I Tested The Most Extreme Toys
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00:00There's a good chance that you've seen a Segway before, but what you probably haven't seen
00:03is the Mecha Kit.
00:05Basically a throne that you can bolt onto the Segway, turning yourself into the modern
00:08day equivalent of a supervillain with working gel blasters to pepper your family members
00:13with.
00:14Hello.
00:15That is so fun.
00:17I never grew out of toys.
00:19I love Lego, I love Darkens, I love board games.
00:21But toys have also gotten a lot more capable in the last decade.
00:25So I've researched, I've tested the 10 most high-end, technologically advanced toys that
00:29make both the kid and the adult inside of me very excited.
00:33Like the square-off chessboard.
00:35I used to play chess obsessively growing up, and this right here is the product of my childhood
00:39dreams.
00:40Because you move a piece, and the board moves back.
00:44Underneath this wooden layer, there's essentially a really precise electromagnet that sits on
00:48rails, glides to wherever it needs to be, turns itself on, moves the piece it needs
00:52to move, and then turns itself off so it doesn't mess anything else up.
00:55It's got AI built into it, all the way from beginner level to literal grandmaster.
00:59But what I think is the craziest part is that this board links to your chess.com profile.
01:04So I can be playing on my board, representing my account against any other player in any
01:08other part of the world.
01:09The only thing I would say is that as somebody who's touched a lot of chess pieces in his
01:13time, the pieces here don't exactly feel like $500 plus quality.
01:18They just lack the weight and definition.
01:20Like this right here is a $10 chess set.
01:22It's not far off that.
01:24Probably partly just so that the pieces are still light enough for the electromagnet to
01:27easily move them.
01:28So we'll give this a strong 8 out of 10, but it's about to get a lot better.
01:33The other part of my childhood?
01:35Art.
01:36Drawing, painting, chess.
01:38That was my weekend.
01:39And so testing this Scribit art robot has kind of felt like a weird full circle moment
01:43for me.
01:44Like I'm back to art, but now from the perspective of tech as a reviewer.
01:48A line is a dot that went for a walk.
01:51Interesting quote.
01:52But I mean, by that metric, we're about to go on the track of a lifetime.
01:55Because this is what we're going to draw on.
01:57So the robot is supported by two sticky pads here and there.
02:00And the string that holds it is so taut right now that it can be used to very precisely
02:04bring the robot to exactly the position that it needs to be.
02:06Which when you combine it with a retractable selection of pens means that yes, this robot
02:10can draw for you.
02:11Like, I literally got it to draw out a Banksy painting a couple of days ago.
02:15Okay, I mean, Banksy at home, but still, I mean, it's impressive.
02:18It's actually kind of wild because as well as drawing really precisely, it can also go
02:22back on itself and erase that drawing.
02:24So the trailer for it has all of these wacky scenarios like drawing out the weather forecast
02:28or even like a summary of all the tweets that you missed.
02:31Or I guess now, X's that you missed.
02:34But all of that stuff is ridiculous.
02:35I mean, who's really going to do that?
02:37What I want to use this for is a very specific purpose.
02:40I've been really wanting to make this portrait for a long time, but it's the drawing part
02:43of it that stopped me.
02:44For the last few months, I kept starting it, then feeling like the proportions were a bit
02:47off and then never really getting around to painting it because, well, videos came up.
02:51But if I import this image into the app, turn it into a drawing, and then we will come
02:56back and see what the robot's done with it.
02:58So this is already pretty cool, right?
03:00But how would a machine cope with something more active?
03:02Well, this is the Omega Power Pong robot.
03:06And yes, it plays table tennis.
03:08I can't tell you how many games of table tennis have been played on this table right here
03:11between me and my brother.
03:12We got to a level where it genuinely felt like a recreation of that unfortunately titled
03:16ping pong movie.
03:17But he moved out.
03:19The table got retired alongside my skill level.
03:21So I set this up last week.
03:22The robot's got a net at the back to catch all the balls you're hitting at it.
03:25And then this machine simulates another player.
03:28It can choose where it places the ball, how fast it shoots, the spin it places on the
03:31ball, just like a high-level player would.
03:34Oh!
03:35Which is not me anymore.
