The Chris Voss Show - The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Targus Booth Interview at CES Show 2023

Episode Date: January 6, 2023

Targus Booth Interview at CES Show 2023 US.Targus.com

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Hey, so we're here at the Targus booth, and it's booth 15... What is that? 15901? Is that what it is? That's it. And come see it. It's in Central Hall. Check it out.

I'm with Andrew. Andrew, how are you? I'm good. How are you doing, Chris? I'm awesome, man. If I can figure out what booth I'm in, I'll be good. There you go. You guys got a massive booth here.

So what are you guys showcasing here at CES? So this year, Targus is really focused on sustainability. So we're doing a lot with our EcoSmart branded products. EcoSmart are products that use recycled material. So one of the newest innovations we've got is our new EcoSmart zero waste backpack. Wow. This backpack is rolled up and put into a small size package. This package then can pack into a shipping container. You're actually cutting down on your CO2 emissions as you ship this across the ocean to the U.S. to sell it. It's easily shipped across the U.S. to the retailers, wherever it needs to go. Very compact. When you take the backpack out, it unrolls, and you've got a full-size backpack. Goes from that to that.

And it's called Zero Waste because you flatten out the packaging, you insert it inside the bag, and now that becomes part of the structure of the bag. Oh, wow. That's actually what gives my bag structure and protection for my laptop, and it's zero waste. I've actually absorbed the packaging in the bag. Nothing to throw away. There's a lot of consumers that want that these days.

They want to buy products, but they also want to have a smaller footprint on them. Yeah, exactly. So it's a way to conserve packaging, and it becomes a protective part for your laptop. So it's a great thing that we're doing at Tardis. A lot of other EcoSmart products. There's some EcoSmart technical products that I wanted to show you, too. We can step over here. All right, let's take a look at those.

Go. All right, so what do we have here? So this is also a CES award-winning product. This is a Hyper-branded product. Hyper is a company that really focuses on the Apple consumer. And this is a new backpack made by Hyper. It's called the Hyper Pack Pro. This is really made for any content designer, someone who's really necessary to go out on the road with their Apple products. This backpack is made of strong Cordura fabric material. It's water resistant.

The unique feature is here around the very top, it has a Find My module. Oh, wow. So you can actually use this with the Apple Find My network. If you lose your bag or you walk away from your bag, you know exactly where it is at all times. It's good to have. That's also, it's sewn into the bag.

You can't just pull it out of the bag and get away with it. It's sewn into the bag. It's water resistant. This has large compartments, large pockets. You have your laptop compartment in the very back. This is where you put your MacBook. Nice. You can put your iPad inside.

You can put your phone in here. You can put your AirPods in here. It has a wireless charging pocket down here in the bottom. You can put your battery in here, and it has wire management inside where you can actually string your wires through to charge every single item inside of your backpack. That's awesome. An RFD blocking pocket on the top. That's good.

So you can put your wallet in there, and everything's blocked. Put your passport in there. It's good. So you can put your wallet in there and everything's blocked. Put your passport in there. It's good to have with travel and urine. And so it's a great product, a great backpack, brand new from Hyper. Did you guys win the CES Innovation Awards with this? Exactly. This won the CES Innovation Award. It's always good to have that.

That is awesome. You guys really thought of everything. It's a great product really for creatives and guys that are out there on the go. Guys like you. You've got to edit stuff real quick. You've got to get going, throw it all in this backpack, you're ready to go. There you go. We need to review one of those.

All right, what else do you have? Two, one. All right, and what do you have here? So, Chris, this is a brand-new docking station from Targus. Wow. here so chris this is a brand new docking station from targus wow the unique feature is that this is a docking station and a kvm switch so what you're seeing here is this is the dock it's a dock 750 this dock has a switch on it and that's the kvm switch and what we're doing is we're using two laptops oh wow both of them are plugged into the same docking station. Uh-huh.

Each laptop is actually being charged with a full 100 watts of power each. Wow. From the dock, so you're getting full power from the dock. This docking station now is feeding into three 4K monitors. Wow, 4K. Now, if you look at this, this is a KVM switch, right? So right now you're seeing all the PC screens up here. If I move the mouse around, now I'm operating the PC. The thing that's cool is now I can actually use the Mac and the PC at the same time and divide up the monitors.

I can dedicate two monitors to the PC, one monitor to the Mac, or two monitors to the Mac, one monitor to the PC, or all of them to the Mac or all of them to the PC just by using the KVM switch. That's a hell of a docking station. That does a lot. So now imagine use case. You're at home. I'm working at home. I've got a home computer and a work computer.

I want to use my same desktop and not have to unplug and replug everything. This solves your whole problem. Yeah. Now you've got everything plugged in. You can dedicate screens, use them both at the same time. Think again, content creators. I want to work on a Mac for some things. I want to work on a PC for other things.

There you go. And I can use that all the time. You don't have to sit there and unplug everything. Yeah, exactly. It keeps the desktop more clean. That's great. The other thing that I didn't mention is when you slide your mouse from one monitor to the other, if it's a PC monitor to the Mac, your keyboard and mouse automatically flip over.

Oh, wow. You're only functioning within that PC or that Mac. So, and again, this works with two MacBooks or two PCs, any operating system. Wow. They all function through that dock. That is crazy. That is crazy. Well, this is awesome to see.

Anything else that we wanted to cover? Yeah, let's look at one eco product all right so andrew what do you got going on here so this is another one of the eco smart products from targus we're moving into our a lot of our tech products and adding eco to them so this is an eco smart keyboard it's actually an energy harvesting keyboard it uses solar cells to take ambient light turn turn it into electricity. Wow! It's not using batteries to run this. It runs off of the ambient light.

It's also made from 85% consumer recycled plastic. It's a recycled material. It's solar. It's very energy efficient. It uses low power Bluetooth, so it lasts a very long time. Wow! That's great. It has its own power source. It's a great keyboard. Basically, it's a very long time. Wow. That's great. It has its own power source.

Yeah, basically it's its own power supply. So everything will run all the time. And you've got an innovation award for that as well, too. Yeah, this is one that won a CES 2023 Innovation Award. Congratulations. And going right along with it, we have this really cool, innovative, ergonomic, ambidextrous mouse. And what this is, you see it right now, this is a right-handed mouse right and i can use it it's made out of that same 85 percent recycled material but now i do is i take the top off turn it around oh wow now it's a left-handed wow that is quite the trick

so this is a mouse you haven't seen something like this in the market no this is brand new very innovative very smart too so this is great imagine families you haven't seen something like this in the market before. This is brand new, very innovative. Very smart, too. So this is great. Imagine families. You've got a right-handed person, left-handed person. Use the same desktop. You can share computers.

It's great. A company can just buy all of these for all of their employees. All the employees, yeah. It doesn't matter if they're left-handed or right-handed. The mouse will work with it. That is brilliant. You guys have a lot of great stuff to look at here at the big booth. Where can people find you guys on the interwebs? So visit us at

Targus.com. You can find all of these products available there. There you go. Thank you very much Andrew. We really appreciate it. Thanks a lot. And guys be sure to come by the big Targus booth in Central Hall. Thanks for tuning in.