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you know this probably happens to everyone all the time they're sitting there making a YouTube video pretending to play a video game for b-roll and though the wire gets caught on something I'm like you know what just screw this I hate it all fortunately the solution arrived today this is a special care package for love taken look at this special care package from Logitech that includes their new g9o 3 and g7o 3 mice and perhaps more importantly because this is Canada after all it includes what Logitech is calling the power play but it's not a hockey power play it's totally different with the power play these wireless mice can be used indefinitely without ever plugging them in I was going to say holy but I got distracted because they're making Brow's privately and securely with tunnel there the simple VPN app try tunnel bear for free at the link in the video description so step number one would be to decide which mouth I'm going to use that's pretty simple this one is a hundred dollars and this one is a hundred and fifty dollars so I'm going to use the more expensive one because that's how you know you get the best stuff you just get the one that's more expensive then I need to set up the wireless charging power play we've got all our cables and dongles and pucks and mice and everything on box we're going to take off the packaging here now to be clear the plan is to follow this up with a full more in-depth review but today was all about wanting to see this in action because this isn't the first time that wireless charging has been brought to market I mean inform factors like this this is this is just a phone backing this is not a real wireless charging case but inform factors like this you could get like phone wireless charging docks but there's a bit of a problem right because a you have to position them like just right and then you get the icon and it starts charging it's kind of a pain in the butt and B I mean can you imagine having something that size you know under you know obviously not that's stupid and while this isn't even the first time that we've seen a company talk about wireless charging for a mouse this is the first time it's been turned into a real product something that you can actually okay not order today but you can pre-order today so our kit actually came with three of these cables this is actually kind of neat because the powerplay actually uses the same microUSB cables as logitech wireless mice so you plug that in and three things happen boom RGB lighting that's number one most important number two is yes so under that mousepad under that mousepad right there the powerplay mousing surface gets activated you can actually see some of the circuitry down there and number three is it actually eliminates the need for your wireless mouse dongle that's what's really cool about this unlike other wireless charging solutions the powerplay managed to fit into a 2 millimeter thin form factor and it's got other advantages as well so theoretically over pretty much the entire surface here you are going to get not like a full-fledged you know one amp or 2 amp charge like you might be able to with a like a phone charger or something like that but you're going to be able to power up the mouse including all its RGB lighting and high performance wireless interface so these mic both of them are actually higher performing than many of logitech competitors wired mice in terms of the time to click to the time that an action takes place on screen we've seen this in their lab and we've seen this at tech shows but also all their RGB effects and all of that bullcrap so let's go ahead and throw one of these mouse pads the Logitech actually ships it with a couple of options they've got one of their hard pads and they've got one of their soft pads here so I'm going to use the soft pad because that's my personal preference they've only validated the technology with their mouth pads but theoretically there's no real reason why it couldn't work with some other random mouse pad as long as it's the right size oh yeah and there's another important piece that you need so this is a tech that Logitech says they're going to support moving forward so you just press that in and pop this out but all you've got to do is take the power play puck which uses magnets and a couple of contact points here it's oriented like that for your convenience plug that in and give you this pairing lhasa yo did you open it I told you this was for me to open okay first of all I don't have anything else hey no defense no defense whatsoever IDI couldn't keep his grubby fingers off of this and you're a big G 403 fanboy so you paired it with the 703 didn't you yes it is not explained so I didn't work all right well thanks Edie so the pairing process is supposed to be out of the box as simple as plugging in the pad whereupon it will enter a pairing mode instead of being RGB cycling and then you just pop the powerplay in flip on the mouse and boom you should be instantly paired and enjoying your complete and utter wireless freedom for that that was the experience we were supposed to have egg next step then I guess is to grab the Logitech Gaming software and actually find out if I sit here in game will my mouse charged or will it discharge no no discharge doesn't have to be a gross thing okay so let's get a baseline for our half an hour battery test we're looking at about 56% on the battery and what's cool is we can use this time not just to sit here and play video games but also to tell you guys a little bit more about the tech because the neatest thing about this is that even actively using the device we should be going back to Windows after half an hour or even more not just not having lost battery because it can power the mouse but we may even see a little bit of charge because it can actually do it while you are moving the mouse this is totally different from other wireless charging solution Logitech actually draws some parallels to the way that early radios worked so it's not quite the same thing but what they had in them was crystals that they used as rectifiers and what they could do is they could actually take the incoming radio signal that would have your you know sporting event or your war of the worlds' or whatever I'll phone it and they could use that not just to create sound but also to power up the device cool thing number two is the way that they're handling battery management because if you guys are familiar with lithium-ion batteries you may already know this having them constantly charging can actually be really bad for them so since the mouse has a battery built into it what Logitech does is they actually let it go between 80% and 95% of charge this does a couple of things number one is it keeps the battery healthy and number two if it keeps it free going so low that you wouldn't even have the option of you know grabbing your wireless dongle and taking your mouse with you on the go in class or something and that's critical because there is a pretty extensive list of do's and dont's that come along with a product like this this is not your ordinary mouse pad in fact there aren't a lot of do's there are mostly a lot of don't you don't want to use it on anything other than a flat surface you don't want to plug it into a USB hub unless it's a powered one you want to avoid using it on a metal or conductive surface like if you had a metal table for example you want to avoid putting any metal or magnetic objects on top of it that includes fidget spinners you'll have to move your fitting spinner a little over to the right or a little up here with that said though plastic things like CDs should be just fine you don't want to hold on I'm going to consult my list you don't want to fold it that's critical because the delicate antenna system inside here could be extraordinarily easily broken as we know because in my eagerness to unbox this thing I actually managed to break our first one I mean if you needed any further evidence that no matter how cool and wireless your gaming mouse is not going to make you a better gamer than here you go you've got this video but that's hardly the point it's the end of the day let's go ahead and tap out to Windows and okay so we didn't get any more charge using the mouse really actively but over a period of time where it should have gone down by about 3% we didn't lose any either so there you have it guys you saw it here in action logitech power play actual wireless charging with zero compromises other than the price it's $100 for the charging pad if you're a small business owner or you're a freelancer FreshBooks is the way to solve your accounting problems instead of being so complicated that you have to have a freaking degree in accounting in order to be a drywall or a computer repair technician FreshBooks is built for the way you work it lets you be more productive more organized and get paid faster you can create and 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