Hello and welcome to the show!
My name is Alex and this is TechFlow!
You guys showed us such good support on the last video and you said: "Alex, bring us some
more 'Top 5's' or a 'collection of tech.'"
Here is TechFlow's top two favourite items for the car.
Let's do this!
Coming in at Number 1, we've got the Zus car charger.
Not only is this, well, a phone charger with a USB port on it, right, you plug in your
cigarette lighter and it supplies you with two USB ports, not just one!
And that's pretty much it.
I'm joking.
So, both of the USB ports on the device claim to be intelligent; they detect the device
you plug into the Zus car charger and charge that device at its fastest supported rate.
And, in my opinion, yes, it does charge your devices very quickly - in my daily testing,
it's been charging my daily driver, which is an iPhone 6S plus, and I've been going from
0 to 100 really quickly.
But I don't know if the ports are actually intelligent or whether they are just kicking
out 2.1 amps and calling it a day or they are actually intelligent - I don't really know.
But this is more than just a USB car charger; it's actually really, really intelligent itself;
it has a Bluetooth module in there and it connects to your phone.
You can download the Zus app from the App Store, Android store or Google Play store
and you get so much information... Well, you get two vital bits of information.
One of those bits of information being the last place that you parked your car and it
will tell you how many metres away your car is.
You can view it on a map and you can even set the "Working at home" location so it won't
remind you that you've parked your car when you are at home or the office because, obviously,
you know where you've parked your car if you're at home or at the office.
It also reminds you to set a parking meter so that, if you are paying for parking, and
you're paying for 2 hours, you can tell the app that you're staying for 2 hours
and it will remind you at, say, 1 hr 50 mins that you need to walk back to your car - it tells
you that your timer is running out on your parking which is really, really cool.
Also, Zus have just rolled out an update via the iOS, on my phone anyway, and it now actually
monitors the health of your car's battery. Now you can view this over a 7 day or a
30 day period; I don't really see what use this is giving me at all but it's just kind
of cool to look at and it's live as well so when I rev my engine, you can see the little
dial going up; it's pretty cool.
Coming in at number 2, our final item is the Zero Touch Dashboard from LogiTech.
Now, the reason that there are only two devices in this list is because these are both two
devices that TechFlow really recommend.
Let's get into the Zero Touch.
So, this is pretty much a car mount for your phone - this has a primary purpose to dock
your phone.
But, yes, it has a few extra features.
It's not just your everyday dock.
So, you actually stick a little plastic plate on the back of your phone (two of these are
included) and once you've done that, you can literally go and just place your phone on
the dock - it will stick to the dock; very secure, very nice and very swag.
TO CAMERAMAN: Is it NFC that it works with? Is that how it knows when you put it on?
CAMERAMAN: No, it's not NFC - it's bluetooth I think.
TO CAMERAMAN: Do you have to connect it up?
Right, I'm really not sure how this device actually works but you download the app for
it on the Google Play store (this is an Android only device at the moment).
So, pretty much, this thing is meant to help you drive by making you concentrate on the
road more which is always a good thing to do.
This is something which TechFlow definitely recommends you do, let's put it that way.
So pretty much what you do is once your phone is docked into this device, somehow it launches
the app on the phone when you dock it - your phone knows that it's in the car when you
put it on the dock - and then (this is where the magic happens), all you do is you put
your hand over your phone, release it and then you can say anything eg. "Open spotify..."
"Send a text to..."
"Give me directions to..."
Anything you want.
You can even tell it to play certain songs: For example, I could literally tell it to
play "Seven Years by Lucas Graham" and it would do it on your chosen music source i.e.
Spotify in my case.
Throughout my testing the device did a really good job at picking up my voice even when
I was in the car with, you know, trucks either side of me and a lot of loud noise but testing
this on the dual carriageway, it picked up my voice every single time - I don't think
it's failed once actually which is absolutely insane.
I just really want them to bring out an iOS version.
Hopefully, they're going to do that soon.
LogiTech - do it, do it!
Because I will have it!
It can also get other things like ratings of places eg. whether restaurants are kid friendly.
It can get a load of information; a lot more than, I would say, the standard assistants
like Siri and whatever you guys have on Android. This device can do a lot more than them as
I've mentioned with the ratings of restaurants and other details such as whether the restaurant
is kid friendly or whether the restaurant has a kids menu etc. etc. etc.
It's a cool device!
So guys, that's been it for the top two Tech items for your car.
If you guys want more Top Tech videos, let us know what you think we should do in the
comments section down below but for now, my name's been Alex, you guys have been awesome,
soup up your cars with some awesome tech and we'll catch you in the next one!