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at my new place there's a lot of stuff for me to charge everything from

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batteries to controllers to

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my freaking car so anchor sponsored this

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video where i'm going to be showing you guys all the really cool solutions we've

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come up with to charge all of my devices efficiently and safely and

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we are off to a really really good start

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here as you can plainly see

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obviously not everyone needs a solution to charge their high-powered electronic

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water guns but as a parent i can tell you whether it's a water gun or some

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other electronic gizmo it's a pretty crappy feeling to have your kids come to

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you and say dad can you play with me can we play with those

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and you go oh they're not charged can

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you wait four hours well right it's not real it's not

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reasonable so the solution we've come up with here is nick callanan printed out

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these 3d printable holders for the spiral water gun i mean shout out

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thingiverse by the way because you can find freaking anything on there

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okay there's a slight flaw in the system

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there we go then this is where it gets genius so the

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cable management for all of them is run right along the length of a gun so you

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barely see them and one of the things i noticed about these is that they always

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retain a little bit of water and it gets freaking

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nasty so we installed this little water

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trough obviously it's not going to run the water off outside the house or

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anything like that but it gives it somewhere to just sit and evaporate

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where it's not going to stain the wall or cause a puddle on the floor that

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could be a slipping hazard pro tip by the way if you're using LTT cable ties

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or any other hook and loop style fastener on a braided cable like this

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one you want to put the soft side in that's actually why we have logos on

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both sides because otherwise the hard side will just kind of pull it out and

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cause little little fuzzies and then the whole thing won't like look nice like

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this does the cherry on top for the water guns is less about charging and

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more about battery management this little smart outlet will allow me to put

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a little battery powered switch right here that you can press to activate this

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entire circuit so that way they're not just sitting at a hundred percent charge

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constantly being charged all the time which could cause the batteries to swell

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and die coming around to the back of my media center i think i did an okay job of the

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cable management okay look you can't see it from the front all right um but it's

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pretty clear that we can do better step one is going to be replacing my existing

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power bar with one from anker that has more plugs and step two is actually

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going to be salvaging back some of my plugs by replacing multiple power bricks

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with individual ones this right here is from anker's gan prime lineup it's a 65

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watt charger that's super small thanks to its gallium nitride design and it's

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got two usb-c's and a usb-a allowing me to charge my switch as well as for my

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harmony universal remote receiver now obviously when it's sitting behind my

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media console i'm not going to be moving it around but one of the key benefits of these gan chargers is that they're super

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portable compared to something like a 65 watt apple brick it's literally half the

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size anker also offers their 737 gan prime charger which will deliver up to

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120 watts

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and that is why i hate

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attaching power bars to things

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because you either try and line up the screws on the little keyhole things and

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it like never quite goes in right or you hot glue it this is

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actually with like extra strong hot glue and it eventually comes off anyway

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fortunately i have a new solution this

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particular one isn't from anchor this is from LTT Store but i'm sure they won't

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mind me talking about it this is what i'm going to call the grand piece of our

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upcoming cable management lineup basically it's a little universal do

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data majig that fits into any one of these keyholes

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you tighten it on like this and

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boom magnetic mount i mean assuming there's metal here we'll put a metal

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thing there yeah

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the goal was to have it be so strong that you can plug and unplug things

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without it taking it off but when you need to move you can pull it off

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magnus baby how do they work the LTT

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store power brick holder ah

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okay wait for it if you have like a ton of like power bricks and cable power

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bars and power bricks and stuff like

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this just changed the game and probably the coolest thing about this is jacob

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from engineering spent literally months probably longer than i would have

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allocated to it optimizing the magnetic field orientation whatever so that these

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things would have just wild strong

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pulled strength look at this

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that's what it takes to pull it off so once it's on there it's on there a few

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moments later and we're done there's obviously still a

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lot of cables back here but we were able to consolidate everything that was

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plugged into the wall behind me all six of these outlets into this one power bar

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and everything is strapped up to the back of our media console including an

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extra lan cable that's you know super convenient to just grab down and run to

