siri, text mom 'we need eggs, milk and bacon'" is going to be far more convenient. But anything tech related is going to run into the same problem; as Marques Brownlee put it "Smart phones are OP."
That smores 'maker' is just a smores 'assembler'. What a load of junk and plastic waste. That's honestly infuriating lol. Yeah, a lot of junk gadgets in this one. So glad you do this though. That way, we can watch to see if items are useful instead of all of us just ordering stuff to fill landfills. I LOVE your Freakin' channel!
Sometimes I'm concerned about whether a review video ends up paying for the product/s. This is one of those times, 60 bucks for a dim LED lamp and some plastic balls. I hope in the after 1-year video you can say you were able to get a refund.
The s'mores maker is something that you'd buy for your grandchildren, see them use it once or twice, and then literally never see it again, because their parents packed it up along with their other kids' toys and put it in the basement.
The s'mores gadget is just a gimmick to get the Hershey's name in front of your eyeballs. Too bad the moon glow balls didn't work. They would have been cool. But it is a cool lamp but a bit expensive. The scanned image in black and white looks way better than the green and black one. But kind of a cool device. PS - The fish aren't that bad. Cheers 🙂👍
I think I would rather use something like Rocketbook, which has several pages, uploads using your phone's camera, and it's app uses OCR to convert handwriting to text and then is able to send it to several different organizer programs.
My friend in AZ had a screened-in area in his backyard. He rigged some pipes that sprayed mist of water t cool off. He had uv lights and said they were for lighting up scorpions. That the scorpions seek out heat and will climb up your pant leg. Um yeaaah, I'll stay inside for now.
The boogie board is quite useful, but the app is pointless. Yeah, it converts the image to black and white, but it seems slow, and it would be just as useful to take a photo of the boogie board.
I think that’s wayyy too much chocolate for a s’more. I’ve been making them in the microwave as a Friday treat and I use so much less, or, better yet, I use the marshmallows that come with the chocolate INSIDE. I used to have a Hershey S’mores Maker that was cutely designed, and had a little sterno can you could really toast your marshmallows over an actual flame. It had little arms that then held the s’more together as it cooled a bit. But having such a specified product that took up so much room. It’s fun with kids for a bit but it was just too much. Hersheys is really trying to cash in on s’mores beyond just making their chocolate to be THE s’mores chocolate.
I remember hearing about burn-in on TVs if you left them on a static image and that was a big worry for me when I bought my plasma back in the mid 2000s. Never had an issue and I definitely gave it lots of opportunities to throughout the years lol. So that burn-in test was as expected, at least in my very limited experience :s Also the viewing angle seems pretty iffy on that writing pad. I wouldn't want to be right up to something if I needed to read a message.
S’mores should only have 1/4 of a bar of chocolate (That just looked way too hard to eat) and one or two marshmallows. And once you’ve toasted the marshmallow, you’re done. That’s literally the only hard part. That thing is pointless. At least get a microwaveable s’mores maker. I’m sure it can’t hold a candle to the fire-roasting, but at least it does something.
From what I could find the Boon Glo nightlight never worked as well as advertised. Other 3rd party reviews show that the balls don't glow very brightly. Even Boon's own marketing video showed the balls barely glowing when they took them off the base. The one you got likely is a knockoff, or leftovers from the original product, but it doesn't seem like it ever worked well.
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Who else would like a review/comparison of the best UV lights to hunt scorpions with?
Also the best sticks to prop alligators mouths open with Freakin' Extreme Reviews
Definitely. UV has a lot of purposes besudes scopions.
For the glow ball, it said to push the slider up to the first click and leave it there for at least 2 minutes before removing them from the sockets.
I heard that you can use something thicker (like a finger) to draw thick lines. Or even swipe your hand over it to make the whole screen grren 😉.
My mom was in the hospital after a bad car accident end of last year. She was on a ventilator for a few weeks, and then had a tracheostomy. She couldn’t speak so I bought her a Jot to write what she wanted to say. She loved it, and we were all happy we weren’t wasting any paper and it was much easier than lip reading lol. I’d happily pay $20 if it’s needed again.
