The MP3 Pen.
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MP3 players really went the way of the calculator, from being expensive, heavy, dedicated devices to becoming a gimmicks in watches, pens and whatever to just being an app.
I'm 100% in the minority here but I will always defend having an actual calculator on hand, at least if you're the kind of person that regularly needs a graphing calculator. (I'm a student, sue me) Even old calculators are always a better experience than any app like Desmos. Maybe I just have the same passion for being able to punch numbers that Dank has for critical listening
@@selfloathinggameing but what person aside from a student or a very specific set of people actually regularly needs a graphing calculator? And if you’re the type of person to need one regularly then of course you should get one, but otherwise why bother?
@@selfloathinggameing I dunno, seems to me like calculators have stranded in a sort of awkward middle spot where everyday joe doesn't need to carry one around, and whoever does need one probably also needs a laptop that can run Sagemath/Python/R/Matlab/Mathematica/whatever...
@@selfloathinggameing in the UK, graphing calculators were banned in school (dunno if they still are, I haven’t gone for a decade), because you might program in answers and cheat!! Seriously. We were only allowed non-programmable, non-graphing scientific calculators. (At least that kept the cost down though. £10 or £20 instead of £150)
Unless you have an HP Prime. That thing is for pimps.
Seeing those Chinese tracks really had me on floor, these are genuine pop classics in mid 2000s China(and yes they are copyrighted) and further confirmed that these nuggets are probably from some random factory in Shenzhen 🤣.
What was the name of the second song?
@@Zoogler “好姑娘” , which basically means “good girls”
@@linusl4710 thanks man !
What was the first one?
@@Moojingles_ 故乡的云by周笔畅，GuXiangDeYun by BichangZhou，it translated to hometown cloud
Man it's amazing that the change of storage went from choosing 128 or 256 megabytes for our portable devices to 128 or 256 gigabytes for our portable devices. That's so amazing
can you imagine that it used to be kilobytes instead and it's gonna be terabytes in the next few years
FINALLY I was really hoping that the MP3 𝓟𝓮𝓷 would appear, and i absolutely love it, also nice gloves
yes the pen
love that you took the time to write "pen" as "𝓟𝓮𝓷" instead of just "pen"
@@Nosttromo ikr
I too love the
𝗠𝗣𝟯
𝒫ℯ𝓃!
@@fireballfurby My favorite thing ever is the 𝙈𝙋3 𝒫ℯ𝓃
Oh perfect, a pen to write down all my regrets while vibing to Scarlet Fire.
XD
You can write about how you regret buying the product.
No regerts
@e literally everyones reaction to Kurtis' comment:
Love that the inside packaging was made of vantablack
Same haha 😂 your funny bro
*vandalized black on a box full of amazing mp3 things
that is not vantablack
@Don't Read My Profile Photo shush
@Don't Read My Profile Photo shut up bot
my Aussie friend, please don't feel pressured to put out tons of videos. I've seen so many good UA-camrs burn themselves out trying to appease the greedy ones and end up either quitting or taking a long break. I think most of us are happy with the pace you have now
Yes.
Its about the algorithm, if you don't post constantly your channel is slowly trown into limbo
publish or perish
Yep 👍
I find his videos very rewatchable too
Tip: if you have a pen that has dried out, try using a lighter and lightly move it along the pen. It’ll free up the ink and make it usable again. Though in some cases it’s not a permanent fix.
Also try scribbling on your shoe sole, idk y but it works
@@GatileoGatileiI'd guess that's probably because shoe soles are pretty grippy, and so the ball in the pen is easier to get to spin again and let the ink to the other side if it's stuck
@@lunlunnnnnAnd the rubber on the soles is good at making friction, meaning it also heats up the pen ball and the ink.
I love it when he pronounces stuff differently depending on the font
*MP3* pen
MP3 ^pen^
Same
*EMM PEE THREE*
𝓹𝓮𝓷
@@shadowknight6135 p e n
They sold these at "book fairs" at school when I was a kid.
I remember holding one of them. Absolutely hateful device.
Woa
How is a device hateful? Did it kill your family while you were asleep?
@@theshpee1214 i mean with these nuggets you never know
Lmao
Thank you! I was watching this like, "I owned one of these, where the hell did I get it and why?"
Who else isn’t actually an audio enthusiast and just watches for his amazing character 😂
I need my stuff to sound alright. But, I'm no audiophile.
🖐️
I come here for the man, I only just learned what dark/bright/balanced/etc meant like two weeks ago and I've been watching these for years 😩
I enjoy learning about old nuggets, but I definitely enjoy his vids because they’re funny
Me
We have the mp3 *pen* now we need the mp3 *paper*
I once had a microphone pen that I had gotten from Thailand. It was pretty much the same, except it was all black, lacked the buttons on the side, and had a bigger power button on the top where the headphone jack on the MP3 pen is. The manual also had the word "elephant" in it.