03:36And do you want to know what's really weird?
03:38Is that they actually ship you a proper Android tablet just with their app installed so you
03:42can control the thing.
03:43It's really not the best tablet, and the app is not exactly what I would call pretty, but
03:48very functional, very stable.
03:50It does the job.
03:51I have just realized this tablet also has a selfie camera.
03:55So you're probably watching the first video ever taken on a table tennis table.
03:59But there is no doubt in my mind that this is a high-end bit of kit for professionals.
04:03I mean, like, you can put the balls per minute all the way up to 120, which looks something
04:08like this.
04:09Oh, dear God.
04:10Okay, yeah.
04:11Can you see why I need this machine?
04:18When I was growing up, going to the big toy shop once every few months was literally the
04:21high point of my life.
04:23And if there's one category I spent the largest amount of time in, apart from video games
04:26and Pokemon, it would be Nerf guns.
04:28We used to basically play Deathmatch, where everyone would get a Nerf gun, and then as
04:31soon as you get hit once, you're out the game.
04:33Well this, the Caliburn C4, is the adult version of that.
04:37That's actually probably underselling it.
04:38Because this is the most powerful Nerf gun in the world.
04:42So the vast majority of Nerf guns are bolt-action, which essentially means you pull back the
04:45handle, you're loading a spring.
04:47And then press the trigger to release it.
04:49It's not bad, but the issue with Nerf is that because they're trying to mass market it,
04:53and also because they're trying to appeal to kids and don't really want someone to end
04:56up in a hospital with one eye left, they use very small springs.
04:59So if you get a good Nerf gun, you might be able to shoot it up to 50 feet per second.
05:03But the Caliburn, with a spring the size of my head, can shoot it up to 300.
05:08Plus it's got a rail to mount an actual professional optic sight.
05:11Does mean it's an absolute beast to reload the...
05:16You also notice just how much more made-for-adults this is, like the size of the grip, the length
05:20of the stock.
05:21Let's try and shoot it.
05:23Three, two, one.
05:25Wooo!
05:26It's really hard to stress in person what it feels like to shoot a Nerf dart that fast.
05:32So the power is clearly ridiculous, but there's a couple of reasons why I wouldn't really
05:37recommend this for most people.
05:38And it's partly the fact that the accuracy doesn't quite match up to how good the power
05:41is.
05:42It's also the fact that, I mean, this thing deconstructs half the bullets it fires because
05:46it's doing it so powerfully.
05:48And then it's also the fact that it's a 3D-printed product and it has all the hallmarks of a
05:523D-printed product.
05:53Oh, I also used to love water fights.
05:56This is me absolutely drenching my sister like every older sibling would.
06:00Well, as it turns out, water fight gear has also progressed quite a lot since, well, the
06:05hose pipe.
06:06It's now a pretty normal thing to get something like this, a fully electric water gun that
06:09just continuously sprays so long as you hold the trigger.
06:12But if you really want it to go all the way, then the Spira 3 is the way to do it.
06:15This is such a cool product because it's not just about, oh, I can shoot water, but faster
06:19now, it gamifies the entire concept of a water fight.
06:23So this right here is a tactical display.
06:25It shows you how full your battery is, but not just that.
06:26It also knows and can show you how full your water tank is.
06:29So you start by holding it in a bucket and then pushing the trigger forward.
06:32It's extremely loud, but the concept of being able to pull the trigger back to shoot and
06:36then push the trigger forward to reload does make a lot of sense.
06:39Right.
06:40But here's what makes this special.
06:42So I like water fights.
06:43I think they're really fun.
06:44But the thing that makes me like them a bit less than, say, something like laser tag is
06:47that you can't really tell who's winning.
06:50Like there's no real scoring system.
06:51You just continuously get wetter and wetter until someone decides they want to take a
06:55shower.
06:56And so what I really like about this is that it doesn't shoot out just a continuous stream.
07:00It compresses the water into pressurized water bullets.
07:02And this display shows you how many you have.
07:04It makes it so that when you hit someone, you're going to know and they're really going
07:07to know.
07:08You've got three different types of firing mode.
07:09You've got single shot.
07:10Then you can switch it to burst shot, which basically empties the entire magazine of three
07:14in one go.
