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I Bought the Best-Selling Temu Tech Gadgets in Each Category!

0h 26m video Published Aug 17, 2024 Transcribed Jul 27, 2026 The Video Nerd The Video Nerd
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"Title is accurate; the video genuinely tests best-selling Temu gadgets across categories with honest assessments."

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In this video, the host tests the number one best-selling tech gadgets in various categories from Temu, ranging from a 3D printer and solar panels to a robot vacuum and smart lock. He provides honest impressions on build quality, performance, and value for money, revealing that while some items are surprisingly good, many fall short of expectations.

[00:01]
Cheap 3D Printer Test

Prints a decent object in 30 minutes, but costs $130 which is too expensive for the quality.

[01:34]
Ineffective Solar Charger

Phone battery dropped from 85% to 80% during a 30-minute video call while plugged in, despite being in sunlight.

[02:55]
RC Car Exceeds Expectations

Fast, agile, durable, only €16, and provides great fun. One of the best purchases.

[04:02]
Wi-Fi Repeater Boosts Speed

Increased internet speed from 30 Mbps to 50 Mbps and improved connection stability. Cheaply built but functional.

[05:07]
Smart Bulb Works Well for Price

Can change colors, set schedules, app works, but not compatible with Google Home. Only €9.

[06:03]
Terrible Smart Glasses

Sound is thin and crappy, flimsy build, not recommended even at $14.50.

[08:20]
Drawing Tablet Imprecise

Difficult to accurately connect dots; pressure sensitivity is poor. Not worth $25.

[10:49]
Smartwatch Heart Rate Accurate

Heart rate readings closely matched Apple Watch during test. Live monitoring works. €40.

[13:21]
Smart Lock Setup Tricky

Requires very specific finger position to unlock, but works. Security concern: might malfunction during travel. €8.

[20:51]
Robot Vacuum Effective for Small Areas

Does wet mopping and vacuuming, good navigation in small space, but can get lost if blocked.

Temu offers some hidden gems like the RC car and smart bulb, but many gadgets are overpriced or poorly made. Buyers should research and consider alternative platforms like Amazon for better deals.

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How long did it take to print the 3D printed object?

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30 minutes.

01:20

What was the price of the RC car?

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€16.

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Did the solar panel charger effectively charge the phone?

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No, the phone still discharged during a video call.

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What feature did the smart bulb have that the reviewer liked?

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It could be set to turn on automatically at a specific time and color.

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How did the smart lock's fingerprint recognition perform?

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It worked but required a very specific finger position to unlock.

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What was the issue with the cheap drawing tablet?

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It was difficult to accurately connect dots due to poor pressure sensitivity.

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What was the brand of the bestselling tablet on Temu?

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TecLast.

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Did the robot vacuum have wet mopping capability?

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Yes, it had a reservoir for water and did wet mopping along with vacuuming.

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💡 Key Takeaways

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RC Car - Best Value

The €16 RC car was surprisingly fast and durable, making it the standout product.

03:46
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Smartwatch Heart Rate Accuracy

The smartwatch's live heart rate readings closely matched the Apple Watch, showing it can be reliable.

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Smart Lock Security Feature

The smart lock requires precise fingerprint positioning, making it secure against casual attempts.

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Robot Vacuum Practical Use

The robot vacuum effectively cleaned a small area with mopping, but can get lost if blocked.

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[00:01] Tech on team I bought the number one bestselling product in each specific category this is a cheap 3D printer that looks like it's a toy for kids and it should work pretty well it actually arrived in this cardboard box here I had

[00:15] to assemble it myself on the side you can plug in a memory card a USB and then a power adapter okay I just plugged it in it's like an airplane that's taking off this is so loud listen to this next to my

[00:27] mic you know I think there might be a model available on this card and maybe we can print this way so with this 1 2 3 4 You can change the position of this and then when it goes to a corner then you can use this screw here to change

[00:40] should change it till a sheet of paper can move under the printer head I can push this play button right now so I'm just going to do it I do start to smell something so I think it's heating up okay it is sprting I will show you with

[00:54] some quick footage from my phone it starts printing something now the printer finished and I made the time lapse of this but let's look at the result first okay I have to say it feels pretty durable let's try to take off the

