I bought the most MINIMALIST Tech ever.

I about to spend $20,000 in the next 5

minutes buying the most minimalist Tech

on the planet so that we can find out if

it actually does turn your life into a

Zen Paradise or if it's all just a fancy

way of charging you extra for stuff that

actually does less minimalist laptop the

HP Spectre fold it seems like it

transforms into so many different form

factors it's a laptop that's all screen

what about the most minimalist TV what

on Earth is this the LG easel TV oh it's

transformed between two different states

when you see it in images like this it's

definitely the kind of vibe I had in

mind

5,899 wait LG does a briefcase it's a

27in touchscreen a cinema experience

wherever you go is that a dumb idea or

is that a really intelligent idea well I

am having a whale of a time here LG has

a table that is also an air purifier I

mean this is absolutely beautiful oh it

has color options no

no they have board ape versions of their

hyper minimalist Arrow Furniture oh God

that is awful I'm going to pretend that

doesn't exist I'm just going to buy the

white one okay let's get something non

LG that would be good phone oh God that

looks awful it looks like a remote for

your thermostat the Light phone 2 oh

their website is uh kind of naughty

definitely sells you on that vision of

being completely unplugged it will never

have social media clickbait news email

an internet browser or any other anxiety

inducing infinite feed it's strange

isn't it we're living in an age where

products are actively boasting about all

the things they don't do I mean is this

such thing as a minimalistic gaming

console oh the play dat it's a tiny new

handheld gaming system with a bunch of

brand new games Al every game is custom

made for the playd are they just going

to be like really basic you kind of

assume that when it's got a black and

white screen I'm not sold on this but I

also think there was enough hype around

the launch of it that it feels wrong to

just write it off we should try it let's

do minimalist speakers audio is always

my favorite part of these videos the

Samsung Music frame a speaker that

blends in beautifully with your home

designed to look just like a picture

frame does look incredibly clean so it

looks like bang and olivon is pretty big

in this space Oh this is interesting

they're picturing it in a bookshelf next

to books and it's smaller than them fits

in anywhere and reaches you everywhere

in the room with full range Ultra wide

sound that's a claim that we have to

test let's see what the cleanest record

player is the wheel to plays records

from the back so all the technology is

sitting underneath the record and that's

all you see that is minimalistic it

looks like they've compacted so much

technology that should take up so much

space into a tiny little piece but it

still does the same thing if not more

that's true minimalism at least that's

what I tell Ria boy oh the company

actually has different tiers they've got

the white wheel and then the black wheel

we reserve time to hand build just 5 to

10 of these per month this is so

unbelievably exclusive kitchen gadgets

oh there's balmuda products balmuda

makes a teapot lightweight and perfectly

sized doesn't need to be any bigger they

also do a toaster which we already have

and then the Brew which is coffee oh wow

so this is apparently the temperatures

that all the different steps of making

coffee have to occur at for the

scientifically perfect coffee that is a

lot more than your typical mispro

machine xiaomi makes a smart cooking

robot your master that allows you to

effortlessly enjoy a variety of

delicious foods where has this been my

whole life it's basically saying that it

can do all of your kitchen functions in

one machine yeah if we're saying the

entire purpose of minimalism is to get

as many functions as possible into one

device I think we have a winner oh Yanko

design completely forgot about this site

but I've realized this is literally what

this video is and I definitely should

have just started with it eliminate the

middle man and eat on the very thing you

cooked your food on this is speaking to

my soul there's a battery free Aroma

diffuser o it just looks so tactile and

satisfying and then there's a

spork that looks terrible oh yeah Zero

Tolerance Machining desk toys it's

basically toys that are so precisely cut

that you can't actually see the seams

like when you put them together it will

just look like one continuous object

$100 though is nutty for a tiny little

toy the pack it's actually really funny

like 50% of minimalist products are just

named the something like yes we get it

you're very cool and efficient with your

words oh my god look how it

opens that is cool Final thing will just

be if there's any kind of minimalist

workout equipment the R2 hot sail wa

it's a treadmill that's well I guess

literally just the treadmill that is

absolutely awesome and it folds so you

