Gaming on a Chinese/English Translator Pen

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[@BringusStudios]

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[@SoftBlade7]

HAIL GOOGLE CHROME 🗣️🗣️💯🔥 FUCK FIREFOX AND OPERA

[@RadeonVega64]

Firefox is better

[@yockyyt]

opera gx better on my balls

[@GuilhermeHuertaeSilva]

Opera is a ram hogger.

[@bl4nc04]

Mullvad VPN just better no policy data goes out

[@soulstarx8]

Imagine sitting next to bringus on a plane while he’s sitting there playing half-life on his pen

[@Kyermike]

*puts on shorts for a few seconds* "2 inches"

[@aetherland1883]

Imagine going to a plane

[@somedudexdlol]

Imagine some random guy just brings it out

[@Kyermike]

@@somedudexdlol NO.

[@lightblues4329]

​@@somedudexdlol your the reason I lose hope in humanity's future

[@g_oe]

"Hey bro, did you just get a new phone?" "Yes, a chinese translator pen"

[@dannybrennan31]

I never thought games would run as well as they did on that reusable pregnancy test, I mean scan translator

[@Faz895]

HAHHHHHSHSHSHSH

[@xArthur60]

bringus should try that next

[@kevinwong_2016]

Fr💀

[@BoyBlunder66]

I was thinking medical thermometer, but that works too. 🤣

[@NathanSeeley]

Oh they didn't go through the effort to clone the headphones I can almost guarantee they used the same molds

[@damianabregba7476]

14:33 if only you had some kind of translation device at hand at that time

[@Skiman__]

Just thought of this haha

[@amogoose2971]

i used the translation pen to translate the translation pen

[@_EyeOfTheTiger]

@@amogoose2971transeption

[@awii.neocities]

9:33 Calling 8.1 ancient makes me feel like a corpse. I still have a phone running KitKat (4.4 iirc)

[@leka4357]

yeah i have android 10 on my main phone but my old phone is samsung ace 2

[@Unknown-64209]

One of my samsung (4.4.4 KitKat), screen died. The screen needs replacement and one phone curropted itself (jelly bean)

[@fcantil]

I got Android 7, and even then, a decent amount of apps just don't work on it anymore. The latest version of Twitter doesn't work lol but I had a really old version installed

[@ninjacat230]

i've got 7

[@lilythebestlesbian]

My beloved childhood tablet still runs 4.4.4, love that little guy.

[@MattRose30000]

Imagine telling somone from 1998 that they will be able to play Half Life in 60fps on a translator pen 25 years from now. They would have called you nuts. And now extrapolate that to the year 2050.

[@payayaa]

imagine telling someone from 2023 that they will be able to play elden ring in 60 fps on a shoe

[@caydenor9086]

“What the heck is a translator pen?”

[@jjtime_]

Skyrim? On /my/ graphing calculator?

[@johannesviljoen9656]

Cyberpen 2077

[@とふこ]

Imagine telling someone in 1994 people playing doom on a pregnancy test

[@shenzhong2942]

@5:06 The company name Xue Zhi You (学之友) means “Studying Friend”. No it is not pronounced that way lol

[@Vib-Ribbon_2763.]

I pronounce it “shue ji you”

[@jmvr]

Google Translate pronounces it "xué zhī yǒu", so idk what you mean by "it's not pronounced that way" /j (I just noticed your comment was referencing a point in the vid, which I did not notice. Man his pronunciation was pretty off lmao, "jo shi yu")

[@Astro_Jeff]

Gaming on weird hardware is the best!

[@nedlyest]

Setting it up is super easy, barely an inconvenience.

[@CosmicFever]

@@nedlyest Playing on it after setting it up is tight!

[@GauravSharmaABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQR]

My cousin plays hill climb racing on a fridge

[@dualify]

1 or 2​@@GauravSharmaABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQR

[@Unknown-64209]

​@@GauravSharmaABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRbro got the Samsung fridge

[@Heaatth]

these pens were actually quite common at my high school (we had a huge foreign exchange program and the chinese kids all had these) they were pretty cool and worked fairly well from what i saw and they were able to use them on tests

[@JayTheComputerGuy]

the fact that a translator pen is more powerful than the Trimble Yuma is impressive

[@WolfmanDude]

Well there are like 15 years between those were made....

