Pelican Vault Series iPhone 5 & Galaxy S3 Cases & New Backpacks Linus Tech Tips CES 2013
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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cool story guys the camera that Diesel's holding right now made it all the way
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here to the show in a Pelican case which would have made this interview a lot
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more Awkward if it hadn't arrived in one piece absolutely so we're here at the
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pel Booth where they're showing off some products that are available some products that are not yet available and
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I'd like you to tell us a little bit about the Vault series which comes in a
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Galaxy S3 version and an iPhone 5 version and these things look frakin
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rugged yeah absolutely uh this is the iPhone 5 version this is our vault
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series of mobile line protection um this is our highest level of protection that
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we've got um as you can see here it is
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uh aluminum grade protection on the front as well as a plastic uh body on
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the back these are actually held together by um uh stainless steel uh
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aircraft grade steel uh screws um and in
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in between here we've got a rubber gasket as well so this is going to keep
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all the dirt and the dust um out from inside uh inside the case um in addition
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we've went to the extra level and uh added some water resistancy uh to this
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case by adding a Vortex membrane to where all the speakers uh ports are um
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you can still pop these hold on these still pop down
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here one that's open already on the you still get full access to uh all the
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ports as well and it's still fully functional while it's on on as well um
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in addition we've added Gorilla Glass to the camera ports uh for that added
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protection uh this is actually going to be available later this spring um and we
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uh we'll be retailing for around $75 80 okay but that's not the only mobile
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products you have on display here there's an iPad Mini model I asked to
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see the iPad regular size model so now you can have that protection you can get
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for your camera so what is this Crush proof is this one waterproof yes this is
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actually uh Crush proof dust proof and watertight uh this is actually rated up
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to 3 ft of water uh for 30 minutes uh
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this is our hardback i175 um and as you can see uh it's
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actually like a mobile workstation for your iPad it's got a built-in kickstand
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as well as a nice inlay for a uh for a
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portable keyboard as well as inside here you can keep all of your uh cords and
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cables and other iPad accessories right here inside um and this folds up um
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nicely and uh and also includes a shoulder strap so you can carry it with
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you uh this is currently available on Pelican prog gear.com and retails for
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around uh $90 all right last thing guys
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they've actually got a lineup of backpacks now so if you wanted to
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transport things with a Pelican case but you don't actually want to sort of lug
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it around behind you at a trade show say for example um this guy guy right here
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is a regular backpack so you can put stuff here stuff here stuff in all the
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pouches and all that good stuff but show us the Pelican case that's integrated
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absolutely so what we've done is we've integrated our Pelican protective cases
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right into the backpack um so now it's the first Pelican case that you can
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actually wear and so right here this is our laptop series and as you can see
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we've integrated the plastic design case um this is completely Crush proof dust
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proof and watertight uh like our hardback cases this will hold up to a
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15in laptop uh this latches
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closes and as uh Linus was saying it's
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got a multitude of different Pockets uh We've also integrated a hard plastic
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shell on the front uh which is great for carrying a tablet um nice and safely uh
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transportable uh it's got a full-size um
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pouch here for additional laptops and and other storage I'd like to show you
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guys something that really stood out to me about it and that is the here can I
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just grab this that is the spacers inside here check out the density of the
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foam there so you can you can reposition in case your laptop's a little bit
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smaller so it doesn't move around okay
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well thank you one more thing okay there's more uh this is a very ergonomic
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design on the back it's soft it's not going to be heavy uh for when you got
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this loaded down it's very loadbearing uh so it's very comfortable to Lug
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around with you um and uh for travel and everything he actually showed us this
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before it's about this it's about this thick between the plastic back and the
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uh here we go and the padded part itself so check check that out so there's
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actually a hard shell on the inside you see how we've riveted this all in here
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here's the hard shell to see the thickness check out the thickness here
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guys so here I'll do my I'll do my traditional iPhone size comparison so
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you guys know exactly how thick that is yep and these are currently available
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right now on Pelican prog gear.com here let me uh let me just put this baby on
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so here we go I haven't actually tried
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it yet so this is going to be this is going to be either an indictment of the
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product or I'm going to be or I'm going to be super impressed I mean the thing about a rigid backpack any any hiking
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backpack is always going to have something like a metal spine in it so
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that it doesn't shift around so that it doesn't uh poke through at you so
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there's actually an advantage inherently to having that hard plastic shell
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regardless of whether you want to keep a laptop or something else in your backpack and now I can feel that it's a
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little bit rigid however you can see that because it's so much thicker here
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it actually fits into the small of your back right up against your spine so
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there's kind of a uh there's kind of a a popped out piece right there that fits
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right into the small of your back making it more comfortable than just wearing a
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softback backpack thank you so much this has been great and uh guys I hope you
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