just tuck it away when you're not using

it why are they giving me a kiss well

the product looks good so that's the

important thing oh the except PayPal

good just on the off chance I get

scammed

hey that's probably

Fair 9 days is how long all of this

stuff took to arrive so I mean even the

wait times are minimal oh and also we

have found the most peaceful property

ever to film this in it's very exciting

come let me show you so let's go roughly

from least expensive to most expensive

starting at $70 with the frying plate

which is either genius or terrible and I

haven't worked out which yet okay not a

great first impression are those oil

marks now in theory this is very me I am

so the kind of person who would give up

some eating Comfort to be able to have

less washing up to do wow these are

going to be some oily eggs but see

there's two things that would normally

stop me from eating my meals directly

from a pan one because I might burn

myself or the table that I'm eating from

but also two that by stabbing it with a

fork there's a very good chance that I

am actually taking off the non-stick

coating and eating it so this is

uncoated for that reason but then then

does that make it a terrible pan okay so

even without a non-stick coating it is

actually pretty non-stick the edges of

the egg do need a little bit of prying

but then this is the key feature so with

one hand I should be able to slide that

back and take it off that's my plate and

I'm slightly scared that it's going to

be like

1,000° yeah that's boiling hot that

could well burn through any normal

surface that you would eat your food on

so already that's a big problem right

you need well in my case oven mitt don't

like the sounds it makes but it's the

eating practicality that I have the

problem with because permanently having

to approach your plate from this angle

just so you don't sear through your

entire arm it does slightly cut into the

enjoyment of your food plus also this

basically only works if you're one

person cooking for one person so three

out of 10 rough start the zero tolerance

Machining toy kind of fascinates me I

mean the idea of paying nearly $100 for

a fidget device feels crazy to me so

what on Earth could it possibly do that

makes it worth that I mean from from a

technical perspective this is quite

impressive when these two parts do slot

together the seam does actually

basically disappear and to create

something with zero gaps like this you

can't just use a traditional Toy Factory

like this piece wasn't cut with a blade

because the blade itself would create

its own Gap what you effectively have to

do is to vaporize the space in between

these two pieces using the heat

generated from Rapid electrical

discharges okay but then as something

that you actually having to spend your

hard earned money on I'm not going to

lie I find this whole category of

executive desk toys just a little bit

cringe like the idea of these highflying

business people who earn so much money

that they can't just play with normal

toys and they in fact have to spend $100

on something with the same entertainment

value as an empty bag of crisps and this

is actually the other part of the

problem because this thing is so

precisely machined once this piece comes

out it is stupidly hard to get it back

into place genuinely only goes in if you

precisely match the direction of the

Grain on both parts and then does let me

and I stop it earning money because I'm

spending all my time trying to put my

fidget toy back together I think it

actually has to be a zero out of 10

technically buy their own admission I'm

much more hopeful about the play date I

fully remember when this thing launched

and people all over Twitter went pretty

Bonkers over it it's this very strange

blend of retro gaming console but

instead of being made with cheap creaky

plastic like most consoles are premium

Hardware oh yeah and a

crank wait this thing's

tiny this is definitely among the

smallest mobile devices I've ever used

whoever was posing in the photos on the

website has extremely small hands also

the crank actually tucks into the body

of the device that's pretty cool

engineering you know when I first saw

this thing I thought this was how you

charge up the device I'm actually very

glad that's not the case that would be a

nightmare this is actually one of your

controls to be able to play games with I

will say it is a very pretty piece of

tech surprisingly so the buttons feel

really satisfying the screen is only

black and white it gets noticeably more

readable as I tilt it up toward WS the

light but anyway the most important

question on my mind is is it fun okay so

the UI is definitely much more

responsive than you expect it to be

based on how the thing looks does feel

like it's running at a full 60 frames

per second yeah it's got really smooth

animations but really retrographics so

it's got this weird past meets future

vibe to it I don't know how I feel about

this crank to be honest like I totally

