The "King Jim" Laptop

[@philtkaswahl2124]

In the quick scroll-through of my feed, I misread the title as 'The "Kim Jong-un" Laptop' and thought for a moment Bringus had gotten his hands on one of those NK laptops and decided to turn one into a SteamDeck.

[@cheeseblast]

I has the exact same thought hahaha

[@HBP27]

if he did this i would record myself swimming from brazil to africa

[@Ganymede2076]

Same

[@cosmiccowboy_]

Glad I'm not the only one who can't read

[@eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee882]

Thank god im not the only one who read it like that at first haha

[@KarlBaron]

In Japan KING JIM is mostly known as a brand that makes stationary goods, like binders and notepads and stuff. OH GOD I just checked their website, on the FRONT PAGE they are advertising the successor to this thing, the DM250. I am NOT making this up. It comes in white!! It has USB-C! For the launch they had a limited edition clear version! Clearly this thing has it's fans...

[@grape3587]

Its a distraction-less device you can take notes on and a lot of people like that. Surge of people trying to cut down on screen-time and it helps to avoid having a phone tied into into work

[@JessicaFEREM]

another phraise that gets thrown around is "Digital Typewriter" which makes sense if you think about it.

[@lukeothedukeo]

Word Processor is the term I would have used given that this is basically a more modern version of the sort that were around before PCs were widely available.

[@FurryWrecker911]

The fact there's a transparent shell version draws me in out of principal. I miss my 90s clear-everything devices. I like to see what makes my computers tick!

[@slaterpenna2797]

THE NEW KING REIGNS!!!!! May his reign last for many generations

[@akadaizu]

1:38 The text under the RESET button says "Press the reset switch after turning the battery back on or replacing it"

[@JonBringus]

Didn't make it on camera but I was trying that and Jim wasn't any less dead 😢

[@akadaizu]

@@JonBringus poor Jim, beloved King of not ours

[@malakahmed4101]

noo king jim un nooo

[@NoisySpaceRanger]

@@JonBringus What if it doesn't work because there no cover?

[@NoisySpaceRanger]

Idk I could be having a brain fart

[@izzyhope58]

0:23 "King Jim, I'm not explaining that one" uh, ya you are

[@RedLuigiE]

2:30 In the unicode standard, kanji have a full width version, from when japanese computers had all their own systems and terminals, and half width, for use in regular terminals. There's some other differences, but mostly the half width are literally just squished full width. I believe that half width is still mostly used in terminals and anything that relies on characters being normalized, and full width can be used for legibility and normalcy in like text docs and stuff.

[@PercyPanleo]

To add onto this, the "previous candidate/conversion" key is part of the system for selecting kanji to type, as many kanji in Japanese have the same pronunciation (excluding pitch accent) and as such are typed the same way when using kana or romaji. This key, as well as the key on the opposite side of the space bar, are used for scrolling through the list of possible kanji (and kana if you're typing with romaji)

[@jamesbuccino376]

@@PercyPanleo @RedLuigiE you've both made this make SO MUCH more sense you have no Idea thank you both so much !

[@RedLuigiE]

@@PercyPanleo That's actually super interesting, I never knew that. Is it a program or OS thing, or is it part of the keyboard?

[@im-essi]

@RedLuigiE Typically OS/program thing as far as I know. If you're on e.g. Windows and install a Japanese input method you'll get a little popup as you type to pick kanji, and those keys (along with some others) will navigate the popup. I think they might even have their own key codes but I'm not sure.

[@RedLuigiE]

@@im-essi that makes sense lol. from what I found it's just a key combo, and the physical key is simulating it, but I could be very off. Hard to search for japanese things on english google lol

[@ChoomW]

It's crazy how much effort went into bringing it back to life, but honestly, I still have no idea what it does

[@PercyPanleo]

It's effectively a PDA. It has a text editor, dictionary, and a calendar and not much else.

[@onometre]

It's a word processor

[@gordon7478]

@@PercyPanleo They're popular with the same crowd that would be looking at something like the Freewrite (writers who don't like to be distracted), the more recent DM250 in particular, which is more palatable to those accustomed to North American keyboards. Whether or not that was the original intended target audience a decade ago, I do not know, but it's likely that's their bread and butter nowadays. Honestly, these look far more appealing than any of the Freewrite products, if you ask me.