[01:08] base look at this this is actually very well printed now I also made a time lapse of the printing with my phone I was planning to let this run overnight but considering it's from teu I didn't take the risk it took about 30 minutes

[01:20] to print this now I want to check the price of this thing 133 that's why I had 30 in mind it's 130 I am impressed with the quality but also that was was way too expensive now the next Gadget is something I can't wait to test out

[01:34] you've probably also seen this all over the Internet maybe AliExpress or anywhere else these are portable solar panels and they should be able to charge your phone there is a USB port right here there's also an LED light and as

[01:46] you can see when it's folded the light is turned off but as soon as I open it that it turns on so there definitely is power being generated as you can see on the website it was about $18 and they say it's 35 WS which means it's pretty

[02:00] phone I'm definitely going to have to test this out next to a window so I drained the battery of my phone as you can see it is 78% now luckily the sun is still here there's more on that side so I'm going to move it and put it there so

[02:14] not sure what's going to happen but I'm going to click on go uh it keeps saying my battery should be under 80% but it actually is according to the data of the app it isn't okay I got the battery percentage low enough and the test is

[02:26] going right now right here they say that it can take a few minutes okay final testing around with the application it didn't really work but my phone was plugged into this the whole time I did a call a video call for about 30 minutes

[02:40] and my iPhone went from 85% to 80% during the call while being plugged in with quite some light and sun shining on this I would definitely not go confident in the fact that it will charge my whole phone all right now the

[02:55] next product I'm not going to lie to you I tested this before I mean what did you expect you know me it's an RC Gadget and I can honestly tell you this is the best gadget I've bought from teu so far the charging happens with a simple USB stick

[03:08] that comes in the Box you simply connect the battery to this and then this way you can easily charge it this thing not only looks cool but it's also super fun to drive and super fast so as you can see on the remote it has low and high

[03:20] speed when I do Full Throttle it doesn't really leave that quickly but then I saw really leave that quickly but then I saw this stance I turned it on and look at this this thing is so fast this thing is super agile super quick one downside I

[03:33] would say is that if you turn left or right it turns completely to the right completely to the left and because of this when you're going pretty fast it however if you're on a surface that has some grip this isn't a problem I

[03:46] actually forgot the price so let's see €16 okay honestly this toy for €16 this is an amazing buy I have to say I played around with it for a while it didn't break down this is an amazingly cool g for any RC fan the next Gadget is

[04:02] something that's quick to test out this is a Wi-Fi repeater it was the bestselling one and it was the bestselling one by far 37,000 sold and16 which is about $18 now the quality of this product it's extremely light and

[04:15] I'm not sure if you'll see on camera but you can clearly see all the print lines you even hear it when I scratch them this feels like a cheaply 3D printed product with pretty much nothing inside so my Wi-Fi access point is right there

[04:28] in that closet and then right there is my bedroom I will run a speed test the connection is pretty bad 30 per seconds and luckily I have an ethernet port here in my bedroom so what I'm going to try is checking if this repeater will

[04:41] actually get me a bigger speed so good thing it already shows up right here on my phone so I'm going to try to connect to it and it's immediately connected so let's run the test together let's check the results ooh look at this 5055

[04:54] usually the problem with my internet here in my bedroom was disconnecting not really the speed 30 or 50 doesn't really matter that much what this here will do is make sure you always have a really good connection in the room that you

[05:07] install it in next we have something really interesting this here is the bestselling smart bulp on teu it is very easy not to mistake it for something else because it says smart bulb if you take a look at the listing this was the

[05:20] bestselling one it's € and it seems to come with an application but not a decent one looking at it so I'm going to add the lamp my hopes are very high now have the white tab but you also have the color Tab and then you can easily make

[05:34] it blue for example this is an amazing smart bulb for example you say at 15 it should turn on and it should be yellow and at 50% oh wow look at that it will scene now I tried adding the lights to Google home it doesn't work it says

[05:49] offline on my phone but as you can see it's turn off right now and I can just turn it on with the app so something there isn't working anyway for the price this is a really nice smart bulb how much data are you sending to China now