respect the need to be different but

it's just making my hands ache and I

can't imagine this being the way that I

want to play games on like a long

airplane in flight for example and let's

try casual burder oh this is really

weird it turns your device into a camera

and then you use the crank to focus that

camera so I'm

unfocused and then I'm focused one thing

this unique control scheme means is that

you're definitely not playing games

you've ever played before this isn't

like a retro emulation device but I just

I don't think it's for me so there's

only two games on here right now but the

way this works which is actually quite

cool to be fair is they stagger them so

they give you two games every week for

the first 12 weeks of owning it and

that's all included with the price I

guess they stagger it to let you

appreciate each game before giving you

the next one but it's just playing on

something like this really makes me

realize that me personally I actually

don't want minimalism in my games I want

more buttons I want more power or

failing that just multiplayer and I

think for more people something like the

Miu Mini Plus has much more appeal so

this is something I only found out about

a couple of weeks and when you boot it

up it is basically every single retro

console and then you click into one

let's say the PS1 and there are so many

games it is just nutty uh one of my

favorites growing up was crash team

racing the shoulder buttons on the back

it is genuinely the entire PlayStation 1

experience and I'm not even super sold

on this I'd still rather play something

like the Nintendo switch with its modern

games but I see it I see the Merit of

something like this whereas I really

struggle to see the Merit of this the

battery scent diffuser is well I guess

it's the minimum required Tech to

achieve diffusion I got to say I am very

much enjoying the unboxing experiences

so far I guess it is one thing that you

can bet on Minimalist designled

companies definitely getting right it's

quite nice to see a product that isn't

actually over engineered like this uses

really simple physics to the point where

you can actually see the entire process

in action so essential oil goes in the

back here obviously I picked eucalyptus

it's the only right choice oil goes

behind the fan you light the candle and

then essentially this glass tube is

going to direct as much of the heat

energy from that candle onto this steel

surface at the top and then hopefully

that heat energy is going to be

transferred over towards the fan which

can use it to then start turning and

diffuse those oils around your room I

saw twinges of movement oh oh look at it

oh my God that is beautiful there's

something so elegant about the fact that

there's no batteries there's no cables I

made that happen with this little candle

the only question then is is this all

theatrics or is this actually better

than sticking oil in a candle and just

lighting it okay so let's stick this in

one of the rooms like that oh it really

is pretty and then in room number two

it's going to be just the candle and I'm

literally just going to pour drops of

oil on top of it and what the other

diffuser was saying is that doing it

this way would cause the essential oils

to burn and therefore not actually

preserve their scent let's come back to

it and find out moving up to $300 now

for this price you can actually replace

your phone with a minimalist equivalent

so this is the light phone 2 that we

bought and again like the play dat the

thing's microscopic but unlike a lot of

the products so far which could just

neatly fit into your existing lifestyle

switching your phone is a big commitment

so what can this do it can text okay oh

you have to type sideways I guess

they've decided that that's the only way

you can comfortably type on a screen

like this and it's not too bad it's a

little bit less responsive than you're

probably used to and the autocorrect

kind of sucks it connect as a Wi-Fi

hotspot it's got Bluetooth it's got a

headphone jack on the top so it's got

your music covered it does say it has

directions what does that even look like

on a phone like this God this is so

clunky you have to keep rotating it

every single time it's pretty

slow by the way it's acting you'd think

I just asked it to Sol physics not ask

for walking directions oh but it does

give you some semblance of Google Maps I

assume it is not a good way to use it

though Cy cuz this is an e in screen

screen so it doesn't have smooth

animations it has to reender every

single thing on screen every time it

changes but this will be fun let's see

what the call Quality is like oh yeah

here's another problem I was just about

to call my mom but she's in India right

now so I would have normally WhatsApp

called her there is no WhatsApp here

do oh hi Domino we're big fans could we

get some pepperoni

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pizza yeah okay it's functional for