[@anwarxv9279]

handheld computer with qwerty kayboard layout and mono chroma display and runs on double A batteries? Let me guess ,its literally PDA whatever the thing its advertised to do

[@TheYardninja]

It's an electronic journal, basically like a word document machine for taking notes in college or light writing for suthors

[@PinotNoir_]

bro i missread the title as "kim jong un" laptop LOL

[@glockEquippedBoyfriend]

no shjt me too lmao

[@philtkaswahl2124]

Same here. Guess that's our suggestion for replacing the King Jim on that wheel, lol

[@PinotNoir_]

@@philtkaswahl2124 oooo hell yeah, imagine if he manage to get the real Kim Jong Un laptop. that would be fun

[@bland9876]

I was thinking that as well but then way later in the video I kept thinking Jim is another term for James and there's a King James Bible so lol

[@philtkaswahl2124]

@@bland9876 You just reminded me of a vid about a pocket electronic bible around the same form factor from a company called Frranklion Electronics.

[@julezzzz4]

The Controller Port Satisfaction tier list sounds amazing

[@korneliusfrik9545]

Or boring.

[@KristianNowak]

5:34 RETURN OF THE LEAPFROG USB CABLE!!!!!!!!!!

[@Iwantthehandlesillydemon]

i have a micro usb variant!

[@KristianNowak]

@@Iwantthehandlesillydemon no fucking way bro i thought there was only mini usb ones

[@nxx99]

I have the same one seen in that video

[@KristianNowak]

@@nxx99 fr i used to have that cable idk where it went

[@Gseppo]

Brongle the Corrosion can be fixed with Vinegar just straight vinegar. Works on a Guitar Hero controller it'll work on a King Jim

[@PercyPanleo]

7:50 When the DM100 was released, a lot of businessmen in Japan would have likely been using a flip phone or candybar phone that wouldn't really work well with a Bluetooth keyboard, and I suspect that the Bluetooth functionality was meant primarily for using it with a PC. Students probably also used it as a distraction free note taking device, given that it's still decently common for students in Japan to buy flip phones instead of full smart phones to reduce distractions. Interestingly, they actually made a model with an e-ink display instead of an LCD display called the DM30. It's still one of the only digital word processors to use an e-ink display, and imo it's form factor is still ahead of every e-ink word processor that's come since

[@HarithaNaurunna660]

PercyPanleo is out here doing the gaming so that the Bringus can bringus the next brongus video.

[@vgamesx1]

Yeah 2012 was right before smartphones started to take off, at least as we know them today, in the early 2010s the best we had were PDA phones or blackberries and even windows mobile (not to be confused with win phone) which did act similar to modern devices if a bit clunky but BB was the iphone of those days.

[@KHADDY121]

This feels like an american alternate universe version of dankpods. I don't know how i feel about it but im here for it

[@le-jesuve]

people use them as distraction free writing devices, which can retail new for thousands, so older options like that and the alphasmart are popular. the last gag about the phone with a bluetooth keyboard is spot on. there's one selling for 200usd that's basically a cheap phone with only a word processor on it

[@bilbobaggins5752]

In the 2000s in Japan they had a lot if amazing electronic 電子辞書dictionaries. They often had a lot of features like could play mpeg2 video files and games.

[@sungholee8791]

I think this is it. Hence the "Japanese-English" and "English-Japanese" buttons next to the screen. Electronic dictionaries were big in East Asia before the smartphone era. Many of them came with multimedia features such as video/audio player and FM/TV receiver. Some models even had open access to the underlying OS(usually Windows CE). I remember installing OpenTTD and spending too much time playing it on my device.

[@nankinink]

​​@@sungholee8791 I dont think so. Usually denshi jisho (電子辞書) have someway to handwrite the kanji. This doesn't appear to have such input method. I checked their website, it is indeed a memo-taking device. A digital notepad..

[@virepri9871]

What you saw were the humble muhenkan and henkan keys, which are used to basically tell the computer how to handle the kana that was just input Muhenkan tells it "nope, don't convert that to kanji", henkan tells it "pick out the next conversion", because some words are homophones or overlap syllables or whatnot.

[@diode_exe]

Japanese is a complicated language

[@peebumbus]

I'm only 2:13 in but I just gotta say, I instantly gained +10 respect for the bringus man when I saw the WinCo batteries come out

[@JonBringus]

UNRIVALED VALUE

[@ichibancrab]

winco is the savior of all things, its like an ikea but if its was a grocery store

[@notsambtw]

​@@JonBringusoh my WinCo!

