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Have an Amazon Echo Dot and wish you had more mounting options than just having it sit on the table? Enter the AJAX from Kiwi Design. A combination of silicon case and mounting hardware, it'll let you put your Dot on a wall, a mirror, a fridge, even your car dashboard.
Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ has a close look at the Kiwi Design AJAX and asks the question "why would you want to mount it in your car?"...
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Dave Taylor here and I'm looking at the
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Amazon echo dot second-generation well
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to be specific I'm looking at this this
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is the Kiwi design Ajax designed
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specifically for the second-generation
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dot what's it do
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I'm glad you asked comes with a ton of
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different geegaws and and such because
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at its most fundamental it's a silicon
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case for protecting your dot and the
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bottom of it has built in metal so that
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means that you can use it as a magnet so
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you can actually take your dot and now
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you have so many more mounting options
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because with this hardware you can do
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things like mount it on the wall or in
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this particular case this actually clips
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in to the air vent in your car so let's
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go and have a quick check of what that
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looks like
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now I have to admit I don't understand
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why you would want one of these in your
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car because let's face it you still need
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power and you still need Wi-Fi so if you
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have internet access in your car
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reliably through a hotspot or through
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your smartphone then maybe this can work
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but if you have a car with that sort of
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technology you might already have a
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voice-activated system and if you don't
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you will soon so not exactly sure about
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the vehicle case but at home this gives
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you so much more flexibility because the
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dot is really designed just to sit on a
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table or sit on a surface that's boring
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there's a lot of times it would be
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better to be on the wall or something so
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since you have the metal disk here you
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have this mount for your vehicle but it
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comes with other disks too so here's one
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that again is plenty strong enough to
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hold it and then you can use one of the
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included disks with adhesive on both
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sides I put it on both sides and now I
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can stick it on for example a bathroom
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mirror or right on the wall right next
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to my bed if I want to put it there so I
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mount this I put this on it I run the
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cords and everything's great now it is
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kind of funny that the way that Amazon
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designed this is the port is adjacent to
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the plus or volume up button so
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logically it would seem that you'd want
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that up which then means that instead of
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having the cords run down the bottom you
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have the cords coming out the top which
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to me is a little suboptimal as design
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but again I think that Amazon's design
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was always that you're going to have it
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like this and in fact then the cord
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might feel like it's coming out of the
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back so Kiwi design doesn't solve any of
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that problem but what they do have is
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like I said they have this really nice
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little silicon case with the embedded
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metal and it comes with lots of
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different mounting options not only that
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but there are extra adhesive metal disks
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so you could for example with this one
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you could actually stick this on to the
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back of your iPhone or smartphone case
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and then when you're in the car you can
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use this as a car mount and then just
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use this completely separately works
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perfectly well now what else can I tell
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you it comes with all these different
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mounting options you've already seen how
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it works in the car and so colors it
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comes in yellow and pink and white and
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black which is in this other box and
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gray so lots of choices but what's
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really cool is it's very inexpensive now
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before I tell you the price let me go
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ahead and ask can you please click on
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that subscribe button and if you find
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this valuable to me a thumbs up I
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appreciate that
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cool now the Kiwi design Ajax for the
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Amazon echo dot second-generation
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is $14.99 and that's regardless of what
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color you want now I think that's a
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pretty sweet deal even if you're just
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gonna have it sitting on a surface just
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to have that little little extra
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protection for this device is not a bad
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idea and it does give you options of
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more colors than the dot itself now I do
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want to give you one warning before we
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wrap up is that if you go onto Amazon
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and you look at the reviews of the Ajax
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for reasons I don't understand Kiwi
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design has all their reviews of all
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their products on all of their products
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so some of the reviews complain about
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the battery this doesn't have a battery
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this is not the same device Kiwi design
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also makes an external battery for the
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dot that lets you make it portable but
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those reviews are mixed in so if you're
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curious about what other people think
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about the Ajax make sure that you're
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reading reviews that are of this actual
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product again not sure why it's set up
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that way that might be an Amazon error
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but either way this is Dave Taylor I'm
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thinking of going ahead and mounting
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this in my bathroom mirror and I'll
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catch you in my next video
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