calls it does have a speaker phone it's

not particularly loud now we got some

pizzas on the way I'm slightly torn with

devices like this because I see the

appeal you know a phone that weighs

nothing it could disappear within your

pockets plus it does seem to be getting

quite a few software updates from what I

can see it's just that for most people I

don't think it does quite enough to

replace your smartphone like you can't

browse the internet and the music yes it

has a headphone jack but you can only

use it if you're willing to manually

upload your songs one by one to the

Light phone dashboard there's no Spotify

there's no apps apart from the super

basic calculator alarm and maps that

doesn't really work very well as a map I

just feel like if you actually wanted to

properly switch off how is this any

better than just a Nokia brick phone

it's not like you're getting Cutting

Edge Hardware that still makes it feel

like a modern smartphone I mean the last

time they made a new model of this was

2018 and then if you don't want to

completely switch away from your phone

but you just want to dial down the

amount you use it there are so many

minimalist apps now that can actually

just restrict what you can and can't do

but just to a sensible level instead of

downgrading so hard that you might not

actually be able to contact someone that

you need to feels like a 4 out of 10 to

me now I still can't quite believe I'm

saying this but what costs even more

than a phone well the teapot no really

we spent $300 on the balmuda teapot it

is cheaper in the us but we get slightly

screwed here in the UK so this really

better be the best teaing experience

I've ever had now there's a couple of

problems that they're claiming to have

fixed here compared to a normal peasant

kle one is the design and and yeah I

mean it's pretty hard to argue with that

one this is our $10 Kettle and compared

to that this definitely has a much nicer

stone-like finish everything snaps into

place in quite a tactile way that feels

very secure and also the fact that I

feel like I could rub this for a little

bit and get three wishes and while

obviously no one needs a pretty Kettle

no one needs a neon tube filament style

bulb as your indicator I can see why

people would want one on on now there's

a lot of people and I am one of these

people who really enjoyed the ritual of

making tea and coffee it's the slow

grinding the gentle pouring the sights

the smells The Sounds it's an experience

and I think this is designed for someone

who appreciates that that one is kicking

off right now I feel like relative to it

it makes the balmuda sound

silent oh wait what that one

finished barmuda hasn't finished that's

hilarious I feel like this is one of

those things where the cheap kettle has

one purpose and that's to get to the

destination as fast as possible and it

does that but this is actually almost

concerningly quiet now the second perk

of this is apparently the fact that it's

got less capacity than most kettles

which is a strange thing to label as one

of your headline features less capacity

for your benefit now if I had to guess I

would say that took twice as long as the

other Kettle which if you look at the

spec sheet is inexcusable for something

this expensive so so far this is not

exactly a strong case for the baluda but

there is one thing that might be able to

save it unprecedented pouring Comfort

was across the website so let's find out

that's basically laminar flow or in

other words the gooseneck shape of the

kettle allows water to come out so

smoothly that it acts like a still

object and it's completely silent okay

yeah that's earned back a couple of

points that felt pretty good I have to

say it's still absolutely not forever on

but for the people who appreciate it I'd

give that a seven okay let's see if the

scent diffusion actually worked start

with my hodg Podge

version uh I can smell a hint of

eucalyptus but if you told me that no

eucalyptus was here I would also believe

you okay now for the Fancy Pants leay

Aroma

diffuser oh that's that's quite

immediate I can notice it it's not a

massively strong eucalyptus smell but

it's almost got this smokiness to it

it's definitely made more of an impact

to this room than the candle alone which

if you combine with how obscenely

aesthetic it is to look at I think earns

it at nine one thing with baluda they

are a Japanese company so it's pretty

hard to get their stuff here and that

seems to be a bit of a theme with

high-end minimalist Tech cuz LG's Aero

Furniture range as well is Hong Kong and

