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Well, are you looking for the perfect gift for the dad in your life like myself? Here is Eric Lron with some ways to amp up Father's Day. All right, let's continue our Father's Day gift guide, John Velasco, senior editor over Tom's guide back here. Uh John, we looked at a Hisense TV for indoors. Last time we've got an outdoor TV. Here. This is pretty cool. It's if you on Aurora and this is, this is amazing. Rain or shine. IP 54 rating. So, you know, it, it could take a look in some pretty decent storms, right. Um Can they say it can withstand UV, rays, rain, snow, dirt, dust, humidity, extreme temperatures, uh negative 24 degrees to 100 and 22 degrees. Uh 750 knits in four K. Um, you know, I i it's just, it's, it's one of those great things is that if you, if you got the extra bucks, um, it's nice to have in your backyard. All right, le let's move on to some, a audio right now because I don't know about you. Do you have a, a turntable in your, I don't, you don't OK, so listen, record players have been making a comeback. This one is from Fluence and uh it's a Canadian company. Fluence has been very uh you know, they say this is, this is for people who want that pure analog sound like the way that the artists intended. Very, very cool. Uh I I like it very modern, very sleek looking and you know, nice take on a record player on the other side here. And John, you've, I know that you have listen to this one. This is the uh the Marshall Woburn three. Tell me about the sound of this top line speaker. A great base. A lot of controls. It has also looks like an AMP pretty much, you know, the classic AMP and you have those controls on top so you could have inputs in the back. So there's a lot you could do with it and it's wireless Bluetooth. So what else do we have here, John? Yeah. So for the handy dad, you know, in the car you have this social power bank and what it does is basically charges your phones, there's a flashlight built in, but it could also jump start your car. So if he's you know, stranded, the battery is dead, you don't have to worry about calling AAA. You have it right here for you. You could actually jump start your car with this. So that's that. And then the other thing I want to show you here is for, again, for the handy dad in the home. This is the black UBL 9000. It's a Android powered smartphone, but it's different because it has a large 8000 million amp hour battery. And the biggest difference here is that has a built in flare camera. So it has a thermal camera you could see in the dark. And if there are, you know, uh if you have a leak at the home and there's a cold spot, you know, with the air conditioning unit or with your heating unit, you'll be able to see it with this. How much does that cost? It's one roughly around $800. Ok. Uh, still more stuff that we can get to today because there's plenty more that dad wants he would like. Anyway, it's on his wish list. John. Stick around. We're gonna have more of these gifts for you in our next segment.

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Father's Day is a week from today. Still don't know what to get your dad in your life. Eric Landsner with some ways to amp up Father's Day. All right, continuing our Father's Day gift guide. Uh We, we wanna be practical here. I again, I'm with John Velasco, senior editor over at Tom's guide. We wanna look out for dad's health and let's start right here with this. The withings body scan connected Health station. It's about $400. Um It, it monitors weight BM I your full body composition. So you're talking body fat, muscle mass, each part of your body measures uh water percentage, bone mass. And uh one of the cool things here is, it's got this bar that you pull up. It has sensors on it, it shoots what they call harmless electrical current throughout your body to take uh various measurements. There. It does a standing heart rate the whole deal. It, it's very cool. Um We have another actual item here from, from Withings and, and John, I know you've used uh some of the Withings watches. Uh it, it's a hybrid watch. Talk about this scan watch two is, is what it's called. Yeah, the thing I like about it's a hybrid smart watch. So you get the best of both worlds, a traditional looking time piece but with some smart elements, you could still notifications. There's a nice ola display in there and it just looks elegant. It's not that your traditional, you know, piece of electronics on your wrist, electrocardiogram, pulse ox the whole deal. So uh pretty cool body temperature uh as well and up to 30 days battery life. Yeah, that one costs about 350. Um, another one that we have here that actually boasts some pretty good battery life. The Garmin Phoenix seven is one of the biggest names. Uh I think most people know in, in outdoors and fitness trackers. This one's got up to 18 day, uh, battery life for 57 days. Actually, they claim in battery saver mode, it's rugged also has the wrist heart rate and the pulse ox tracks pretty much any activity you can potentially think of. Uh, you've got another one in your hand and this is a popular one. Yeah, this is the Samsung Galaxy Watch Six Classic. So instead of, you know, traditional square type looking smart watch, you have the round face with the dial, the physical dial you can actually move, works with the Android obviously and it does pretty much what you expect out of fitness, your steps, your heart rate and of course you can do text messaging too if you want. Yeah. And they just announced that they're rolling out Galaxy A I to it as well. Uh, and we, we do have one more here. It, it's like a watch of Palooza here. This is the new, uh, one plus watch too. And, and this one also very clean, very classic look, uh, and very vivid screen on the one plus I heard a lot of good things about it. Eric, they improved many, many things about it, the display, the performance, the battery and it's not as buggy as the first version. Last on our list is the Bartisan duet John, you, you have a different version of the Bartisan talk about it. It's basically the Keurig for a cocktail maker is the beauty about it. You put the pot in, you use your own alcohol so you could save money in the long run. And then of course you just press the button and it dispenses the drink for you. It's like having a personal bartender at home and it's quick and simple too. Hang with us. We've got more coming up, we're going outside next.

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And Father's Day is a week from today. Still don't know what to get for the dad in your life. Well, here's our Eric Lander with some ways to, for Father's Day. This time we're outside the news 12 studio. I'm back here with John Velasco, senior editor over at Tom's guide. Continuing to look at some great gifts for dad for Father's Day. This is a solo stove, Yukon fire pit and on top of it is actually the pie fire. So this is a pizza oven that sits on top of the fire pit. This is great. We got one in there. It's cooking up. It's probably gonna take a little bit while longer. And John on, on top of this, we have one of their smallest offerings. Yeah, the mesa, it's actually more compact, more portable while the Yukon is great for the backyard. This is great for camping trips. It's just light easy and it has the same experience. Ok, let's move on. Uh We've got the hover drone. Yeah, this is the hover X one drone. And the nice thing about it is that it's compact, lightweight. It's autonomous too. So you don't technically need to control it, which I love. And the cool thing is once you're ready to fly it, it'll actually follow you. Here we go, shoots in four K and you have a bunch of different modes. You could do rocket, it could swirl around you. And when it's done recording, all you gotta do is just place your hand underneath. There you go. Just like that in a compact size too, which is great. OK. Next up. Yeah. So this is the shows Magic Mount flask, traditional water bottle. It's insulated for hydration, but it has a mag safe connection on top. So you connect your iphone, you can watch your videos even take a facetime call as that's working out. You've got the latest gopro here. Yes, this is the GoPro Hero 12 and Great Action camera. Awesome stabilization. But the cool feature most people don't know about. So you could actually connect a pair of air pots to it and use it as a wireless mic. All right, we're standing out here next to the fire pits, getting even toast on a hot day. You've got a little personal cooling device. Yeah, this is the Taurus waistband. So basically attached to your hip. It sucks in air and blows air up your shirt. So stay cool in summer. It's pretty amazing. How long is the battery left? They say roughly around eight hours. All right, cooling all day long. All right, John Velasco, senior editor over at Tom's guide John. Thanks so much. Hope you got some good ideas for Dad for Father's Day. I'll send it back to you guys.

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Eric Landskroner spoke with John Velasco, senior editor at Tom’s Guide.

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