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Eliminate background noise with the IMISES S1 Mini Mobile Phone Microphone [Preview]
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May 29, 2025
If you've ever recorded audio or video with your smartphone, you know how sensitive they are to ambient and environmental noise. Whether you're in traffic, at the beach, even in windy weather, sometimes that noise is louder than your voice. That's why the upcoming IMISES S1 Mini USB-C smartphone microphone is so intriguing: It has a powerful built-in AI noise reduction system. Tech expert Dave Taylor got a prototype S1 Mini and put it through its paces with a variety of noisy environments... Check it out on Indiegogo [not Kickstarter!] at: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/imises-s1-mini-mobile-phone-microphone--2#/ Visit Dave's Q&A Web site at: https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ #imises #aimicrophone #smartmic #iphonemic #androidmic #microphone #askdavetaylor
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a simpl to use smartphone AI noise
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reduction microphone let's check it
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out Dave Taylor here and sometimes I'm
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in a noisy environment like right now
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you can hear all the people around me
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it's just a noisy environment and what
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you really want is a microphone that can
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get rid of all that so you can just have
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your voice being recorded when you're
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doing something on your smartphone like
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talking to someone or recording a video
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now I have a secret feature because I
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can actually just stop the background
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noise cuz it is a simulated background
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noise but in a lot of situations you're
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recording video content or recording
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audio content and you can't turn off
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that background enter this this is the
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IM Miss S1 mini mobile phone microphone
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and as you can see it's USBC and that's
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it it's super simple there's no battery
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there's no connectors there's no buttons
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there's no software you don't need an
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app you just plug this thing in and it
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improves your audio recordings now this
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is on Kickstarter and so this is a
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preview this is not a review this is a
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production prototype but I have been
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having a lot of fun with it and it's
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really pretty cool so what what I'm
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going to do is I'm going to have a
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variety of different background noises
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that I'm playing to simulate being in
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different environments and we're just
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going to use my iPhone 15 Pro and I'm
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going to record myself talking over
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different environments just using the
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built-in microphone then we'll plug in
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the S1 mini and we'll hear how that does
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with those recordings so let's get
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started so I'll be switching the audio
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source
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right now what you're hearing is my
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voice is picked up by my iPhone and you
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can see I'm pretty close but there's no
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background noise but instead of that
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let's go to the
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ocean and this is pretty darn loud let's
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turn this down a little bit I think if
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the ocean was that loud I would be
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standing in the waves so this is
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probably more realistic so here's the
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background
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and you can hear me talking and the
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iPhone doesn't have any noise reduction
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algorithms so everything you're hearing
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is everything it's picking up so now
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let's try a different environment and
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instead of it being at the ocean how
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idyllic that was we are now in a big
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windy storm turn the volume up a bit and
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you can hear the wind howling through
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the cracks in the house and it's
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just it's not a pleasant day by by any
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means and if this was 3 in the morning
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the candles would be flickering and it'd
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be a perfect setting for a horror movie
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but more importantly the phone is doing
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nothing to help me out here one more
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example this one's even more fun this is
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a recording of Street traffic in India
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and you'll hear there's lots of honking
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horns so this is probably the toughest
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environment for a noise reduction system
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as we'll find out but for now the
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iPhone's doing nothing it's just saying
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hey here's all this audio I'm picking up
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so I guess it's kind of doing its job
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but now I'm gonna stop we're going to
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plug in the S1 mini and then I'm going
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to go back through all these different
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sound samples we'll see hear how that
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works so let's go back
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what's nice is that the way these
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systems work is that the phone has
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automatically detected that there's an
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external microphone so that's what we're
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using now let's go back to that noisy
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ocean because let's hear how this one
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does and that one is the loudest of my
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samples so I'm going turn it down a
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little bit but it's now playing and I'll
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just stop
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talking you can't hear anything while
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I'm talking some sound can creep in but
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it's quite remarkable now let's go to
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that howling wind and again you're not
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going to hear
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anything I'm hearing the wind howling
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and the whistle and so I'm talking over
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that background noise but the S1 mini is
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doing its very best to remove all of
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that from my
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recording one more demo let's go back to
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the let's see where are we the street
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traffic and this one is the one it has
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the hardest time with cuz
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well the issue is that the horns are a
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similar frequency to a human voice so I
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think it has a harder time
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differentiating let me turn that
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background noise up a little bit so I'm
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basically standing on the side of the
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road and it's a noisy Road there's
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nothing I can do about that so I'm
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trying to record myself as best I can
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with the S1 Mini doing noise reduction
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and you're hearing the result now let me
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switch back to my regular
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microphone I think it's a pretty
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remarkable device I think that the ease
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of use here is really hang on I don't
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think we need to be on the street
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anymore it's incredibly easy to use if
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you have an iPhone if you have an
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Android phone any USBC connector you can
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just plug this in and boom it's a
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plug-and-play device it'll know what to
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do the company's even going to have a
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lightning adapter so if you have an
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older iPhone with a lightning connector
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there'll be a little adapter you can add
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to it and then plug that into your
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lightning connector iPhone and get that
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same instant easy microphone so AI noise
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reduction it does all sorts of really
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fancy processing on board which is
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really kind of remarkable because this
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is a pretty small device this is pretty
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darn easy to work with this would be so
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easy to have in your kit um whether you
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carry a tripod with you or whatever
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really easy to use has about a 6ot or or
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sorry 6 M 19 ft range obviously the
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further you are away from your device
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the harder a time it is catching your
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voice and being able to differentiate
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from all the other noise around you so
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if you're at a rave and everyone's
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screaming and yelling and hollering
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around you it's going to be really hard
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for it to only understand and pick up
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your voice but in an environment like
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that that's kind of part of
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the is Fun the right word might depend
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on your interpretation but suffice to
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say I'm really impressed I really like
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devices like this where the use case is
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pretty broad where the usability is
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really high and the cost is really low
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so this is definitely one that you'll
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want to check out if you do any sort of
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recording with your devices while you
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are out and about rather than in a quiet
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recording studio now it is on
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Kickstarter but before I get there and
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talk about the anticipated price I'm
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going to invite you to subscribe to my
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channel click or tap on that subscribe
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notifications of my new content and give
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me a thumbs up if this was of value
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certainly hope it was oh and here's a
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couple of quick close-up photos there's
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really not much to see here but I will
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give them enormous props that on the
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bottom there 's also a USB connector so
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you can plug this into your phone for
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example and then plug in a charging
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cable and it still works perfectly fine
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so this doesn't isolate your phone from
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charging that is really smart design and
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Engineering now let me tell you that the
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imiss S1 mini mobile phone
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microphone is anticipated to be
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somewhere around $40 us on Kickstarter
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this is subject to whatever they end up
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putting on the kickstarter page when it
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goes live that lightning adapter current
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pricing puts it at about an additional
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$5 so all of this is incredibly
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affordable it's really great pricing
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honestly I think they could probably
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price this at $79 and it would still be
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a good deal but you know $39 or $40
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pretty darn sweet if you miss the
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kickstarter campaign still click on the
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kickstarter Link in my description and
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it will take you to their website site
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so that you can order one of these for
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yourself as for me this is going to go
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into my mobile kit because I am on my
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way to a couple of different conferences
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and I will be recording on exhibit
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floors and something like this is going
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to make a big difference so that's all I
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got I think we're going to go back to
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that traffic in India let's get back
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there if it will do it there we
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go
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so I'll catch you in my next video
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go keep go
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