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Neo-Fight gives detailed tech product reviews for the not so geeky. This video will focus on the CellKeeper cell phone case.

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Tiffany Young: Hi there, and welcome to Neo-Fight.tv; The Technology Show for the Not-So-Geeky. My name is Tiffany Young Ben Freedman: And you think about that, didn’t you? And I’m Ben Freedman. And today on the show—now on previous shows we’ve looked at some very specific cases for like iPhone, specific case for an iPods, specific case for this, specific case for that. But if you don’t want a specific case, what if you wan a more general case that can hold a given phone, any phone perhaps or maybe not a phone, maybe a small digital camera, or maybe not a camera maybe an iPod, or not an iPod but like a creative Zen, or one of the— Tiffany Young: Flask—just kidding. Ben Freedman: Or a flask or one of those little bottles of vodka that you rip off from the airport. This is the cell keeper, here’s one as well. And you know what this is, it’s a little pouch, that has a couple of little compartment, so it opens up like this and you can put and then grab the phone here like my iPhone, this can go flying in there, but you can put your digital camera in there as well, it flips over like this to keep it in. So there’s an iPhone inside. And also it has another little pocket, check it out, where you can put in like your ID and some credit cards, and some keys, so really good for a travelling. Tiffany Young: And good for the gym. Ben Freedman: Great for the gym, and when it comes for this little thing which you put over your shoulder, like so. And then holds it, like there. Tiffany Young: I know, there’s something about that that looks some feminine. Ben Freedman: Even go to looks feminine? Homophobic? Tiffany Young: Oh no, I did not say that. Ben Freedman: Look and see now, I have easy access to my phone right here. It kind of slides down a little bit. Tiffany Young: How do you feel about that? Ben Freedman: How do I feel about this? I know I think—it’s almost like a pen holder—like that. Tiffany Young: So you like that, like that? Ben Freedman: Sure, do you want to try one? Tiffany Young: Okay then, I want you to wear this next time we go somewhere. Okay so this is what we’d have to be tightened up on this quite a bit, so it’s more like probably— Ben Freedman: Let me see how you tightened up, hold on. Tiffany Young: I notice it has—there’s something that blinks on this thing. Ben Freedman: Blinks? Tiffany Young: Yeah, blinks you know like—well doctors explain that really. Ben Freedman: Is that shorter, you got them? Tiffany Young: I mean it just—well, unless it sits down here, which I guess it could. Ben Freedman: Yeah, and you could also tightened this up and put it around your waist? Yeah, you don’t have to have it up there. And by the way, here is a leather version of the same thing. Tiffany Young: What is this other strip? Ben Freedman: Well, that little ring on there, I’m not sure. But I can tell you, it was feminine. Take a look at this. This is the box that comes in. Is this too looked feminine to you? I think this one looks pretty darn masculine in there. This guy, I’m not so sure about, this guy in the front. He’s walking with the lady but they look like they are just friends. I’m not sure if it’s actually like— Tiffany Young: These are just to—I mean right there—I think great for women in going to the gym, but they loose some sort of the sense of masculinity. Ben Freedman: If you’re like a metro-sexual person like me that accepts all kinds of lifestyles, I think that is really comfortable, plus they have reflective tape pad, did you notice that? Tiffany Young: That was a great, glow in the dark jogging with this. Okay so anyway, it’s really great for the right person I think. Ben Freedman: You expound on that a little bit more. Tiffany Young: No I guess, I like this, this one is cool. So would I—the question is would I use this? Yes I would use that. Ben Freedman: Well this is springy, so you can have a bigger or a shorter cell phone. Tiffany Young: If it was me who was carrying this around and using it, unless it has—actually, I probably wouldn’t give that much thought, but it just looks feminine. Ben Freedman: It seems feminine to you? Tiffany Young: Question is do they make them in pink? Ben Freedman: They’re making them two or three different colors, I don’t think pink was one of them but I have the leather one they have that one. Tiffany Young: Yeah, they’re great, they’re very convenient. And who cares what other people think anyway. Ben Freedman: That’s right. Tiffany