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this video is brought to you by the intel core i7 4770k unlocked processor if you're a speed freak added until 3500 series SSD to your Haswell system for a truly enthusiast class experience so this will be a little different from most of our unboxings number one we don't have a box I have already removed the packaging from it so that I could have a close look at it number two is this is not a computer product but it is definitely technology related this is the 180 watt cup inverter and it does not contrary to what you might believe watch this it does not take your cup and do this with it that is actually not the kind of inverter we're talking about but if you found that terminology confusing don't worry Energizer's got your back because also on the box is this thing which has charge that which I think we can all agree looks like an iPad or pretty much any other tablet depending on which side of the Apple versus Samsung thing you happen to sit on that thing which looks like probably a laptop although it could be a really old desktop they probably don't want you to charge an old desktop because that may explode in your that thing which I think we can all agree is a water fountain so pretty much what it does is it takes the power that comes out of your car out of the cigarette lighter doodad right here and it turns it into something that your other devices can use so you get four USB ports each of which share 2.1 amps of total available power and you get one standard 120 volt receptacle that you can use to oh I don't know any number of things you can charge a notebook you can sit and use a notebook in the car you can you know I don't know I've seen people run game consoles and the backs of their vehicles mind you that was back when game consoles didn't consume nearly as much power the device itself runs off of the car or it can run directly off a battery however it should be noted that it will decrease the lifespan of your battery to use it constantly and aggressively and drain the battery of your car very very often in order to use this device so it's recommended for you know when you have the engine running with that said when you have the engine running or really in any situation it's not quite a pure sine wave that it's outputting on this particular port so you might run into a little bit of interference with things like cheap radios or whatever else the case may be but most devices particularly modern or once that are taking the power and then converting it into something that they can use which usually ends up being DC anyway such as a notebook computer are going to be fine like my kind of 99 pro cat I don't want to quote a number but a lot of the time so let's go ahead and see what you might actually need an outlet and four USB ports for in a vehicle now it's funny cuz I'm being a little bit facetious and I'm sort of playing on the whole how technologically dependent are our lifestyles are these days but the reality of it is I have managed to create a scenario here that is not completely unrealistic so step one I've got see I've got four devices plugged in and I've got a laptop plugged in and this is plugged into the charger here remember guys some vehicles will discharge this port even when the car is powered off so the advantage of that is that you can still run devices in when the cars powered off the disadvantage is it'll run the devices and you might drain your car battery and then not be able to start it so be careful of that watch out for that so check this out okay so number one is I have a tablet this tablet right here even on a 10-hour road trip is not going to run out of battery when I give it to the kids in the back to watch a movie okay but how are they gonna watch a movie they've only got 16 gigs of storage on that tablet right here guys this is a Seagate go flex satellite this is the last generation the wireless plus is the current generation one so this is a wireless hard drive that has up to 500 gigs or the new ones have a terabyte of storage boom they're watching their movies right there okay next up we've got this right here so this is my notebook this notebook right here you can tell from the power brick how much power it's going to draw so it's 19 volts 3.42 amps it's not really important to zoom in on that but I do want you to check this out on the super circuits volts watts amps converter all you have to do is key in any two values and that'll give you the other value so this is a 65 watt notebook so we're not going to be anywhere near the 180 watt limit of this particular device now there are more powerful ones but this one is designed to fit in a cup holder so it's not exactly going to run your like you know popcorn maker or something like that alright but how am I going to work on my notebook if I don't have internet boom now I don't have to worry about the battery dying on my cell phone even if I have a portable Wi-Fi hotspot with tethering enabled so I can run that as long as I need to because that is also charging and then last but not least because we are so dependent on having our devices running all the time I have my fuel plus see it's at 75% this is a portable battery that I can then take with me when I arrive at my destination to keep topping up my devices even when I am NOT in the vehicle so I have there justified a usage scenario for five devices plugged in in the car at the same time now if you guys like excuse me I have some work to do and don't forget to like the video share the video subscribe to Linus tech tips and leave a comment under the video if you can see yourself actually using something like this in your own car to run all of your devices all the time because we can't live without them don't forget to subscribe