{"video_id":"DeQWEK9J-G0","title":"Eton Rukus Solar Bluetooth Speaker System Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2013-05-07T14:53:29Z","duration_s":374,"segments":[{"start_s":7.279,"end_s":14.679,"text":"welcome to my unboxing and first look at something that's actually kind of","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":10.559,"end_s":16.32,"text":"interesting this is the Eon Ruckus solar","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":14.679,"end_s":18.92,"text":"portable Bluetooth sound system with solar","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":19.199,"end_s":26.679,"text":"panel so if you guys ever saw the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":22.72,"end_s":29.759,"text":"episodes I did about the jam boox by","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":26.679,"end_s":32.48,"text":"Jawbone you'll have some idea what this","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":29.759,"end_s":39.04,"text":"thing is however the 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videos","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"welcome to my unboxing and first look at something that's actually kind of interesting this is the Eon Ruckus solar portable Bluetooth sound system with solar panel so if you guys ever saw the episodes I did about the jam boox by Jawbone you'll have some idea what this thing is however the solar panel is what turns this from a product that's sort of um mildly interesting to something that is far more mildly interesting so far more interesting let's put it that way so it comes with a coupon for hold up okay your new iton okay I don't know how to pronounce that rockas can only get better with 3 months of free music with access toog get 15 million songs at your fingertips download unlimited songs to your mobile device jam out to new Rel releases and custom radio with artist only stations hear music everywhere cool so comes with a 3mon uh 3mon voucher very neat stuff okay it also comes with a power adapter presumably for charging if you are not near the sun which is everywhere except at night whoo whoa okay let's have a look at this device I actually don't know that much about this other other than that it's solar powered which sort of makes it inherently really cool to me I'm I'm I'm big into things that I don't have to buy batteries for or deal with charging because like many gamers and PC sort of types and hopefully you guys can relate with me here and I'm not just being insulting I'm pretty freaking lazy when it comes to charging devices like I just I can't be bothered to do that every device should just automatically recharge itself when I'm done using the battery so there we go all right NE need form factor okay so number one Bluetooth connectivity with one touch pairing and control okay high quality stereo streaming support that's good play music from Bluetooth enabled smartphone tablet laptop or PC comes with a little pocket for throwing your uh your device into it so you know hopefully it won't I guess hopefully it won't fall out I oh oh look how smart this is look at look look look look this so there's a slight curvature to the device here and this sticker actually adds some friction to it so once you throw your phone in there the odds of it falling out okay there there it goes but even then it's going to bump up against the handle so you're actually supposed to carry it like this so that you won't run into problems with it falling out but either way that's awesome you don't actually have to pH no way so it doesn't include a USB cable unfortunately but if you flip this around you can use the included USB plug right here to actually charge your device device at the same time that you're using it so that's that's kind of smart too it's got an auxiliary in so even if you don't have bluetooth support with the device that you want to listen to music on or whatever else you can just use an um you can just use a 3.5 mm cable which is good stuff and then there's the power in so that's sort of the the ergonomics of the back of it the top is pretty straightforward it's covered in solar panels what were you expecting guys okay no I know that's what you were expecting so we've got a power button uh he has an e in to display which is kind of cool there's a button for Bluetooth button for USB uh this will switch to your auxiliary there's base there's volume up volume down so the controls are pretty straightforward looks like it's on so you know what the only thing to do right now is uh try this thing out so give me a sec here guys and I'll I'll get this going okay so I'm not a dancer but the point is I've heard air number of these sort of Bluetooth speaker things this one has the advantage of being a little bit bigger than the twist that we looked at before as well as the jam boox however I can say with confidence that it takes advantage of its larger size it delivers significantly more base it's not super loud this is not the kind of device that you're going to take to the beach and drive everyone else around you crazy with like you know how awesome and Loud your Beats are or whatever else it's not like that it's very directional sound which means that if you got your group on the sand or whatever you position it a little bit away from yourselves and point it at yourselves you're going to be able to hear it really well whereas the people around you are probably not going to be that bothered pairing was quick so we were able to pair just by holding down the Bluetooth button it's detected we pair it up no big deal I couldn't quite figure out how the base control worked but the eink display is awesome so you can actually see right here it's very very clear and because it's in it's extremely power efficient um okay that probably turns the USB charging on and off so that's kind of cool and then that's going to again switch to your auxiliary versus your Bluetooth playback and again I'm not I'm not quite sure how this works but the volume up and down works and it's semi-independent from your volume control on your phone so a lot of the time these Bluetooth devices will SN so you're controlling both of their volumes at the same time this seems to be somewhat separate uh you get up to eight plus hours of battery life according to them so in terms of music playback time and charges fully in less than 6 hours indirect sunlight so so overall very cool little device actually let me just make sure I'm not missing anything before we uh before we wrap up here I think that pretty much covers it so in conclusion not super loud super easy to use it's not that heavy so it's something you can easily Chuck into you know your bag or whatever else you know it's not going to be that heavy the bottom is rubberized so it's not going to slip if you put it down on anything however 90% of the time you're probably going to be using it like this it's got rubberized feet there as well so it can be used either way and if feels pretty robust like it's not going to break immediately or anything like that thank you for checking out this unboxing and first look at the Eon Ruckus solar don't forget to subscribe to lus Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos"}