The marshmallow was not toasted enough to melt the chocolate.
I'd be interested to see how the balls glow after all day in the sun
That s'mores thing is a complete waste of money and will end up in the landfill. Making s'mores is so simple and doesn't need a gadget like that. What's next? A larger version that helps you make a sandwich by holding the top piece of bread for you? Ridiculous. 😂
No, the next version is Wi-Fi integrated
ai smore maker
@@acousticdoug and has a touchscreen
The nonchalant way you said this is the flashlight I used to hunt scorpions with.
I was wondering if that's a Vegas "thing"?
@@JohnnyK60 scorpion hunting (aka going around your property to find and capture/relocate or kill) is common in AZ too, so it is at minimum a southwest US "thing."
That and “don’t sit on that cinderblock fence, it has black widows in it” and “don’t let your dog walk in the ditch grass, there’s rattlesnakes in there”.
@@JohnnyK60 We do it in South Africa too, I'm sure in Australia too, rather find them outside with the UV light than inside your shoes
@@sodapop1794Always shake out those boots and shoes! The worst thing around here is dead mice the cat leaves, but venomous spiders or scorpions are scary!
Ah yes, the old adage of "A solution in search of a problem."
I may be stupid but I don't think any of those are necessary 🤣
doesn’t matter if it makes them money. just more plastic to end up in the ocean. 😢
I had an office job where those Jot boards came in handy. They were good for keeping temporary information retained as we went from file room to office/boardrooms, without later needing to shred paper notes with proprietary information on them.
As someone who currently works at Amazon. We have a transparency code we have to scan to make sure it’s the real item and not fake. You can probably make a complaint for Amazon selling you a fake item.
I actually see a lot of fakes on Amazon.
@@johnbgood52*mostly
I got the Jot when I was working as a receptionist. It was great for taking quick notes on phone calls without wasting paper, or worrying about confidential information not being properly discarded
The 29 cent magic tablet would do the same thing. Showing my age there….$1.00 or $1.25 magic tablet usually next to the Wooly Willy…
The kids version of the Boogie Board is fantastic. It writes in a subtle multi-color and is far superior in nearly every way to those crappy kids magnetic drawing boards. We have used it with our kid for cross country drives and long flights and she never grows tired of it. We have owned it for 4 years, take it on every trip big or small, and it is still going strong and no scratches on the screen even.
If the jot had any danger of screen burn, I think those smudges it had brand new on the package would’ve been very much permanent. It seems like it’s a very good quality one of those things, they’re usually very dark but that one looks great.
Just go buy a magic slate.
JOT - I can take a picture with my phone of a much cheaper chalk board, notepad, or dry erase. Those things would be in color.
Exactly
But then you couldn’t brag that you got to use the high tech app 😂
👍🤠 I had a Boogie Board after my voice box got taken out. It was a life saver. Don’t know about the Jot, that was 7 years ago.
I hope you played catch with Bailey after the review cuz you were teasing her. Lol
Those boogie board note pads are extremely useful for tabletop games where you need to track disposable information. For example, in a competitive game of magic the gathering two players compete to reduce the others life total from 20 to. 0. This requires accurate tracking, but can also be wasteful if tracked on paper. Players prefer to use those boogie boards for that reason.
So you are saying they are useless to people that aren't dweebs
I am an avid Magic player and never used something like this to track life points but i do agree it would likely do the job well.
@@djkanyetwitty I made 8 grand playing magic last year. U prolly don't even have a job lol
While I'd prefer a spindown die or a specialized life counter for Magic there are a handful of card/board games out there that don't have a good way to track life/points if you're not using an app, like star realms or yugioh. Would also be useful to take notes as a dm for dnd etc
I remember using a D20 for MTG back in the day; though it never accounted for having more than 20 life when using something like my old vampire deck.
This would be great for any kind of score keeping in general; MTG or otherwise.
I still have my dollar store whit board on the fridge I use for a list and then take a pic of it and I don't need an app, I hate downloading apps because they always want everything on your phone for some reason.