[06:03] the next thing we have here says glasses wireless headset now part of the front is covered but on the back it says wireless stereo so I assume that what makes these glasses smart is that they have speakers they do feel very flimsy

[06:18] and light they also give you appeel not a satisfying one let's try n let's first of all see how these glasses look I think I figured them out if you keep I will let you hear I'm going to keep pressing I'll hold it close to the mic

[06:34] power on okay so now they're powered on I can connect to them on the phone let's just play a song and see if it's decent it's at maximum volume it's pretty loud for me it sounds very crappy though let's hear how loud it is O okay pretty

[06:47] loud you can probably hear it yourself from this microphone right here it sounds pretty thin well very thin this is very crappy how what was the price okay I guess the product page is still live it was $1450

[07:00] cheap replacement for earbuds but I bought all the earbuds on te and the thing with these cheap earbuds on teu AliExpress all these websites so I'm screen I think but overall all these cheap earbuds that you can buy online on

[07:15] all these websites they sound very good for the price and I completely forgot that I was still wearing the glasses let's test this ear but in a bit I definitely do not recommend buying these of course what I want to test next is a

[07:28] drawing tablet that I I bought on Teo I can't believe and the reason I say that I can't believe it is look at this packaging it looks premium maybe this is a brand that's a bit known I'm not sure I'm going to have to look it up I don't

[07:40] know that much about drawing tablets uh there seems to be written on this cover I mean look at this there's a drawing here either this is oo either this is very weird branding or it's of course a returned product which is most likely so

[07:53] much for the premium packaging let's see if I can plug this into the PC and if I will be able to move my cursor okay I'm going to open paint so you can probably see my screen now so as you can see I can definitely draw with this I can move

[08:06] my cursor by hovering above it it's not touching the tablet right now let's test the height what you see right now is the maximum height I don't think I would be able to do see I tried to connect the dot right here and instead this is what

[08:20] I made let's try the other side here let's try to carefully aim and press like see this is pretty hard what is the price of this tablet O Okay the price is price of this tablet O Okay the price is €24 $25 of course for this price you can

[08:33] expect a huge tablet or a super Snappy one don't buy this kind of stuff on teu for $15 so far this is one of the only good products I've seen on teu maybe this here can change my mind I know I did it

[08:47] again I bought an RC Gadget and I can tell you by the weight of this it definitely doesn't look promising what does this look like like what are these controls these are two eyes let's check the price I paid first and it was 5 I am

[09:00] the price I paid first and it was 5 I am very curious and wo does the remote work I don't think so ah I think the remote didn't do anything I think it it just flies on its own okay now I'm going to test this here in the living room um

[09:16] W I don't think it'll go well so the remote is pretty simple basically it only has up and down and looking at the reviews it's not going to do much but hey let's test this I'm going to press the up okay that was very short

[09:30] okay it's already trying to lift so I can't put it down because look at this it's going to go up okay is it going to keep floating keep floating okay and so I will press up now it

[09:43] okay and so I will press up now it doesn't do anything I'm going to press down okay that doesn't work basically this is the only thing it does and it looks if it's close to the ground sometimes I press up and it goes up

[09:55] extra but overall it doesn't really work and it's mostly to full kits I think they think they're controlling it but actually they're doing

[10:07] way to stop it this is obviously not a nice RC Gadget it's a kid toy but still very interesting gift compared to other crappy cheap gifts now many of you know that I'm working on a premium mouse pad website and as you can see a lot of the

[10:21] designs are taking form they look absolutely amazing all mouse pads on the website will come with a phone wallpaper and the desktop wallpaper this here is wallpapers this is another one I'm trying really hard to launch before

[10:35] notified when it launches you can go to my Instagram and send me a message containing mouse pad if you send me that message you will get reminded when the discount code for everyone who pre- signs up I probably will I'm super

[10:49] excited about all these designs about this website you can scan the QR code or check the description for a link to my Instagram the next bestselling product I bought is a smart White and more specifically a sports Smartwatch but I

[11:02] got a bit concerned because look at this there's pretty much bullet holes in the packaging something definitely happens during Transit now in the box there is a wireless charging cable besides that we have the watch itself and they very

[11:14] clearly ask us to charge it fully before using it I definitely plan on doing that and look at this watch it looks pretty premium to be honest besides the watch itself there's also the wristband and it looks like we have two wrist bands one

