 The Cooler Master Glacier 240L CPU cooler delivers the convenience of an all-in-one and the performance of a custom water cooler. Click now to learn more. Well, I guess if we do two videos about this, it's sort of a series. So here's our cool technology and gadgets and gizmos under $100 episode 2. We're going to start with this guy right here. This is the most basic concept ever. A charging cable that you'll always have on you. They've got the charge key in the shape of a key to go on your key chain and the charge card, which unintuitively isn't a credit card, but rather a cable in the shape of a card to go on your wallet. They sent us the micro USB version of the charge key, but either version is also available with a lightning connector for Apple users. Their website, HelloNomad.com, lets you order the product and has an FAQ with information ranging from very useful to completely laughable. Mixed in with what speed do your cables charge at are great bits like their 30-day no questions asked return policy and lifetime warranty against breakage that covers an unlimited number of bends due to the use of high-grade plastics. Which leads us finally to the price. It is a flat $25 for the charge key or the charge card. For Android users, it's a bit of a tough sell, I think. At Monoprice.com, I can get over 40 standard 1.5 foot USB micro cables for $25 and put five of them in my car, five of them on my boat, etc. etc. But for some folks, the convenience of being able to wear it will be a selling factor. The lightning cable is much more palatable to me because Apple users are already going to have to spend about $12 on a lightning cable at somewhere like Monoprice. So for only about double the cost of a normal cable, you're getting the convenient one. Next up, we have the pluggable USB to gigabit Ethernet adapter. A USB to Ethernet adapter is something most people haven't really needed in the past. But with how much I hate wireless and the rapid disappearance of hardline networking from even devices like notebooks, it's becoming really hard for me to get by without one. I actually originally bought a Sabrent USB to gigabit one that worked really well and is now providing the dual LAN connectivity I needed to turn my Aspire One netbook into a PFSense router. But since it was permanently tied up, I needed to go back and find a new one to use on my Ultrabook and Nvidia Shield when I want a more reliable connection. And the pluggable brand one appears to be the exact same thing. It works perfectly on my PC and installed driverlessly on my Nvidia Shield. And it's $5 cheaper than the other one on Amazon. $25 works on Windows, Mac, Chromebook, Linux, and some Android devices as well. Obviously, because it's USB to, you're not getting full gigabit speeds, but it's faster than 10100 and has better compatibility than a USB3 solution. So that's a trade off that I was willing to make for this one. Our next item is the Titanium SmartFast MD1600L 16-bay Nickel metal hydride battery charger. And this is something I wish I had had years ago. Compared to the basic chargers that you can get bundled with your Eneloop batteries, my favorite rechargeable by the way, they offer little graphical indicators of charge progress, more smart charging features to make the batteries last longer, the obviously higher battery capacity, and finally, a couple of little USB charging ports so you can go ahead and, you know, chuck a phone or a portable battery bank on it to charge at the same time as all your other batteries. Each battery is on its own channel, so you don't have to populate two adjacent bays at once with identical batteries, and the charger can monitor the charge state of each bay individually. It charges either AA's or AAA batteries and comes with a wall wart as well as a, where is it? This one. Ha ha! Or a 12-volt car adapter so you can take it with you pretty much wherever. We actually took it with us to CES, although we weren't driving around there, but the point that you can travel with it still remains. The charger's only 50 bucks, and you can get started with the charger and 16 Eneloops to fill it up with for about $100 total. So stop wasting money on disposables and switch to Eneloops, they are absolutely awesome. Which leads us to our last and most expensive product today. I'm holding it upside down, this is the Airdock. It's actually not quite shipping yet, but the Indiegogo campaign is ending soon, and they've got at least a few samples that they are finished enough with to send out to reviewers, so I spent some time with it. My sample came with a short windshield mount and a long, flexible windshield mount that has to be the sturdiest flex arm I've ever seen. I mean, it is tough to bend, and then once you've got it in position, it absolutely stays. Then the build quality continues to impress me with a solid-feeling ball joint at the top that locks into the head where the phone or tablet can rest, and then I'd say, you know, a reasonable suction cup. So it seemed cool already, and then I saw it includes Qi wireless charging with a micro-USB plug on the side and an included micro-USB cable that you can run down to your cigarette lighter or whatever else, and now it's got my attention. Because when you consider that a decent car mount is 15 to 25 bucks, and a Qi charging pad is 20 to 30 dollars, this is looking pretty competitive at that Indiegogo price of 63 dollars. Now throw in the kicker. The head uses magnets for phones with magnetic mounting plates inside them, combined with what AirDock is calling, okay, magic foam, which caused my eyes to almost roll out of their sockets, to achieve a very strong bond between your device and the dock without really putting any effort into it. But of course, I needed to see it to believe it. It only really works on smooth surfaces, so you'll want either a smooth-backed phone like the LG G2 that I have here or a smooth case for your existing one, but man, when it works, it's really amazing. I mean, listen to the sound of the bond here. In their demo video, they even show it working with tablets. My HTC One kinda works without my pink matte case when its backing and the AirDock are perfectly clean, so you can kinda, yeah, see it's, you can get a little bit of a bond there. And the good news is that you can clean it with water and restore its stickiness as long as you're careful not to damage the electronics inside, but that's not something that I would trust with my phone day to day, so stick to the phones that AirDock or your friends have validated. You can check out the phone compatibility list on the Indiegogo campaign linked below with the where to buy links to all of this cool stuff also there, and they're also offering deals in their Indiegogo campaign on Qi, charging cases for some devices that don't already support it, and I think you've got about two weeks left to get one at the pre-order price. Once the pre-order price goes away, I've yet to see how much they're gonna be charging for it when it's back up to full pop, so you might wanna check that out while the campaign is still running. So full disclosure guys, these $100 or less gadget guides are much more like recommendations to buy than our other videos, so in the interest of making sure that you guys know what you're watching and what you're looking at, I wanna make sure you understand where these gadgets all came from. The Antelopes and the charger that you saw were bought by me for business use here at Linus Media Group. The USB to Ethernet adapters, I actually bought two of them, there's another one around here somewhere, were bought by me for personal use. The prototype AirDock was sent to me for free by the founder of AirDock when I expressed interest in the campaign and asked for a sample. It's something I was about 50-50 about funding, even if I didn't get a sample of it, and now that I have my hands on it, it has met my expectations, so I quite like it. And then finally, the charge key was sent to my editor Edzel, who thought it was cool and I agreed, so we didn't pay for that one, and particularly for the micro USB version, I don't think either of us would, but we both saw the utility of it and figured some people might be interested, so we figured we'd throw it into the video and show it to you guys. Speaking of interested, if this video was interesting to you and you wanna make sure that we can keep making videos here at Linus Tech Tips, please check out our support link in the video description. 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