[@drawesome821]

God bless the humble WinCo shopper

[@dannkettle4106]

@@JonBringus A fellow Winco enjoyer I see

[@jelloburger]

You are the reason I am going to major in engineering

[@JonBringus]

If it was me I would do it just so I could say "look buddy, I'm an engineer"

[@jelloburger]

@ wow the real Jon bringus knows who I am

[@itzmefurzan]

Disappointed, I'm expecting you to spend grueling amount of work to make it gaming able on the supposedly "king" jim only to play half life on 10fps

[@ardaomeryavas3600]

0:57 tf is gaming vape💀

[@BamsyTheSergal]

probably some alliexpress android device thats also a vape, think of that calculator that ran android

[@vadnegru]

My vape has a firmware so with some tricks i guess you could run doom

[@anon-fq3ud]

Ive modelled it in CAD, you can put a tiny raspberry pi into a 3d printed vape case. Never got around to making it but you can definitely have a full on retro emulator vape, with micro HDMI and multiple controller support

[@ChloePaws]

Might be playing games on a disposable vape that runs android? Still can't believe they are something that exists.

[@vadnegru]

@@ChloePaws forgot about those but generally mt67xx powered devices are pure e-waste and truly are disposable.

[@werapea]

i hate to admit that i spend an embarrassing amount of time in photopea adjusting rgb curves of screenshot from 2:38 as my phone didn't peek up on the qr-code just to predictably find a youtube url ending with XcQ​​...

[@RobChio]

damn I really wish I checked the comments first 😭😭

[@102Help]

Rick Astley?

[@daylen577]

If you Google 'scanqr' and go to the one ending in org you can upload a screenshot, that website works for almost anything I've thrown at it. Works even better if you crop it so it's just the QR code

[@SMTahmid]

@werapea it's a random QR code on the internet. It's safe to assume its a rickroll.

[@gingerphoenix10]

I hate to admit that I did the same. All I saw was that it was "some" youtube link, but that already gave it away for me :)

[@dankydont]

5:21 erm mini usb ☝🤓

[@Mr_Jorge]

Same thing lol

[@Profile-pictureX]

Yeah, cause smol

[@JordanSilver-gd7ps]

Just was gunna say that😅

[@corvoerin3766]

​@@Mr_Jorgewrong

[@diode_exe]

@@corvoerin3766 Realistically, who cares.

[@xxdudejoe86xx55]

Wake up mom , bringus dingused

[@MochaFett]

The bringle is here

[@jonathanthegoober]

pringle

[@SMTahmid]

The Druaga1 x Dankpods hybridization is complete. LOVE IT.

[@IcecalGamer]

Nooo!!! The King cannot be dead. Resurrect The KING ! PLEASE !

[@caramelldansen2204]

Rest in PISS, king!

[@davidmarinescu5150]

6:24 iMaGiNe If NiNjA gOt A lOw TaPeR fAdE

[@HarithaNaurunna660]

Jon Bringus doing more Bringus vibes while bringusing out the new Bringus Studios Bringus gaming.

[@Alxvarl]

2:38 spend 30 minutes decoding the qr code and got a free cookie lmao

[@marsamune5592]

I scanned the QR code and got a cookie!

[@Flesc]

Did expect this outcome , must say not disappointed

[@c_miraa]

It is probably the screen, but id always give replacing the CMOS battery a try! Especially some older PCs refuse to boot without it, looking completely dead even though they only need a new battery. Cant wait for the Controller Port Satisfaction tier list!

[@tyttuut]

1:25 Alkaline batteries have steel cases. So do NiMH/NiCad and cylindrical lithium batteries.

[@klausstock8020]

In this case though, I think we just observed the paramagnetism of uranium.

[@tjsynkral]

Make every spot you erase on the wheel a respin and see how long a chain you get going

[@phylaxinator7040]

How dare youtube gatekeep this magnificent piece of online media from me for 30 whole minutes?!

[@dankydont]

6:58 I honestly cant tell if thats a sticker or something on the screen, that is very very good editing

[@ignishikari1854]

Compliments to the editor, that overlay was dope

[@donat7186]

I got so confused by that! If it's an overlay the editing is great!

[@pjuster2]

2:55 IDK 5.75 inches is pretty big

[@Emilis1010]

for 2011 thats big

[@robertmondik629]

It's enormous

[@pjuster2]

@@robertmondik629 some would say too big

[@robertmondik629]

@@pjuster2 definetly above average

[@bluesunsxiv2129]

Agreed I think you could do a lot with 5.75 inches. I bet most would be satisfied with 5.75 inches.

