you know this probably happens to everyone all the time they're sitting
there making a youtube video pretending to play a video game for b-roll and the
the wire gets caught on something they're like you know what just screw this
i hate it all fortunately
the solution arrived today
this is a special care package from logitech get in here
look at this special care package from logitech that includes their new
g903 and g703 mice
and perhaps more importantly because this is canada after all it
includes what logitech is calling the power play
but it's not a hockey power play it's totally different
with the power play these wireless mice can be used
indefinitely without ever
plugging them in i was going to say holy sh but
i got distracted because they're amazing
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so step number one would be to decide which mouse i'm gonna use that's pretty
simple this one is a hundred dollars and
this one is a hundred and fifty dollars so i'm going to use the more expensive
one because that's how you know you get the best
stuff you just get the one that's more expensive
then i need to set up the wireless charging
power play we've got all our cables and dongles and pocks
and mice and everything unboxed we're gonna
take off the packaging here now to be clear the plan is to follow this up with
a full more in-depth review but today
was all about wanting to see this in
action because this isn't the first time
that wireless charging has been brought to market i mean in form factors like this
this is this is just a phone backing this is not a real wireless charging
case but in form factors like this you could get like phone wireless charging
docks but there's a bit of a problem right because a you have to position
them like just right and then you get the icon and it starts charging it's
kind of a pain in the butt and b i mean can you imagine having something that
size you know under no obviously not that's
stupid and while this isn't even the first time
that we've seen a company talk about wireless charging for a mouse
this is the first time it's been turned
into a real product something that you can actually
okay not order today but you can pre-order today
so our kit actually came with three of these cables and this is actually kind
of neat because the power play actually uses the same micro usb cables as
logitech's wireless mice so you plug that in and three things happen
boom RGB lighting that's number one it's the most important number two
is ah yes so under that mouse pad
under that mouse pad right there
the power play mousing surface gets activated you can
actually see some of the circuitry down there and number three
is it actually eliminates the need for
your wireless mouse dongle that's what's really cool about this unlike other
wireless charging solutions the power play
managed to fit into a two
millimeter thin form factor
and it's got other advantages as well so theoretically over pretty much the
entire surface here you are going to get not like a full-fledged you know
one amp or two amp charge like you might be able to with a like a phone charger
or something like that but you're going to be able to power up the mouse
including all its RGB lighting and high performance wireless interface so these
mice both of them are actually higher performing than many of logitech's
competitors wired mice in terms of the time to click to the time that an action
takes place on screen we've seen this in their lab and we've seen this at tech
shows but also all their RGB effects and
all of that bullcrap so
let's go ahead and throw one of these mouse pads so
logitech actually ships it with a couple of options they've got one of their hard
pads and they've got one of their soft pads
here so i'm going to use the soft pad because that's my personal preference
they've only validated the technology with their mouse pads but theoretically
there's no real reason why it couldn't work with some other random mouse pad as
long as it's the right size oh yeah and there's another important
piece that you need so this is a tech that logitech says they're going to
support moving forward so you just press that in and pop this out
but all you've got to do is take the power play puck which uses magnets and a
couple of contact points here it's oriented like that for your convenience
plug that in and
maybe there's a pairing process
yo did you open this i told you this was for me to open okay
first of all
i don't have anything else to say no defense
no defense whatsoever ed couldn't keep his grubby fingers off of this and
you're a big g403 fanboy so you paired it with the 703 didn't you yes i did ah
that explains why it didn't work
all right well thanks ed so the pairing process is supposed to be
out of the box as simple as plugging in the pad whereupon it will enter a
pairing mode instead of being RGB cycling and then you just
pop the power play in flip on the mouse and boom you should be
instantly paired and enjoying your complete and utter wireless freedom
so that that was the experience we were supposed to have
ed
um next step then i guess is to grab the logitech gaming software and actually
find out if i sit here in game
will my mouse charge or will it discharge
no no discharge doesn't have to be a gross thing okay so let's get a baseline for our
half an hour battery test we're looking at about 56 on the battery and what's
cool is we can use this time not just to sit here and play video games but also
to tell you guys a little bit more about the tech because the neatest thing about
this is that even actively using the
device we should be going back to Windows after half an hour or even more
not just not having lost battery because it
can power the mouse but we may even see a little bit of charge because it can
actually do it while you are moving the mouse around this is totally different
from other wireless charging solutions logitech actually draws some parallels
to the way that early radios worked so it's not quite the same thing but what
they had in them was crystals that they used as rectifiers and what they could
do is they could actually take the incoming radio signal that would have
your you know sporting event or your war of the worlds or whatever else on it and
they could use that not just to create sound but also to power up the device
cool thing number two is the way that they're handling battery management
because if you guys are familiar with lithium ion batteries you may already
know this having them constantly charging can actually be really bad for
them so since the mouse has a battery built into it what logitech does is they
actually let it go between 80 percent
and 95 charge this does a couple of things
number one is it keeps the battery
healthy and number two is it keeps it from going so low that you wouldn't even
have the option of you know grabbing your wireless dongle and taking your
mouse with you on the go in in class or something and that's critical because
there is a pretty extensive list of do's and don'ts that come along with a
product like this this is not your ordinary mouse pad in
fact there aren't a lot of do's there are mostly a lot of don'ts you don't
want to use it on anything other than a flat surface you don't want to plug it
into a usb hub unless it's a powered one
you want to avoid using it on a metal or conductive surface like if you had a
metal table for example you want to avoid putting any metal or magnetic
objects on top of it that includes fidget spinners you'll have to move your
fidget spinner a little over to the right or a little up here with that said
though plastic things like cds should be just fine you don't want to
hold on i gotta consult my list you don't want to fold it that's
critical because the delicate antenna system inside here could be
extraordinarily easily broken
as we know because uh in my eagerness to
unbox this thing i actually managed to break
our first one
i mean if you needed any further evidence that uh no matter how cool and
wireless your gaming mouse is it's not gonna make you a better gamer then
here you go you've got this video but uh that's hardly the point it's the end of
the day let's go ahead and tab out to Windows and okay
so we didn't get any more charge using the mouse really actively
but over a period of time where it should
have gone down by about three percent we didn't lose any either
so there you have it guys you saw it here in action logitech power
play actual wireless charging with
zero compromises
than the price it's a hundred dollars for the charging
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