Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “MrMobile Stays Home 3: From Hot Chargers To HOTAS”.
A portion of this video is sponsored by Plugable.. On the last episode of MrMobile Stays Home., I reviewed the single most important product that kept me sane during the New York City, shelter in place order. My Samsung, the Frame TV. Now new York’s, become a little more relaxed since April, and I’ve been able to take some day trips to the country to show up phone cameras and Erie radar towers.
But let’s face it.. Most of us non-essential folks are still spending most of our time at home. And I’ve collected a new cluster of products to make that time more productive, but hopefully cleaner and definitely more fun., ( upbeat music ). Let’S start by getting cleaner. Ask any junior high biology student and they’ll.
Tell you your mobile devices, absolutely gross.. One study back in 2017 found that some phones carried 10 times more bacteria than a toilet seat.. So, for the past six years a company called PhoneSoap has offered this simple solution., A small chamber with two lighting elements that blast whatever you stick inside with UV-C ultra violet light.. Now that C is important.
It’S the part of the UV spectrum, most damaging to bacterial DNA., And it also happens to be the part of the spectrum. The earth atmosphere protects us from.. So, that’s why you can’t leave your phone out on the rooftop at high noon on a sunny day and expect the same results. Anyway, 10 minutes later, the light turns off and your possessions come out with up to 99.99 % of household germs killed now, according to Phonesoap. To me that sounded a little too good to be true, so I checked out the US National Library of Medicine who study on UV-C sanitizers found that whoa yeah. They do kill bacteria. And they cause enough damage to some viruses that those viruses can no longer reproduce.. Now I know what you’re thinking and sadly, while that includes the Coronaviruses that cause SARS and MERS. According to reporting from both CNN and CNET lab grade, samples of COVID-19 are hard to come by, which explains why COVID killer isn’t front and center of PhoneSoaps website.. The company can’t make that claim without rigorous testing, which I guess it can’t do, or maybe it just feels like it doesn’t need to. Even at between 80 and 120 bucks PhoneSoap devices have been flying off the shelf since March, even without that assurance. And even despite testing by sites like review.com.
That indicates some inconsistency in its effectiveness.. I have my own complaints but they’re more usability oriented.. I wish it was bigger, so I could fit my earbuds cases in there.
And you know a product that costs this much should probably look and feel a little less plastic-y., But it does have thoughtful features like the ability to charge your device, while it’s disinfecting. And More to the point, given the choice between rubbing down all my pocketable with alcohol every day or just tossing them in the PhoneSoap for 10 minutes I’ll. Take the PhoneSoap, even if I’m not fully sold on its effectiveness when comes to viruses. Now with a home, is full of tech. As this one is, I can never really find enough solutions to charge them., So here’s three more, which are pretty interesting..
I know chargers are hardly the sexiest thing around, but what I like about the Aukey Omnia line of chargers is that they use gallium nitride technology, aka GaN, which means the bigger one here, can kick out the hundred watts of power. My MacBook Pro demands, while taking up much less space than Apple’s MacBook Pro charger.. Now other manufacturers make GaN chargers too Aukey, just the one that’s having to send me these. And there are also 60 wide versions.. If you wan na, go even smaller and still have much more power than your phone could ever soak up. Next step. Y’All know I love my wireless chargers and I have way too many in the house.. So I almost said no: when some products, that’s sum offered to send me three of theirs, but I’m really glad.
I said yes, this first one, their disc is just kind of whatever.. It’S a nine watt, glass and aluminum plate that, in my view, doesn’t come close to justifying at $ 60 price point, even though it does look pretty nice.. The dial is where it gets cool. It’S even price here at a hundred bucks, but it does something I haven’t seen from almost any other wireless charger.
It twists., So your phone can either lie flat or sit at an angle on the silicone rubber base.. So you can keep an eye on your screen while it charges at 10 watt.. A sum is also launching a new product called the DROP .