[11:28] of them has a metal look and the other one is a rubber wristband it's pretty cool that we have a more stylish option and then a more sportsy option now before we test this watch the price was €40 probably around $40 as well maybe a

[11:42] bit cheaper even it was sold 14,000 times actually this one here was sold 31,000 times so not sure why this one is listed as the bestselling one maybe it's Riser so the smartwatch has been charging all night so we can finally use

[11:57] it it's usually turned off but when I move my arm it actually turns on and it works you can connect a wallet you can connect WeChat of course PayPal so this is the Manu it seems pretty laggy to me in general it does say messages here so

[12:11] they should be possible I'm going to check it later but right now I want to test my heart rate ah okay it just updated to 82 let's check the Apple watch it says 82 now 77 80 on the Apple watch 84 on the Teo one 85 82 83 now so

[12:28] I guess it's kind of right it's definitely more accurate than I would that the messages rely on the notification bar on the watch when you go to messages you can actually see the phone number and then the message itself

[12:41] I'm going to be honest it's a decent watch the heart rate was pretty accurate it's also live heart rate I tested one from AliExpress I did push-ups to test the heart rate monitoring but you had to actually click it to start tracking and

[12:53] then it calculated and it gave you heart rate it wasn't a lifechanging heart rate but this one is now I forgot price okay €40 so $40 $50 I will find the same something like this on teimo you will find it on Amazon I will add links in

[13:08] the description for a bunch of these gadgets that are on Amazon probably for the same price as on teu so definitely buy it there instead of on teu or AliExpress okay now the next Gadget is something you can't even recognize

[13:21] because besides the packaging being completely destroyed it's also wrapped all the way around we're going to open this and what's inside is a Smart Lock And if I'm not mistaken I've set this up before most of these gadgets have been

[13:33] in the studio for a long time and I was so curious about the smart look it is locked right now and let's test with my finger does it unlock okay this doesn't as you can see it's blinking red and when I add my

[13:46] finger it doesn't really open I think the battery is dead and that we have to charge it I'm going to test by the way in case I forgot the price was €8 so definitely not cheap there are some expectations I'm going to go charges now

[13:58] and then the end of the video we're going to test if I can open it because I think I can this is the bestselling tablet on teu the teast M50 it comes in pretty nicely branded packaging and on the inside you have the tablet itself

[14:12] then a charging cable and then in a pretty hidden compartment we can find this see-through case for the tablet with a protector for the front of the screen by the way the tablet itself came with a screen protector pre-applied and

[14:25] the case itself is pretty nice to be honest it feels high quality it gives a good grip over the tablet and I mean seems like it's protecting it pretty well now I would never trust steu with my personal data so I made a fake

[14:38] account to log in on the tablet now just like pretty much all of the tablets on the bestselling list it has a batch direct from teast this one as well this one as well and it obviously makes sense because well techlist is the brand but

[14:50] they're using this as a seal of approval however I've never heard of techlist a Google search told me that techlist is a well-known digital brand specialized ing in tablets PC laptop USB blah blah blah but that's from their own Instagram page

[15:04] there's people saying I've had several devices from them my experience is good will have a hard time getting more for your investment you get excellent value saying I've had this device total garbage poor quality control wouldn't

[15:19] recommend these crap Chinese ones my first overall impression is that the tablet feels pretty smooth the animations are smooth I'm starting up so Sur first because I want to test if this tablet can run some visually intense

[15:32] games let's turn off the sound now I have to say this does feel pretty smooth you can definitely make very quick moves and it absolutely works very smooth now obviously for very simple things like scrolling YouTube shorts all that stuff

[15:45] simple things you want to do on a tablet this will work I mean even so servers I did buy a tablet in the past on AliExpress and when that arrived it was a tiny tablet it was super small it was lagging while you were working on it and

[15:57] it's right there on the wall in my studo because what I use it for is to control all the smart outlets in the studo and I think that's what I'm going to use this to the wall somewhere and then I'm going to control my studio with it I'm not

[16:10] going to log in on this tablet on my YouTube account though this is the bestselling Bluetooth speaker on teu and my trust in this item is very very low you can connect a mic or an instrument a Micro SD card and then also a mic Jack

