Video Overview

Thanks to UrAvgConsumer for this one — a genuinely fun concept where they borrow every item in MKBHD’s real everyday carry kit, live with it for seven full days, and report back honestly on what’s better, what isn’t, and what ends up staying. It’s a creator-vs-creator EDC experiment that happens to be a sharp product review of thirteen pieces of gear that one of tech’s biggest names actually carries daily. If you want to know what Marques Brownlee trusts enough to have on him every day, this is the video.

Items and/or Gear Mentioned in the Video

• MKBHD Commuter Pro Backpack – Purchase on Amazon
• Beats Powerbeats Pro 2 – Purchase on Amazon
• Sony WH-1000XM6 – Purchase on Amazon
• Anker MagGo UFO 3-in-1 Charger – Purchase on Amazon
• Anker 150W Max USB-C Charger – Purchase on Amazon
• Ridge Wallet Tracker Card – Purchase on Amazon
• Ridge Biflex Wallet – Purchase on Amazon
• Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses (Gen 2) – Purchase on Amazon
• OnePlus 15 – Purchase on Amazon
• iPhone 17 Pro – Purchase on Amazon
• Ridge Magnetic Power Bank – Purchase on Amazon
• Apple M5 Pro MacBook Pro – Purchase on Amazon
• Apple iPad Pro 13-inch M5 – Purchase on Amazon

The Sony WH-1000XM6 and the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses (Gen 2) are the headline items here — both represent the current ceiling of their respective categories and both appear in MKBHD’s daily carry for good reason. The Ridge Biflex Wallet and Ridge Magnetic Power Bank round out a carry that skews hard toward premium, integrated tech.

Editor’s Insight

UrAvgConsumer has been doing tech and lifestyle gear reviews long enough to have a calibrated sense of what “everyday carry” actually means in the creator-class tech space. This video is a smart format: instead of reviewing gear in isolation, they wear someone else’s carry for a week. That constraint forces a more honest evaluation — you’re not just judging whether something is good, you’re judging whether it would survive your actual life, not the life of the person who chose it.

MKBHD’s EDC kit reads like what you’d expect from someone who has spent years thinking carefully about the gear they interact with daily. It’s not a maximalist carry — thirteen items isn’t a small kit, but most of them serve a specific and non-overlapping function. The Sony WH-1000XM6 headphones are the current best-in-class noise canceling option; if you’re spending significant time in offices, on planes, or in open-plan spaces, the case for carrying dedicated headphones over earbuds is real. The XM6 improves on the XM5’s hinge design and adds multipoint connectivity that actually works reliably — the kind of quality-of-life upgrade that doesn’t show up in spec sheets but matters every day.

The Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses (Gen 2) are the most interesting item in the kit from a carry-philosophy standpoint. They’re a wearable that doesn’t announce itself as tech — they look like ordinary frames, which is the thing that’s kept every previous generation of smart glasses from becoming an EDC item for anyone but early adopters. The camera, audio, and Meta AI integration are genuinely useful in specific contexts; the fact that they look like sunglasses you’d actually choose for aesthetics is what makes them carryable. MKBHD has been public about his enthusiasm for them, and a week of testing by someone with a different carry baseline is a meaningful data point.

The Ridge ecosystem items — Biflex Wallet, Tracker Card, Magnetic Power Bank — represent a carry philosophy around integration and brand coherence. Ridge has spent years building products that work together visually and functionally, and the result is a carry where your wallet, tracking, and portable power all share a design language. Whether that matters to you depends on whether you think about your gear as a system or as individual item choices. For people who do think systemically about carry, the Ridge approach is one of the few consumer brands that’s executed on it consistently.

The Anker charging gear — the 150W USB-C block and MagGo UFO 3-in-1 charger — reflects a modern carry reality: most people are now managing two to four devices that all need power, and the “one charger to rule them all” solution is genuinely worth optimizing for. The 150W block handles laptop, phone, and tablet simultaneously with enough wattage to actually fast-charge all three rather than trickling. That’s a meaningful improvement over carrying three separate adapters, which is still what most people do.

The backpack — the MKBHD Commuter Pro, a Studio collaboration with Marques Brownlee himself — is the carry container for all of this. It’s built for the creator-on-the-move use case: laptop access, cable organization, daily tech, and the kind of professional presentation that works in both a coffee shop and a meeting room. The fact that a creator designed a bag around their own actual carry workflow rather than speccing it out generically shows in the organizational choices.

What makes this video particularly useful as a gear reference is the comparative framing. UrAvgConsumer doesn’t just test whether these items are good — they test whether these items are better than what they were already using. That comparative lens is valuable because it forces specificity: what exactly does the Sony beat the reviewer’s previous headphones at? Where did the Ridge wallet fail relative to their current carry? The answers tell you more about the products than a standalone review would.

The Apple gear — M5 MacBook Pro and iPad Pro — rounds out the kit at the premium end. These aren’t EDC items in the traditional sense, but for creators and knowledge workers who move with their production setup, they represent the mobile work layer that everything else in the kit supports. The M5 chip brings meaningful performance-per-watt improvements over the M4 generation, which translates to lighter carry and longer unplugged sessions. Worth noting: the 13-inch iPad Pro is genuinely carry-sized in a way the 13-inch MacBook is not — there’s a complementarity there that becomes visible once you actually travel with both.

This video is a useful reference for anyone evaluating premium tech carry. The seven-day lived-with format provides more honest signal than a review shot in a single session, and UrAvgConsumer’s baseline as an experienced tech reviewer means the comparisons are grounded. Watch the full video for the verdict on what stayed and what got swapped back — that final judgment is where the real gear intelligence is.

Closing Remarks

Big thanks to UrAvgConsumer for the genuinely useful format here — borrowing someone else’s carry for a week and reporting back honestly is the kind of review that produces real signal. If any of this gear is on your radar, drop a comment below with what you’re currently carrying and what you’re looking to upgrade. Subscribe to UrAvgConsumer on YouTube for more hands-on tech and gear coverage that goes beyond the unboxing.

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