Young: I mean where this role coming— Ben Freedman: I think it’s perfect for holding your tapouts. How many can you get in this little outside pocket? Tiffany Young: Probably about six to seven. Ben Freedman: —or there’s this little hooky thing on here, six or seven? Tiffany Young: Slenders Ben Freedman: Slenders okay. So, tapouts going there and then your— Tiffany Young: —condoms go in the other side. Ben Freedman: Okay— Tiffany Young: Wait, and you get this little strip AIDS test right over here. This is a perfect pack for going out. Ben Freedman: Everything you need. Tiffany Young: Everything you need in one convenient little pouch. For $19.99 we’ll also throw in as a bonus, one for your friend, breathalyzer(ph). Ben Freedman: How much do you think that’s worth? Tiffany Young: I will probably pay 10 bucks for it. Ben Freedman: 30 bucks and let’s go for it. Tiffany Young: 30 bucks? Ben Freedman: That’s the retail price. Tiffany Young: They make these at Broman, I just saw them in Vegas last weekend or the weekend before the last one. Ben Freedman: Not for 10 bucks? Tiffany Young: No, at Broman, they have for $30 dollars, but they have the $40, Alligator in there, you know. Ben Freedman: So you give that a something? Tiffany Young: A two. Ben Freedman: A two, I think it’s four. Tiffany Young: You think it’s a four because you’re going to use it yourself? Ben Freedman: Well I might, yeah, I like it because even if you take this part off, you know— Tiffany Young: You can turn it to a headband. Ben Freedman: You’re making fun of me now. You can just use this part and it’s great for like a digital camera and if you want to put a digital camera in there, you can quickly have access in digital camera, you can put this on your belt and just hold it like this, so you don’t have to use this part. You can put this around your waist, many e different configurations. Tiffany Young: I’m not saying that I wouldn’t personally use it. Ben Freedman: Tiffany you’re just the hater. Tiffany Young: I know. Ben Freedman: Let’s just talk about what it is. You’re just a hater. You’re hating on this product and I think because I like it. Tiffany Young: No, that’s really not it. Because either way, it doesn’t really matter to me, I’m just—for this is two out of five for me? Ben Freedman: Two out of five for Tiffany, four out of five for me—that is six out of ten for this cell keeper, the general generic cellphone/gadget device holder. And we have another review coming up right after this, so please stay tuned. [Commercial] Ben Freedman: And in the second spotlight section today, a much less feminine product. This is by our good friend Zech Griffin, this is the Griffin Expresscard eSATA interface. Now, you know in the past, when we reviewed those talks away your drive, it’s a SATA drive. Tiffany Young: It looks very minty by the way. Ben Freedman: And remember we have dock where this just literally sat in the dock. Tiffany Young: Yeah, which is very cool Ben Freedman: Very, very cool but the only problem with that is on the other way on that dock was the USB cable, and that means you’re going to blazingly fast hard drive, slow USB. Tiffany Young: Right. Ben Freedman: That’s the problem with all of these USB hard drive is that just not that quick, they’re pretty quick, but no one here as quick as having a hard drive in your computer. Tiffany Young: Kind of like in 56K with this super fast processor, like a Pentium 4. Ben Freedman: Exactly like that. Tiffany Young: Well I have to make it make sense. So just want to make sure is just like that. Ben Freedman: Mission accomplished. Tiffany Young: To make sure I get. Okay, I get it. Ben Freedman: So eSATA is really just for drives and that’s the only thing it’s for. Yeah, USB is for everything, web cams and all kind of stuff. But eSATA is really just the drives but it’s much, much faster than USB. So what do you do? You plug this in to any computer that has expresscard slot, it goes in like that then you take a cable like so, and one end goes in here like that, let me just do it for you. Tiffany Young: These are cool cables? Ben Freedman: Do you like these cables? There are typical eSATA cables. Tiffany Young: So how knew is this technology? Ben Freedman: A couple years old now, but I mean it’s like anything, it start up from the high-end stuff and now it’s filtering down, almost all new laptops now have eSATA hard drive. Tiffany Young: I saw that. I knew exactly what it’s for. Ben Freedman: Yeah, much faster than the USB, now you know. Other end of cable goes into your hard drive like so. So now we have a hard drive connected to laptop and it runs the same speed as your internal