07:16And then you have open fire, which shoots continuously, but a little slower because
07:20the gun needs time to make these water pellets.
07:23As an overall product, though, I'd give it a seven.
07:25I think the concept's great.
07:26I think they've done loads of cool little nice touches.
07:28But I mean, just the fact that it's shooting water means that it doesn't matter how much
07:31you compress it into little bullets.
07:33It's not accurate past about the range of five meters.
07:37Let's do a quick check in on our art robot.
07:39Ooh, this is...
07:41You can't tell what this is yet, but this is actually very much on track.
07:44It's had a couple of little mess ups, which you can see here, here and here.
07:47The only thing I really don't like about this robot is that it's intended for drawing literally
07:51on your wall, which I feel is actually a much more niche case than drawing on a surface
07:54like a canvas.
07:55So it's really hard to calibrate it to get it to draw to exactly the size that you want.
07:59I feel like there's two kinds of people on this planet.
08:01Those who love the water gun and those who are going to love this next one.
08:04So when you think of a Rubik's Cube, you probably think of something like this, specifically
08:07this three by three one.
08:08Wait, what is this?
08:10Okay, so there's a two by two and then this one, this is the three by three that you're
08:13probably familiar with.
08:14And then you might know they also have a four by four.
08:17You're going to want to sit down for this.
08:19This is a two by two Rubik's Cube.
08:21In your mind right now, try to guess how many potential different combinations you could
08:25have with this tiny thing.
08:26What did you guess?
08:27A hundred?
08:28A thousand?
08:29No.
08:30This tiny little cube has over 3.5 million different potential combinations.
08:35It is far more than it initially seems because every single face of the cube can have any
08:38combination of any of the six colors in any arrangement.
08:42This is so many combinations that even if you're fiddling around with this for eight
08:45hours a day, if you didn't have a specific technique, it would still likely take you
08:49five months to solve it.
08:51The three by three adds a layer of complexity in every single direction, which doesn't just
08:55add to the complexities, it multiplies them.
08:58Meaning that we're not talking 10 million or 20 million potential combinations anymore,
09:02but 43 quintillion.
09:04That's 43 followed by 18 zeros.
09:07I mean, let's just look up a ridiculous number.
09:12A number of grains of sand on earth.
09:1675 followed by 17 zeros.
09:19So this is more than that.
09:22The four by four then is known as the Master Cube.
09:24And yeah, I mean, it's almost impossible to even comprehend the numbers going on here.
09:287.4 quattro decillion, which is 45 zeros.
09:33And as you might have guessed, that is not the main event here.
09:36What I'm about to show you is not a five by five or a six by six.
09:40This is a 13 by 13.
09:43And that is not the worst bit.
09:45While every single cube so far has six faces to manage in total, this has 12.
09:50OK, I think I'm done.
09:54It only took me about 15 minutes.
09:56Drisha, you're good at puzzles, right?
09:58Pretty good.
09:59So how long do you think it would take you to solve a freshly scrambled, whatever you call this?
10:04I'd definitely do it.
10:05I think it would take like a couple of decades, probably.
10:07You'd find me 30 years later, almost finished.
10:11Great. So we'll start keeping tabs now.
10:14Can I start with that one?
10:16OK, this is mine now.
10:18All right. So while Drisha solves that problem, we're having our own little problem
10:22because Apple is growing extremely fast in subscribers and we're trying to overtake them.
10:25So if you can help us to get there, then a sub to the channel would be intelligent.
10:31I never watched a lot of TV when I was a kid,
10:33but the one show that would pull me away from my weird construction projects was Robot Wars.
10:38Think boxing, but just with machines limited only by your imagination.
10:42I used to find it so cool looking at the spec sheets of each of these robots that were competing
10:46and then see how they would stack up together in practice.
10:49Well, I almost can't believe I'm saying this, but thanks to technology,
10:52you can now do this at home with the RoboMaster S1 by DJI.
10:56Uh, that's a lot of parts.
11:00They kind of look like treads.
11:03Hmm. I did not realize how DIY this was going to be.
11:06OK, so both of these robots took four full hours to put together.
11:10So I really hope you like Lego.
11:13But in a way, these things are actually even more technologically advanced and impressive
11:17than those things that only used to be limited to TV back in the day.