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wherever we need it in the future and

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oh so much cleaner

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there we go now controller charging same thing as

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the guns kids want to play games they don't want to worry about charging

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controllers adults too rather than settle on just a

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place to charge double a's and triple a's i've created the ultimate charging

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station these little wire shoe racks are available for next to nothing at places

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like ikea home depot or even on amazon

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and what's great about them is that they allow for adequate airflow for your

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chargers and your batteries while also reducing the risk of fire one thing that

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i would like to improve about this setup is getting rid of this little bit of

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carpet here and actually screwing a metal plate to the wall right here

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because while double a batteries are unlikely to catch fire some of the types

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of batteries that i'm charging here could say for example the lithium-ion

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batteries for my tools or these 18650

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based tesla batteries for the kids radio flyer tesla

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ride-ons those are not nearly though as dangerous

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as these any diy batteries live inside

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separate metal enclosures because even under

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ideal conditions these lipo batteries can cause some

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wicked wicked fires anker's contribution to this one pretty

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straightforward another one of their very well spaced out power bars and then

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LTT Store contribution and little cable management clips anytime we need them

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just you know yeah let's take another crack at this uh

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okay good i didn't want my car charger just you

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know lying across the floor because you never know kids could run over it with

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their bike or you know you could accidentally roll a piece of equipment

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over it or whatever so with a simple spring balancer and some aircraft cable

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we were able to suspend the car charger up above me i think there's still a bit

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of fine tuning to be done with respect to the lengths of the aircraft cable or

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whatever else but boy is that ever better than having it

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dangling along the floor right sometimes as is admittedly the case with these

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ninebot go-karts there's not a whole lot you can do to achieve perfect cable

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management nirvana i mean i guess we could build some kind of like

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two-layer stacker with all the bricks you know power managed into it or

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something like that at the very least we have this a 3d printed enclosure that

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allows me to take two power bricks and turn them into just one while also

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offering some protection from the bangs and scuffs and scrapes that are

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likely to well probably not do much to them okay

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this wasn't really necessary but whatever the go-karts are here and they

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plug into the wall a little something like this

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for my nightstand my before setup is actually pretty solid i've got a total

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of eight usb ports with these two right here i've got this non-slip mat here

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that prevents anything from being accidentally tugged off the table and then i've got this single wireless

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charger that'll do a phone airpods an apple watch if i had one of those thank

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you apple for not making it the q standard as well as having a usb-c here

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that i put my little urine charger on i can pop on there but that's not to say

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that we couldn't do better these don't do fast charging and i've got

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a fair bit of mess under the desk that i think could be improved as for my wife

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Yvonne set up she just has the one of these quad-port usb-a things she

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honestly doesn't really charge much just her phone and then her air pods which

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are not plugged in oh my goodness yeah i didn't

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even notice this this needs to be replaced yeah i think anchors probably

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got us covered there though now technically the adhesive i used on

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these is temporary it's actually the same as this stuff but when it's clean

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it's literally micro suction cups boy does it ever grab

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ah there we go and the adhesive that's on the other

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side of it is wild this is this is the intended

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side you can kind of stick it place this if you want oh

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that's better we're all anchored up we've got their power port cube coming

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off the wall over here this will do usb as well as ac power that goes straight

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into one of their gan chargers here this puppy will do a total of 150 watts

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through a combination of three usbcs and one type a so two of these usbcs are

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going up to the top we've got one of them here this is probably going to be

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for phones and random devices and then one of them is dedicated to this side and

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that's for my io neo or steam deck or whatever flavor of the month handheld

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gaming console that i'm going to be using so that'll sit right about there

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obviously we've got more usb ports up here so two type c's one micro b and one

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lightning connector and those are all

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easily accessible but

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here we go we tuck it in a little something like that without taking up space on top of the

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desk and without being an eyesore

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oh so much better not much we can do about how messy

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Yvonne's nightstand is other than just put it all in a pile and

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hey hope this is how you wanted it put away hon

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but hers is great because there you go you can easily see and access it if you

