 Welcome to my unboxing and first look at something that's actually kind of interesting. This is the Eaton Ruckus Solar, portable Bluetooth sound system with solar panel. So if you guys ever saw the episodes I did about the Jambox by Jawbone, you'll have some idea what this thing is. However, the solar panel is what turns this from a product that's sort of mildly interesting to something that is far more mildly interesting. So far more interesting, let's put it that way. So it comes with a coupon for, hold up, okay, your new Eaton, okay I don't know how to pronounce that, Ruckus can only get better with three months of free music with access to MOG. You have 15 million songs at your fingertips, download unlimited songs to your mobile device, jam out to new releases and custom radio with artist only stations, hear your music everywhere, cool. So it comes with a three month voucher, very neat stuff. It also comes with a power adapter, presumably for charging if you are not near the sun, which is everywhere except at night. Whoa. Whoa. Okay. Let's have a look at this device. I actually don't know that much about this other than that it's solar powered which sort of makes it inherently really cool to me. I'm big into things that I don't have to buy batteries for or deal with charging because like many gamers and PC sort of types and hopefully you guys can relate with me here and I'm not just being insulting, I'm pretty freaking lazy when it comes to charging devices. Like I just, I can't be bothered to do that. Every device should just automatically recharge itself when I'm done using the batteries. So there we go. All right. Neat form factor. Okay. So number one, Bluetooth connectivity with one touch pairing and control. Okay. High quality stereo streaming support. That's good. Play music from Bluetooth enabled smartphone, tablet, laptop or PC. Comes with a little pocket for throwing your device into it. So hopefully it won't, I guess hopefully it won't fall out. Oh. Oh, look how smart this is. Look, look, look, look. So there's a slight curvature to the device here and this sticker actually adds some friction to it. So once you throw your phone in there, the odds of it falling out, okay there, there it goes, but even then it's going to bump up against the handle. So you're actually supposed to carry it like this so that you won't run into problems with it falling out, but either way that's awesome. You don't actually have to, no way. So it doesn't include a USB cable unfortunately, but if you flip this around, you can use the included USB plug right here to actually charge your device at the same time that you're using it. So that's kind of smart too. It's got an auxiliary in. So even if you don't have Bluetooth support with the device that you want to listen to music on or whatever else, you can just use a 3.5 millimeter cable, which is good stuff. And then there's the power in. So that's sort of the ergonomics of the back of it. The top is pretty straightforward. It's covered in solar panels. What were you expecting guys? Okay, no. I know that's what you were expecting. So we've got a power button. It has an E-ink display, which is kind of cool. There's a button for Bluetooth, button for USB. This will switch to your auxiliary. There's bass, there's volume up, volume down. So the controls are pretty straightforward. Looks like it's on. So you know what? The only thing to do right now is try this thing out. Give me a sec here guys and I'll get this going. Okay so I'm not a dancer. But the point is I've heard a fair number of these sort of Bluetooth speaker things. This one has the advantage of being a little bit bigger than the Twist that we looked at before as well as the Jambox. However, I can say with confidence that it takes advantage of its larger size. It delivers significantly more bass. It's not super loud. This is not the kind of device that you're going to take to the beach and drive everyone else around you crazy with like, you know, how awesome and loud your beats are or whatever else. It's not like that. It's very directional sound, which means that if you've got your group on the sand or whatever, you position it a little bit away from yourselves and point it at yourselves, you're going to be able to hear it really well, whereas the people around you are probably not going to be that bothered. Pairing was quick, so we were able to pair just by holding down the Bluetooth button. It's detected. It's been up. No big deal. I couldn't quite figure out how the bass control worked, but the E Ink display is awesome. So you can actually see right here, it's very, very clear. And because it's E Ink, it's extremely power efficient. Okay, that probably turns the USB charging on and off. So that's kind of cool. And then that's going to, again, switch to your auxiliary versus your Bluetooth playback. And again, I'm not quite sure how this works, but the volume up and down works and it's a semi-independent from your volume control on your phone. So a lot of the time, these Bluetooth devices will sync, so you're controlling both of their volumes at the same time. This seems to be somewhat separate. You get up to eight plus hours of battery life according to them, so in terms of music playback time, and charges fully in less than six hours in direct sunlight. So overall, very cool little device, actually. Let me just make sure I'm not missing anything before we wrap up here. I think that pretty much covers it. So in conclusion, not super loud, super easy to use, it's not that heavy. So it's something you can easily chuck into your bag or whatever else. It's not going to be that heavy. The bottom is rubberized, so it's not going to slip if you put it down on anything. However, 90% of the time, you're probably going to be using it like this. It's got rubberized feet there as well, so it can be used either way. And it feels pretty robust, like it's not going to break immediately or anything like that. Thank you for checking out this unboxing and first look at the Eton Ruckus Solar. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos.