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Charging and data cables. How exciting can they be? Turns out that the GPEL QuickTip Magnetic Cables are darn cool and will make your existing USB-C, Lightning and MicroUSB cables seem positively boring. The secret is in the magnetic tip that makes connecting your device so simple you could do it with your eyes closed!
Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out the GPEL QuickTip Magnetic Cables and really likes what he finds, testing the MicroUSB, Lightning and USB-C connection ends. Better yet, they're reasonably priced so you can pick them up three at a time.
Check them out on Amazon:
USB-C Connector: https://amzn.to/2Rrc3Gz
Lightning Connector: https://amzn.to/2y2MPpR
MicroUSB Connector: https://amzn.to/2pDsW3X
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you'll be curiously attracted to these
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charging cables let's find out why Dave
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Taylor here and I'm looking at a bunch
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of G pail quick tip magnetic cables now
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we're gonna talk about them but let me
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just demo exactly why they're so cool so
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here's the Lightning one and it's
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charging my phone and now it's
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disconnected now where this is really
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cool is because it works with a magnet
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watch how easy it is to get it back into
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the right place that's it now imagine
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having this on your phone and wanting to
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connect it to charge while you're
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driving in your car so this is something
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you can do even if you're not paying
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very close attention but a regular cable
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this is when you veer off the road and
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get into an accident not good so the
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secret of all of these Jeep L cables is
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you guessed it a magnetic connector and
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all three of them this is the microUSB
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this is USB C and this one that I have
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in use is actually the Lightning
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connector but all three have the same
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characteristic which is the actual
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charging tip it's just a tiny little
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piece that comes off and then when
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you're ready to use it it just pops
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right into place now let's look at that
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again in super slow motion so you can
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see how strong this magnet is other
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notable features of the cables include
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that they have built-in overheat
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protection and that they have a really
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nice braided cable and reinforced
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connectors between the cable and the
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ends so they're really nice in fact I
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think this is the nicest micro USB
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connector I've ever seen I don't even
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like micro USB who designed something
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that has an orientation that's so subtle
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just not a good design but good news is
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that we're moving to USB see for most
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companies at least and that's a huge
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improvement because it is turn it around
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put it back on orientation free huzzah
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finally orientation free connectors
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these are also the
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second generation cables from GPL so
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they've learned a lot from the first gen
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and these have some really neat features
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one of which is they support faster
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charging so with my lightning connector
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I plugged it into a quick charge wall
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charger and I got a 42% charge in one
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hour so that's pretty fast now you look
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at that and you're like hmm or you hear
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that and you say what does that mean and
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here's the thing is that a lot of third
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party lightning cables actually charge
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your phone slowly because they don't
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inter have interchange or have a
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handshake with the device whatever it is
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that tells the device that they can pump
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a lot of wattage through so a lot of
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times you use a cheap third party
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lightning cable that you get for a
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couple of bucks at Target or at the gas
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station and they take forever to charge
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but this is what's nice is that the GPL
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actually has the right circuitry so it
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charges faster 42% in an hour is pretty
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decent actually now every single one of
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these has a 5 foot cable so 5 feet is
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pretty long you can see that here that's
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a nice length for a cable and what I
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really like is that they come in 1 or 2
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or 3 packs so this is 9 cables that I
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have here I am set four cables for a
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really long time
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whether my next smart phone is USB
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see.well micro USB or a lightning
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connector although the actual lightning
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connector is in my iPhone 10 we'll just
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keep it charging also notice there is a
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tiny little light that shows that it's
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charging that's really nice so it's a
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little confirmation that you actually
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have a hot connection and that's
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something I really appreciate because
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you can just glance at it and say oh
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it's working good a lot of times in my
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car I noticed that I have the little car
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adapter and sometimes that just creeps
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out just enough that it's not charging
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though I think it is so this little
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light for feedback super cool idea now
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before we get to the price let me ask
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now these GPL let's get all three of
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them in the hands huh
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okay these G pal quick tip magnetic
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cables will cost you well let's see the
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USBC 3-pack is 2299 the Lightning 3-pack
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is twenty to forty nine and therefore
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this must be the microUSB three pack is
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$21.99 all at amazon.com why they're not
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exactly the same price I cannot tell you
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but that is roughly watts seven bucks a
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cable for these really great cables with
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the super magnetic tip I'm a fan and I
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really think they've done a nice job
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with these and the whole magnetic thing
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just makes these really fun to work with
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and this magnet is just like
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ridiculously just like the perfect
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strength to make it where you will never
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actually put it on incorrectly because
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you can't they just work well so I'm a
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big fan I suggest you check them out
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cables are really mundane products but
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having the right cables does make your
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life just that little bit better so
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these might just be that so this is Dave
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Taylor and I will hope to catch you in
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my next movie
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