Inside the World's Coolest Tech Store

- Hey, guys, this is Austin.
Today I'm here in one of the coolest
tech stores in the universe,
and I brought a couple friends.
So we're here at the B&H Superstore in New York City.
Now, this is not a sponsored video,
however, my boy Darren hooked it up,
so we have the entire store to ourselves.
It's after closing, so it's pretty much empty,
and we can do pretty much whatever we want.
I gotta say, it's really eerie to be in the store
and it's completely closed.
We're actually locked in right now,
so we better make a good video
or they won't let us out.
Look at all the crazy cameras here,
like the FS5 here, the C100?
Yeah it is.
Got the FS7.
The cool part about this is that, you know,
everything's off right now.
Normally you can come in and play with all these cameras.
Can we go inside?
Oh.
I feel like we're not supposed to be here right now.
Probably 'cause we're really
not supposed to be here right now.
The conveyor system is just calling my name.
- Yeah, it's going vroom.
- Oh, they left the door open for us.
Guys, you wanna try the mics?
- Hey guys, this is Austin.
- No, no, no, so actually, the way this works,
that's a $3,600 mic, by the way,
that you're licking right now.
So basically, they built this room
essentially to test mics,
so all these mics all around,
they're all patched in via this guy,
and then it runs through all of this equipment,
and you guys should listen to it on the headphones.
So I don't know how to operate it,
'cause I'll probably break something.
- Is this room completely soundproof?
- Yeah, so basically, look at the windows.
So the windows are 12 inches apart,
and the walls are two feet,
then it's separated on top and bottom.
So you can see how we had to step up to get in here.
- Darren, lock us in.
Oh, it's so peaceful, wow.
- Can you hear me?
Man, you can see how thick the windows are and everything.
This is like a proper sound setup.
But, that's not the only sound thing we've got.
Mr. Morrison, could you please
come with us for a second?
This is where the fun stuff happens.
So, not only do they have
tons of different speakers and everything,
but they also have some guitars
with some amps ready.
I've seen you play guitar pretty well.
Oh, you wanna plug it in?
- No.
(laughing)
- You guys, look.
This is what shy Jon looks like.
You see how shy he is right now?
Yes, yes!
It's like Excalibur.
So, when Jon's YouTube career finally flames out,
he's playing the pink guitar all day.
(electric guitar music)
- Dude, I forgot everything.
- What?
That's you forgetting everything?
(laughing)
(ukulele music)
- You're gonna overdub this, so it looks like--
- Oh, yeah, yeah, we're playing really cool music right now.
(hardcore guitar music)
- Is this really an iPad?
- This is an iPad.
It's got a lens on it, it's got a microphone, a light.
Hey, guys, this is Austin,
and today I'm replacing all of my normal gear with iPads.
So actually something I didn't realize,
B&H actually has PC gaming stuff too.
Yo, that's not bad.
Oh, they've even got an opened up hard drive.
- [Judner] Don't do it.
- Did we lose Jon?
You're over here making music without us?
Oh yeah, here we go, sick jams right now.
(keyboard music)
Yes, you've got the dog!
- What up?
- [Austin] Hello, hey Zelda.
Welcome to the B&H extravaganza, my friend.
- All right, it looks pretty extravaganzic.
- It's a real party now that Big Dom is here.
You just missed all the great music stuff,
but don't worry, it's all good.
You don't know anything about music so it's fine.
- Oh, it's a dog!
That is a cool raincoat, buddy.
- [Dom] It's not as cool as her little--
- [Austin] Oh!
Does that sound crazy or what?
- Yeah, it's like something sucking on my ears
on each side.
- [Austin] But you can still hear me, right?
- I can still hear you.
No, it's not Austin proof, unfortunately.
- Nothing is Austin proof, for the record.
- You got all the noise cancellation you need.
- Oh, here we go, noise cancellation.
You wanna get the chocolate swirl?
- Chocolate swirl, that's what we're calling it?
- It says chocolate swirl right there.
- Oh.
- What do you think it's supposed to be called?
- That's a very nice way to put it.
- Are you about the chocolate swirl life?
- Am I about the chocolate swirl life?
- I feel like I shouldn't be doing this right now.
This all feels really wrong.
- [Jon] What are you doing,
slapping the invisible cashiers?
- [Austin] Uh.
Did you just lick the light?
- [Jon] No.
- Did you just lick the light?
- Ken, Ken.
- [Ken] What's up?
- [Jon] What are those?
Yo.
- Jesus Christ, Jon.
- Party mode, okay.
So this is where a lot of the used stuff is.
You might think, used cameras, not a big deal,
but look at some of this stuff.
Not gonna lie, I wanna try to figure out
how I can get that out of this case right now.
Oh, man.
800 millimeter lens.
Can I touch it?
- Yeah, go ahead.
- Before I pick this up, how much is this lens?
- Off the top of my head, I think it's like $7,000, $8,000.
- [Austin] Oh, no big deal.
- This is Austin Evans sniper mode.
- Say hello to my little friend!
(laughing)
So I need an 800 millimeter lens in my life.
You guys literally have everything.
A Hasselblad?
Wow.
Oh, right, those are all cameras, aren't they?
(laughing)
That looks so cool and retro from the front.
Course, you flip it around back and you realize
it's a new camera, but from the front, wow.
Everything's reversed.
That's trippy.
You know the best part of B&H?
- I do not.
- Look up, my friend, look up.
That conveyor system is the coolest (censored) ever.
- [Jon] Evans, you just said (censored)!
- So I think what we need to do now
is to see what's actually behind this conveyor system.
So if you look, there's all these different control modules,
and these are all motorized.
So essentially what happens is,
say you're upstairs in the camera department
and you wanna order a lens
and bring it over to the register.
They put it on, and it'll send it down
all the way around.
- [Ken] So, can you beat it in a race?
- Can you race it?
- Only one way to find out.
- [Austin] Three, two, one.
(dramatic music)
What up?
How's it going, GoPro?
So, the obvious winner is Mr. Austin Evans!
All right, so this is B&H.
Darren, for real, thank you for letting us in your store,
thank you for being kind enough to let us race
and do terrible things that you should not have let us do.
Dude, thanks.
And, of course, thanks to all these guys.
You should check out all their super cool links.
Peace, guys.

Inside the World's Coolest Tech Store

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