How GoTechGeek puts BLOWZER to work on keyboards, camera gear and car leaves

A tech reviewer who used to do this for a living

GoTechGeek is McKay's channel, a steady run of short, practical reviews of gadgets and home tech, filmed at his desk in front of purple light and then out in the house, the garage and the driveway. He brings a particular angle to an air duster. "I've worked in IT for a decade," he says, and he spent those years doing the job canned air was sold for: "cleaning out keyboards, cleaning out computers, just getting things dust free with electronics."

His video on the BLOWZER X6 is titled after the question most readers are really asking: can a rechargeable duster make canned air obsolete? He says up front that he will keep his opinion short. What he does instead is show.

Putting a number on the push

Airflow is hard to show on camera, so McKay builds a test. He clamps the X6 above a kitchen scale, points it straight down and runs a stopwatch, reading the scale at five seconds, thirty seconds, one minute and ninety seconds. Then he puts the readings in a spreadsheet next to another popular air duster he had already run through the same test.

The result is close. The X6, he says, "starts a little bit higher, has a little bit more drop off," and lands about level with the other one.

Buttons, speeds and a nozzle for inflatables

Back at the desk, the open case sits beside the box. McKay shows the power button on the back and the fan button in front, presses and holds, and the blue LEDs light up. "Wow, that's so much power," he says. He steps down through the three speeds, points out the battery indicator and the USB-C port on the base, then twists the nozzles off and on one by one, along with the brushes in the case.

One nozzle gets its own moment. "I do appreciate that this has a nozzle for inflatables," he says, and a cutaway shows a blue inflatable on the floor.

Around the house, the car and the yard

Then comes the montage that makes the video. The X6 pushes dirt and leaves across a concrete garage floor, clears dust from a game console and its cables under a TV, and works across the keys and touchpad of a Logitech K400 keyboard. He holds a Sony mirrorless camera with the lens off and blows across the open mount. Outside, leaves lift out of the windshield cowl of his car; inside, he works the gaps around the steering column and dash.

The smaller jobs are the most telling. He blows dust out of an air-conditioner filter over a sink, dries a washed plastic jar and lid over the bathroom sink, dusts off his own forearm, then his clothes and hair standing outside a doorway, and finishes on a door frame and a video doorbell. Over a shot of a backyard fire pit he talks about getting a campfire going from a safe distance. He also says he sets it down to blow soldering smoke away while he works.

Why it matters if you still buy canned air

McKay's case is simple: one tool that charges instead of running out, in a case that fits a car or a toolbox. "I use this a lot more than I ever would expect to," he says. If you try his camera trick, follow your camera maker's sensor advice first.

Disclosure: the video's description links to the X6 with an affiliate link that earns the channel a commission.

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