[@AbC-pj2op]

Run a game on a pregnancy test

[@TSSCATS]

"Doom for the Womb"

[@TURBOMIKEIFY]

There’s no electronics on a pregnancy test. It’s all chemical reactions.

[@FunnyMemer69]

That is the funniest catch phrase I have ever heard

[@cryptiongmz]

No run h1t1s vid on it 💀💀

[@Yasho4867]

Already done

[@Gnoyka]

i love the fact that some kind of translator device has better ps1 emulation that new3ds

[@christiangomez2496]

The new 3ds has limited specs and ancient hardware compared to the translation device which is effectively a modern cell phone.

[@InvidiousIgnoramus]

@@christiangomez2496 if by "modern" you mean a $5 rockchip SoC from like 2014.

[@runmeramen6106]

weird comparison

[@christiangomez2496]

@@InvidiousIgnoramus yeah, but still more modern compared to the 3ds family’s 2009 era specs

[@Splomf]

​@c6amp9 years old

[@7991rellik]

as a human, i absolutely love the earpod design. not even joking. they comfy af and stay in my ears.

[@BringusStudios]

From the comments about those it seems like you either love them or despise them and nobody is in the middle lol

[@peppered_noodles2306]

For real I don’t get how it falls out of your ear, I find these to be the best fit. Ear buds, the squishy stuff those are Terrible. No matter the size.

[@JohnZombi88]

Those of us that come from the Planet Zagborf love them.

[@Canama139]

they're the only in-ear earbuds i've used in the last decade because they fit so much better than anything else. most earbuds don't even stay in my ears at all

[@tonimena1121]

SAME

[@duhsbo]

I'm actually impressed it has Bluetooth and they don't even advertise it. It's like these things are so common nowadays so who cares

[@erk_0483]

Its probably because Bluetooth is build in to most SOCs.

[@DumbArse]

​@@erk_0483You can look up the chip it has and yup, it's built in

[@goldenstarmusic1689]

The fact you can buy cheap Bluetooth devices brand new like mini speakers for like $1-$3 is pretty nuts these days.

[@crazyidiot5309]

It's built into most SoC's as said, but it also serves another purpose. If you're in China it uses BT Beacon so they know where it's being used and probably know what was said as well. That said, it advertises a BT LE beacon that can be tracked through the country step by step.

[@mehmettaha35]

12:35 the smallest android ad ever 😂

[@Richy8964]

reason these headphones look almost identical is because those shells more than likely come from a factory that also supplies the assembly of genuine apple headphones so they arent really a copy, but a repurposed part

[@obeseperson]

this dude knows what’s up

[@beanut7759]

Wipeout pure is my favorite PSP game, seeing it on such a goofy device really warms my heart. Wonderful!

[@20EsOfficial]

just imagine pulling this out in school and showing your mates half life at 60fps running on a translator pen

[@alexplosion_ITA]

3:45 man the phoenix wright music, love that

[@LiteralBeans]

play doom on a pregnancy test

[@JC-kk4ph]

what android pregnancy test are you using for christ's sake?

[@Jumaju]

@@JC-kk4phany digital one ig 😅

[@Jumaju]

@@JC-kk4phso i mean it doesn’t really exclusively need to have android for gaming but probably for bringus to something with it? 😅

[@Tom-em3dv]

Lol fr that would be interesting????😂

[@speaklesspoimore6327]

"Xue Zhi You" should be "学之友" which means "friend of learning", showing that it is a learning assistant tool. And it is hilarious that at about 7:51 the Chinese you put on screen actually means gambling rather than gaming.

[@BringusStudios]

I see, did I at least get dog ass right?

[@speaklesspoimore6327]

@@BringusStudios It is right.

