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Unboxing the Powermat Wireless Charging Systems

2009-11-24
hey guys john r Ettinger here with an unboxing for you of the power mat wireless charging system this is obviously a wireless charging setup that lets you power up the majority of your devices let's go ahead and dig in and see what's included in the Box B mat itself as you guys will probably see in a few minutes plugs into a wall and the devices that you want to charge have their own little cradles that you just placed right on top of the mat the mats themselves have got an office mat and they've got a portable mat both good way to run $99 and you could buy the separate cradles which are generally I think about 29 to 32 39 bucks guys so I have not seen one of these in person so I'm kind of curious how they work and if wireless charging even functions properly so I'm very curious to sort of dig in here and see what we got and of course stay tuned to the channel and TechnoBuffalo comm for the follow up videos looks like we got a lot of goodies here push all the packing off the side and see what we got so we have the power mat wireless charging station this is the home and office mat it's like it opens up check it out and that is what it looks look like and all of course I'll show you guys what looks like live on camera you can put three devices on it at once also included you've got the power mat portable mat looks like this one folds up it probably does very similar I think this has a trifold so probably you can just take it and carry it with you and if you look around these devices like right here on the iPhone for example you see it's got a little bit of a sleeve on and that's what you need to charge them with unfortunately you can't just put the iPhone right on top of it and have a charge and we've got the iPod and iPhone dock if you put that right on top of the charger you can put your iPhone in it and we'll just dock it and charge it and then here's that sleek about telling about for the iPhone 3G I'm very curious to see what both these look like and how they function so let's open them up and let's say let's start with the wireless charging home and office Matt a postbox off to the side and I'll pull things out one by one and show you what they look like and I give the full review I'll tell you how how useful everything is and if you're interested in learning more about the power Matt I'll put a link to them up in the sidebar and if you're reading this on TechnoBuffalo look down below so let's slide this out looks like a mini skateboard upon first blush so we'll take it out it's very thin actually um little plastic EB can see three circles which I'm assuming is where you want to put you to your devices you can see that on the camera it says one two and three USB the must be where the power goes and I think there are some volume buttons as well I must make a noise when you charge it let's see what else would come in your box thank you for purchasing power mat okay it's a little bit about it home and office mat and power cube universal receiver interesting so this is this would be the power cable so that plugs in and it's got the wall outlet port right there and then this is the power mat wireless charging charge hundreds of portable devices let's see what comes in here just dig in they pack these things it's nice and tight let's slide this out we can see exactly what comes in here you've got adapters for Apple Nintendo DSi Nintendo DS Lite LG a microUSB which charges most HTC devices Sony PSP and Samsung so that's quite a nice looks like what you do is you plug one end I'll just show you instead of talking about it since that's the beauty of video so you've got all these different tips right here take out one of these cubes pull this out so it's got the microUSB tip attached to it you can swap the tips pretty easily you plug it in so I've got the Sprint HTC Hero here and I would just put this piece right on the charging pad so you necessarily don't have to buy the external things for your iPhone or iPod Touch driver does actually include something in the box if you want it to be maybe a little bit more more elegant you can buy the editions but they're by no means required the power met folks look like they include that in the box so that was quite nice so this here is the office mat push all the stuff off to the side plugs right in again this looks like a little bit of a skateboard and device it just will sit right on top of it or that little okay so move it along now we've got the portable mat to take a look at I assume it's gonna look very similar but of course you can tell you can charge three devices and giving a little bit overview on what it is looks like this would be a nice solution if you're in a place with minimal outlets and you only have one and you'll want to sort of plug everything in plus I imagine it looks pretty cool but I'm gonna save my opinions for the full review simple fast clean and energy-saving no spagetti of wires and charge through devices with one plug so this is the portable one like I said and I've got the office charger here next to me so you can compare what they look like in case you're curious and would like to buy one of these I don't know what they look like okay so this looks quite different definitely has a plasticky feel to it like it folds down pretty small and it's the same concept you've got the three cycle of charging connectors right there move it up to the camera so you can see and if you compare it to the office one certainly not as elegant looking but definitely more portable it's like it's gonna depend on your needs and the utility of these and whether or not it's so useful and we got the same array of ports a USB port and there's quite nice as well and I believe that's found on the office one so if you have something that doesn't for example have a charging port that you can put on top you can charge something via USB and I assume you can use that USB port well you have three things charging as well so looks like it'll help form a cabling stand point and dig it in looks like we got some different things here I assume this is a carrying case for the portable charger which it is there's the power adapter and summer reading material this is not zipper it looks like it's just magnetized and then we've got the same tips that we just saw earlier for charging all your license so guys I'm gonna use this for a little while use both these and let you know what I think about the power mat I've got I've never used any sort of wireless charging options the only time I've ever really come across it was for the palm touchstone so I think this should be a relatively simple experience I'll show you in the review what what these two look like the iPhone and iPod docks and the sleeves that they go in as well take a receiver and another version of the receiver so this is just another way to charge your Apple products they've got these for a ton of other devices blackberries included and your guys hope you enjoyed for 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