One of the best ways you can support TouchArcade is by doing your Amazon shopping through a TouchArcade affiliate link. We’ve set up the easy to remember toucharcade.com/amazon too if you want to type that in or bookmark it. We get a small percentage of anything you buy through any of these links, which otherwise would just go to financing Jeff Bezos’s flying Miata or whatever else he’s up to now, and it goes a long way to supporting the site at no additional cost to you. These Amazon Items of the Day articles are all products we have used ourselves, and feel are things that the TouchArcade audience might be interested in!

I’ve been a corded headphone guy basically forever. Over the years I’ve tried a few different wireless gaming headsets and eventually ended up just returning them all because either the sound quality was bad, the battery life was bad, the range was bad, or a combination of the three. After having a few friends pick up a pair of the SteelSeries Arctic Pros and consistently tell me how great they are, I took the plunge and skeptically ordered a pair myself. I’ve been using these things daily for a while now, and I’m never going back to wired headphones.

I primarily use my set of SteelSeries Arctic Pros hooked up to my PC both for gaming and just general day to day tasks. On a single charge, they’ll last an entire day of working, and then a whole night of gaming- All while using Discord or whatever else without issue. You really never need to worry about the charge level of the battery either, as the wireless transmitter that it comes with also serves as a battery charging dock. It comes with two batteries, so whenever you’re running low you just slide the one out of the charger, swap the battery from the right side of the headphones, and put the low battery in the charger. Alternatively, if you’re in the middle of a game or something else where you can’t handle a few seconds of interruption you can just connect a micro USB cable and it’ll charge while you’re wearing them.

The range of the SteelSeries Arctic Pros is seriously just bonkers. I live in a 1,400ish square foot single story ranch house and I keep my computer in the basement. I can walk around my entire house and never lose signal, which is actually super useful when you need to go AFK for a minute while you’re doing something like playing Sea of Thieves, which is a game that has a bit of downtime. While you’re taking the dog out or whatever else, you can totally hear your crewmates yell something along the lines of “Oh crap, galleon on the horizon!” and hurry back to your computer. Also, if you’re on a Skype call or something else, you can pace around or do any other thing you can do without a wire keeping you chained to your desk.

The SteelSeries Arctic Pro comes with a ridiculous amount of ways you can connect them to different devices. Aside from a traditional USB plug (how I’m using them) the base station also has a normal 3.5mm line in and line out, along with an optical in and optical out. Also, they’re a Bluetooth device, so if you want to pair them with your iPhone, iPad, PS4, or whatever else, you can go right ahead. I only ever use them on my PC, but, it’s neat to have that flexibility.

At $329.00 as of this writing, the SteelSeries Arctic Pro is in line with what “high end” wireless gaming headphones will run you. Of course there’s a lot of lower priced alternatives out there, but as mentioned, I’ve always managed to find a reason to not like the ones I’ve tried. Considering I used the last pair of headphones I had for my PC for well over five years, so while the initial purchase price is a bit high, the cost per use over time is quite low. Or maybe that’s just me rationalizing. Either way, I really like ’em and if you’re looking to upgrade your gaming headphones, these are a great set to consider.

Thanks for checking out today’s Amazon Item of the Day, and as mentioned before, even if you’re not interested in this particular product, buying things from Amazon by first visiting toucharcade.com/amazon is immensely helpful in supporting the site at no additional cost to you. If you want to take things a step further, you can check out our Patreon, but either way we just appreciate you sticking with us and continuing to both visit and contribute to the TouchArcade community over the years! If you’ve got a product you’re interested in seeing featured in an Amazon Item of the Day, don’t hesitate to reach out. The best way to get in contact with us is via email at tips@toucharcade.com and be sure to include “Amazon Item of the Day” in the subject.

One of the best ways you can support TouchArcade is by doing your Amazon shopping through a TouchArcade affiliate link. We’ve set up the easy to remember toucharcade.com/amazon too if you want to type that in or bookmark it. We get a small percentage of anything you buy through any of these links, which otherwise would just go to financing Jeff Bezos’s rocket-powered roller skates or whatever else he’s up to now, and it goes a long way to supporting the site at no additional cost to you. These Amazon Items of the Day articles are all products we have used ourselves, and feel are things that the TouchArcade audience might be interested in!

While mobile devices are getting faster all the time, it seems like year over year I become more and more dependent on different charging solutions to keep my batteries charged. While you probably have a bunch of the iPhone chargers that the iPhone comes with laying around, this charger sucks for a couple of reasons: First off, while it’s reasonably small compared to other chargers, the prongs don’t fold in which just seems like a poor design choice. Secondly, modern mobile devices are capable of charging way faster than the standard charger allows. (This has been true for years.) There’s a ton of better chargers out there, but most of them are way bigger than the default iPhone charger which really just conflicts with how minimal I like my charging load-out to be when I’m traveling. I just dealt with the slower charge rates of the iPhone charger to fill this need until I discovered the Aukey Ultra Compact Dual Port 2.4A USB Wall Charger.

