Never Have I Ever Cast Test Relationship Gadgets
The cast of 'Never Have I Ever' know a thing or two about relationships. So, who better to step in as WIRED correspondents* for a day and review a gaggle of relationship gadgets? Do 'friendship lamps' actually work? How accurate are bad breath testers? Darren Barnet, Jaren Lewison, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Lee Rodriguez, and Ramona Young give their best evaluations of all these products and much more. Season 3 of Never Have I Ever is available to stream now exclusively on Netflix Director: Tim Cruz Director of Photography: Matt Krueger Editor: Richard Trammell Talent: Darren Barnet, Jaren Lewison, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Lee Rodriguez, and Ramona Young Talent Booker: Mica Medoff Line Producer: Joseph Buscemi Associate Producer: Melissa Cho Production Managers: Peter Brunette, Andressa Pelachi Production Coordinator: Carol Wachockier Audio: Paul Cornett Camera Operators/Gaffers: Donavyn Suffel and Lucas Vilicich Production Assistants: Devin Beckwith and Eric Bittencourt Art Department: Sierra Santiago Post Production Supervisor: Alexa Deutsch Post Production Coordinator: Ian Bryant Supervising Editor: Doug Larsen Assistant Editor: Billy Ward
Video Transcript
- Hey, we're the cast of Never Have I Ever.
- And today, we are guest correspondents for Wired.
[bell chiming] We'll be reviewing relationship gadgets.
[whistles] [upbeat music] - These are promising.
- If these don't work, I'm gonna be so sad.
- Tap your lamp and your friend's lamp will turn on.
Send colors, convey messages, and bridge the gap in the distance that separates you.
I bought these for myself and my daughter who lives in a different state.
Aww.
Now, whenever she misses mommy, she can just tap the lamp.
She absolutely loves it.
And so do I.
Five stars.
Waste of money.
This thing worked properly for about two weeks, expensive piece of trash.
One star.
Dang, Liz.
[robotic beeps] - Pick a color.
- Give me a color.
[lamp clicking] - Oh, that's a good color.
- Oh!
That's cool!
- I'll send your one back.
[lamp clicking] [gasps] - Cute.
- Magic.
- I love this color.
- So how much money do we think it is?
- $50.
- 200 bucks.
- $200.
- I'm gonna go with $125.
[bell dinging] - Dang.
- The pair, okay.
[lamp clicking] [upbeat music] - I'd get it with Maitreyi.
- Aw, thanks man.
- I would get it for my sister.
I think she would like it.
- Do it.
- I would not get it.
I have a phone.
[notifications chiming] [group laughing] I'll just, I'll just text you.
- Okay.
Let's bring out the next gadget.
[upbeat music] - [Jaren] I'm really excited about this.
- [Darren] Oh, it is a very nice looking necklace.
- Oh, that is actually cute.
- Oh, that's pretty.
- [Darren] Very pretty.
- The EverMee Necklace is a digital photo locket that holds pictures when you scan it with their phone app.
This revolutionary necklace will help you and your partner capture the pulse of the time.
- Gorgeous.
Not sure if it was my girlfriend or this necklace that looked gorgeous.
Oh, it was both of them.
Stan, five stars.
[snapping fingers] - Good job, Stan.
- Yes, Stan.
- Good job, Stan.
Yes, Stan one.
Stan and Stan.
- Disappointing company.
I bought three of these necklaces to use as a gift for my family to surprise them with my pregnancy.
Oh wow.
- Oh, okay.
- When I went back to them to set up, two out of three didn't work.
Very disappointing.
[robotic beeps] - Oh wow.
- That looks good.
- [Darren] That looks very nice.
- I have uploaded a photo to the locket.
I'm gonna scan it.
[phone beeping] - I mean, that's cute.
- Does it send the photo back to this phone?
- Wait.
So, I just sent it to myself?
- Yeah.
- [Producer] Yeah.
Okay, cool?
- It's like Uber, but you pick yourself up.
- Yeah.
It's Uber Eats, but you actually make the food at home.
- Oh my God.
The photo disappears.
I have to like do it every time?
Enter an access code?
- That's a lot.
- We, we give up.
[upbeat music] - [Producer] How many stars?
[group speaks in unison] Zero, zero.
Sorry.
- This is such a waste.
I wanted love to win.
[upbeat music] - You look great today.
- [group speaking] We're all gonna do this?
Oh no!
- I just had lunch.
- Pocket, Bad Breath Tester.
With an advanced semiconductor gas sensor, this portable bad breath tester can tell you how good or bad your mouth odor is in just five seconds.
- I don't like that.
- I'm not doing this thing.
- I had, like, garlic bread for lunch.
- We were all just like.
- We're a table of just turnips.
- We're a table of bad breathers.
- Yeah.
- Clean.
Making kid brush their teeths.
[giggling] That's literally what it says, don't laugh.
Probably a waste of money.
No consistent readings.
Think- - He just ate gum.
- Darren Barnett [crosstalk].
How dare you!
- I'm not trying to catch bad breath labels out here.
[robotic beeping] - Two, uh, uh, one.
- All right, I got mine.
- So, what do the levels mean?
- Low is good, I think.
- I, I got bad.
- I got a, I got a two.
- I got real bad.