[@doodlemochi4699]

For those wondering why someone would want this, it’s for people who are easily distracted or shouldn’t be accessing the internet for other reasons (ie. At school, government work, etc.)

[@347human]

hell yeah new bringus video

[@DaxtonAnderson]

New upload 27 seconds ago? WHAT HAS THE BRINGUS BROUGHT US TODAY?!

[@maxx1o1]

jim :)

[@-pROvAK]

How has bringus not learned about winlator/mobox/exagear/horizon? The possibilities those bring are literally, literally, endless.

[@WeatherMan2005]

long like the king

[@HarithaNaurunna660]

Bringus brongus is the dankpods of the ‘Mericas 🦅

[@Heckleb0t]

Glad I'm not the only one who's experience with weird tech is "wow this would be really cool if it worked."

[@YaBoiJohannesburger]

7:16 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂 laptop

[@Pigness7]

"King James Bible" got me, you are infact a funny man mr funny hardware gore man.

[@-someone2168]

"No content going to waste" ah video

[@fatersteve]

I like how he wasn't going to explain king jim, then it was king jim.

[@VanBourner]

he was 2 days from retirement 😥

[@LandonEmma]

3:54 That’s too relatable my king. Tri-Wing is so Nintendo

[@sebastianlaherty8095]

"It's a pretty cool phone" famous words of Steve jobs

[@CharlieisGordan-ov6jt]

King Jim goes hard

[@squeakymonjuer]

7:00 that rotoscope was fire

[@T3chIdiot]

A real king Jim uses slim Jim’s as batteries

[@MinecrafterPictures]

Honestly, the prototype Steam controller would make an interesting video for me

[@lmaoooo-hn5fn]

The dremel is an essential part of s tier bringus. Hoping for some angle grinder content soon.

[@Tactcat]

earthworm bringus

[@plushifoxed]

I think the point of note-taking devices is distraction-free writing. There's other tools like the AlphaSmart series, that are used for that kind of thing. It's good for people with weak willpower who want to put the phone in another room and just bang out a draft or two.

[@MattMcIrvin]

While a phone with a Bluetooth keyboard can do everything it can do, I can see the attraction of a dedicated writing/notetaking device without other features to distract you or get in the way. Maybe just because I come from an earlier age when all features weren't merged into the same gadget. The Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 100 was a slab-shaped 1980s proto-laptop with a full keyboard that only did a few things, and even with its very limited battery-backup memory, journalists and similar people liked it so much for writing in the field that there's still a community keeping these things alive TODAY.

[@the_blue_dragon_bd]

Kids probably don't even get the jimmy neutron refrance

[@fourteen00]

This was the BEST Bringus video I've ever seen!

[@スムージー-c8y]

2:21 On a Japanese keyboard, you must enter the reading in hiragana or katakana and then convert it to kanji. That is what “conversion” means. 2:29 The Japanese standard has two ways to type numbers, symbols, and katakana: full-width and half-width. ！←Full-width ! ←Half-width As the name “full-width” implies, the width of the character is slightly wider than that of half-width characters. Literally, half-width characters require one byte of space, while full-width characters require two bytes. At that time, half-width katakana was widely used in personal computers to reduce the file size. (Nowadays Japanese people often use it to switch between alphabetical and Japanese input)

[@invisainc-d4pp]

best video ever I can't believe how good it is :>

[@TeH.j0keR]

Somebody tell Daddy Jim that his people have finally recognized him.

[@jaquilies]

Bringus hits us with another piece of obscure technology that no one else in the world has used. Classic Bringus

[@Bacon_Pancakes]

So glad you didn't cut the magnetic battery part. That's fully how my brain works also. 😂

[@PimeTime.TimePrime]

The WHEEL

[@mitchellmanson449]

i love the oblivion ambient music playing in the background

[@ToxicMothBoi]

I started the video saying "oh my god" in sync with you. This is a sign by the universe to get this thing

[@TDGalea]

Okay, the editing on the screen was so damn CLEAN.

[@Thepowerof2190]

Finally, one of the most rarest videos he post that has no sponsorships

[@wairriorsneverstop]

its a word processor they are kinda popular in japan for whatever reason. Ive seeen a few at gopodwill(japanese electronics store) mangasuoko (kinda like a really big thrift store) and bookoff (another thrift store but deals more in used computers and parts) word processors are basically just electronic notebooks

[@harrkev]

The best way to take care of battery acid is just a little white vinegar. Put some on a q-tip, a little scrub, and you're golden.