[@hiijustin1905]

A large part of the reason i love your content, is the memes scattered every few moments. Never stop

[@JacobPlays136]

5:06 In Chinese, pinyin spellings have multiple meanings based on tone. So rising, falling, straight, and falling then rising. Xue probably means learn, 学. Zhi is probably meaning a kind of linking word, 之. And You means friend, 友. So this probably better translates to "Learning friend"

[@Pay-No-Mind]

If your mind is blown by the sketchy Chinesium earpods, I'd LOVE to see you take a trip to Shenzen and see the markets, if you haven't seen Scotty at Strange Parts' videos about it them I think you'd love it, I can't wait to go to China again because Shenzen is electronics / computing / project / tooling / weird obscure parts etc HEAVEN Also I'm both impressed and loving the upload schedule my guy!, so glad I came across your channel :)

[@GWFO]

Found this video after watching the trying to install steam on my worst laptop video and bro you're my favorite KZbin now, entertaining and smart af. Can't wait for the next upload

[@forcequitOS]

This reminds me of when I used ADB to turn an old digital picture frame (Android 5.1!) into a “normal” wall-powered Android tablet. Never managed to get Google Play Services set up, but I did manage to get more use out of it. I used a button remapper eventually to turn the play/pause button into a home button, remapped a couple other buttons, then just installed Launcher3. Home button presses can be simulated with ADB for devices that don’t have a hardware or software home button. For me the launcher settings and navbar were missing and I had to delete the original launcher app and try to trigger the pop up for launcher selection with ADB I basically experienced all the same weird oddities. The ApkInstaller app, lack of *proper* root, no notification area (except on the Lock Screen), no navigation bar, and having no way to really fix these. The ApkInstaller app can dump apk’s though, which is pretty cool

[@the_mariocrafter]

Can you please show the results?

[@fakech]

Google lens: My disappointment is immeasurable and my whole day is ruined

[@Log4Jake]

Next time use Web Adb and scrypy then you can use home buttons and rotate. Also theres just adb commands you can use to do stuff like button presses on the phone.

[@IsaacIsNotAvailable]

Was just going to comment this lol. Scrypy is really good.

[@c7dmz30]

@@IsaacIsNotAvailable scrypy does not work on some custom roms and this device probably has a custom rom so it can give errors

[@IsaacIsNotAvailable]

@@c7dmz30Would have been worth a shot though!

[@DangerousPictures]

@@c7dmz30 but its free and always worth a try.

[@the_mariocrafter]

I know that

[@Tornado15550]

10:52 just got me 😂😂😂 You are hilarious! Would love to see more quirky Android devices get a similar treatment.

[@catsinbed7634]

God i love your videos dude. And i LOVE how excited you get about this stuff! Gaming on unlikely devices has always had a certain intrigue to me so i really relate to how hyped you get about each small step 😄

[@rrpld.]

13:50 late comment but the "calculator" app is actually an app hider/vault, entering the correct password will show you the apps

[@i.w.russell7453]

Thank you for the consistency with your amazing videos!

[@CaptainBuggyTheClown]

"This is blue mic and red mic" ngl I don't usually laugh but that got me.

[@kbhasi]

By the looks of the app icon, the touch keyboard that was installed was a Mainland China release of TouchPal that came preset to input Chinese instead of English. I do remember that there's a global version of it available on the Play Store. Also, your issues with non-working OTG reminded me of the lack of OTG support on Likebook e-readers that used Rockchip RK3368, those being the Mars, Mimas, Muses, Alita, and Ares Note. All of them didn't have USB hosting capabilities. At this point, I won't be surprised if that was a common thing with Rockchip SoCs. (15:07) Yep, that's another Samsung One UI feature that I find annoying.

[@kirinmoto]

3:52 this is where we are sure that bringus is a baba who decides the future of a tech company.

[@robezharvey]

You had me at 2 TF2 references in a row while also managing to genius your way into a BB one as well. Applauds, good sir. Applauds.

[@DumbCrumbFR]

I’m trying not to get “blood lipids” laughing ☠️🤌😬

[@kylespevak6781]

4:47 those are literally the only headphones that stick in my ears. The new stupid jelly things either fall out immediately or I have to shove them deep in my ear canal and they still fall out after a minute or two

[@SIG7Pro]

Same.

[@KevysNotHeavy]

Yes maybe I'm just not human lol

[@justafur3381]

Jelly!?

[@kylespevak6781]

@@justafur3381 Rubber? Silicone? Idk, the not-hard ones

[@justafur3381]

@@kylespevak6781 Wtf, i did not expect that you would answer

[@renkanestark6945]

I just realised, thats an ultrawide screen, now we are GAMING

[@yıkıkrules]

Bringus is the Dankpods of gaming

[@SleepyLeGoober]

okay bringus i have got to say you are genuinly a top 5 electronics channel, you dont use super expensive tools and make funny jokes. i just watched one of you videos and i am hooked forever, you are now one of my usual channels to watch! :D

[@aboudi0507]

“If it has transistors, it can game” -the community

[@IrenMasot]

4:46 not a SINGLE living soul at my high school ever struggled with these buds staying in their ears, except for me. THANK YOU for saying this, I feel vindicated.