I hate apps, but guess they're necessary. ☺☺
I used to manage a call center that handled sensitive customer information and had a pen and paper free sales floor where the agents would work.
Because it was pen and paper free we only used basic boogie boards to write on.
Ok, the boggie board we have on our fridge, but its an older version, my mother in-law bought it for me as a Christmas gift, 8 years ago, it's still going strong, no battery change, no screen burn, and we use it for reminder note's, shopping list's, it's bloody brilliant device, but there isn't an app for it, cheers from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
I do like the Boogie Board. My kid drawing on it and allowing me to save it with the app sounds kind of cool. I will put that one on my wishlist and wait for a sale
The s’mores maker is definitely silly. I have poor dexterity and definitely don’t need that. I’d have issues getting them out! To each there own, I suppose.
I was wondering if it had a use case for someone with limited dexterity in their hands, or someone with only 1 hand or something. Sounds like there's MAYBE a super small niche who'd find it useful, but not enough to justify the production and distribution of the product. I'm sure they'll all end up in a landfill within a few years.
Also, you still have to toast the marshmallows separately. Seems like extra work to me.
@@laurahubbard6906 That was the worst part by far.
The "Wish Special" night light. 😊
S'mores need the marshmallows to be hot to melt the chocolate!
Yeah those marshmallows were not nearly done enough. I like to set mine on fire - puff them out - then use dark chocolate instead of Hershey's. The soft marshmallows melt the chocolate and squish nicely - no need for a contraption to get between me and my smore.
Exactly. My goodness
This. It hurt me inside deeply to see the non gooeyness.
you guys are being over dramatic man.
hey, I've got an amazing idea
buy the product yourself and make a how to video.
you know... cause he can't make a decent video... right?
🙄🙄🙄🙄
The best product was the package opener
10:46, famous quote here, "I digress." - James White
Oh, come on.
@@EmeraldHill-vo1cswe shall see
I have a light similar to (but more functional than) that night light. It's a frosted glass sphere that sits on a base which you plug in, and can be picked up and carried around. It has an app where you can control the color and what effects it has on it, plus what changes when you tap it (color change, effect change, etc). I have it set so that it taps on and off. It's been my bedside lamp for years, and if anything ever happens to it, I'd buy another one without hesitation. Being able to take that light across the room with me when my husband wants to sleep and I'm staying up or carry it around when the power goes out is incredibly useful.
I use the Boogie Board Jot for game nights (mostly D&D and other TTRPGs) and it's great for quick notes and tracking temporary numbers. I don't think it replaces anything in my kit but it certainly adds an element to it.
The Boogie board is good for doing math problems. I have both the jot, A4 and small version. I was running into lighting issues where I couldn't see the screen. I actually love the Boogieboard. It doesn't get much use now as I have an iPad pro with pencil that accomplishes that task.
The smores thing not only unnecessary but way too much chocolate for a smores. Three little hersheys bar segments is more than enough for one smore.
I prefer a Hershey piece as large as my graham crackers
Don't be silly, if you use less than half a bar, Hershey's doesn't make as much selling chocolate, then the s'mores maker has no purpose.
Actually, a Reese peanut butter cup is the ONLY way to eat a s'more 😎
@@DavidKulasiewicz That is delicious but the classic hershey's is hard to beat with the nostalgia factor.
When I was a kid, I'd take a single square of chocolate and put it inside the marshmallow
The s’mores gadget is one of those items that was offered with box tops and postage. Soon to be seen in Ollies Good Stuff Cheap for $1.99. Proving that everything cheap is not always good.
I love your enthusiasm for exploring the nonsense world of things!
Did anyone else play with those things when they were a little kid that was black and it had the sheet of wax paper over it and you'd draw on it and then you lift it up and it would go away? That is what the JOT is. It's called Magic Slate Paper.
Its purpose is the same as the Magic Slate, but it is not the same thing. The JOT also has the advantage of completely erasing. If you lift up the white plastic sheet of a Magic Slate, it is often easy to see the last thing written of drawn indented into the black sticky material of the Magic Slate. For confidential notes, the JOT is far more secure.