[@nerdyfps]

saw the winco batteries at 2:00 and had vietnam flashbacks from when I worked there. Thank you Mr. Bringus

[@jackpaxton9391]

I always love the videos about the weirdest tech / most niche tech

[@numbazZify]

when I restore such corroded tech, Cilit Bang always helps me out. I spray it all over the motherboard, wait 10 minutes, wash it with water, and dry it with a hairdryer and all works ok. I restored a lot of retro phones this way

[@bingusbongus9807]

that thing looks awesome! i love ultra low power computers like that! like microcontroller computers!

[@dammitcoetzee]

You can use regular distilled white vinegar to remove battery acid corrosion from stuff. Works really well.

[@mmaaggiiccddjj]

here I was wishing there was more bringus studios not knowing this channel existed

[@mr.technologysilva8856]

That is a cool thing actually! We don't have stuff like this in Canada where I live, those would be good for meetings or really anywhere you wanna make a note, and no I do not want to use my touchscreen keyboard, I want physical keyboard.

[@ОттоГагеншплянген]

What a thrilling video 😮 Damn, thank you Bingus

[@Vexcenot]

I want him to call us viewers Jim from now on

[@FIlipThePeaTwo]

god it feels so wierd for a youtuber not to immedietly stop uploading after subscribing to them and actually getting an oppurtunity to watch newly released vids

[@estripp420]

its really cool how they type in Japanese and Chinese, what's even more amazing is they made typewriters that were incredible before computers

[@soccerteas]

this thing is a "digital typewriter"/pocket word processor/offline notetaking device, used by students and office workers! the various functions english-japanese/japanese-english are for dictionaries, and the other features for half/full with kanji are common word processor functions for japanese! i had one of these from Casio that my uncle gave me around 15 years ago

[@laurensweyn]

Those English-Japanese and Japanese-English buttons on the side are definitely dictionary shortcuts. Electronic dictionaries are extremely common in Japan since the language is a bit of a nightmare to look up in a paper dictionary. Less popular with phones these days of course, but like calculators you can still find them in stores and they always look like cool mini laptops

[@jonathanthegoober]

Jacob i am watching you

[@alteito]

jacob who 👀

[@jonathanthegoober]

The battery acid is delicious

[@jonathanthegoober]

@@alteitojacob schlatt

[@GatheredStorm_YT]

Y-You what??

[@kyup3375]

My name is Jim and bringus called king Jim just about every nickname my mom has given me lmao 😂

[@JRTO_]

"I'm not explaining that one!" seconds before disaster...

[@WelshMan22]

Genuinely thought "Respin" was a thing, took me a while to realise it was "Re-spin"

[@SimonSpe]

No way Energizer know how magnets work

[@radianttakanuva8388]

this seems like an electronic Japanese-English dictionary. A common term for them is denshi jisho, or 電子辞書 . A lot of them are basically just Microsoft Handheld PCs running a locked down version of Windows CE. They can come with multiple dictionaries and encyclopedias, video players, and odd functions like note taking. there's actually a port of gnuboy called gnuboy-ex that runs on casio ex-word electronic dictionaries, so it's possible to game on one

[@CR0NO-NL]

Whether you fix it or not, always fun to see your videos

[@pinaz993]

Replace King Jim with a respin. That way, we'll slowly but surely head to a state where there's only on option, and you have to spin double digit amounts of time to choose it. Because that kind of madness is exactly what Bringus is all about.

[@dominodominick]

stick bug music during beesmas

[@GreenVirus76]

it's a pocket translator. the keyboard makes it easy to take notes and includes conversion buttons for kana and kanji.

[@すどにむ]

No, it's a modern day typewriter. That's it. Shortcut buttons are for dictionaries.

[@dsnineteen]

that much rogue battery acid had to be making the bringle fingles tingle

[@dasmoools606]

The fact you still use a glorious S10 makes me happy.. Dunno why, it just does.

[@G-Mastah-Fash]

The battery acid has already breached our defenses, you've seen what it's done to our contacts and worst of all it could corrode any laptop of ours!

[@Bjrn-nv3ie]

Bringus Studios budget has increased massively. Nice wheel Bringus.

[@erichanson420]

Your screwdriver might be magnetized. Someone might've said that.

[@soullessminds]

Ottoman Intel computer.

[@notgow]

All that effort to read the QR just to get rick rolled.