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more well I guess if we do two videos about this it's sort of a series so
here's our cool technology and gadgets and gizmos under $100 episode 2 we're
going to start with this guy right here this is the most basic concept ever a
charging cable that you'll always have on you they've got the charge key in the
shape of a key to go on your key chain and the charge card which unintuitively
isn't a credit card but rather a cable in the shape of a card to go in your
wallet they sent us the micro USB version of the charge key but either
version is also available with a lightning connector for Apple users
their website hellonomad domcom lets you order the product and has an FAQ with
information ranging from very useful to completely laughable mixed in with what
speed do your cables charge at are great bits like their 30-day no questions
asked return policy and lifetime warranty against breakage that covers an
unlimited number of bins due to the use of high-grade plastics which leads us
finally to the price it is a flat $25
for the charge key or the charge card for Android users it's a bit of a tough
sell I think at monoprice.com I can get over 40 Standard 1 and 1/2t USB micro
cables for 25 bucks and put five of them in my car five of them on my boat etc
etc but for some folks the convenience of being able to wear it will be a
selling Factor the lightning cable is much more palatable to me because Apple
users are already going to have to spend about $12 on a lightning cable at
somewhere like mono price so for only about double the cost of a normal cable
you're getting the convenient one next up we have the pluggable USB to GB
Ethernet adapter a USB to Ethernet adapter is something most people haven't
really needed in the past but with how much I hate Wireless and the rapid
disappearance of Hardline networking from even devices like notebooks it's
becoming really hard for me to get by without one I actually originally bought
a sabrin USB to gigabit one that worked really well and is now providing the
dual land connectivity I needed to turn my Aspire 1 Netbook into a PF sense
router but since it was permanently tied up I needed to go back and find a new
one to use on my Ultrabook and NVIDIA Shield when I want a more reli
connection and the pluggable brand one appears to be the exact same thing it
works perfectly on my PC and installed driverless on my NVIDIA shield and it's
$5 cheaper than the other one on Amazon so it's 25 bucks works on Windows Mac
Chromebook Linux and some Android devices as well obviously because it's
USB 2 you're not getting full gigabit speeds but it's faster than 10100 and
has better compatibility than a USB 3 solution so that's a tradeoff that I was
willing to make for this one our next item is the titanium smart fast md600 L
16 Bay nickel metal hydride battery charger and this is something I wish I
had had years ago compared to the basic Chargers that you can get bundled with
your anol Loop batteries my favorite rechargeables by the way they offer
little graphical indicators of charge progress more smart charging features to
make the batteries last longer the obviously higher battery capacity and
finally a couple of little USB charging ports so you can go ahead and you know
Chuck a phone or a portable battery Bank on it to charge at the same time as all
your other batteries each battery is on its own channel so you don't have to
populate two adjacent bays at once with identical batteries and the charger can
monitor the charge state of each Bay individually it charges either doublea's
or AAA batteries and comes with a wall wart as well as a where is it this one
ha or a 12volt car adapter so you can take it with you pretty much where ever
we actually took it with us to CES although we weren't driving around there
but the point that you can travel with it Still Remains the charger is only 50
bucks and you can get started with the Charger and 16 Anal Loops to fill it up
with for about $100 total so stop wasting money on disposables and switch
to anal Loops they're absolutely awesome
which leads us to our last and most expensive product today I'm holding it
upside down this is the air do it's actually not quite shipping yet but the
indigo Yogo campaign is ending soon and they've got at least a few samples that
they are finished enough with to send out to reviewers so I spent some time
with it my sample came with a short windshield mount and a long flexible
windshield mount that has to be the sturdiest flex ARM I've ever seen I mean
it is tough to bend and then once you've got it in position it absolutely stays
then the build quality continues to impress me with a solid feeling ball
joint at the top that locks into the head where the phone our tablet can rest
and then I'd say you know the reasonable suction cup so it seemed cool already
and then stuck to it and then I saw it includes Chi wireless charging with a
micro USB plug on the side and an included micro USB cable that you can
run down to your cigarette lighter or whatever else and now it's got my attention because when you consider that
a decent car mount is 15 to 25 bucks and
a CH charging pad is $ 20 to $30 this is
looking pretty competitive at that Indiegogo price of $63 now now throw in
the kicker the head uses magnets for
phones with Magnetic mounting plates inside them combined with what air do is
calling okay magic foam which caused my
eyes to almost roll out of their sockets to achieve a very strong bond between
your device and the dock without really putting any effort into it but of course
I needed to see it to believe it it only really works on smooth surfaces so
you'll want either a smooth backed phone like the LG G2 that I have here or a
smooth case for existing one but man when it works it's really amazing I mean
listen to the sound of the bond here in their demo video they even show
it working with tablets my HTC1 kind of works without my Pink matte
case when it's backing and the air do
are perfectly clean so you can kind of see it's you can get a little bit of a
bond there and the good news is that you can clean it with water and restore its
stickiness as long as you're careful not to damage Electronics inside but that's
not something that I would trust with my phone day today so stick to the phones
that airdoc or your friends have
validated you can check out the phone compatibility list on the Indiegogo
campaign linked below with the where to buy links to all of this cool stuff also
there and they're also offering deals in their Indiegogo campaign on Chi charging
cases for some devices that don't already support it and I think you've got about two weeks left to get one at
the pre-order price once the pre-order price goes away I've yet to see how much
they're going to be charging for it when it's back up to full pop so you might
want to check that out while the campaign is still running so full
disclosure Guys these $100 oress Gadget guides are much more like
recommendations to buy than our other videos so in the interest of making sure
that you guys know what you're watching and what you're looking at I want to
make sure you understand where these gadgets all came from the anal loops and
the charger that you saw were bought by me for business use here at Linus Media
Group the USB to Ethernet adapters I
actually bought two of them there's another one around here somewhere uh were bought by me for personal use the
Prototype air do was sent to me for free by the founder of airdoc when I
expressed interest in the campaign and asked for a sample it's something I was
about 5050 about funding even if I didn't get a sample of it and now that I
have my hands on it it has met my expectations so I quite like it and then
finally the charge key was sent to my editor edzel who thought it was cool and
I agreed so we didn't pay for that one and particularly for the micro USB
version I don't think either of us would but we both saw the utility of it and
figured some people might be interested so we figured we'd throw it into the
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