[group laughing] Wait, I wanna do it again to see if it- - No, that's the countdown, Ramona.
- [Darren] No, I just chewed gum.
- Oh.
- It's fine.
- It's okay.
- Yeah, mine was not dope.
- What'd you get?
- I got a four.
- Oh!
And you got the gum!
- Well, at first I got a two and now I have a three.
- I got a two.
- I got a three.
- I got four again!
- And you just had gum.
- I have gum right now in my mouth.
- You should have the best breath out of all of us.
- Whoa.
We're gonna try it again.
- With Altoids.
[group giggling] - At least, this does not work.
- No.
Now I got a level two.
- I didn't see you blow.
- Switch with me.
- No!
- Switch with me.
- No, no.
Leave, guy don't.
- Okay.
Okay.
The countdown has started.
- [Maitreyi] Doing this for science.
- I'm a level four now.
- Me too.
- This is rigged.
- I am too.
This is rigged.
- I'm gonna blow on this so hard right now.
- I'm a four too!
[exhaling loudly] - [Darren] Blowing from the gut.
[upbeat music] - This just makes you feel bad about yourself.
- And whose opinion is this, you know?
- Yeah.
Who are you?
- Boo.
- [Darren] Gonna tell me.
[upbeat music] - Okay.
All right.
Bond Touch.
The Bond Touch produces gentle vibrations to replicate your partner's touch, and helps keep your loved ones close by.
- My love is being deployed across seas.
The touches are vibrant and every time I receive one from her, a huge smile comes across my face.
All five stars.
- And it's by Letzgetweird93.
[group laughing] - That sort of took a little bit of the romance out, right?
- Stopped working after a month.
You have to sit there and tap it repeatedly until it finally starts to record your message.
I'm very upset about this.
One stars.
- [Jaren] Oh.
[robotic beeps] - It's not on.
- Oh, oh.
You give it some taps.
Do you feel it?
- Do you feel what [mumbles quietly].
- Oh!
- Oh.
- Oh, romance?
- [Lee] Wait a minute.
- Touch?
- It's like blinking.
It's a little, it's super gentle.
- Love me.
- I'm trying to tell you!
Nothing.
- This don't work.
- Oh!
Oh!
- There it is.
- Did you feel it?
- Very underwhelming.
- Oh.
[upbeat music] Full disclosure, I feel like I've seen this online, 'cause I thought it was really cute, and I was, like, oh, this is wholesome.
This is not a cheap device.
- A hundred dollars.
[bell dinging] [group gasping] - Dayum.
- [Producer] Is it worth it?
- [group answers in unison] No.
- Final gadget.
[upbeat music] - [Darren] Oh no, the Morse Code.
- It's your realtime heartbeat?
- Ohh.
- The Pillowtalk wristband picks up your real time heartbeat, and sends it to the other person's pillow.
In your own pillow, you can hear the heartbeat of your loved one, wherever they are in the world.
- I don't think I'd like that.
- So you gotta put this thing in your pillow?
- I love it.
I fall asleep so fast and I would love if I can still continue to hear my partner's heartbeat even when I'm using other apps.
Five stars.
It's not working.
My boyfriend got this for us for Christmas.
It's almost been a year.
And it still hasn't given us one successful night.
- Oh.
One out of five stars.
- I mean, that's their fault.
They should have just returned it for another one, right?
After a year?
- Yeah.
That feels a little odd, that they were like, it doesn't work, let's keep trying it for a year?
- I feel like.
- Oh, this is magnetic.
- [Maitreyi] Oh my God.
Your device is not connected.
- [Darren] Not connected.
- I'm online.
- [Darren] You are?
- Yeah.
See, mine says you're not online.
- [Darren] I'm not feeling it, I got nothing.
- That is a long code you have to put in.
- [Maitreyi] I am trying to make this work, this is gonna be great.
[upbeat music] - [Darren] This is, uh.
- It's not even connected.
- It's too complicated.
- It's not worth it.
- It's too much.
Technology is supposed to make things easier.
- Also, do you have to keep this connected to your phone the whole time?
- [Darren] Yeah's that's what that review said.
- And, a battery in your pillow?
Seems like a hazard.
- It has to always be on the app even.
- Oh.
That's like draining your battery.
- [Producer] What if the other person lived on the other side of the world?
- Then, they're like 12 hours ahead of you, and they're not gonna be in bed when you're in bed.
- Factual!
- You know?
- [Producer] Any favorites?
- Friendship lamp.
- Friendship Lamp.
- Friendship, lamp, friendship, lamp.
- [Producer] What would you guys vote on as the worst gadget out of the five?
- Oh wait.
This one made me feel shitty about myself.
- Just because it's a liar.
- I thought the pillow one was pretty goofy.
- In theory, that one is good.
In theory, this one is great.
This?
- [Darren] Oh, that one was useless.
- [Maitreyi] So stupid.
- I change my answer.
- I mean, even the bracelets, if it worked, I'm gonna be honest.
I don't wanna wear that, it's sort of ugly.
[gasping] Oh wait.
No, I'm saying like, no, no, no, hear me out.
- No, it's okay.
- I would, thank you, Lee.
- It is sort of ugly.
- Like, I'm not wearing that with every single outfit.
- Are we being mean?
- This is just our constructive criticism.
[upbeat music]
