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Want to go for a swim but are anxious about leaving your watch, purse, and keys sitting on your towel? Ready to hit the waves but don't want your hotel room to walk? The Kensington Portable Lock Box is a great solution and is one of the most capacious on the market. A combo lock with key override, it's also easy enough to toss in your beach bag or use in the car!
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A portable lockbox? Very helpful on vacation. Let's check it out
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Dave Taylor here and I'm checking out this. This is the Kensington Portable Lockbox and it's not
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glamorous. It's not a smart device. It doesn't have a built-in AI software subsystem. It's just
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a very simple smart solution to a problem we all have at times and that is you are on vacation
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you're at the pool, you want to leave some stuff for someone who's going to come pick it up off
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your doorstep or something and you want to make sure it stays safe when you're not supervising it
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That's exactly what this is for and as you can see it's pretty darn big. That's what makes this a
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really interesting little lockbox device is that it is much bigger than all the other lockboxes
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and all the smart lockboxes I've ever looked at. I've looked at lockboxes where something like this
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key fob by itself might almost be too big to fit. That's not very useful. So this actually has a
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combination. It's a three-digit combo lock which gives you a thousand possible combinations but it
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also has a keyed override. So if you set the number and you forget what you set it to you're
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not doomed. You can actually have your key maybe in your makeup bag in your hotel room for example
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or somewhere in your house and then you can use this and in an emergency you can go ahead and
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just unlock it with the key. But of course you really want to remember your combination and I
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set mine it's pretty easy right now. It's to one, two, you guessed it three. So when I get the numbers
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to line up then I can turn this. It's a two-handed move. Turn it and then open it up and how big is it
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Well here's my wallet and here's my beamer keys and they fit neatly into there. There's space for
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a passport, there's space for I don't know a couple of hotel room keys, even a second person's wallet
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or card as an ID or something and then lock it, roll the combination and it's pretty darn tough
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In fact it's not only splash resistant which is great if you have it by the pool but it's also
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made out of high impact ABS plastic and I know you're asking ABS what does that actually stand
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for. I'm going to tell you it is acrylonitrile butadiene styrene. I might have pronounced it
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wrong but that's what ABS is. I always thought it was something to do with ballistic that B
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but it's not. So suffice to say it's a really common plastic and it's really tough. I haven't
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tried running over this with my car but I'm pretty sure it would be able to handle it. It is definitely
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tough. It is definitely going to resist some person who's not actually a hotel employee taking a
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screwdriver and trying to pop it open. It's just not going to work but there's some neat things that
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this does anyway. So let me open it up again, get back to my combo, open it up and one of the things
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you can do is you can actually pop the strap off. So why would you want to do this? Because you can
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loop it around something. So for example you can loop it around the tube of a chair or loop it
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around the handle of your door lock and then once you get it to where you want you just clip it back
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in and now it's going to stay on there. The person can't just take it and go home and try to figure
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out how to open it. So it's just a very simple, very straightforward solution for a common problem
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and even better you can make the strap a little shorter if you want to carry it as if it's a
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purse or something. This would be a pretty badass purse actually. Maybe put some like flower
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stickers on it to sort of dial back the aggressive security stance but super helpful. So that's
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really all I've got. You can set your own combination, you can adjust the strap, you could
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take the strap and you know hook it around something which is what I tend to do and it's
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just really nice and what I really really appreciate about it is it's just really big inside
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In fact let me give you some dimensions. So the unit itself is 2.6 inches by 5.6 inches by 12
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inches, 1.2 pounds, pretty darn light actually and the interior is an impressive 62 cubic inches
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There's a lot of space in here for your stuff and your valuables and everything and even at
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its most simple in a hotel room or something or even in your car having stuff in this is a lot
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safer than having it just sitting in your glove compartment or something. So definitely one to
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check out if you're heading out to the Caribbean, if you spend a lot of time at the beach and you
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want to go surfing and know your valuables aren't going to walk then this is a great solution. Just
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having this under your towel or something I think is going to be a lot more
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secure than having this sitting there and if you can then connect this to something like a lawn chair
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then no one's going to be walking off with your lawn chair. So that's just something that's going
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to be a way big improvement. So all we need to talk about is the price but before we get to the
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price I'm going to ask if you could subscribe to my channel. A click or a tap on that subscribe
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I admit generally I do a little bit more techy products but every so often something comes along
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and it's just a really smart solution to a legitimate problem that I have. So that's what
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this is and that's why I like it and this is the Kensington Portable Lockbox and it's $38.10
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at Amazon.com. Kind of an unusual price there but $38.10 at Amazon.com. If you travel, if you worry
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about having valuables, if you leave like car keys for friends on your front doorstep or something
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this is your best solution and it's so big it's super flexible. Definitely one to check out
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That's all I got. I'm going to go back to the beach so I'll catch you in my next video
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Bye
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