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If you've ever suffered through trying to plug one more charger into a full powerstrip, just to be frustrated that the plugs are so darn close together, you'll love the One Beat 9-in-1 power strip with built-in surge protector. Three USB ports, six three-prong grounded outlets, and all smartly designed for maximal utility. Tech expert Dave Taylor walks you through the design...
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finally a well-designed power strip
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let's check it
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out Dave Taylor here with lots of stuff
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to plug in now in the old days you used
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to have plugs like this so your power
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strips could be straight lines with
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close connectors and it would work fine
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but these sort of connections they're
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gone we don't see those much at all
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anymore instead you see things like this
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or this or even this which is even wider
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look how wide that one is and then
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things like this which is a battery
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charger for my camera and the problem
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with all of these is when you plug them
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in you find out you can't use all your
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Outlets because having them all in a
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straight line turns out to not be very
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smart enter this this is the 1B 9 in1
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power strip surge protector so not only
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does it have six three-prong power
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outlets ingeniously placed in different
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locations but they're actually spread
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further apart and it includes three USB
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ports too so there's two usba at 2.4
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amps and one USBC at 3.0 amps overall
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this is 125 Vol 6 HZ 15 amps with a
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maximum power of
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1875 Watts you can see it has a braided
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connector and they even thought through
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the connection to the wall so it's a
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flat wall mount so it doesn't stick out
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it's easy to put behind furniture and
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because this has a surge protector it's
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a 900 Jewel surge protector it means
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it's safe to tuck behind furniture too
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because if it overheats it'll
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automatically turn itself off now one
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other cool thing is it actually has a
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little power switch so you can turn the
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whole power the whole um power strip off
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with a single switch or turn it on at
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which point there's a tiny illuminated
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light that shows that the surge
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protector is working so it has on the
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back easy wall mounting I mean the
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cables a 5-ft braided cable they've done
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so much right and I know this is a
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really mundane product to look at but
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I'll tell you I have spent so much time
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struggling with power strips and trying
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to figure out out how do I get this and
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this and this to all plug in without one
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of them making the next one slightly a
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kilter so let's see how many things we
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can plug into this so we can certainly
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plug in this Lenovo laptop charger
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that's easy and this I don't even know
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what this is from it's some
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miscellaneous product and notice how
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neatly these two plug in it's really
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easy to work with then we can do this
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one maybe this one we'll do on the other
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side
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and what else do we have we have this
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well we'll put this on this side too so
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we have all four of these plugged in and
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we still have all those those two
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outlets on the top along with of course
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the actual usba and USBC so let's
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utilize those now that we have these
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plugged in I'm going to plug in a
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usba to USBC cable and let's just plug
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in my phone and
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and it is charging um Apple doesn't do
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much in terms of showing you that it's
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charging but it is showing charging
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right there on the top so that one's
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charging and now I have USBC to
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USBC and I'm going to plug in a Google
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pixel
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phone and again it's pretty subtle it
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says that it's charging but more
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importantly the USBC is a fast charge
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because it is a higher amperage so on
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the bottom it actually says charging
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rapidly and that's great so all of this
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is going on all of these things are
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plugged in oh and we have this one let's
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see can we figure this out well H we
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might have to reconfigure things if we
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want to plug this one in so I'm not
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going to plug this in but this is
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exactly the problem and if you've been
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suffering through years of just these
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mundane power strips without thinking hm
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can companies design these better then
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you're going to love this and where I
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really like this is this is great for
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travel so I can plug in all sorts of
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devices and charge my phone and charge
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my external battery pack all of that can
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be happening at the same time and with
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that 5-ft cord I can also plug it into
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that otherwise awkward and inaccessible
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power plug that then gives me so much
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more flexibility and and I know hotels
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are getting better cuz they recognize
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that we do have a lot of things to plug
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in but how much nicer to just plug in
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something of your own and know that
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you've got everything hooked up and
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figured out so that you can use it
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exactly as you want with whatever
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products you want to plug in so let me
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just unplug it so I show you
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just a little bit more so we're going to
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unplug the phones there's a lot of
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things to plug in and you can just
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barely see that there's a circular power
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on on the power switch and it's
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illuminated again that's to show me that
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it's doing that surge protector so
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that's active and otherwise this is a
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simple straightforward product this is
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not something that's going to break the
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bank but it's the kind of thing that
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just improves your quality of life as an
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Electronics owner so lots to like here
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it is 5 in by 1.9 in x 1.8 in the whole
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whole thing is 11.8 o so it is very
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portable very easily added to your
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travel kit and that's pretty much all I
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can say about the power strip you can
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power a lot of things simultaneously
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I've tested that out it's just really
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awkward to try to do that on camera so
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this is one to look at there are other
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companies that have also said hm that
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power strips a really bad design let's
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design something a little different so
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there are different ways to orient this
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and this compan offers um cables from 1T
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to 25 ft long and slightly different
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configurations on the plug and stuff but
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if you look at the overall array of all
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the different choices out there it's
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pretty remarkable how finally after
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decades if not longer that companies are
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starting to say hm how else could we
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Design This to make it more useful and
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if you ask me this is vastly more useful
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than a power strip and kind of more fun
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to have just around and available for
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other people too so that's what I got I
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think this is one that's worth just buy
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it just buy one of these they're really
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inexpensive and it will change your life
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it'll make all of these plugging of
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things in so much easier I am going to
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found this of value you I hope you
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did excellent this is the 1bat 9 in1
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power strip surge protector and it is
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you ready for this
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$12.99 currently discounted down to
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$9.99 at amazon.com for under $10 this
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is a game Cher for your home office for
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your travel kit for your mobile setup
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imagine being at a coffee shop and two
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people are competing for that plug and
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you're like oh hang on I got this this
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will make all our lives easier in fact
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coffee shop might just want to buy it
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off you that would be a smart move on
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their part anyway that's what I got I
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know kind of a mundane product but again
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quality of life is pretty darn important
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so need to charge my phones it's all I
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got hope to catch you in my next video
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