hi I'm Bernie Thompson I'm the founder
of pluggable technologies so late last
year end of 2013 a new generation of
Windows devices these small 8-inch
tablets came out and kind of the
flagship for it was the Dell Venue 8 Pro
so last summer in July
thanks to backers on Kickstarter we were
able to get a project funded to build a
docking station that works with the Dell
Venue 8 Pro and it happens to also work
with the Lenovo mix2 8 inch tablet and
lets you simultaneously use devices and
charge the tablet and here we are it's
now November the target on the
Kickstarter was to deliver the these
docs in November and we're ready to ship
so we're very excited and very happy to
say that we're kind of on track to our
original schedule which is often
difficult with a hardware project like
this so here we go this is the pluggable
UD Pro 8 docking station we have long
been a top manufacturer and seller of
docking stations this is actually kind
of derived from a design that we had
earlier but with customizations to kind
of serve this need of the Dell Venue 8
Pro in terms of charging it and being
able to use devices so here we have the
Dell Venue 8 Pro here we have a docking
station a UD pro 8 already plugged in so
we'll just plug this in there and what
will happen the first time you do this
is as long as you've got an active Wi-Fi
connection windows will now go out to
Microsoft's Windows Update servers get
the necessary drivers for the hardware
on here download those and install them
on the device that takes enough you know
30 seconds or a minute or so the first
time you do it another thing is now this
device is charging and you can't see it
right in the video unless we focus in
but the Dell Venue 8 Pro is now getting
all of its charge and it's getting
enough charge that even while it's being
used it can have a gain in the battery
and now all these devices that we've
connected are now available so we can
have a big monitor like this this is
to regular kind of 1080p TV connected
off of an HDMI cable to an HDMI to DVI
adapter on the dock we've now gone from
a relatively slow wireless connection to
a wired network that's plugged in
through the dock that's at least twice
as fast often three or four times as
fast as a as the 802 dot 11n connection
on the tablet and we've got the ability
to have a bunch of extra USB devices
like this Mouse that I'm using this
keyboard I could connect USB storage
devices anything I want what's so cool
about this is you know this this little
tablet these tablets that came out a
year ago one of the reasons why they
they've taken off and the Dell Venue 8
Pro in particular has been a top seller
throughout 2014 is because Microsoft is
basically offered windows on these eight
inch and smaller tablets at a greatly
reduce or even nominal cost so you're
getting all the power of Windows
including all the application
compatibility everything this is not
running Windows RT reading is a full
copy of Windows and you're getting that
on a very inexpensive platform under the
assumption that you're kind of trapped
in this you know small tablet small
screen and it's not really kind of
competitive with a desktop scenario so
what's so cool about this Kickstarter
about the pluggable UD pro 8 is we
really kind of broken open all of those
limitations that the tablet has we're
now able to get up to a big screen in
fact we could connect additional USB
graphics adapters to the dock and get
additional monitors we're able to
connect additional external storage
everything so it's so cool you can you
know just unplug you know use this on
the on the couch use this on the go use
it in a meeting room but then when you
come back to your to your desk you don't
need another system you can just use
this same you know the same tablet as
your main computer so we're really
excited about this we're really excited
about the UD Pro 8 and we're very
thankful to our Kickstarter backers here
in know
member 2014 these are going to be
shipping out to all those backers and
they should arrive by the end of the
month and at the same time by the end of
the month these items will be available
on Amazon and eBay and Newegg
and all the channels that we as plug
will sell on and we hope that you're as
excited as we are about it and feel free
to ask any questions at all at the
bottom of the video here and again to
our backers thank you and to everyone
else this is the UD pro 8 docking
station
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