The song on the pen, according to Google Lens, is "Clouds of Hometown" by Zhou Bichang. The WMA is "Good Girl" by Li Xiao.
thanks
All hail Google lens
Thanks
@@ProgressOnly or just speaking chinese... learning it just to translate it is so much more fun! 🤪
i couldnt bear to go on without these
They really missed a trick not calling it MP3N. It would have outsold the iPod if they did.
Take my like and leave😂
I was gonna say "MPen3"
MSCN!!
@@chrisjamesr77 MPen3 is much nicer hahaha
@@chrisjamesr77 Was about to post the same, Bravo for beating me to that 🤣
You should do a video where you call all of the helpline numbers from some of the MP3 players you have unboxed in the past and see who answers. Thank you for the video, love these unboxings!
7:13 it sounds like a interrogation room microphone
We got:
The first "oh my 1 grit"
The first tiny jack
Dank making history today
"Oh my table"
Not to mention a spicy pillow
also MP3!!!⋌༼ •̀ ⌂ •́ ༽⋋ pen♡´･ᴗ･`♡
@@NeffSang I'm pretty sure he's said "spicy pillow" before.
@@deathsyth8888 maybe on Patreon... I don't recall him ever saying it on regular YT videos
I was dragging through the depths of eBay and found that some Geiger counters could store MP3s, if you want a comedy convo piece could be funny
wtf, as a custom clicking tone? "ok boys when the Scarlet Fire gets too intense drop everything and run"
@@Synthetica9 im pretty sure its just the song, but as clicking sounds lol.
@@Synthetica9 If my only warning of imminent death is Scarlet Fire, I'm fucking dead
Be sounding like something you see in STALKER 2.
All this radiation is making me wanna BOOGIE. HIT THE DISCO BUTTON!
Found my way here after The Verge's article, and I'm sorry I didn't discover it sooner. Having been obsessed with mp3 players in the past (my fave being the Sansa Clip, for some reason), this is right up my alley. Favorite part is the "AHHH" for the batteries. Your videos are making me smile during some not-so-fun times, so thank you for that!
9:40 that was the point. They put one of those, just so you could not blow the headphones. Making big grain moves before someone on the internet decides to screw them. Jokes aside, would it really be able to fit a 3.5mm one? It does look like it's mini jack is already against the lipo cell and the 3.5 might go over it. Or, if it fits, be too close in case someone stabs hard the headphone jack, dislodging it and puncturing the cell.
He can still blow it up either way, You can get one of those 2.5mm jacks to 3.5mm jacks, So its not a HUGE roadblock.
Ah, I remember when I would always wonder when mp4 was gonna come out and think about how much higher quality it would be.
Lol I can’t wait for mp5
@@myrealusername2193 MP5 came out a while ago
it's deathly good
@@myrealusername2193 oh yeah it's been out already, it's to die for
@@myrealusername2193 Mp5 is out, and it really is killing it
I'm still stuck with MP2, you guys are so lucky with your fancy MP3 players
The Law of Dank:
Everything that is mentioned, no matter how long ago, WILL get a video.
Fax
Except the rockbox vid he promised. Still waiting on that one.
@Just anything happens cap
Agreed, he did tbe xb1000 and the stax lambda eventually but we need the jecklin floats
5:35 I can't stop laughing on that part
M-MSSc-CN....MM-MSsSCN
Your videos helped me in school a couple days ago, we were doing a roleplay discussion in geography about wether the price for sugar should increase or decrease, and I was a represantative fo aussieland, so I told them how we need low sugar prices for making tim tams, vegemite and tick tocks and how they shouldn't even dare to talk about raising onion prices because what about snags etc....It was great fun! Thanks mate!
5:50 : *slightly exhales* “.mp3”
I can imagine this appealing to students: rocking out in class and when teacher comes to take your player away you go: What you mean? It's my pen! How am I supposed to study without a pen?!
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LMAOOOOOO
I could've used that eye poking feature in some of my college classes that's for sure. Joys of working overnight shifts for a while.
This MP3-player pen reminds me of that "smart" pen that was advertised constantly on Nickelodeon around 2009 and Best Buy used to sell.
Say hi to Fly, the world's first pentop computer!
I remember the adds for the leapfrog smart pencil. I never got one but I was jealous of the people that had it
@@mar.miller6376 like a thing using batteries and playing sound if it touches certain areas on a mat thing?
@@tylern6420 He's talking about the LeapFrog Tag.
