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cool story guys the camera that Diesel's holding right now made it all the way here to the show in a pelican case which would have made this interview a lot more awkward if it hadn't arrived in one piece so we're here at the Pelican booth where they're showing off some products that are available some products that are not yet available and I'd like you to tell us a little bit about the vault series which comes in a galaxy s3 version and an iphone 5 version and these things look friggin rugged yeah absolutely this is the iphone 5 version this is our vault series of mobile line protection this is our highest level of protection that we've got as you can see here it is Luminum grade protection on the front as well as a plastic body on the back these are actually held together by stainless steel aircraft grade steel screws and in between here we've got a rubber gasket as well so this is going to keep all the dirt and the dust out from inside inside the case in addition we went to the extra level and added some water resistancy to this case by adding a gore-tex membrane to where all the speaker's ports are you can still pop these put on these still pop down so that's open already on the way you can sit you still get full access to all the ports as well and it's still fully functional while it's on on as well in addition we've added gorilla glass to the camera ports for that added protection this is actually going to be available later this spring and will be retailing for around seventy five eighty dollars okay but that's not the only mobile products you have on display here there's an ipad mini model I asked to see the ipad regular sized model so now you can have that protection you can get for your camera so what is this crush proof is this one waterproof yes this is actually crush proof dustproof and watertight this is actually rated up to three feet of water for 30 minutes this is our hardback I 75 and as you can see it's actually like a mobile workstation for your iPad that's got a built-in kickstand as well as a nice inlay for a for a portable keyboard as well as inside here you can keep all of your cords and cables and other ipad accessories right here inside and this folds up nicely and it also includes a shoulder strap so you can carry it with you this is currently available in pelican progear calm and retails for around ninety dollars alright last thing guys they've actually got a lineup of backpacks now so if you wanted to transport things with a pelican case but you don't actually want to sort of lug it around behind you at a trade show say for example this guy right here is a regular backpack so you can put stuff here stuff here stuffing all the pouches and all that good stuff but show us the Pelican case that's integrated absolutely so what we've done is we've integrated our Pelican protective cases right into the backpack so now it's the first Pelican case that you can actually wear on so right here this is our laptop series and as you can see we've integrated the plastic design case this is completely crush proof dustproof and watertight like our hardback cases this will hold up to a 15 inch laptop this latches and closes and as Linus was saying it's got a multitude of different pockets we've also integrated a hard plastic shell on the front which is great for carrying a tablet nice and safely transportable it's got a full size pouch here for additional laptops and other storage I'd like to show you guys something that really stood out to me about it and that is the here can I describe this that is the spacers inside here check out the density of the phone there so you can you can reposition those in case your laptop's a little bit smaller yep okay well thank you I'll just one more thing okay this is a very ergonomic design on the back it's soft it's not going to be heavy for when you got this loaded down it's very load-bearing so it's very comfortable to lug around with you and for travel and everything he actually showed us this before it's about this it's about this thick between the plastic back and the here we go and the padded part itself so check that out so there's actually a hard shell running into how we've riveted this all in here here's the hard shell yeah we see the thickness check out the thickness here guys so here I'll do my I'll do my traditional iPhone size comparison so you guys know exactly how thick that is yep and these are currently available right now on pelican progear com here let me let me just put this baby on so here we go I haven't actually tried it yet so this is gonna be this is going to be either an indictment of the product or I'm gonna be or i'm gonna be super impressed i mean the thing about a rigid backpack any any hiking backpack is always going to have something like a metal spine in it so that it doesn't shift around so that it doesn't poke through at you so there's actually an advantage inherently to having that hard plastic shell regardless of whether you want to keep a laptop or something else in your backpack and now i can feel that it's a little bit rigid however you can see that because it's so much thicker here it actually fits into the small of your back right up against your spine so there's kind of a there's kind of a popped out piece right there that fits right into the small of your back making it more comfortable than just wearing a soft back backpack thank you so much this has been great and guys I hope you enjoyed our Pelican booth coverage don't miss any of our CES 2013 coverage by being subscribed to Linus tech tips you