Eton Rukus Solar Bluetooth Speaker System Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·2013-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing and first look at something that's actually kind of
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interesting this is the Eon Ruckus solar
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portable Bluetooth sound system with solar
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panel so if you guys ever saw the
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episodes I did about the jam boox by
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Jawbone you'll have some idea what this
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thing is however the solar panel is what turns
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this from a product that's sort of um
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mildly interesting to something that is
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far more mildly interesting so far more
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interesting let's put it that way so it comes with a coupon for hold up okay
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your new iton okay I don't know how to pronounce that rockas can only get
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better with 3 months of free music with access toog get 15 million songs at your
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fingertips download unlimited songs to your mobile device jam out to new Rel
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releases and custom radio with artist only stations hear music everywhere cool
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so comes with a 3mon uh 3mon voucher very neat stuff okay it also comes with
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a power adapter presumably for charging if you are not near the sun which is
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everywhere except at night
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whoo whoa okay let's have a look at this
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device I actually don't know that much about this other other than that it's
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solar powered which sort of makes it inherently really cool to me I'm I'm I'm
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big into things that I don't have to buy batteries for or deal with charging
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because like many gamers and PC sort of
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types and hopefully you guys can relate with me here and I'm not just being
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insulting I'm pretty freaking lazy when
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it comes to charging devices like I just I can't be bothered to do that every
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device should just automatically recharge itself when I'm done using the
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battery so there we go all right NE need form
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factor okay so number one Bluetooth connectivity with one touch pairing and
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control okay high quality stereo streaming support that's good play music
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from Bluetooth enabled smartphone tablet laptop or PC comes with a little pocket
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for throwing your uh your device into it so you know hopefully it won't I guess
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hopefully it won't fall out I oh oh look
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how smart this is look at look look look look this so there's a slight curvature
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to the device here and this sticker actually adds some friction to it so
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once you throw your phone in there the odds of it falling out okay
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there there it goes but even then it's going to bump up against the handle so
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you're actually supposed to carry it like this so that you won't run into
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problems with it falling out but either way that's awesome you don't actually
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have to pH no way so it doesn't include a USB cable unfortunately but if you
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flip this around you can use the included USB plug right here to actually
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charge your device device at the same time that you're using it so that's
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that's kind of smart too it's got an auxiliary in so even if you don't have bluetooth support with the device that
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you want to listen to music on or whatever else you can just use an um you
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can just use a 3.5 mm cable which is good stuff and then there's the power in
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so that's sort of the the ergonomics of the back of it the top is pretty
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straightforward it's covered in solar panels what were you expecting
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guys okay no I know that's what you were expecting so we've got a power button uh
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he has an e in to display which is kind of
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cool there's a button for Bluetooth button for
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USB uh this will switch to your auxiliary there's base there's volume up
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volume down so the controls are pretty straightforward looks like it's on so you know what the only thing to do right
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now is uh try this thing out so give me a sec here guys and I'll I'll get this
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going okay so I'm not a dancer but the
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point is I've heard air number of these sort of Bluetooth speaker things this
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one has the advantage of being a little bit bigger than the twist that we looked
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at before as well as the jam boox however I can say with confidence that
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it takes advantage of its larger size it delivers significantly more base it's
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not super loud this is not the kind of device that you're going to take to the
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beach and drive everyone else around you crazy with like you know how awesome and
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Loud your Beats are or whatever else it's not like that it's very directional
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sound which means that if you got your group on the sand or whatever you
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position it a little bit away from yourselves and point it at yourselves
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you're going to be able to hear it really well whereas the people around you are probably not going to be that
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bothered pairing was quick so we were able to pair just by holding down the
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Bluetooth button it's detected we pair it up no big deal I couldn't quite
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figure out how the base control worked but the eink display is awesome so you
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can actually see right here it's very very clear and because it's in it's
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extremely power efficient um okay that
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probably turns the USB charging on and off so that's kind of cool and then
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that's going to again switch to your auxiliary versus your Bluetooth playback
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and again I'm not I'm not quite sure how this works but the volume up and down
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works and it's semi-independent from your volume control on your phone so a
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lot of the time these Bluetooth devices will SN so you're controlling both of
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their volumes at the same time this seems to be somewhat separate uh you get
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up to eight plus hours of battery life according to them so in terms of music
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playback time and charges fully in less than 6 hours indirect sunlight so so
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overall very cool little device actually
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let me just make sure I'm not missing anything before we uh before we wrap up
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here I think that pretty much covers it so in conclusion not super loud super
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easy to use it's not that heavy so it's something you can easily Chuck into you
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know your bag or whatever else you know it's not going to be that heavy the bottom is rubberized so it's not going
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to slip if you put it down on anything however 90% of the time you're probably
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going to be using it like this it's got rubberized feet there as well so it can
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be used either way and if feels pretty robust like it's not going to break
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immediately or anything like that thank you for checking out this unboxing and
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