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If you've suffered through the cold on a snowy day or even on the slopes, cutting a groove on your skis or snowboard, you're going to love the Mobile Warming Alpine BT Men's Jacket. Utilizing far-infrared heating technology, it's a self-heating coat that can keep you warm in even the coldest weather. Powered by a slim battery and controlled either by a button on the jacket or an app via bluetooth (I'm not kidding!) it's pretty darn technologically advanced!
Tech expert and Colorado cold weather resident Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ tried on the Alpine BT Men's Jacket and found it comfortable, sharp looking and, yes, oh so warm. Here's how it works and why you should give it a closer look...
Check their site too at https://www.MobileWarming.com/
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Self-heating apparel. Let's check this jacket out
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Dave Taylor here, and this is what I'm talking about. This is the mobile warming, heated apparel, Alpine BT men's jacket
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You can see right off the bat, even has the little hand pieces, right, for your fingers
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So help to keep your hand warm. But really what makes this jacket super interesting
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is that it has heating coils built into it, and it actually works with what they call
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far infrared heating system. Now, it's powered by, ready for this, there's a battery in your pocket
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So this is a 2,200 millan amp hour battery, and it can heat your coat
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so it has independent heating for up to 10 hours depending on your setting
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and it takes a couple hours, like three hours or so, to give this a full charge
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but super easy to work with. you push a button it shows you status of your battery you plug it into your coat
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doesn't that sound weird you plug it into your coat and you are ready to roll
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actually I think you're supposed to turn this get this to 100% so we're there so
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now it's ready and then on the outside of your coat conveniently right here is a
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button that actually gives you the ability to turn on the heating system let me get
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it to go there we go and you can actually adjust the different settings
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which shows you different colors as I'm showing you in this insert. Now, I have this on, I think, maximum heat right now
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So there are two chest parts and then one back part or coil system
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They all work together, and it gives you a really nice heat. And it's instant heat because they're using that far infrared heating system
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you don have to wait like 10 minutes for it to warm up It pretty darn cool It really nice If you on the slopes or it just a super cold day imagine a coat that actually heats you up What a great idea Now totally self It works
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like this. Obviously, I am now heating up my coat. I'm starting to feel it. It's very nice
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But the coat itself has made of some really nice materials too. So it's windproof, water resistant
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They're using 3M thinselet, which is a really nice coating. And it also has FOSL
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or phosph light, not sure how to pronounce that, for light reflectivity, because it looks really dark
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but at night there is some reflection that gives, you know, you get off of it, so you're not actually just a shadow in the darkness
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waiting for someone to potentially get and crash into you. And if you're into nighttime skiing, I guess you could do that too, right
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Cool. Now, what makes this super interesting is it's Bluetooth enabled. But before we get there, let me just tell you that one of the things I don't like too much about it
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and I guess there was no way for them to get around it, is that this has a very unique connector
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which means you have to have the right charger. So it comes with this charger
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but I wish there was an alternative of being able to charge it via like micro-USB or something
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because if you lose the charger, then you're going to be pretty unhappy about how your coat's working
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So I will just plug this back in. Let's get back to being nice and warm, which is good
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And then let's pull out, This thing has lots of cool pockets
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There's pockets on the arms. I mean, the styling of this. This is just a really great coat
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I'm going to pull out my phone. And it's Bluetooth enabled, right
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I already said that. So actually works with something called the MW Connect app
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So I'm going to launch the app, and it already knows my coat. So let's see
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It should just automatically pair with it. Always the demo problem right so let me get this let me show you what going on here So I launched the app and let see view garment and it looking for garments right now
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Fingers crossed it. We'll find this, garment not found. Let's try, hmm, let's try again
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Every time I do a demo, something happens. Let's see, let's turn it on
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I think when I unplugged it and plugged it in again, I didn't turn it on
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So now it's on, so we'll try again. There it is. There's my coat that I've named ingeniously
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The coat. Finish. And now you can see in the app that my battery's at 100
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and that I'm heating the coat up to 135 degrees, which is basically maximum possible temperature
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Now, if I want to bring it down, I can pick any of the other settings. And here's a handy chart so you can see the
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relationship between how much you're going to heat and how long the battery will last. So if you're
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in super horrible cold weather and you just need this to help you get by, then put it on maximum
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It's actually, it's pretty nice actually. But if you want something just to help out a little bit
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because it's not that thick a coat compared to like heavy-duty alpine coats. So if you want
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something that helps out just a little bit, you can put it on 25%. That heats it up to 90 degrees
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as you can see in the app, and that will last up to 10 hours
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If you're outside for 10 hours, boy, I hope you have more than just this coat on. This is probably not quite enough, but it's pretty nice
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Now, it gives you, as I said, four heat settings, and it shows you what part is being warmed up
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It also shows you that mobile warming, the company, makes other heated garments
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So if you really want this, you can even get something for your dog. How cool is that, right
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And you can control it all from the app Now I will say that you pay a premium for the Bluetooth connectivity So we get to the price in just a second but if you want to skip the Bluetooth and just control it with your button here and then look on the side of the battery to see what
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your status is, then you can save pretty substantially on the coat, depending on what their
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pricing is at the time. But before we get there, I'm going to ask, if you can subscribe to my channel, because
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I get all sorts of fun and interesting gadgets and devices to review all the time, and I'm
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constantly posting on. YouTube and if you subscribe you'll be able to keep up how good is that right
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we'll become friends and I am your friend and I like you with that affirmation
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out of the way let's talk pricing so this is the mobile warming alpine BT men's
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jacket and it is 21999 at mobile warming dot com but right now when I checked the
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non-blututh version of this coat so all the same styling all the same functionality
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everything except Bluetooth is actually $100 cheaper. That's a pretty screaming deal for a coat like this
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And even if you never use the heating system, it's a really nice coat. So I have become a big fan
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I really like it. And I just wish we were coming into winter instead of coming into spring
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I know all my neighbors are like, oh, good, gracious. Don't say that. But this is pretty cool, actually
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Pretty neat technology. So if you live in cold climate or you just want to make sure you never
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get super cold then I would tell you that you definitely should check out the mobile
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warming heated apparel and with that I will catch you in my next week
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