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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 [...]
How To Hide TV Wires In Or On The Wall
As the certified OG's of selling top-notch TV mounts on Amazon, we've seen our fair share of awesome DIY TV setups. On the other hand, seeing ugly dangling TV cables in reviews started giving us big-time heartburn. It felt like we just ate a pair of Arby's Mega Meat Stacks for breakfast. See exhibit A: After [...]
What Is Ray Tracing & Why You Should Care About NVIDIA Turing GPUs
source: YouTube NVIDIA's new GPU has been all up in the news lately and is being called the "Holy Grail" of the gaming industry. For the casual gamer (hi) watching the 30-minute presentation to understand it might be overkill. Lucky for you, I got paid to do it at work in order to write this blog. [...]
Best PC Gaming Accessory: Monitor Mounts
I get it, when you think of gaming accessories you're imagining some cool speakers or a mechanical keyboard. But, something most gamers don't think about is adding a monitor mount to their setup. Hear me out, mounting your monitor gives you nearly infinite monitor adjustments for more comfortable and longer gaming sessions. On top of [...]
The Fortnite Battle Royale Beginners Guide
Fornite has taken the gaming world by storm. Pun intended (you'll get that later). Everyone is playing this game because of the free beta modes and unique gameplay. Fortnite is super fun with a simple concept but does have a learning curve. From the 3rd person view to building structures, this isn't your average pick [...]
The Ultimate COD WW2 Loadout - Resistance Class Is the GOAT
First off let me say, COD's community events have been an awesome addition to the series. Releasing new weapons, classes, and unlockables for free keeps players coming back for more. It also just so happens that the newly released Resistance class is the best, and most fun class I've come across. It fits a run-n-gun [...]