Welcome to something we've never done before. This is actually going to be kind of a three-way unboxing of just
some recent stuff that Linus Media Group employees have bought that we think is
useful and we wanted to show you guys. So, first up is the Anttech Advance uh
uniquely named four- port USB charging station. What this is is it is from a
reputable brand, so you can actually trust it. And it is essentially a USB
power hub that is able to charge your devices not only faster, but also more
efficiently than other solutions. So, inside the box, you find an AC power
cord and the USB charging hub itself. So, it's got a 2 or rather a 2 amp port,
another 2 amp port, and two 1 amp ports. All you do is plug it into the wall, and
it can provide a total of up to 5 amps. So, you'll notice this is a little bit
less than the 6 amps of total power that it can theoretically deliver on the
ports. But that's fine. It just means that things will go a little bit slower if you occupy all of them in your
charging devices all at the same time. The reason for going with someone like
Anttech for this is because all these safety certifications over current
protection, over voltage protection, all of that kind of stuff that it says it
has, it'll actually have. There are lots of other sort of cheap um Asian
knockoffs of products like this, but many of them either I don't necessarily
trust them. I don't necessarily think they're safe, or they are not actually
rated to output a decent amount of amperage on each of the ports. So you
could plug a bunch of things into it, but they'd be limited to anywhere from,
you know, two amps to three amps total in spite of having a ton of USB ports.
So this highly recommended one lives on my nightstand now and has replaced a
Power Squid with a whole bunch of separate AC to USB walls plugged into
it. It's definitely a lot less bulky.
All right, let's move that out of the way. The next product, this is actually something that I bought. This one was
for me. I picked it up from Sennheiser. It is their little desk clamping
headphone stand. If you're any thing like me, then you've got headphones that
either live around your neck or on your head or on your desk or on the floor.
Those are those are the places that they end up. So, this guy right here just has
a little adjustable piece. So, you can pop it out like this. If I can figure
out how to do it. There's a little clamp here. Okay. So, you pop it out. You put it into any one of the three positions
so that it can either clamp onto a small desk, a medium desk, or a large desk. It
just has a little spinning thing right here that you can lock into place. Then
when you're done with your headphones, you can hang them on there. And the
advantage of having a real headphone stand versus uh some people also use
banana hooks. That's a pretty common sort of like sort of DIY mod for a
headphone stand. The advantage of having one like this is that because it's going
to match the curvature of the top of your headphones and it has a little
groove for it, they're not going to fall off and the foam and padding is not
going to be damaged or indented in any way over the long term. And as you can
see, this is a Steel Series headset I have on it right now. So, it's not
limited in any way to just Sennheiser headphones. It's just one of the nicer
ones out there. It's nice and padded and stuff. Our third one, this one was
actually ordered by Edel and he's got a very unique need for this particular
product, but there's lots of other uses for it. So, this is the Into Circuit
Powerbank PC Castle 26,000. And it's uh if anything was over
9,000, this is it. So, the first thing you find inside the box is the PC Castle
26,000. On the top, you see a voltage indicator, 19 volt, 16 volts, or 12vt
output. You've also got an LED indicator for the battery life. So, you can see
we're at around 80%. On the three sides, there's nothing other than screws. And
on the bottom, you've got some little feet to hold it in place. So, what the devil is this thing? It is a
26,000 milliamp hour essentially battery
bank. So on the back you find a 2.1 amp
USB output, a voltage selector switch that goes from 12 to 16 to 19. These are
clearly labeled on the bottom of the unit, and then you have DC out and DC in
for charging. It also comes with a variety of tips. So while I'm unpacking
the accessories here, I'll walk you guys through why Edel needs one, and that is
so Edel is Diesel, just for those of you who aren't familiar with the real names
that we're using for people now. Um, so he has a Blackmagic cinema camera and
wanted to have something that could be kind of strapped to the camera or
clipped to a tripod that would provide much longer battery life at a very
reasonable cost. So, it's under $100. In fact, all of the items we have here are
under $100. I think this one's like 30 bucks, 40 bucks or something like that.
And the headphone holder is about $20.
Um, so he wanted something to give a much better battery life for that, but
it actually can work for a lot of different things as well. So you'll see
it comes with a wide variety of notebook tips. So you can actually use this to
extend your notebook battery life. Just for scale, I'm going to hold it up next
to what I'd consider to be a fairly typical gaming notebook. This is a
GX GX 660 from MSI. So it's it's bulky,
but if you had this in your bag in addition to your gaming notebook, it's not the end of the world. And to put it
in perspective, this is 26,000 mAh. This notebook has a 7,800 mAh battery. So,
you'd be looking at about 4 to 5xing the
effective battery that you'd get out of your notebook uh using one of these
tips. There's also an AC to DC plug. So,
you go ahead and plug this in. This is how you actually charge the unit. So,
that is an 18.5 volt 2 amp adapter in
order to charge that baby up. You've also got a USB to DC adapter. You've got
some other random adapters. So, the idea is that it comes with H There we go. So,
we've got like uh looks like iPhone as well as micro USB. So, there are some
adapter tips for this guy right here so that you can have whatever you're going
to need in order to charge things off of the unit. And finally, it comes with a
little carrying case and a warranty card. So, very, very versatile. I think
a couple other people here are planning to get one, so that was why I figured I'd show this to you guys. Thank you for
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