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need to plug in more cables say if she wants you know this micro b or whatever

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else and the one that she actually uses in bed is a type c that'll reach right

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over to around here one of the coolest things about anker chargers is their

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power iq4 which will automatically detect the devices that you have plugged

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in and then distribute their total power budget accordingly so if i were to add

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another type c over here say one for the io neo and

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one for my laptop which i often charge

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my backpack right here just a little something like this it'll automatically

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distribute the power as needed my problems here in my office are twofold

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one is that i didn't have enough RGB before as you can see we got that sorted

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out but number two is that my cabling situation is a messy

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and b in some cases downright dangerous

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this is the ac power cord that was running to my subwoofer

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step one is going to be to pull off my existing far too long xlr cable although

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it was conveniently managed with this LTT magnetic

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cable holder and replace it with this custom perfect length one from the one

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and only Dan who built it for me thanks Dan

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that's why we call him Dan the guy

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and i don't this one i can't get perfect no matter

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what this fiber optic cable just can't be coiled up tightly or

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jammed in anywhere you got to be super super careful with it so i'm just going

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to take one of these and then accounting for that needs to be height adjustable

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i'm going to leave a little bit of extra coilage there and then i just need one

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of my little cable management arches boop also

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i hit away my displayport cable here i'm using an HDMI tv right now but i'm

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probably going to switch to displayport monitor at some point so i'll just leave

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my cable here and then it'll be ready to go for me when the time comes if i was

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willing to settle for wireless headphones this wouldn't be a problem

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but i'm going to have to accept at least one hanging cable under the desk and

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that's the one for my headphones let's just go ahead and put this magnetic arch

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here these anchor usb hubs are super handy they have a combination of data

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ports and fast charging ports and while i wouldn't normally recommend

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strapping them in the way that i'm doing right now because you'll probably give

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up at least one of your ports yeah you can see that spacing i give up one of my

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data ports um the benefit

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is that it hides under my desk and i never have to see it

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well it might not be the cleanest setup in the world but

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considering how much is going on with this setup cameras microphones lights

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other more different cameras other more different microphones

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there's just a lot to it i am very happy with the result

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oh did we ever power it on ah

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okay it's on now so that's good i went

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to show you guys one of the coolest features which is that everything's

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magnetic which means that even though i never use a standing desk if some butt

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head were to come and standingify it it would just rip the

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magnets off rather than actually breaking anything because this fiber is

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extremely fragile i'm not gonna go out of my way to test this theory our

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magnets are also like crazy strong um

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but theoretically it's a fail-safe that does exist

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in the boys room we get to check out one of our coolest products yet this is the 727 charging station this is part of

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their gan prime lineup and it's got a number of things on it two type a's two

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type c's these are pd type c so you could try something like

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that oh shoot where'd i put all the laptops ah yes say for example uh a

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chromebook for school or

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other more different laptop for doing anything other than school and

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this is really neat it's also got these super cool duplex receptacles look at

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this it pops out when you plug it in so that's how it can stay so slim if you

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want a tighter form factor they also have the 615 usb power strip in their

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gan prime lineup with 65 watts distributed between two fast charging

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USB-C ports two ac outlets and a usb a

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port this last one's really cool this is their 733 power bank it's part of their

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gan prime lineup so it has the same active shield temperature monitoring

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that checks like three million times a day or something like that to make sure

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nothing is overheating and this is going to replace two things in my backpack

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lttstore.com um my 10 000 milliamp hour power bank which

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you can see it's actually not a dissimilar size to

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that's that's gallium nitride for you and

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my i believe this is a 65 watt oh this is a 100 watt charger

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damn i thought it was you know what i'm switching back to the framework anyway

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so it'll be the 65 watts that i need for my

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framework laptop it actually replaces both of these pieces plugged straight

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into the wall and just uses a standard type-c cable love that dual purpose and

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that way i never have to think about charging up my power bank separately it

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just charges whenever i plug in my laptop oh and you know what else i don't have

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anchor hope you guys enjoyed it bye