[16:24] okay let's turn on the speaker ooh that's loud let's try to PA device is connected did successfully okay now that sounded very low quality so either the recording this voice over or the speaker is super trash I want to try a song that

[16:40] has some base this here is a button for the light can you turn it off maybe if off the light you can turn it back on by just holding and there is a button on the top that says base I guess we should just test the speaker to see how it

[16:54] just test the speaker to see how it sounds okay ooh very thin very FL that sound o that's very low quality I'm curious what the base boost is going to sound like the base should be very good for it to make

[17:15] [Music] off okay there's no [Music] difference I hear more Bas when it's turned off this base button does nothing for the base it more so boosts the

[17:27] midtones and it sounds very bad now I do have to admit overall it looks like a pretty cool device but let's check out a screenshot I took while ordering ooh 55 that's $60 for $60 just buy a GBL speaker there

[17:41] will be a bunch of options I think oh turns out GBL has this speaker as well the price is $300 now that makes sense this is just a fake of the GBL version yesterday I visited my cousin and he had this small GBL speaker it was this thing

[17:55] but without rounded edges it was sharp and this sounded so much better better and look at this $37 I guess this is definitely a nogo so I just went to the gym with this earbud and I have to say I'm pretty pleasantly surprised the case

[18:08] in particular is what I love most about them you plug them in and then you can see the battery percentage of the case so far these are absolutely my favorite earbuds this is the bestselling game console on teu and it has been sold over

[18:21] 15,000 times it looks like it doesn't come with batteries so I'll have to get those myself and also the two buttons for your index fingers on the top seem to be fake they're just plastic they don't move at all also the buttons or

[18:33] icons on the side they're completely fake it's just printed and the sticker is even applied badly look at this corner here now I have no idea how to start this maybe this button here okay now if I want to change a block if I

[18:46] want to rotate my block the block huh the block completely changes when I want to rotate it see it just changes my block let's see if the next block checks the next block okay that actually works works but if you rotate it well you're

[19:00] kind of screwed it makes it pretty much impossible to play the game seriously now of course if you look at the price it's €4 31 I don't believe this rating at all poor 15,000 people that have bought this all of them got a

[19:13] malfunctioning Tetris console this is the bestselling smart doorbell on teu it pretty heavy to be honest and it looks really nice and then it comes with speaker I honestly wouldn't really know what exactly to call this but the

[19:28] Chinese company has a great name for this they call it the dingdong to be really honest with you the only reason I bought this is because I saw they called it the ding-dong but I want to test this so I'm going to plug

[19:40] it in I'm not sure if it's spared but I think this works okay so the Bell itself makes a sound and then the speaker itself also you just plug that into a USB outlet as you can see the app doesn't seem to be very

[19:54] popular I am losing all my data probably by installing this okay we have have to hold the doorbell for 10 seconds reset succeeded okay what is this blue connect

[20:07] it okay now A little update for this doorbell I tried to connect it and it my connected okay the device is being bound please wait okay after this step of device being bound it always fail please

[20:24] again I thought the problem was that there were special signs in my Wi-Fi name but I changed it all still doesn't work I mean the Bell itself works the speaker is definitely making sounds I even try to open it up it

[20:38] doesn't open the reset button should be on the inside it's not there well it might be there but I can't crack it open I guess the ding-dong is not dinging today this is the bestselling Robot vacuum on teu it came in a huge box

[20:51] which as you can see is empty because I already tested this I couldn't wait and really need to to test and use in my daily life before I can actually review it this here is the robot itself as you

[21:04] can see it's dirty on the bottom because I've been using it here however I was reading the manual and it seems like I've been using this in the wrong way because I thought this here and by the way let's take it off there is a

[21:16] replacement in the Box I thought this was just to catch some dust or something or clean the floor a bit better but apparently this robot has a reservoir to add water and so it can do wet mopping plus vacuuming at the same time this is

[21:29] because I hate wet mopping so I'm going to test this in my apartment now of course I want to test the mopping and the vacuuming together there is a little lid at the bottom that you can open and then pour water into however not that

