Tired of having to manage all those charging plugs and extension cords? The Monster Power Shield HUB EXTENDER solves all those problems with its great design and integrated dual 3-prong AC plugs, 3 * USB-A ports and USB-C (20W PD) port. The magnetic install system and 6-foot braided power cable complete the picture, as tech expert Dave Taylor explains...
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This hub extender instantly obsolete your extension cord. Let's check it out
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Dave Taylor here, and I'm checking out this. This is the Monster PowerShield Hub Extender
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and it's really cool. As you can see, it is basically a bunch of plugs on the end of an
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extension wire with three prongs, fully grounded. But it's a lot more than that
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because what you have is you have two AC outlets, and you have three USB-A ports
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and one USB-C 20-watt power delivery port. All of this fits together incredibly gracefully
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There is a magnetic unit that actually is something you just put on the back
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and it will hold it anywhere you want. Now, the magic there is that there's a super strong 3M
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adhesive on it. The idea being that I could put it on the wall, and then I can just snap this on
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at any time. Whoops. Snap this on, and I'm doing it sideways, because if I do a full connection
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with all the paper and all this stuff removed, then I'll probably never be able to get this off
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It is a super strong magnet. But once you have that connected, imagine having this sitting there
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on the wall just by your workspace, by your desk, by your kitchen table, wherever it is you work
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And it's just super handy, and I really like all of the capabilities it has. And in fact
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the other really nice thing is it has this great heavy-duty braided wire that's six feet long
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Let's go ahead and I'll undo these little twisty things. And it is no big surprise that you can
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take it and plug in two devices, for example, your laptop and maybe, I don't know, maybe a second
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laptop or a big display monitor. But then you can plug in other things, too. So here's our six-foot
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wire, and I'm going to plug it in. I just happen to have power here. So now it's powered up, and I have
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a lot of different wires to experiment with. So we're going to start with USB-C, and I'm just going
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to plug that into USB-C, and I'm going to plug in my AirPods Pro, and the little light shows you that
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that is charging. But I got a lot more wires, too. So let's see what else we have. I have a lot of
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smartphones, and they all always need charging. So let's see what we can do. USB-A, and basically I
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have one that's micro USB, one that's lightning, and one that's USB-C. So just happen to have phones
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that work with all those. So first off, the iPhone 13 Pro charging. I got an old Samsung that uses
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micro USB. It's one of these ends here somewhere. Here it is. So we'll plug this in. Really don't
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like micro USB. So glad we're moving away from it. But this one's charging. You see that there
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And then finally, I have one that is USB-C, so we'll plug that in, too. So now all of these are
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charging simultaneously. All of them are charging simultaneously off of this. A little clumsy, but
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it's incredibly functional, and I could still plug in two AC plugs, whether they're two-prong or
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three-prong. It is super straightforward. It's easy to work with, especially when you have this
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whole mounting plate thing going on. It is super convenient that you could just put this on a wall
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or against the side of maybe a hutch on your desk or something. Really, really nice. Now, what it
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doesn't include is it doesn't, at least according to their documentation, it doesn't have any surge
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protection. It doesn't have any over-circuit or overheating or anything like that. My guess is
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there is some circuitry in here that does that, but it's not documented anywhere. So, sorry
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certainly we can't say that it has that. So it is really just a basic extension cord with a bunch of
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built-in USB charging, which honestly I think is fantastic. I could imagine that if I was at, for
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example, the airport and I pulled this out and plugged it into the wall, I would suddenly make a
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lot of new friends. It's really going to be that helpful. So it is a tiny bit spendy for something
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that doesn't have any surge protection or anything, but you have to look at the functionality and you
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have to decide for yourself how much you think it would be worth, which leads to the question
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all right then, dude, how much is it? Now, before we get to the price, I'm going to ask if you could
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subscribe to my channel. A click or a tap on that subscribe button, as should be very obvious, I'm
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really honest and candid in my reviews. I'm going to tell you the straight scoop, the pros and the
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cons. So speaking of the pros, this is the Monster PowerShield Hub Extender and it's $59.99 at
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walmart.com. It's just hitting the channels. It'll show up elsewhere too if you don't want to go and
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shop at Walmart. But in any case, it is a definite improvement if you're just using an extension
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cord like this blue one I have here or anything else where you just take one AC plug and get a
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couple of AC plugs out of it. This is such a smarter design. This is a really great addition
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especially to any home office. That's all I got. I think I might need to plug things back in to
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charge, so I'll have to catch you in my next video
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