S'more gadgets are almost always useless to me. I've always just thrown the s'mores into the oven. Open and on a plate if in my small convector oven if I'm making 1-3. Wrapped in foil and into the big oven if I'm making more.
The idea of microwaving a marshmallow (including in a s'more) is something I abandoned once I was allowed to start using real ovens. (Used to microwave them frequently, but that was when I was around 7)
9:46 Remember back in the 70s when they had the tablets that had a sheet that fell down on to the tablet. You would write on it with the included "pen" which would push the sheet into a black backing. Then to erase it, you just pulled up on the sheet. It worked better than this thing.
It was a slate, I loved that thing!
Whiteboard with printer
“A UV light I use to hunt scorpions with.” Nope! Nope! Nope!
Yay! It's Friday and a new Freaking Review! Awesome!
at least your "Boon" is a limited edition.
I use the boogie board for work.i use the extra large one. Great for my daily todos.
I had text written on that thing during covid at my office for two years, came back, wiped it. No screen burn.
12:10 super cool invention.. revolutionary…. I like the idea that you could capture what’s on the screen of that forever with that app…. Or.. you know….. if you don’t have the app…… you can just use your camera app and take a picture in the exact same way. 😂😂😂😂
1 = crap to trash, 2= report as counterfeit and get your money back, 3=I could see it having some use but I can type notes on my phone.
👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Are there actually humans out there who put half a chocolate bar on each s'more? I use 2-3 wedges and have chocolate exploding out of the stinking thing. Can't imagine the unholy mess of putting 6 wedges on it!
The s’mores maker is definitely unnecessary. If you’re making s’mores with little kids, they just grab stuff so fast and eat it. They don’t have the patience for such a gadget.
Neither do I and I'm not a kid. 😂😂
Half a hersey's bar for 1 s'more is a crazy ratio
Right about that. Too much chocolate... Besides, if the marshmallow was hot that Choc would melt all over the place!
Two or three squares max. :)
If Hersey is selling or licensing the device, they want you to put as much as possible on, that way they can sell more Hersey's Bars.
I bet the nightlight is actually an OEM and Boon just printed a logo on it. You either got the unbranded, or an alternative version
IT wouldn't be the first time something like that happened. Many years back I found that there was a motherboard manufacturer that sold the exact same motherboard as a premium brand sold. It turned out they had contracted that Chinese manufacturer to produce one of their boards. But they didn't have the right to sell those under their own brand. The people at the company that had designed the motherboard were pretty pissed and cut all contact with the Chinese manufacturer. They were also able to stop them from selling the motherboard, or at least they stopped advertising it in the Asian Computer Industry magazine where I saw it.
2:38 wtf is this item?????? I genuinely can’t even wrap my head around why it exist?????? You literally make the entire thing and then at the very end you add an extra step to the process????? Why???? Lol
Making s'mores alone indoors in a microwave as a middle aged person is the saddest thing I can at the moment. This is $10 plastic sadness.
The S'mores thing is one of the stupidest things I've ever seen. Let's take the process of making s'mores and make it as complicated as possible.
Our boogie board had the same thing written on it for a month or two. It didn't burn into anything.
The S'Mores maker is the most idiotic contraption you have reviewed yet😊😊😊😊
When you were asking if it's necessary it made me think of this part on High Anxiety. ruclips.net/video/OvMG5U3TJnk/видео.htmlsi=tCTnm7qNb1pTM9Zl
When you said "s'mores maker" I, recklessly, assumed it "made" the s'mores, like in the microwave, rather than just assembling them after you prepare the marshmallows separately.
The only thing glowing with that counterfeit piece is the guys bank account. 😮. The s’more thing I am with you do we really need it.
I would of thought the smores maker was meant to be microwaved... not just a way to stack your smores.. silly idea
Love your videos! Keep up the fantastic and entertaining work!
S'mores are supposed to be burned, not lightly toasted, lol.
For less than $20 you can stick a white board to your fridge and take pictures of it with your phone. And that can save multiple colors.
The Jot would be great for. the Pictionary game !