[21:43] much apparently that was full immediately I really hope this was for water anyway what I mostly want to test is the navigation so I'm going to let it clean this difficult area in my living room and I'm going to film the whole

[21:56] thing so we can check the pathing afterwards low battery start charging immediately we have to charge it this here is the tiny charging docket was in my studio but for the little time I've been testing this robot it actually

[22:09] returned to this dock okay so the vacuum is charging right now I will film the whole pathing and cleaning of the robot with this camera and I will check the results later in the video this is a portable projector it was the

[22:21] bestselling one on teu it comes with the remote in the box then the power connector and the projector itself which absolutely is portable this thing is much smaller than I would have expected you can absolutely bring this somewhere

[22:34] now on the product image they show it fitting in a pocket which definitely is fake I mean you can see that she's not holding this at all I mean I could try very hard but this is definitely not fitting in my pocket now on another

[22:47] image they say 1 and 1/2 to 3 m recommended obviously the further you go from a close distance it's a portable projector so 100 in is definitely enough further away to see if it's still usable if you just want a big screen and don't

[23:03] care about the pixels okay now I just finished testing the projector and I have to say I'm kind of torn on it so what I did is I built a quick testing setup I put one of my Ikea things on one side of the room and then on the other

[23:16] side I had a huge white wall and after turning it on it was pretty easy to get it in Focus there's a simple wheel it's not very accurate but it works I tried sending a video to the projector through AirPlay that didn't work but what did

[23:29] work is mirroring the screen of my iPhone they also have an option for Thorn on one hand the image looks pretty good it looks pretty vibrant especially since you're using a projector in the dark usually and also because the image

[23:42] didn't look too pixelated if you really zoom in on it you can see the individual pixels but that might be normal even in a movie theater if you go close to it there are big pixels of course you're looking at it from a big distance but

[23:54] this thing here is 3 m away from that wall maybe even more that is quite quite some distance and the image looks pretty small to be honest if you look at it in comparison to me it's a very small image to be 3 m away so overall it's a pretty

[24:07] nice thing you can carry it somewhere but I can't help it but feel like there are probably way better options on Amazon that might get you more okay now I figured out how the Smart Lock Works and it's actually super interesting and

[24:19] good by the way it's a very sturdy lock so when you first unbox it then any finger will unlock it the way to set this up is very straightforward you to unlock it for example my thumb I open it with it but then I keep pressing

[24:32] until I see the blue light and it will take a while but there it is and then now while the blue light is on as you can see it's asking me to give a few different positions of my fingerprint and then at one point I will see the

[24:44] green light so I keep doing this now okay there's the green and now they want the second finger so I'll choose my index finger maybe you won't see it that well but I'll just keep doing it and I think

[24:58] [Music] okay and I think it's done now so let's try if what we did works so I'm closing it and then now want to use my middle finger it shouldn't work and it doesn't or for example my ring finger it doesn't

[25:11] work but the finger we did set up the thumb oops maybe the middle of the thumb was testing a bit so it doesn't work unless a very specific position then it does so be careful when setting this up maybe you just need to press harder and

[25:25] better let's try with the thumb nope doesn't work only the tip of my thumb does it so be careful when setting this up but it absolutely works by the way if you mess anything up with this there is a way to reset it but it's very secure

[25:38] it's safe to use on your luggage and stuff no one will be able to crack it stuff no one will be able to crack it the only danger is that the teu lock teu lock might malfunction and you might not be able to open your luggage when on

[25:51] vacation that's kind of a big deal now for the vacuum cleaner I'm currently editing this video and it actually did pretty well if you look at the footage it did cover most spots you can even see the water behind it drying up at first I

[26:05] in the middle but then it went back to go under them and then at the end it that all the borders of the room to finish up the cleaning however then after that if we look at the footage it keeps doing the borders over and over

[26:17] the reason is that it was looking for its base station but it couldn't find it because I had blocked the room so in the end my final opinion of this robot it's absolutely usable if you use it for a small part of your room you pour in some

[26:31] water and then you let it drive around thank you so much for watching if you like this content there you will find more of it let me know which Gadget was gadgets but from Amazon in the description thank you so much for

[26:43] watching and I hope I will see you in that video have a nice day

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