cool story guys the camera that Diesel's holding right now made it all the way
here to the show in a Pelican case which would have made this interview a lot
more Awkward if it hadn't arrived in one piece absolutely so we're here at the
pel Booth where they're showing off some products that are available some products that are not yet available and
I'd like you to tell us a little bit about the Vault series which comes in a
Galaxy S3 version and an iPhone 5 version and these things look frakin
rugged yeah absolutely uh this is the iPhone 5 version this is our vault
series of mobile line protection um this is our highest level of protection that
we've got um as you can see here it is
uh aluminum grade protection on the front as well as a plastic uh body on
the back these are actually held together by um uh stainless steel uh
aircraft grade steel uh screws um and in
in between here we've got a rubber gasket as well so this is going to keep
all the dirt and the dust um out from inside uh inside the case um in addition
we've went to the extra level and uh added some water resistancy uh to this
case by adding a Vortex membrane to where all the speakers uh ports are um
you can still pop these hold on these still pop down
here one that's open already on the you still get full access to uh all the
ports as well and it's still fully functional while it's on on as well um
in addition we've added Gorilla Glass to the camera ports uh for that added
protection uh this is actually going to be available later this spring um and we
uh we'll be retailing for around $75 80 okay but that's not the only mobile
products you have on display here there's an iPad Mini model I asked to
see the iPad regular size model so now you can have that protection you can get
for your camera so what is this Crush proof is this one waterproof yes this is
actually uh Crush proof dust proof and watertight uh this is actually rated up
to 3 ft of water uh for 30 minutes uh
this is our hardback i175 um and as you can see uh it's
actually like a mobile workstation for your iPad it's got a built-in kickstand
as well as a nice inlay for a uh for a
portable keyboard as well as inside here you can keep all of your uh cords and
cables and other iPad accessories right here inside um and this folds up um
nicely and uh and also includes a shoulder strap so you can carry it with
you uh this is currently available on Pelican prog gear.com and retails for
around uh $90 all right last thing guys
they've actually got a lineup of backpacks now so if you wanted to
transport things with a Pelican case but you don't actually want to sort of lug
it around behind you at a trade show say for example um this guy guy right here
is a regular backpack so you can put stuff here stuff here stuff in all the
pouches and all that good stuff but show us the Pelican case that's integrated
absolutely so what we've done is we've integrated our Pelican protective cases
right into the backpack um so now it's the first Pelican case that you can
actually wear and so right here this is our laptop series and as you can see
we've integrated the plastic design case um this is completely Crush proof dust
proof and watertight uh like our hardback cases this will hold up to a
15in laptop uh this latches
closes and as uh Linus was saying it's
got a multitude of different Pockets uh We've also integrated a hard plastic
shell on the front uh which is great for carrying a tablet um nice and safely uh
transportable uh it's got a full-size um
pouch here for additional laptops and and other storage I'd like to show you
guys something that really stood out to me about it and that is the here can I
just grab this that is the spacers inside here check out the density of the
foam there so you can you can reposition in case your laptop's a little bit
smaller so it doesn't move around okay
well thank you one more thing okay there's more uh this is a very ergonomic
design on the back it's soft it's not going to be heavy uh for when you got
this loaded down it's very loadbearing uh so it's very comfortable to Lug
around with you um and uh for travel and everything he actually showed us this
before it's about this it's about this thick between the plastic back and the
uh here we go and the padded part itself so check check that out so there's
actually a hard shell on the inside you see how we've riveted this all in here
here's the hard shell to see the thickness check out the thickness here
guys so here I'll do my I'll do my traditional iPhone size comparison so
you guys know exactly how thick that is yep and these are currently available
right now on Pelican prog gear.com here let me uh let me just put this baby on
so here we go I haven't actually tried
it yet so this is going to be this is going to be either an indictment of the
product or I'm going to be or I'm going to be super impressed I mean the thing about a rigid backpack any any hiking
backpack is always going to have something like a metal spine in it so
that it doesn't shift around so that it doesn't uh poke through at you so
there's actually an advantage inherently to having that hard plastic shell
regardless of whether you want to keep a laptop or something else in your backpack and now I can feel that it's a
little bit rigid however you can see that because it's so much thicker here
it actually fits into the small of your back right up against your spine so
there's kind of a uh there's kind of a a popped out piece right there that fits
right into the small of your back making it more comfortable than just wearing a
softback backpack thank you so much this has been great and uh guys I hope you
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