It’s barely larger then the traditional iPhone charger, but has three awesome benefits that totally makes the upgrade worthwhile:

1. The prongs fold in.
2. It has TWO USB ports.
3. It charges at 2.4A, juicing up your gadgets way faster.

Even though it’s ever-so-slightly bigger, the prongs folding in makes for a smaller overall space requirement in your bag. I’m a firm believer that you can never have too many USB ports to go around, and with 2.4A of power delivery it’ll charge whatever you’ve got plugged into it much quicker than the default charger. It’s also a great buy too, with the Aukey Ultra Compact Dual Port 2.4A USB Wall Charger priced at $9.99 as of this writing. I’d really recommend picking up the two pack for $16.99 though, as you can really never have too many chargers and you’re getting a bit of a discount by buying two instead of one.

Thanks for checking out today’s Amazon Item of the Day, and as mentioned before, even if you’re not interested in this particular product, buying things from Amazon by first visiting toucharcade.com/amazon is immensely helpful in supporting the site at no additional cost to you. If you want to take things a step further, you can check out our Patreon, but either way we just appreciate you sticking with us and continuing to both visit and contribute to the TouchArcade community over the years! If you’ve got a product you’re interested in seeing featured in an Amazon Item of the Day, don’t hesitate to reach out. The best way to get in contact with us is via email at tips@toucharcade.com and be sure to include “Amazon Item of the Day” in the subject.

One of the best ways you can support TouchArcade is by doing your Amazon shopping through a TouchArcade affiliate link. We’ve set up the easy to remember toucharcade.com/amazon too if you want to type that in or bookmark it. We get a small percentage of anything you buy through any of these links, which otherwise would just go to financing Jeff Bezos’s space program or whatever else he’s up to now, and it goes a long way to supporting the site at no additional cost to you. These Amazon Items of the Day articles are all products we have used ourselves, and feel are things that the TouchArcade audience might be interested in!

Our inaugural Amazon Item of the Day is the Nebula Capsule Smart Mini Projector by Anker, which is by far the coolest gizmo I’ve added to my arsenal lately. I’ve been captivated by the pico projector market for years now, as my cousin owned a (very expensive and very crappy) first generation unit years ago. It was real neat on paper, but the early pico projectors weren’t very bright, didn’t have onboard speakers, required a video source, and basically were really not conducive to bringing anywhere because you had to bring so much extra junk to actually use it.

The Nebula Capsule, on the other hand, is completely self-contained and is the same size as a soda can. It’s one of those things you really can’t believe how small it actually is until you see it in person, as none of the photos really do it justice. When I say “self-contained,” I mean self contained. It has onboard speakers, an onboard battery good for four hours of play time, and runs Android. This means if you’ve got any sort of nearby WiFi connectivity, you just connect to a network and you don’t need to do anything other than turn the thing on and start streaming Netflix. Additionally, if there’s no WiFi nearby, there’s micro SD card slot that you can load up with media and play locally. It even works as an AirPlay receiver, so you can mirror your iOS device’s screen or shoot other video to it via AirPlay.

Whenever I pull this thing out of my bag at any kind of get together, the reaction is always along the lines of, “Holy crap.” I just have it tethered to my iPhone, and thanks to a Verizon “unlimited” data plan, I just stream whatever I feel like. As long as I have any kind of surface to project on and enough cellular signal to stream, we’re rocking and rolling. I’ve used this sitting at hotel pools before and I felt like an Anker salesman, as it was almost annoying the amount of questions we were getting from other people.

Now, the down-sides: As a pico projector, you’re always going to be limited by brightness. The Nebula Capsule is 100 ANSI lumens which basically means you need to either use it indoors, or at night without a ton of ambient light nearby. At night with ambient light (like my pool example) is totally workable, the picture just gets a bit washed out. That being said, it’s hard to imagine using a device like this to have some serious cinephile movie night where you’re expecting top-tier audio/visual quality, so as long as those are your expectations going in you’re really going to like this projector.

The other knock I’ve got is the remote is … sort of junky. It feels really light and plastic-y, and I managed to break the battery door the first time I used it by pulling the plastic tab that was insulating the battery from making contact on the first use. I’ve got it “fixed” with some tape, but it looks crappy. Thankfully, the only time you ever really need to use the remote is when you’re first pairing your phone as the Capsule Control app (Free) is far, far more functional and what I end up using anyway.

At $256.99 (as of this writing) the Nebula Capsule is on the lower end of what you’d pay for an actual projector and about in the middle of the road for what other pico projectors cost. I’ve had nothing but good luck with Anker products over the years, which makes this one another easy recommendation.

Thanks for checking out today’s Amazon Item of the Day, and as mentioned before, even if you’re not interested in this particular product, buying things from Amazon by first visiting toucharcade.com/amazon is immensely helpful in supporting the site at no additional cost to you. If you want to take things a step further, you can check out our Patreon, but either way we just appreciate you sticking with us and continuing to both visit and contribute to the TouchArcade community over the years! If you’ve got a product you’re interested in seeing featured in an Amazon Item of the Day, don’t hesitate to reach out. The best way to get in contact with us is via email at tips@toucharcade.com and be sure to include “Amazon Item of the Day” in the subject.