Wait you can hunt scorpions with a UV light????
Yeah they glow it’s pretty cool I remember seeing on crocodile hunter and dirty jobs with Mike row
They glow when exposed to UV.
I don’t know if all species glow?
I had something like the Jot back in the 90's. If they're similar, then it's just a tinted film with a sticky back, and a neon green plastic plate behind it, pressing on the "screen" causes the film to stick to the neon backing, revealing it's color.
if you have dark-tinted sunglasses, you can put some neon material behind it, which is revealed when you touch it to the glass (slime/putty/gak work best due to high surface contact).
The eraser button, however, works MUCH better on the Jot!
That is not the real Boon Glo Light. I had one when i was younger. And it did work. The glow was surprisingly bright right after removing the ball and did last longer than expected 😁.
The problem with the real Boon Light was the coating on the balls. The coating wasn't good for you if you ingested or breathed in some of it. So it was discontinued. Many fakes.has popped up. But everyone was as bad as the one in this video.
i was fully expecting the smore thing to go in the microwave
Meh....😑
More junk for problems that don't exist.😒
I actually really like the Jot. I could draw and save art with it. But the Smores thing just seems silly to me. It reminds me of a giant cassette case for some reason.
the bank i go to the tellers write with jot for writings stuff down.
The s’mores thing is just more cr@p to clean.
Hates smores, but love each item separately lol!
There's a kid's version of something like this. It's great for quick little drawings or for me to teach him some math, etc. I've also seen versions of this so people can make notes without leaving scraps of paper behind for security and privacy purposes.
I like the boogiboard thing for the fridge. But i almost returned mine because you cant leave it attached to the fridge and pop the pencil out at the same time. Major design limitation imo. Feels cheaper than it ought to, also.
🤪 I thought those things were eggs!!
I've owned the Boogie board for years and it works great. You have to use it once in a while because the battery will die with non use.
I thought the smores were going to go in the microwave
The NON-digital, electric erasable board, is great for young children to practice drawing. (You referred to it as digital.) We have a couple of the cheap ones the grandchildren use daily. Never experienced any image burn, and they have eliminated the rapid depletion of my printer paper.
I just downloaded the Jot app. It works with the cheap knockoff.
$60 for a nightlight.. *NO*
My God the chewing noises 😬
None of them worth it to me
No argument here!
S'more what a waste of money
I have to agree with you. These products are ALL unnecessary and just a WASTE of you're hard earned cash! As far as the Jot pad you can just use your phones camera to save the contents and then further edit the photo to your liking changing the tint, brightness, or whatever and would NEVER spend $20 buck for this. This is just my opinion and others may actually find the Jot pad useful in a multiple person home situation to convey notes/statements. A MUCH CHEAPER dry-erase board does the SAME thing on a fridge and is actually NOT so easily erased with an accidental button push.
I really really really REALLY hate how you always have to hold things toward the camera at an awkward angle. 90% of your products fail SPECIFICALLY because you do that!!! You can leave it on the table my dude we can STILL see it perfectly fine and things will always work better that way.
I use knock off boogie boards. Some of them are real winners. Currently have like a six inch one that's like the size of an iPhone Plus, and is my go-to grocery list maker. Since otherwise on the S24 Ultra, you have to either turn on off-screen memo, and keep on that screen, or open a memo app, keep that open, and it's annoying. The LCD writing displays just make that so much easier.
Edit: I do have the fancy BT boogie board as well. They stopped making them, but it actually worked amazingly well and had little lag, in the limited time I had with it. I want to say it was called the scribe. No, it was called Sync; and it would literally show what you're writing on the boogie board in semi-real time, save for like a 2 second lag.
* S'more thing is super pointless. It's not like it can be used to microwave the marshmallow so little kids can make a treat and you have to clean the tabs anyway so it's still messy.
* 'Boon' Glo would be nice if the orbs actually glowed in the dark. I imagine waking up and grabbing one of the glow in the dark orbs to navigate to the bathroom. Maybe the OG product was better?