one would drive. So it’s like having a hard drive inside your computer, is that fast. Tiffany Young: So like a Parallels, only not. I mean not Parallels, but what do you call when your partition, like a partitioned hard drive. Ben Freedman: Like a partitioned hard drive even faster because you actually have two separate hard drives. Tiffany Young: Yeah that’s really cool. Ben Freedman: So it’s very fast, much faster than USB. Tiffany Young: So what’s the purpose, unless you’re pulling from that hard drive all the time for just backing up, unless you have a huge amount of data to backup? Ben Freedman: Some people have huge amounts and you know what, this is going to backup a lot faster than the USB hard drive. So, you got a hundred gig hard drive, you turn a backup and takes like five or six hours with USB. With this, it’s much faster, like four time faster. Tiffany Young: Really? Ben Freedman: In fact with these, quite often the limiting factor is the speed of the hard drive, not the speed of this connection. Is that fast? Tiffany Young: I love technology. Ben Freedman: Now, couple of downsides to eSATA stuff. One thing that I love about USB hard drives is Western Digital. You have one of this, right? The Western Digital USB drive and it plugs in with the USB cable? Slow, much slower than something like this. But the nice thing about this is, I don’t need a power cable. It is powered by USB. One big problem with eSATA is, there is no power. So to run this hard drive, I also this which plugs in to my power down here—it’s really not that great for travelling, here it is, I plug this in like so. Tiffany Young: So stationary. Ben Freedman: So now I have one cable that’s going to my hard drive and another cable plugging it our. Now I can plug this in to my laptop and be—at blazing speeds. But if you want just for backup at home, you can leave this plug in all the time. Tiffany Young: I need one of those power cables, surge protector things, it has like 50 ports. Ben Freedman: 50 plugs on it, yeah. Tiffany Young: Oh my gosh, put everything in. Ben Freedman: Because you’re right, I mean if you had another thing you’ve got have plug in and in this case plug in to the car. So this had to be the bulk as supposed to the USB that’s already in your computer and then this power adapter is available too. Tiffany Young: That’s very cool. Ben Freedman: Especially for editing video, you’ve got a pretty fast hard drive. I do edit video on my USB drive sometimes but it gets jerky, whereas with this, much— Tiffany Young: How would you say anything that saves time nowadays? People are so concerned for times, especially with the economy working 15 jobs and all the rest of it. Ben Freedman: So good for backup in a hard drive access, not so good for travel. Tiffany Young: Great. Ben Freedman: So I’ll give it four out of five because until eSATA—it’s not really anything against Griffin, it’s a great product but eSATA needs to have power. If they have power? I’d be much happier. Tiffany Young: Well, would it take on like two or three USBs to plug anything to power it, instead of-- Ben Freedman: It’s a really good idea. If you had like a second cable to USB, just to power to drive, you might be able to do that with just a small— Tiffany Young: You probably would have to use two or three plugs though? Ben Freedman: It might have to two or three plugs. Tiffany Young: It was an idea, anyway just an idea. But yeah, nothing wrong with that—technology advancement is great, a four out of five for me too. Ben Freedman: Four out of five for me, four out of five for Tiff, eight out of ten for the Griffin—eSATA, that’s what it says but the technology still needs to add power which I think will happen, if you have power to it, then you would have a great product for travelling and for at home as well. Tiffany Young: Good job. Ben Freedman: Let us know if you have a thought about that, do you use eSATA if you would get these while traveling? Is it a pain for plugging in? Do you have a solution like if you power it with USB, that’s a great solution, if you have something like that or they made a case for this drives that had battery built in and then recharge to have its own battery. Tiffany Young: Yeah, sort of— Ben Freedman: Yeah, kind of like an iPod, had its battery built in as well. Tiffany Young: Yeah that’s another great idea. Ben Freedman: And if you do, drop us a comment www.neo-fight.tv and let us know. And that’s all time we have for this week. Thank you for watching, stay tuned and we hope to see you next week. Tiffany Young: See you next week. Ben Freedman: And if you have an extra 30 seconds, take a look at this. [Commercial]