[@zero_gravity5861]

apple started manufacturing usbc earpods a few months back. so they definitely have the molds. also, just look at the connector to check if it has squircle corners or fillets to see if it might be from an apple mold.

[@ivofernandes88]

Man.. You're just entertaining us.. Keep it up. More of this please.

[@apollolux]

This was comedy gold, thanks for showing us _true_ gaming! XD

[@HydrogenatedBread]

“Where else on this god forsaken website we call youtube, are you ever gonna see lego indiana jones being played on the chinese/english translator device?” me: definitely not here

[@lukeothedukeo]

I've legitimately been using earpod clones for years because it's like the only earbud design that doesn't have rubber tips which block out too much noise and just feel uncomfortable to me.

[@albinmartinsson5174]

Same. Anything with silicone or other flexible tips causes severe ear pain within minutes for me.

[@gooberthed]

SAME!! They're *literally* the only earbuds that will fit in my ear, the ones with the rubber always come out on their own and its so fucking annoying!

[@SyntaxErr19287]

Old apple earphone gang rise up

[@Runewood1]

I’m literally watching this with EarPods 😅 also they have usb c EarPods now

[@Deathgrips_fan]

I literally getting goosebumps after watching him just swiping the thing against the paper. Wtf?

[@rimbycarkey4229]

“I HARDLY KNOW HER” 😂💀

[@ThCuriousPath]

I stumbled across this channel and have fallen in love with everything about this dude 😂 great content

[@RisingRevengeance]

Have you tried gaming on Ouya? That paperweight runs android and can _technically_ play a few games

[@lolcat]

the ouya emulation community was pretty big back in the day

[@thegamerfe8751]

This is quite a big understatement, I'm pretty sure it can run like every PS1 game full speed.

[@lukasgorazdhrodek]

It looks like a pregnancy tester, please add that feature in the future

[@steventechno]

Looks like it’d make for a nice small MP3 player with power amp.

[@ihaveapassport9202]

4:52 The design is very human

[@surrealchemist]

It probably didn't make sense to have rotation if you are in weird positions scanning documents

[@jescereal]

It took you way to long to figure out those earbuds were fake.

[@XDarkGreyX]

Welcome to "acting"

[@WickedGamerCollector]

18:10 this is how hell sounds 😂 Ow man you are funny !

[@DumbCrumbFR]

15:14 “money”

[@masterTigress96]

I am not subscribing until you've successfully played Cyberpunk on a pregnancy test.

[@petrussakirgil]

next video: gaming on a battery

[@ananteshesha5788]

This really is one of the Bringus Studios of all time.

[@Thecoolkid87]

7:18 LOL

[@thatepic1gd]

“Teh blootooth device is reaty to pear”

[@CyrusTheFox]

Gordon doesnt need to hear all this, hes a highly trained professional

[@lbsiuk]

Someone ported the full Source Engine to Android, meaning you can run Half Life 2 and Portal on Android, and it works fairly well. I'd love to see you try it out on this thing.

[@BenT1no]

"whats your setup?" that one guy:

[@0q2628]

5:37 - this "bubble" looks like there is a camera beneath the lcd. pretty scary

[@jayhollowayii2]

This guy is like the dankpods of gaming electronics lol 😂

[@AceJackWagon885]

why in thou fuck is this *better* than chromebooks

[@Youraverageleafyfan]

Because chromebooks are terrible, next question

[@AceJackWagon885]

@@Youraverageleafyfan lmao

[@Petmaster_100]

​@@Youraverageleafyfanyou didn't elaborate but ok

[@tollickd]

Damn just found this channel love it thank you so much. Better than Netflix

[@TheOddybody]

Love the effort. I also tinker, but this is better then my skill. Well done!

[@TBonerism]

I'm not gonna lie, you are probably the most entertaining KZbinr I have recently found

[@Outofcreatvienames]

4:26 Also the letter "L or R" in the fake one is bolder than the OEM. I know this because i used counterfeit earpods before, and also if there's an inline remote on the fake ones, they'll sound horrible and cheap compared to the OEM that doesn't sound clicky and doesn't feel plastic-y at all when you click it.