11:20Because like just on this head alone, you've got a 1080p live streaming gimbal stabilized camera.
11:25And a working gun.
11:26It's got an LED that can outline the launch trajectory
11:28and then it shoots out these gel beads within that trajectory.
11:31And when I first used the thing, I could not believe how agile it is.
11:34It's so zippy and fast, but at the same time, just really smooth,
11:38which is especially important since you can play using your phone
11:41by looking at the first person view from the camera.
11:44But I mean, as cool as the gimbal is, the base of the robot is arguably the even more impressive bit.
11:48Because, I mean, the entire reason we had to go to hell and back
11:51to install each one of these rollers individually onto the wheels
11:54is so that the machine can travel not just forward and back,
11:56but literally strafe left and right, like in a video game.
11:59And then all of these lit up pads are smart armor.
12:02So you set them to whatever color you want,
12:03and they can detect both infrared and the impact from gel beads.
12:07Because yes, this thing shoots them.
12:09Although I will say, the gel beads are not the most precise instrument,
12:12so we've been sticking to the infrared.
12:14So if I move my aim up and shoot this smart pad,
12:16can you actually see the robot recoil in real life?
12:19It's kind of insane.
12:20The other person will physically feel the impact of the shot
12:22through the vibration on their phone, and their HP bar will actually drop.
12:26Okay, duel versus Drisha.
12:27Both of us have 200 hit points, which means two hits, and we're dead.
12:30Ready?
12:31Three, two...
12:33Wait, wait, wait!
12:35Okay, all right, let's just go.
12:40Oh my Lord, I'm trapped!
12:42You cornered me!
12:45And now you're running circles around me.
12:47Three.
12:47I win?
12:48Yeah.
12:50I won the practice, okay?
12:51I just wasn't recording.
12:52I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that
12:54this is the coolest toy I've ever used in my life.
12:57It's just, I'll give it a nine,
12:58because it's slightly let down by the $549 price tag,
13:02and the fact that to get nearly the most out of it,
13:04you kind of need to get two.
13:06But hypothetically, what if we went even more extreme
13:08with the Traxxas X01,
13:10the world's fastest ready-to-race supercar?
13:13For context, most good toy remote control cars
13:15will top out at around 15 miles per hour.
13:18This?
13:19155?
13:21Yes, 155 miles per hour.
13:24That's more than two times the maximum speed limit
13:27you're allowed to drive with a real car
13:29on any road in the UK.
13:31And then, the acceleration.
13:33This thing does zero to 60, like 60 miles per hour,
13:36in 2.3 seconds.
13:38Or in other words,
13:38faster than the fastest real Ferrari in the world.
13:42How?
13:43Well, part of the equation is,
13:44let's just stick a massive motor on the inside.
13:46But the other half of the equation
13:47is the optimization of forces.
13:49When you're building a car
13:50that you want to travel really quickly,
13:51but also do so with brick,
13:53you have to minimize your drag
13:54and also maximize the amount of downforce.
13:56So by the whole thing being very low profile,
13:58you're minimizing what's called the frontal area,
14:00which is the size of the hole
14:01that your car has to punch through the air
14:03as it's traveling forward.
14:04Plus, the slopes on the car just naturally allow that air
14:07to travel around it easier.
14:08And wherever the air encounters a bump like this
14:11or the spoiler at the back,
14:12it creates regions of high air pressure
14:14that are pushing the car down
14:15and keeping it from skidding.
14:16I'm just thinking, how much recording time
14:18are we going to have
14:19before this car plows into that camera?
14:21Like, 0.7 seconds?
14:23Oh, you're right.
14:25Three, two, one.
14:27Go!
14:28Oh!
14:35Oh, R.I.P. the glass on the back.
14:38If I hadn't slowed that car down right at the end,
14:40I'm convinced it actually would have gone
14:41straight through that glass.
14:43And this one still hasn't finished.
14:47Honestly, I think this car is a straight 10.
14:49It's expensive, but it does exactly what it's meant to do.
14:54Have you ever watched Star Wars?
14:55This might be an unpopular opinion.
14:57I don't rate the movies that much,
14:59but I just think the world is incredible.
