Look At You

You know what’s annoying? When a new episode of your favorite interview-format podcast drops, and the host introduces the guest, and their credentials sound really impressive, and you’re excited to hear what they have to say.

But then, they get their first chance to chime in, and it sounds like:

“Chhhanksfo havin[glitch-gitch-glitch]to b’cheer!”

Maybe it’s their internet connection or the room they’re in. But most likely, it’s because they’re using the shitty built-in mic on their computer.

Pathetic, right?

Well, friend, that’s probably how people think about you when you’ve got to give a big presentation on Zoom, and you decide to just use your laptop’s totally basic built-in camera.

But it doesn’t have to be this way. You can get a totally great external webcam for not much money at all.

Like this one.

It has a 3.6mm glass lens that’ll show you in crisp 1080p, it can zoom in and out, and it has got a nice noise-canceling microphone and a no-fuss privacy flap. Plus, it features automatic SmartPantz technology that’ll immediately apply a filter to make it look like you’re wearing work slacks if you have to stand up for any reason.

Okay, fine. We made that last thing up. But the other stuff is true. What else is true: it has a rating of 4.3 out of 5 on Amazon, based on a whopping 49,064 reviews. So you can trust it to do what it says it’ll do.

And those people? They all paid about $38 for it. Which, as we said above, isn’t much money. Yet, it’s still about 4x our price.

Seriously, you can get a thing that’ll STREAM YOUR IMAGE AND VOICE ACROSS THE WORLD for the price of a sports bar burger. Not bad.

So get one.