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Got an Apple Watch and want to learn more about two cool options for a simple watch charging stand? FuseChicken and Griffin Technology have you covered, with two very different units. I compare them and talk about which is better...
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hi Dave Taylor here again and this time
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I want to look at some more apple watch
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charging docks so we already did one
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review and in that I looked at a couple
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of different devices including this
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bottom of the barrel nine dollar ebay
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piece of plastic now it works okay as
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with all these devices you do have to
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get your charging cables separately but
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I got two new ones in the office so I
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thought we'd have a look at those two
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the first one let me pop the water out
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oh let me try to pop the wire out there
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we go the first one is really pretty
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interesting this is the bow beam watch
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sobo being makes these cables that are
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as you can see flexible and bendable and
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so here's this one and let's take off
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our Apple watch to test it's easy enough
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oops I might have to adjust it a little
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bit but that's part of the fun of this
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right is that I can actually go ahead
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and let's actually orient it correctly
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is I can sort of modify and tweak and
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monkey with this to get it to be just
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how I like now this is interesting to
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have in your office or maybe bedside but
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where this is really cool is when you
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have it in your car because you can bend
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it around and get it so that your watch
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is just looking right at you so safely
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instead of looking out the windshield
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you're staring at your watch because
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that's what we do now right this is why
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we need automated cars this is why I'm
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excited to have my car drive itself
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because i have so many distractions it's
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crazy so this is actually a really cool
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device so you know they don't do
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anything in terms of making it easy to
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hide the cable or anything that's not
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really where they're at but as a very
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simple elegant little piece of I don't
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know device it's pretty neat actually
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and it's only 25 bucks so you can pick
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one up if you want over at fuse chicken
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calm why they're called that is another
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story but it's really pretty slick and
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this also is something you could easily
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obviously put in your computer bag or
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your case
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pack it with you when you travel and
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again you can just sort of adjust it to
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meet your needs now on the other end of
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the spectrum is another one of these
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sort of poured plastic devices and this
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one's from Griffin this is aa to pieces
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alright so this little tube here and the
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idea here and I really sort of played
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with this very much the idea is that I
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can slip the cable down here as you can
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see goes through and then we end up with
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this on the top and very nice now one
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more step hold on we're still assembling
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this this is the Griffin wakil stand by
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the way and put it all together and
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let's see looks like there's a place we
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can run the wire in the back and now
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really quite a more elegant solution as
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you can see this is really something for
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your executive desk there you know that
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huge piece of walnut you have that
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spreads out and intimidates everyone who
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comes to visit you because they don't
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notice that you're on a little platform
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it's all good that's our secret I'm not
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gonna tell anyone but it's nice it has a
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weighted base so it has a very nice feel
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to it and in terms of the design it's a
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little tall compared to a lot of the
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other watch docks that we've seen but I
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really like it and Griffin generally
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does a really good job with their stuff
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and as you can see it was ridiculously
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easy for me to be able to feed the wire
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in and everything and so it becomes very
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subtle and then when I want look at that
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it even comes up I could make it even
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taller not sure what the value of that
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is probably that's not what it's for but
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it's a very well designed piece of
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hardware and here's the thing it's only
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twenty-nine ninety-nine so it's really
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not a whole lot more than this funky
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connector cable thing so I will tell you
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that both of these are actually really
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nice solutions and both of them really
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are superior to this ebay thing and the
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thing that bugs me about this ebay
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device is that the way that it's
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designed I would actually have to break
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my cable to get it to fit into the
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channel so the fact that this is
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designed so that the cable gently curves
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instead of you having to like make a 90
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recurve on it which ain't good for wires
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I like it so this is the griffin
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technology watch stand 2999 you can pick
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up one at griffin technology com and
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this is the bow beam watch and this
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one's 25 bucks and you can pick up one
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for yourself at fuse chicken calm this
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is dave taylor and i'm putting my Apple
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watch back on because I need the
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distraction don't we all and I hang on a
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sec there we go I will see you in my
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