* The problem with the Jot is that the second they have you pull out your smart phone, WHY would you ever need to use the Jot? If you have your phone, "Hey Siri, text mom 'we need eggs, milk and bacon'" is going to be far more convenient. But anything tech related is going to run into the same problem; as Marques Brownlee put it "Smart phones are OP."
I definitely think the Smores maker is along the line of the Heinz keychain. Stuff that's design-wise not useless but is useless in actuality.
That smores 'maker' is just a smores 'assembler'. What a load of junk and plastic waste. That's honestly infuriating lol. Yeah, a lot of junk gadgets in this one. So glad you do this though. That way, we can watch to see if items are useful instead of all of us just ordering stuff to fill landfills. I LOVE your Freakin' channel!
Sometimes I'm concerned about whether a review video ends up paying for the product/s. This is one of those times, 60 bucks for a dim LED lamp and some plastic balls. I hope in the after 1-year video you can say you were able to get a refund.
Bailey is the best cohost❤
6:28 James in the closet.
The s'mores maker is something that you'd buy for your grandchildren, see them use it once or twice, and then literally never see it again, because their parents packed it up along with their other kids' toys and put it in the basement.
The s'mores gadget is just a gimmick to get the Hershey's name in front of your eyeballs.
Too bad the moon glow balls didn't work. They would have been cool. But it is a cool lamp but a bit expensive.
The scanned image in black and white looks way better than the green and black one. But kind of a cool device.
PS - The fish aren't that bad.
Cheers 🙂👍
I think I would rather use something like Rocketbook, which has several pages, uploads using your phone's camera, and it's app uses OCR to convert handwriting to text and then is able to send it to several different organizer programs.
My friend in AZ had a screened-in area in his backyard. He rigged some pipes that sprayed mist of water t cool off.
He had uv lights and said they were for lighting up scorpions. That the scorpions seek out heat and will climb up your pant leg.
Um yeaaah, I'll stay inside for now.
The boogie board is quite useful, but the app is pointless. Yeah, it converts the image to black and white, but it seems slow, and it would be just as useful to take a photo of the boogie board.
I think that’s wayyy too much chocolate for a s’more. I’ve been making them in the microwave as a Friday treat and I use so much less, or, better yet, I use the marshmallows that come with the chocolate INSIDE.
I used to have a Hershey S’mores Maker that was cutely designed, and had a little sterno can you could really toast your marshmallows over an actual flame. It had little arms that then held the s’more together as it cooled a bit. But having such a specified product that took up so much room. It’s fun with kids for a bit but it was just too much.
Hersheys is really trying to cash in on s’mores beyond just making their chocolate to be THE s’mores chocolate.
actually NOTHING what you are showing on ur channel is UNNECESSARY
I remember hearing about burn-in on TVs if you left them on a static image and that was a big worry for me when I bought my plasma back in the mid 2000s. Never had an issue and I definitely gave it lots of opportunities to throughout the years lol. So that burn-in test was as expected, at least in my very limited experience :s Also the viewing angle seems pretty iffy on that writing pad. I wouldn't want to be right up to something if I needed to read a message.
S’mores should only have 1/4 of a bar of chocolate (That just looked way too hard to eat) and one or two marshmallows. And once you’ve toasted the marshmallow, you’re done. That’s literally the only hard part. That thing is pointless. At least get a microwaveable s’mores maker. I’m sure it can’t hold a candle to the fire-roasting, but at least it does something.
"Those are not for you, Bailey"...Bailey be like, "Dude, they're round, they're within my reach...of course they're for me".
If only there was a way I could collect a penny for every one of these pieces of cr4p that people bought. 💰💰💰
How long before you become one of the sellers so you get your share of the pennies?
From what I could find the Boon Glo nightlight never worked as well as advertised. Other 3rd party reviews show that the balls don't glow very brightly. Even Boon's own marketing video showed the balls barely glowing when they took them off the base. The one you got likely is a knockoff, or leftovers from the original product, but it doesn't seem like it ever worked well.
I use a very similar note pad like that for putting down thoughts on things I need to do when recording/editing. It's pretty helpful.