[@jajoothecoolman]

Also, that little mesh thing on the side is slightly smaller i think? I might be insane

[@customizedfreak53]

8:40 this got me. I laughed so hard

[@redstefan6515]

the funny thing is, alot of android based devices like this one come pre rooted (they have to root it in order to do something to it that is required for it to work and then they just don't un-root it), so you could possibly do this with even more devices

[@sovietboy2748]

Bro got an ad on his translator pen 😭🔥💀

[@_Turbocat777]

I'd love to see you try display over usb and see if that would work. also seeing it fully mounted to a controller would be kinda awesome. nice find!

[@amhirmama]

18:02 runs better than my phone

[@connor-bc1wu]

I fucking love the Apple wired headphones, the ONLY earphones that don’t fall out of my ear. All the rubber ones do to varying degrees

[@jt3000o]

Sorry your holes are shaped like a cocoa bean what the hell

[@Yupp-xf7du]

8:37 the best example of a word I ever seen in my whole foreign language learning life.

[@dagwack]

the video you mentioned in 0:32 was the video i watched just before this one!

[@flowerpot-r4i]

my cousin uses something similar to this to read his mail and pay bills. He had a seizure and the part of his brain that deals with reading was damaged

[@krushant1122p]

Apple made type c EarPods after iPhone 15 just now, so ironic.

[@Clazzette]

The part where he tried to access the settings via ADB and afterwards got my sides on orbit 😂😂😂

[@RADish-official]

Now I’m wondering if you can run Doom on a Fitbit.

[@real151kmh]

You definitely could. I believe they made Flappy Bird for the Xiaomi Mi band 8 as a stock app, so doom will fit in no problem

[@dewaldsteyn1306]

I ran minecraft on one.

[@crave2527]

Would have loved to see you do a tear down of this device and see what board it is running on. Kind of itching to see each and every individual I/O and core component placement and how they were arranged so closely compact to each other.. If developers can create such a small working kit running Android OS cheaply, anything is possible unlike iOS. Love your videos and your narrations and the way you edit everything, keep up the good work bro your funny AF. I have just subscribe to your channel not to long ago and have been binge watching most of your uploads recently for a week or two now.

[@rainbowbunchie8237]

I was so surprised it was on 8.1 instead of 4.4.1, then he called it ancient. Not sure how to feel about that right now.

[@jakethreesixty]

We'll be getting 14 in August, so it's not that crazy

[@MartinScherpa]

Me with Android go:

[@denizylmaz8131]

Anything after 5.1.1 is _not_ ancient

[@RussXDX]

apple just started making type c earpods lol

[@BringusStudios]

I know I just look like an idiot now lol

[@RussXDX]

@@BringusStudios they were fake though you got it right.

[@TechX1320]

Android 8.1.0 out of the box supports GSI Treble ROMs. Also, I have it saved somewhere. There's an ADB command you can use to get straight t developer options and check for OEM Lock

[@Amy_in_hell]

Bringus-Goes into an app with Chinese Me-Damn I bet he wishes he had a Chinese to English translator right now

[@behradazimi4317]

17:40 convinced me to sub =)

[@Aethelvlad]

You're gonna be a successful channel and I'm happy to come along for the ride

[@Neptunewashere2011]

3:38 they already predicted this before the event

[@PSCuber]

yep

[@zionjackson7617]

Bro, this is the first time he seeing your videos and I got to say you were fucking hilarious. I don’t know if it’s your charm or if it’s just how you edit your videos with the little cutaways but dude it’s fucking hilarious.😂😂😂 I definitely subscribe

[@epycx]

I was wondering if it would’ve been possible to use the red and blue mic buttons as media keys

[@Geomterydash21]

3:34 Apple no Pear no BANANA yes

[@ZEMRALEX]

9:21 this SoC (RK3326) supports OpenGLES 3.2, so you can run Source Engine games on it, like Half Life 2, Portal, Counter Strike Source But of course unplayable, it's slower than my old Galaxy S3 (which has GLES 2.0)

[@jmoney25240]

U having the Hyundai recall lawyer paper is the funniest thing ever 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