A small wheeled robot launched itself into a front flip, ejected its own battery across the studio floor, and Marques Brownlee just stared at it. That moment captures exactly why the MKBHD inbox is usually a hard no for 99 percent of the products that land there. But once a year, on no fixed schedule by design, Brownlee opens the floodgates and says yes to everything. The results this time ranged from a Bluetooth-paired toilet to a triple-screen laptop that somehow makes a strong case for itself anyway.
The toilet, the tracker, and the robot that earned a perfect score
The opening act was a smart toilet with a feature list that, as Brownlee noted, ‘just rolls right off the tongue’: auto flush, auto open-close lid, foot sensor, heated seat, warm water wash, warm air dryer, deodorizer, nightlight, and remote control. The remote paired via Bluetooth in ten seconds, with a blinking light on the handset and a matching blink inside the bowl to confirm the connection. The $800 price tag did not, however, include the AAA batteries the remote requires.
The triple-screen laptop arrived with more serious ambitions. Running an Intel Core Ultra 7 with 32 gigabytes of RAM and a terabyte of storage, it ships as a normal laptop until a magnetically attached third panel snaps into place beside a second screen that folds out from underneath. All three panels are independent touchscreens. The trackpad is mediocre and the machine is not especially fast, but Brownlee drew a direct comparison to the first Samsung Galaxy Z Fold: a flawed product held together by one idea genuinely worth watching develop.
The Garmin Circa screenless fitness tracker landed at six and a half out of ten. At $200 with no subscription fee and a physical side button for starting workouts without a phone nearby, it competes squarely with the Whoop. The blue fabric Velcro band is comfortable, but Brownlee concluded it feels like a slightly less refined version of the Fitbit Air, which he rates as the tighter execution of the same concept.
Then came Benny. The Mondo Robotics Benny Robot is a Kickstarter-stage camera robot on wheels. It shoots 4K at 30 frames per second, reads object avoidance like a drone, tops out at 18 miles per hour in sport mode, tracks a person or pet with a single tap in the app viewfinder, and survived repeated collisions with table legs while self-correcting on its gimbal. It also, on command, attempted a front flip, self-ejected a battery, and kept going. ‘It’s a 10 out of 10,’ Brownlee said. ‘What else do you want me to say? I love this thing.’
Fans in mice, EKGs in your pocket, and a robot phone from Honor
The Pulsar Noctua mouse weighs almost nothing at 42,000 DPI and contains a literal cooling fan. Holding side buttons two and three while scrolling up activates it. Five fan speeds are available, indicated by LED colors that shift from light blue through dark blue to green and finally yellow at maximum. Brownlee rated it an eight.
The Kardia 6L Max is a $130 handheld personal EKG with metal contact points on both sides and one on the back, designed to be gripped and pressed against a thigh for a third data point. A one-year Kardia Care membership is included, connecting users to doctors who review the readings. Rating: eight out of ten.
The Honor Robot Phone showed up in person for a hands-on demo. Slide the glass panel on the back, unfold a miniaturized gimbal mounting a 200-megapixel main camera, and the device becomes a pocket-sized stabilized camera rig. An AI assistant animates the gimbal as an expressive face that nods to music, evaluates outfits on request, and offers happy or sad expressions on cue. Color science work comes from a partnership with ARIE, including log shooting and pre-stamped LUTs. Brownlee gave it a nine, reasoning that doing too much is better than not doing enough.
The Sony Bravia 9Z, a 65-inch true RGB television at $3,600, closed out the hardware with independently controlled red, green, and blue LEDs rather than color filters, deep blacks, high brightness, no OLED burn-in risk, and an anti-glare finish so effective it showed almost no reflection in front of a large window. Its USB-C powered remote and a ceiling-firing tweeter array that reads the room on first setup both impressed. Seven and a half out of ten.
The busy bar that nobody needed and everyone wanted
One item from the pile stood apart from the hardware reviews entirely. The Busy Bar is a $200 desk button that signals to others that you are occupied, runs a Pomodoro timer, syncs with Google Home, Alexa, and HomePod, and does all of it through a single satisfying physical press. ‘I find this button very satisfying to press,’ Brownlee said. Eight out of ten.
The Casana smart toilet seat, priced at $200 with a $19.99 first-year bundle and $10 monthly after that, measures heart rate, heart rate variability, breathing rate, and stress levels via electrical leads and metal contact points built into the seat surface. Brownlee rated it four out of ten, citing the visible cold metal hardware as a significant comfort concern. The grantsinclair.com portable gaming PC, a thin emulator device with unlabeled controls, a mini HDMI port, a USB-C charge port, and a micro SD slot, earned a five. The Skullcandy Crusher 1080C headphones, a $280 Bose collaboration with a bass wheel that goes from overwhelming to staggering, landed at six.
The casket from the original say-yes run is still in the studio, by the way.
One battery on the floor
Benny’s ejected battery, resting somewhere just out of frame after the front flip, unrecovered and unexamined.
A wheeled robot that can survive a table-leg collision, correct its own balance, hit 18 miles per hour, and accidentally self-eject a battery during a flip is the kind of thing that ends up in a yes-to-everything video precisely because it would never survive the normal filter. That is the whole point of the exercise, and this year’s haul made the case more clearly than a casket ever could.
