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Dave Taylor here again and I want to
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talk about something that's really
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annoying I want to talk about the
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orientation problems of micro USB plugs
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so here you are you have your android
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phone maybe you have your computer and
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you need to plug it in right so first
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you have to figure out which way does
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the USB plug go and then the micro USB
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and the micro USB is a poorly designed
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plug I have damaged devices by putting
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the plug in backwards and so that's why
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I am so excited that winter gear has
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this thing called the mick flip let me
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actually take it out of its packaging
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and it's actually really cool because
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not only have they figured out a way to
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do an orientation free micro USB
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connection but they also have an
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orientation free USB connection so when
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I get it out of its packaging it there
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are worse packages out there so it is as
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they say they don't care it's like it's
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like honey badger cabling or something
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but let me give you close ups but here's
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the micro USB side and you can see when
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you look closely it actually is
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orientation free you can do it either
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way and what school is so is the USB so
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that means when I go to plug in my phone
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for example I don't have to look I could
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almost do with my eyes closed but let's
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find out so here it's plugged in but now
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let me actually flip it around so I'm
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going to pull it out and then turn it
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180 degrees and plug it in again that is
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super awesome now here's the thing is
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that you look at that and you go oh con
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that's pretty trivial but you know what
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micro USB is a pain because of the
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orientation problem this is one of the
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things I really like about the Lightning
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connector from Apple is that it is
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orientation free just like this so what
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these guys have done at winter gear is
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they've done something really smart and
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the cable itself actually turns out to
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be really that's a big heavy duty cable
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if you look at this and it has gold
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plated connectors it's a braided Nile
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encore it feels like i could probably
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toe it boat with this thing why would I
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do that I don't know but it's a pretty
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strong feeling cord and they have some
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aluminum housing going on inside so the
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whole thing it's just super well made I
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really like it and it's orientation free
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same thing with the USB right so here we
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are with my computer and I can plug it
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in in one orientation let's move that
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out of the way right so let's plugged in
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I'll pull it out and flip it 90 degrees
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and whoa plug it in again super cool I
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have to say I don't know what it is
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about these micro USB s but they really
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are annoying so this is the mick flip
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cable from winter gear calm and it's
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1999 so really not bad at all for a nice
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3 foot cable and the only thing I'll say
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is that these guys are very eager to say
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they're the first company to ever ship
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such a product they're the first company
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to introduce this technology no actually
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it turns out that at least two other
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companies do this sort of thing with the
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orientation free connectors scosche and
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pro link also have cables like this but
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i will give Mick flip off lots of credit
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because it's really well done so this is
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dave taylor and i suggest you check this
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out and i'll catch you in my next oh
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whoa hold on a second have you clicked
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the subscribe button yet I know you want
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will tell you that I'll catch you in my