@@onewhitedude wasnt the vtech dingus the same thing
I actually had one of these, when I was really little. I don't remember what happened to it. But thanks Dank for unlocking a memory from my childhood haha
same, my grandma bought me one when i was a little kid
2:46 that laugh’s fucking incredible
I love your content. It's been ages since I've watched you (you were around 90k) but I'm so happy to see where you are now and you got me into audio which is awesome! Hope you keep growing and growing 🙏🏽
“Don’t call GNBI on that one call GNBI on this one” a truly inspiring and motivational quote to live by
I swear this is one of the higher tier prizes when selling magazines/chocolate for a school fundraiser. I wanted it so bad when I was little.
I can relate, I remember doing fundraising efforts for trinkets during PE back in elementary school!
Full size USB? Yeah, duh. Full size headphone jacket? What!? Are you crazy? Can't fit that in there
9:49 OHHHHH THERES HEAPS OF ROOM 🦧
6:04 that file on the right really sums up his reaction to the sample music
This nugget is a perfect example of how crap early 2000s to ~2010 electronics were. Literally manufactured e-waste and so were most of the garbage iPod and phone accessories of the time. I remember whatever cheap-ish gadget I got as a kid not lasting more than 2 weeks in the best case, unless it was something like a Panasonic or Sony caliber brand.
panasonic 👍
The masters of Plasma TVs, im still using a VT60 in 50" and S20E in 46" today!
That trend is still going strong honestly. Shitty e-waste will be overproduced forever
What a great idea! now you can listen to your favorite music in 144p while writing with a pen that dried out years ago, brilliant!
I don't think audio files have ps
music having pixels is a new concept to me
0:58 Missed opportunity for not calling it the MP3N
I genuinely had something like this when I was younger it was at a dollar store, unfortunately the one I had could only do FM radio. I thought it was pretty cool at the time it didn't really last a week though. I had one around the year 2002 to just give you a general idea of the year.
Me too:) sucked that it also had a 2.5mm jack tho
I definitely had a radio pen in high school. Worst reception you could ever imagine. It was absolutely useless.
Yup. I just found one on the ground; thought it was pretty neat back then. 2 months later it died. To this day I still can't figure out why it died - even with new batteries and not a sign of liquid damage it never turned on again. No dead caps, no leaky batteries, no corrosion.
Somewhere I've still got one too. Rubbish reception but I was amazed by it when I was a kid
Thank you for reminding me dank. I have now acquired $50,286 in debt because of that snake.
People: You know those MP3 players that look like a pen-drive?
Global: *Say no more*
As a child in 2006 I can confirm I had one of these and the mini headphone jack bothered me back then too
5:17 one for the history books here boys!
0:53 - Me getting kicked in the groin
u got kicked in ur eggs and sausages
The middle but between the pen an MP3 player is where an ink cartridge is supposed to go, the lack of ink is probably why the pen didn’t work
2:15: A-
That made me giggle. Dankpods never EVER fails to make me laugh.
Viewers: Say the word, Wade
Wade: 1:21
Viewers : yeeeaAAAAHH!!!
I was about to watch "The iPod turned 20" but then I just had to watch this right after it is released.
I really needed to hear the mic function while you were actually writing with it. Probably hear every penstroke.
3:22 GNBI
Finally, I was waiting for a review on this when it was brought up in the mp3 drumstick video
hes definitely shown this before I remember him saying "pen"
Idk if it was an aftershow now becoming a show.
@@youwouldntclickalinkonyout6236 no, its just that he showed it off in a previous video. however he didnt make a full video until now
6:12 by playing the music from the cursed pen, he somehow spawned in a demon his desktop on the top right
that recording about cooking class was so funny i had to stop what i was doing and come back and listen. great laugh thanks!
Man...I had that exact pen as a kid. You were actually the cool kid for having an MP3 pen.
6:52 "Welcome back boss!"
2:15 I relate to that sound
"I wish more important dreams came true"
lmao oh god I feel that
I remember wanting one of these things as a kid since they were offered as a reward for my school's fundraising program. I was so excited when I sold enough tubs of cookie dough to get it, then used it once and never again lmao
Petition for Dank to start using green gloves when handling nuggets
3:56 Don't call GNBI on that one, you call GNBI on this one.
This week on DankPods: DankPods finds another interesting MP3 player... also the start was good because of Craig
I was just thinking about this yesterday!
So apparently, according to the translator built into Google Lens, the music you have build into the player are:
Zhou Bichang-Clouds of Hometown.mp3
and
Li Xiaojie-Good Girl.wma
Just randomly felt like translating that for no reason.
I was about to post the same thing!!!
Thanks for that, was actually quite interested in listening to the second song and found it thanks to you.
Also, Zhou Bichang literally means Zhou "smooth pen".
For me the top one writes Flash Pen Account - Hometown Cloud.
And those, if published/released/got covered in the west and received equal popularity as they did in mainland China, are BOUND to get content-matched and demoneytize the shit out of this episode.
Many thanks for the Great Fire Wall, I guess......?