Singapore only maybe there's just more

demand for minimalism in East Asian

countries I don't know why though

because in concept I feel like this

could be useful for anyone like I have a

ton of allergies and they are constantly

working together to keep my nose at 99%

congestion throughout my sleep so I have

one of these massive filters in my room

just sucking out those and the dust I

think a lot of people could benefit from

filters and I think they just don't use

them because they admittedly do look

like monolithic garbage cans but

this so you can order pizza on your

light phone too what am I doing sorry I

was saying this is a table this is the

entire purpose so it's got a fulls size

heer filter inside that's good need to

make sure I actually unbag it before I

start using the filter it's got vents

all around actually to take in particles

from 360° which is also a plus Point

there's also funnily enough in this box

here a UV light that kills bacteria on

the fan blades so whether or not the air

coming in is clean you can be sure that

the air coming out is clean one thing we

need to test is how loud is the thing

okay so there's different fan speeds

here all the controls are on the bottom

as well which makes a lot of sense given

that it's meant to be a table so that's

at maximum it's pretty loud but that's

okay you actually want your purifier to

be able to go high what I'm more

interested in is what would be the

average normal operating volume volume

wait is this still on yeah it's

definitely on but all you have to do is

to move one foot away from it and it's

pin drop silence I don't actually have a

pin to test that but one thing you can

rely on me always having is a Sim

ejector

tool I heard that oh yeah and this is

also a wireless charger which is telling

me 1 hour 24 until I'm back to Max

battery so it's not the fastest kind of

wireless charger but it's also not the

slowest oh and also there is actually a

ring of mood lighting underneath I mean

as much as I don't love the idea of

having a whole extra app that I need to

control the ACT lighting itself

transitions very smoothly although the

app is a little bit slow and I suppose

the other probably more underrated

benefit is that if you turn up the

setting it's actually just a fan too

it's actually kind of refreshing to

stick in my hand here it's getting a

very strong 9 out of

10 n out of 10 that could have been

worse at $400 then or the equivalent of

625 if you're in the UK you seeing a

theme Here is Samsung's brand new frame

speakers now I'm not personally someone

who Minds the way that speakers normally

look but I can also see the appeal of

what's effectively promising invisible

sell so we can actually put the easel TV

where I'm sitting when we get to that

but for now let's focus on this so first

impressions extremely heavy bigger than

I was expecting and also thicker than I

was expecting it's also a little

disappointing that this is literally

just paper you know when I first saw it

on the website I thought oh maybe it's a

a screen that will allow you to put

anything on it or at the very least like

a backlight so that it brightens up your

image it means that really there is no

Tech here apart from the speaker which

just means it's a very expensive speaker

and it needs to prove itself but one of

the more appealing parts of this is I

should be able to play music and then

just tap

somewhere the app is telling me to press

the volume down button I am pressing the

volume down button oh something went

wrong yeah this is just not working and

the app sucks I think we're just going

to have to do this over Bluetooth just

to hear the sound quality if nothing

else oh there we

go so one's working and I think we're

just going to have to take it as is

let's see how it sounds around the room

so one thing it does really well is the

volume fall off is not high at all it

sounds almost as loud here as it did

when I was sitting right next to it but

the sound is it's just okay it's good

amateur sound but you're not hearing

those glistening high notes that you

might on higher end speakers but there

is one thing that I am very interested

to test so on Samsung's website one of

the things they said about these

speakers is they have ai enhancement

technology to make voices sound better

and I know most of these AI features are

just marketing bliff but this one is

interesting because I've been listening

to a lot of high-end Hi-Fi sound systems

over the last few weeks and one of the

things you notice is it doesn't actually

matter how high-end those sound systems

get if the track being listened to is