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What Is The Best Home Gigabit Network Switch?
Does this sound familiar? You've got a smart TV, Xbox, desktop computer, and phone all running on wifi. The connection is spotty. You alternate between pulling out your hair & cursing loudly at inanimate objects. Resetting the router does nothing. Bleep this. It's time to take your network back to 1990. I'm talking hard lining devices [...]
Universal Replacement TV Base For Vizio, LG, Samsung & More
Remember the first time your parents brought home a 32" HD TV and your head almost exploded? How could TV get any better? If you had to watch that tiny screen now, you'd probably try to throw it out the window, but it'd be too heavy & you'd ruin your back forever. Thankfully, TVs are [...]
The Best Arcade Games At Up-Down In Minneapolis
If you live in a city with an arcade bar, congratulations. There aren't many places with the perks of being an adult, combined with the fun of being a kid. At Up-Down, you can play copious amounts of video games while simultaneously crushing pizza & beer. It'll get you stoked beyond belief, and after working [...]
How To Mount A TV On Drywall Without Studs
There are few things in life more satisfying than getting your TV off its crappy stand and onto the wall. The heavenly tones of Whitney Houston are sure to play in your head as you slip into your eagle kimono & settle onto the couch. Watching Will Smith kick some ass in I, Robot just [...]
How To Boost Your Wifi Signal
There are only a few things more frustrating than a bad wifi signal. When Comcast is murdering your bank account at $70/month and your wifi signal sucks you can start to feel desperate. You might even turn off the wifi and burn through your LTE data while watching clips from Always Sunny. So what can [...]
Ranking Every Oreo Flavor At Our Local Grocery Store
Fireworks, baseball, and apple pie are widely considered to be the 3 most American things ever. I'd like to add Oreos, Costco hot dogs, and Rex Kwon Do to that list. You think our country got to where we are today because we dressed like Peter Pan over there?? Forget about it! [...]
Does It Hold Up? Ace Ventura Pet Detective
This is the first entry in what will potentially be the greatest Echogear blog series of all time. We're watching old movies to see if they still hold up. The internet used to be a place filled with whimsical content to make us happy. Now it's an absolute cesspool of uninformed political opinions and baby [...]
Mounting a TV Over A Fireplace - How Does It Work?
Nothing says pure class like mounting your TV above the fireplace. Especially if you're from Minnesota (like us) and need to be as close to a heat source as possible while also watching the Timberwolves blow another 4th quarter lead in February...and by that, I mean secretly watching Colton jump the fence on the Bachelor. [...]
Do I Need A 4k HDMI Cable?
*It's Friday and I decided to see how many hip hop shredders I can reference in this article.* UHD, 4k, 8k, 24k magic?? Deciphering which is a new TV spec and which is an absolute bopper by Bruno Mars is hard. With video technologies growing so rapidly, it's tricky to know which HDMI cable is right [...]