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Kanex GoPower Apple Watch Charger & USB-C Products - REVIEW!
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May 30, 2025
When Kanex Products sends over a box of gear, it's a grabbag of coolness, with great USB-C devices for the new MacBook Pro with TouchBar, a sweet 9H hardness Apple iPhone 7 glass screen protector and the Kanex GoPower Watch portable charger for the Apple Watch. In this extended video, tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ examines each of the four products and talks about where they'd be most useful, ending with the Apple Watch charger. You can learn more about Kanex products here: http://www.kanex.com/
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finally a really cool way to charge your
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Apple watch let me tell you about
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it Dave Taylor here again and I'm
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looking at a bunch of products from a
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company called canex I don't know what
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happened with my Christmas stocking but
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they sent me a bunch of stuff that would
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have worked great so let me start with
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the littlest guy if you have a new
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Macbook Pro with touch bar you know that
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everything's USBC and you got to compens
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so here's one of the things they have
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this is really cool this is a tiny
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little USBC to USB 3 adapter so that
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means all of those devices all of those
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flash drives all of those charging
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things that you need everything that you
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want to be able to plug into your
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MacBook Pro you can do so now by using
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this super nice it is 1.3 in long and it
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runs a very modest
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$14.95 so that's number one second thing
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that's really helpful for us MacBook Pro
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new users with all the USBC is Tada HDMI
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so this is the canx USBC to HDMI adapter
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but this one has a little trick up its
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sleeve because unlike the apple one this
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one supports full 4K so it's a full
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UHD and that's why it's I think a little
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bigger on the end here cuz they have
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probably some circuitry inside don't
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know don't want to break it cuz I
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actually need one of these so this is
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super useful it supports for sure 1080P
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and Ultra HD 4K so whatever your
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computer is pushing out your TV
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definitely can handle it through this
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adapter this one runs
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$39.95 so I'm pretty sure that's about
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the same price as the Apple adapter but
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it's also nicer looking you know
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Aesthetics that's important and third
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thing that they sent me is a beautiful
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how much would you pay for this
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beautiful what is it it is an edge glass
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edgo edge screen protector for an iPhone
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7 and in another video I'll go ahead and
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put this on my actual iPhone 7 one thing
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that's worth noting is that as you can
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see in the picture you have to pick the
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right color to match the color of your
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phone now if you really want to
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experiment with something different I
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have tried putting a white case or glass
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protector on a black phone it's kind of
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an interesting look it's not horrible
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but generally you're going to want to
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pick the same color and this one is
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shatterproof with a color matched bezel
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which is what I just pointed out there
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smudge proof it has a hardness rating of
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9 I don't know what that means but it's
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nine of
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them and it's in black or white so if
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you have rose gold and you have dreams
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of having rose gold on the front they
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didn't really cover that part this one
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runs
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$34.95 now you've stuck with me which is
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good cuz I've saved the best for last
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and the best is you yes you you need to
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subscribe click on the button you can do
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it you can do it oh there it is awesome
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thank you for subscribing now the best
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thing of everything KX sent me is this
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and you're looking at that and you're
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saying um is that a little teeny tiny
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little projector the answer is no it's
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not it's battery but it's a battery with
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a buil-in Apple watch charging unit on
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it so how cool is this I put my Apple
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watch on it and
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come on so it shows me that it's fully
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charged because it actually is a live
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charging pad so you don't need the wire
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you don't need any of that other stuff
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and this obviously is super portable
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it's 4,000 milliamp hour so it's a bit
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big for the battery size but it's
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totally worth it because that gives you
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six full charges on your watch if you
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are on some long Trek and are afraid you
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might not be near power outlets and
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better than that you can also use the
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USB 3 on the back and you can plug in
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your phone and charge that too so
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obviously if you're charging multiple
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devices then you're not going to get six
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full charges on your watch but I really
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like this it's really elegant design and
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one of the things they've done that's
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really nice is on the front if you push
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on it I'm sure you can see this but it
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comes dark blue and it shows you by how
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many segments are illuminated how much
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charge the battery still has so when I
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go to trade shows and I'm dragging along
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and my watch is dying and my phone is
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dying and everything's all going to heck
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I can use this and actually charge
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everything back up and as with most of
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these well-designed devices if I plug
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this into the wall to charge through its
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micro USB connector if I plug this into
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the wall to charge and then put my watch
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on it then it will fully charge my watch
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and then start charging the battery
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that's what they call pass through
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charging and every single external
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battery you ever get should have that
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characteristic so this is so cool I
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really like the this is called the go
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power watch and I really like it because
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you know as much as I like my Apple
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watch I really as would probably every
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owner dream of having it last for two
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three 4 weeks on a charge it's just a
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sort of pain in the butt to actually
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have to constantly be charging it you
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live with it and you get to use to it
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after a while I mean I have a little
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charging stand right next to my bed and
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everything but being able to have it
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charge smoothly and easily where you
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don't have to really think about it I
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could leave this in the car during lunch
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and then I come back from lunch and put
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it back on and I'm good through the
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night it's really nice so what I was
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going to tell you it is an apple
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certified device so my guesses they're
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buying this disc from Apple directly and
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that's part of what's Happening 4,000
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milliamp hours will give you six full
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charges of your watch it's pretty nice
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charge through USB cable and how much
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would you pay for this it's
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$99 now that sounds like it might be a
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lot when you think about it being a
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battery but think about how much you
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would charge for the Apple watch cable
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and then think about how much hassle it
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would be to have all these different
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pieces everywhere so smart elegant
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easily transported great for travel go
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power watch from KX now all of these
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different things all come from the same
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company canx K aex.com and real quick
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let's go down the list this is the USBC
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to USB 3.0 adapter $4.95 per unit this
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is the USBC to 4K HDMI adapter $
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39.95 this is the EDG glass iPhone 7
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screen protector with all sorts of cool
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stuff going on with it and this runs I
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don't think I said earlier this is
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$34.95 and finally the go power watch
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with its snazzy box the go power watch
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is um
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$99 you can check it all out at knex.com
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this is Dave Taylor and I need to figure
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out where to store all this stuff it's a
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lot of stuff but my computer bag got a
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lot of adapters anyway that's my issue
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your issue is I'll see you in my next
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video
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