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Dave Taylor of http://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ reviews the oddly named but surprisingly cool Une Bobine stiff, coiled lightning cable from FuseChicken. Really, that's the company name. Dave explains...
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hi Dave Taylor here again and this time
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i'm looking at probably what is the most
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strangely named product from the
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certainly most strangely named company
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but it's actually really cool this is a
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kickstarter campaign that has become a
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shipping product it is called depending
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on how you pronounce your friends une
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bobine and is from a company called fuse
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chicken so actually it's this right you
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see this wire here it's a lightning
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cable so but look no hands mom turns out
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that it's a stiff coil and so this is
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really neat because you can bend it
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around and make it in different shapes
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so that for example you have a little
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tiny second screen with your laptop this
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also obviously has applications in your
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car so you can use this the other end is
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just a regular USB plug but you can use
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this to charge your phone and bend it so
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for example it can be in a horizontal
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orientation and it can be right by your
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dashboard and be your live map so really
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a cool idea but the name what the heck
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so I asked John Fawcett over at fuse
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chicken and he had a really funny story
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so it turns out that fuse chicken comes
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from an experience he had that we've all
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had now trying to get a domain and
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you're looking and there's nothing
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available and you're trying completely
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random words and nothing's available and
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so there he was looking on godaddy and
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he just said I just come need to come up
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with something completely random so he
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picked two words completely out of thin
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air fuse chicken and the domain was
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available and as soon as he said it to
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his friends they all started laughing
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and he said you know why that's
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memorable and sure enough it is fuse
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chicken calm right how many other people
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here it's like wow wait did you mean
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fuse turkey calm so at least there's not
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too much confusion there with names and
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then oomba bean or depending on how you
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pronounce your french new ball bean
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turns out to be the french translation
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of his original name for the product
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which was a coil and that's a nice
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descriptive name and he said again and
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he went to the translator and this is
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very modern sort of stuff and he went
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and entered the translation looked at in
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two different languages and the friend
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one jumped out and that's the name of
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the product so 1995 you can pick it up
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at ready fuse chicken calm I telling you
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you're not going to forget this one and
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it's actually a really cool idea so it's
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a lightning cable so modern iphone 5s
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the latest generation of ipads probably
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nor more stuff coming down the road from
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apple and it works on the other end with
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any USB connection so i really like it
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it's really one of these simple little
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solutions that instead of having a cable
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and having your my device just laying on
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the table i can actually have it bent
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and fitting and actually just where I
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want it to be and you know what's its
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lifetime it feels like it's going to
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last a good long time it's a nicely
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constructed nicely assembled product so
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with that fuse chicken and I say goodbye
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and I would do the rest of this in
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French but I don't actually speak French
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so I apologize for any horrible
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mistranslations or mispronunciations
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those are my responsibility not the
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responsibility of fused chicken okay
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thanks dave taylor and i'll catch you in
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the next video
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you