Everyday Tech You’ll Actually Use

This is the perfect affordable everyday tech setup. Last year, I showed you my high-end everyday carry and the single most requested thing. Do it again, but make it budget. So, ever since then I've been in the background filtering through thousands of products online and testing hundreds of products

in person until we got to this. A setup that is dark mode, where everything is USBC, that makes sure you have the best tech with you at all times, that you will never run out of charge, where it's almost impossible to lose anything you'll be able to pack for a holiday in 60 seconds, all while costing a fraction of my original everyday carry while also in a lot of ways somehow

being better. And the bag is the backbone of that. So, for $130, the Almond Oak travel backpack is this thing's the pinnacle. So, this is a very small company. It's designed by one dude. But what's nice about that is you're getting that one dude's completely unfiltered take on

what makes the perfect backpack. And it just so happens that theirs is pretty close to mine. this thing is insanely light. It's got pockets in all the places you need them, but not with every inch of the thing being divided up you get on some bags. It doesn't have that I'm off on a backpacking trip vibe, which a lot of the other good ones at this price

do, but it still has the capacity to be able to let you. I think you're going to be quite shocked at how much I've managed to fit into here. The only things I've noticed are missing are it would be really nice just to have one quick access area over here for sunglasses or gum or a pen, but then I think this doesn't have that on purpose to make it less appealing to thieves.

The zippers are not waterproof, but the rest of the bag is. And the zippers not being waterproof is what allows them to operate much smoother. So the point being there's not a lot of problems here. But we have only just started cooking because in here is the sacred card protector wallet. Let me tell you

I have been through my fair share of wallets. I've been through ridge wallets. I've been through Ross wallets. I've been through folding wallets. I've been through pouch wallets. But this is the best wallet that I've tried while being about half the price. Now, I get it. On the face of it, it does just look I'm recommending you buy a sheet of metal. But there's some very important touches. There's a little bit of fabric on each side, which creates

the pressure needed to hold your cards in place without scratching them. You can fit five cards into this wallet very easily, and that's making sure that none of them are brushing against each other which is one of my big pet peeves. To use the thing, you just flick this lever here, and they don't just come out, but they come out in this fan, which makes them easier to see and to grab. And this

lever is where you can really tell the difference between this and a low quality wallet. , just listen to how this sounds compared to how this sounds. The only critique I have is it can be a little bit fiddly to get hold of this middle cart, but then I haven't tested any other wallets that particularly solve that issue. So, I love this thing. I think it oozes minimalism without

shafting function in the process. . So, keys in here. , yeah. This is another thing I really about this backpack. In the original version, this was all one pocket, but then there was a bunch of user feedback that all the stuff in this pocket was collecting at the very bottom. So, the creator then

added this very subtle stitching in between to separate the two, which to me makes each of these two halves the perfect sweet spot. It's the small things. So, this is a key organizer from Orbit Key, and I just can't recommend this enough. This is the lowest price that you can pay for something this without the product feeling it's cheaped out in any way. It's adjustable

so they say it keeps seven keys. I would say that's optimistic, but you can assume five quite easily. The important thing is that it keeps your keys together. It stops the racket and the scratching of having them constantly clanging into each other and all your other stuff. You can add your car keys onto here, which I would do if I had a car, but I prefer relying on the taxi

that is my wife. And I just want you to bear in mind there is also a whole extra 3 to 5 L of unused space in there. Okay the Aala Freip, which is just as much fun to use as it is to say. So, this is a lock, but it's also a carry handle. And then you press this button to reveal two options. the sip and the chug. So

if you want to chug your water with every other bottle, you absolutely can. But it is so good to also be able to sit this. I've had so many car journeys with my bottle up here this where I felt one speed bump away from torrential downpour on my clothing. And then it's all finished off with, , double locking mechanism, which means it just will not leak. And

importantly for a travel bag, it's not going to break if you're shoving it into baggage storage compartments. But now we get to the really juicy stuff. I am talking layer two and this here is something that I look for in every backpack I use because I think this raises the ceiling of how good a

backpack can be. It means that your bag can also become your suitcase. So first thing is the U green tech bag and remember heavier things should always go at the bottom. That's what stabilizes your backpack when you're putting it down but also it stops you crushing stuff. So this is a cheap bag. There's nothing particularly special about it when you first look at

There's nothing particularly special about it when you first look at it, but I just really it because it doesn't do a lot of the wasteful things that so many other tech bags do. I see so many of them that are really rigid, but then it's really hard to find tech that perfectly fits that rigidity or you would just have to go for smaller things and then have loads of wasted

space inside. You want a bag with some internal dividers so you don't just have a knot of cables every single time you open it up. But you also don't want something with so many dividers that you can't put your big things in there. So this U green is what I have settled on. Okay, let's feast. So, this is Flight

Flap. It's one of the most affordable no-brainer purchases if you do a lot of travel. It's a free form piece of material that you can form into your own phone stand with the perfect amount of rigidity so that it can hold your phone, but it's also really easy to bend. It's just so flexible. It's not