15:00And I've always thought this idea of Jedi
15:02taking out armies of enemies
15:03with just a single lightsaber
15:05is the coolest thing ever.
15:06Well, turns out that as an adult,
15:08you can go deep into the world of Star Wars
15:10with a professionally made lightsaber.
15:12So just for context,
15:13this is a run-of-the-mill saber
15:14that you could find at a toy shop for $15, $20.
15:17And it's not bad.
15:18It's got a pretty bright light built in.
15:20It's got a light in the handle.
15:21It's got speakers at the bottom.
15:22It knows when it's been hit and can flash accordingly.
15:25That does sound a little bit like a cat
15:27that's just been stepped on, though.
15:28But this is what happens when you spend
15:30100 times that amount on a saber.
15:32This is a custom-made one-to-one recreation
15:35of the same weapon used by the main bad guy
15:37in the last few films, Kylo Ren.
15:39Okay, so part of the value is obviously the aesthetics,
15:41the movie-accurate wear and tear,
15:43the machined metal handle.
15:45I mean, this thing feels so unbelievably premium.
15:48And you're gonna wanna see this.
15:52I'm nearly there.
15:56Just come back in two minutes.
15:58It's movie-accurate, even on the insides.
16:01Oh, yeah, and then you turn the thing on.
16:06And you see the spinning kyber crystal,
16:08the energy source of lightsabers.
16:10But that's not even the bit that I'm most curious about.
16:12It's that when you get into this whole world
16:14of high-end lightsabers,
16:16these things have to run
16:16their entirely own unique, bespoke software.
16:20Yeah, we're literally talking about lightsaber OS here.
16:23But it is really smart.
16:24Like, it figures out when you're holding it still.
16:26It lets out a gentle crackle.
16:27And then the sensors inside know when you're moving it
16:29and also how much you're moving it.
16:31And they adjust the sound according to that.
16:34Sorry, mom.
16:35You know these, like, side-hilt beams?
16:36The lightsaber actually knows when they're in
16:38and is adjusting its lighting accordingly.
16:40Plus, it's completely programmable.
16:42So if you can code, you could make it do, like,
16:44the Mario Wackoo sound effect
16:46every time you make contact with something.
16:48Ah, my opponent has arrived with a Rubik's Cube.
16:52Sorry, Stacey.
16:54Okay, so the rules are,
16:55first to get hit on their body loses.
16:57Dark side?
16:58I'll be good, sir.
16:59Light side.
17:01All right, that doesn't bode well for it.
17:03Three, two, one, go.
17:09You may have agility, but I have more realistic effects.
17:12Did I just, I just died.
17:14Oh, for goodness sake.
17:16But what if we applied this same level of extremeness
17:19to your smartphone?
17:20Well, you would get this, the Red Magic 8S Pro.
17:22It takes all the things that your smartphone
17:24might already do to help you play games well
17:26and dials them up to the next level.
17:28For example, you might've heard of phones
17:30with large 5,000 milliamp hour batteries.
17:32This has a 6,000 milliamp hour cell.
17:34You might've used a phone
17:35that has eight or 12 gigabytes of RAM.
17:37This has up to 16 gigs of the fastest RAM you can get,
17:40as well as 512 gigs of the fastest UFS 4.0 storage.
17:43You might own a phone that has an extra copper layer
17:46inside of it to conduct heat out
17:47and keep the internals cool.
17:48This has an 11-layer cooling system,
17:51a double-layer, super large vapor chamber,
17:53an additional layer of graphene,
17:54one of the most conductive materials on the planet,
17:57and it's all assisted by a 20,000 RPM,
17:59basically silent, turbo fan to propel that hot air out.
18:03This keeps your hands cool, your chip cool,
18:05your battery cool, and your performance consistently high.
18:07And then to finish the whole thing off,
18:08you have shoulder triggers, optimized for low latency,
18:11an upgraded triple camera,
18:12and the fastest Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip,
18:15combined with a secondary coprocessor
18:16that just focuses on letting you game better.
18:18Plus three colors, Midnight, Platinum, and Aurora.
18:21Which is your favorite?
18:22Hit the link below to learn more.
18:24And the masterpiece is complete.
18:26When it works, it does a really good job.