by Cool Toys | Oct 1, 2018 | Season 1
A-Bus is an industry standard (sort of) for whole home audio solutions. As our world gets more and more wireless, the range and dependability of the wireless systems becomes an issue. At COOLTOYS we have found that wired is always the best but the cost can be...
by Cool Toys | Sep 1, 2018 | Season 1
Does combining the Amazon Echo Dot with an A-Bus system equal a whole new Cool Toy? We’ve seen the Amazon Echo, aka Alexa here on COOLTOYS, and now we decided to test the little cousin the dot. The Echo dot doesn’t have a speaker in the first model so you...
by Cool Toys | Aug 1, 2018 | Season 1
The studio gear to start a web show can be intimidating. At least that is what most people think. COOLTOYS host Scott Bourquin gives you a quick look behind the scenes at COOLTOYS. See how we started and what our studios look like now. For Season one we had a...
by Cool Toys | Jul 1, 2018 | CruToys, Season 1
Soundproofing is a myth, and Acoustiblok VP Sean Saathoff tells us why. If there is no such thing as soundproofing, why bother you ask? At COOLTOYS we are always looking for great ways to be better neighbors and still have COOLTOYS. Yup we’ll admit a few of our...
by Cool Toys | Jun 1, 2018 | Season 1
At COOLTOYS, we surf and electric cars like the Chevy Volt line our lot. We don’t like the tar on our feet from the oil rigs and we like seeing the mountains of SoCal while we are surfing now that the smog is gone. Yes you can have a little tree hugger in you...
by Cool Toys | May 1, 2018 | Season 1
COOLTOYS TV finds real cellular watches over seas and brings them to the US for the ultimate test. Our goal is simple. The watch much be independent of the cellular phone and work in all kinds of conditions. The best part is that some of these are under $50! But what...
by Cool Toys | Apr 1, 2018 | Season 1
The Amazon Echo aka Amazon Alexa or just Alexa has arrived at CoolToys. In this first test of Alexa, Amazon convinced us to pony up the money for the prime service account so we could test all of the features. Yes we paid for all of this and yes Scott’s wife...
by Cool Toys | Mar 1, 2018 | Season 1
At COOLTOYS TV we are always outside. Surfing, skiing, biking, hiking and crawling offload in the Jeeps. We wanted to know if there was a fitness band that told us something we wanted to know. Knowing how far you walked or ran or how many steps you took can be done...
by Cool Toys | Feb 1, 2018 | Season 1
At CoolToys we like to do a lot of our own work and that means Power Tools. For this episode Scott takes out a wood floor that has been glued to concrete for over twenty years. As Tim Taylor used to say on Tool Time, “more power is good”. As our host...
by Cool Toys | Jan 1, 2017 | Season 1
Starting with a 2016 Jeep JKU Wrangler Sahara and a box of Sui-Tech Halo Headlights, CoolToys was born. The episode that started it all was named Tec-Tac-Dough. There was a plan to create a show about tech (technology) Tach (as in tachometer in cars) and Dough...
