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you know this probably happens to everyone all the time they're sitting

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there making a youtube video pretending to play a video game for b-roll and the

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the wire gets caught on something they're like you know what just screw this

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i hate it all fortunately

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the solution arrived today

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this is a special care package from logitech get in here

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look at this special care package from logitech that includes their new

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g903 and g703 mice

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and perhaps more importantly because this is canada after all it

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includes what logitech is calling the power play

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but it's not a hockey power play it's totally different

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with the power play these wireless mice can be used

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indefinitely without ever

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plugging them in i was going to say holy sh but

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so step number one would be to decide which mouse i'm gonna use that's pretty

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simple this one is a hundred dollars and

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this one is a hundred and fifty dollars so i'm going to use the more expensive

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one because that's how you know you get the best

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stuff you just get the one that's more expensive

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then i need to set up the wireless charging

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power play we've got all our cables and dongles and pocks

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and mice and everything unboxed we're gonna

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take off the packaging here now to be clear the plan is to follow this up with

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a full more in-depth review but today

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was all about wanting to see this in

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action because this isn't the first time

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that wireless charging has been brought to market i mean in form factors like this

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this is this is just a phone backing this is not a real wireless charging

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case but in form factors like this you could get like phone wireless charging

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docks but there's a bit of a problem right because a you have to position

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them like just right and then you get the icon and it starts charging it's

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kind of a pain in the butt and b i mean can you imagine having something that

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size you know under no obviously not that's

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stupid and while this isn't even the first time

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that we've seen a company talk about wireless charging for a mouse

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this is the first time it's been turned

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into a real product something that you can actually

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okay not order today but you can pre-order today

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so our kit actually came with three of these cables and this is actually kind

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of neat because the power play actually uses the same micro usb cables as

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logitech's wireless mice so you plug that in and three things happen

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boom RGB lighting that's number one it's the most important number two

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is ah yes so under that mouse pad

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under that mouse pad right there

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the power play mousing surface gets activated you can

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actually see some of the circuitry down there and number three

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is it actually eliminates the need for

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your wireless mouse dongle that's what's really cool about this unlike other

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wireless charging solutions the power play

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managed to fit into a two

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millimeter thin form factor

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and it's got other advantages as well so theoretically over pretty much the

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entire surface here you are going to get not like a full-fledged you know

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one amp or two amp charge like you might be able to with a like a phone charger

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or something like that but you're going to be able to power up the mouse

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including all its RGB lighting and high performance wireless interface so these

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mice both of them are actually higher performing than many of logitech's

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competitors wired mice in terms of the time to click to the time that an action

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takes place on screen we've seen this in their lab and we've seen this at tech

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shows but also all their RGB effects and

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all of that bullcrap so

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let's go ahead and throw one of these mouse pads so

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logitech actually ships it with a couple of options they've got one of their hard

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pads and they've got one of their soft pads

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here so i'm going to use the soft pad because that's my personal preference

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they've only validated the technology with their mouse pads but theoretically

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there's no real reason why it couldn't work with some other random mouse pad as

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long as it's the right size oh yeah and there's another important

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piece that you need so this is a tech that logitech says they're going to

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support moving forward so you just press that in and pop this out

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but all you've got to do is take the power play puck which uses magnets and a

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couple of contact points here it's oriented like that for your convenience

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plug that in and

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maybe there's a pairing process

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yo did you open this i told you this was for me to open okay

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first of all

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i don't have anything else to say no defense

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no defense whatsoever ed couldn't keep his grubby fingers off of this and

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you're a big g403 fanboy so you paired it with the 703 didn't you yes i did ah

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that explains why it didn't work

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all right well thanks ed so the pairing process is supposed to be

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out of the box as simple as plugging in the pad whereupon it will enter a

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pairing mode instead of being RGB cycling and then you just

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pop the power play in flip on the mouse and boom you should be

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instantly paired and enjoying your complete and utter wireless freedom

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so that that was the experience we were supposed to have

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ed

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um next step then i guess is to grab the logitech gaming software and actually

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find out if i sit here in game

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will my mouse charge or will it discharge

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no no discharge doesn't have to be a gross thing okay so let's get a baseline for our

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half an hour battery test we're looking at about 56 on the battery and what's

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cool is we can use this time not just to sit here and play video games but also

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to tell you guys a little bit more about the tech because the neatest thing about

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this is that even actively using the

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device we should be going back to Windows after half an hour or even more

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not just not having lost battery because it

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can power the mouse but we may even see a little bit of charge because it can

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actually do it while you are moving the mouse around this is totally different

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from other wireless charging solutions logitech actually draws some parallels

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to the way that early radios worked so it's not quite the same thing but what

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they had in them was crystals that they used as rectifiers and what they could

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do is they could actually take the incoming radio signal that would have

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your you know sporting event or your war of the worlds or whatever else on it and

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they could use that not just to create sound but also to power up the device

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cool thing number two is the way that they're handling battery management

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because if you guys are familiar with lithium ion batteries you may already

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know this having them constantly charging can actually be really bad for

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them so since the mouse has a battery built into it what logitech does is they

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actually let it go between 80 percent

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and 95 charge this does a couple of things

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number one is it keeps the battery

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healthy and number two is it keeps it from going so low that you wouldn't even

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have the option of you know grabbing your wireless dongle and taking your

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mouse with you on the go in in class or something and that's critical because

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there is a pretty extensive list of do's and don'ts that come along with a

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product like this this is not your ordinary mouse pad in

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fact there aren't a lot of do's there are mostly a lot of don'ts you don't

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want to use it on anything other than a flat surface you don't want to plug it

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into a usb hub unless it's a powered one

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you want to avoid using it on a metal or conductive surface like if you had a

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metal table for example you want to avoid putting any metal or magnetic

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objects on top of it that includes fidget spinners you'll have to move your

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fidget spinner a little over to the right or a little up here with that said

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though plastic things like cds should be just fine you don't want to

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hold on i gotta consult my list you don't want to fold it that's

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critical because the delicate antenna system inside here could be

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extraordinarily easily broken

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as we know because uh in my eagerness to

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unbox this thing i actually managed to break

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our first one

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i mean if you needed any further evidence that uh no matter how cool and

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wireless your gaming mouse is it's not gonna make you a better gamer then

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here you go you've got this video but uh that's hardly the point it's the end of

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the day let's go ahead and tab out to Windows and okay

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so we didn't get any more charge using the mouse really actively

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but over a period of time where it should

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have gone down by about three percent we didn't lose any either

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so there you have it guys you saw it here in action logitech power

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play actual wireless charging with

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zero compromises

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than the price it's a hundred dollars for the charging

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