Finally, I can write lyrics while listening to a song, all without another device.
write lyrics of sandstorm m8
@@baneq105 scarlet fire
At 5:12 you show a inner chassis thats where you put the ink in for the pen part to work
The microphone tests you do briefly bring joy and happiness into my life
I feel bad for that customer service line now that Dank has more or less asked all of his viewers to call that number (I called it, it's still the same company, you should DEFINITELY not call it)
ok im curious, what happened? lol
What happened?
What happened?
Tell us what happened please
What happened
I was waiting for this for ages
One week?
Same
@@Photo0021 no nigga
0:10 and it’s a Craig 😂😂
This is the funniest video I’ve seen from you 😂nice job man.
8:45 *Intense Batman Dummy MP3 Player Flashback*
I love these videos so much. Keep ‘em coming!
This is a reupload?
God, I can't get enough of your content, this shit is top of the chain, outstanding content. Also, I am a bit of an computer engineer nerd, so I enjoy this stuff a lot.
My mom bought me one of these I think (I had to have been in high school). I honestly don't think I ever got it to work so kind of impressed you got so much function out of yours
I bought one of these long time ago. From a Chinese website! The ones I got had 1GB storage and a FM Radio! Ended up replacing the small socket with a conventional sized one. In the end it was just used as flash card storage after all it was a gigabyte in storage though slow storage. It was great for recording meetings! Other than that total e-waste today! Yea my battery pack still works in the one I have here still total e-waste today!
♪
"I wish more important dreams came true"
That cut surprisingly deep.
these videos always brighten my day, this is great
I had one with the same 1.5 mono jack and volume wheel on the headphone cable powered by two button cells that cost more than the pen itself.
good times
never in my life have i heard a Li-on batt be called a "spicy pillow". ill take that one with me
This felt a lot like good old classic DankPods videos. I mean your content is great now as it was then, but there’s a certain charm in wrecking a nice ridiculous nug. ❤️
Dankmates gloves make it look like a chicken is unboxing the MP3 pen
I remember watching the late night teleshopping/infomercials of these as a kid and always wanted one
I must say... for someone like me who is studying a lot... I liked this thing, I usually record classes, this would be very useful for when I transcribe the notes
I guess that recording classes via a pen that is used in the same time to transcribe the notes is a terrible idea. You'll probably end up with shitty quality of recording with a lot sounds of scratches from transciribing.
I just want you to know, when the egg fell, that pause had me so invested I spilled my drink on my chin because I forgot to move the can all the way to my mouth. No word of a lie.
thank you for sharing
Seeing those earbuds make me remember my young age of having to wrap one around my left ear due to microtia listening to mushroomhead, (im 20 and i still have the ear sealed thanks children's hospital) so now i wear headphones even though i can't hear stereo sound, makes it hard for listening to stereo songs and games, but i love seeing these kinds of videos! Love hearing earbuds blow-up/get real gritty, makes me realize how bad the earbuds are sometimes lol
"I refuse to trim these. When they poke your eyeballs they keep you awake!" Omg that made me laugh so hard
If Wade says "Can you believe no one bought this" you know this will gonna be a good video
You know, if this came out in the Bluetooth era, I feel like this would have been alright for the classroom. Would have been much easier to hide the fact that you're listening to music too, letting you cycle through tracks without raising suspicion.
Unless you're just absolutely forbidden to have your phone with you, it'd be a quite niche product. Even still, it has a recording function and most businesses/schools don't like that.
@@TheGuyWhoIsSitting Thats why you should have one. If a school or business doesnt want you recording audio, you best be recording every second...
they would poke it and awake your aaa.. noise man,,, love your stuff
I honestly kinda want it for shits and giggles just to bring it into an exam
I actually had this. I was that desperate for music in school and my walkman was just too conspicuous.
...it still sucked--
5:56
Huh, well what do you know? That’s exactly the date after my birth.
Coolio
"I refuse to trim these. Ey? When they poke your eye balls-" I legit chocked on nothing here. Couldnt even laugh, just got me off guard 100 😂.
“I wish more important dreams came true” lmao my new favorite quote
You sir are quite the gem in this devolving society. Thank you for doing what you do soldier!
@Don't Read My Profile Photo if you insist
"Devolving society"
🤨
@@Lulu_Lime reminds me of the whiny Critical Drinker guy lmao
I remember wanting one of these as a kid so much
"EFFICIENT MEMORY - What you can't remember, use the core to write the notes in hand, and the key is repeatedly played in the ear"
I’m pretty sure that’s the “listening device” Dwight planted in Jim’s office on the office.
Except that it’s a Pen and not a duck
@@nfabian5100 Dwight planted both a pen and a mallard.
Mallard. But I was talking about the pen at the end of the episode.
@@traviscombs6947 oh yeah i must’ve forgot abt that part lol
Gotta love this channel, always brings out great vids, best UA-cam I’ve seen in awhile