Blackhawk Tactical: Under the Radar Pouches and Bags

Alright, everybody knows that BLACKHAWK is a great company to choose when you're looking for any kind of bag to carry your gear around, but usually we think about range gear. The new Under the Radar product line is all about electronics. And specifically about protecting your electronics, not just from everyday bumps and drops, but actually from surveillance, and other attempts to electronically remotely exploit your valuable information. Now, we all know that all of our electronic devices that emit or receive signals are active, even when they're powered down. If you've ever used an app to find a lost tablet, or maybe find a lost phone, well, you know that sometimes the battery may be low, or something may have shut down, or it's been on a timer or screen locked, and yet, the system seems to know exactly where you are.

I know that as I travel around, I'm sometimes amazed that I can have the Wi-Fi shut off, the Bluetooth shut off, everything shut down, and yet I can still have a little blue dot on a map show me exactly where that device, and I, actually am at that moment. So that can be scary for a lot of people. And there are a lot of good reasons to want to protect your valuable information and the signals that are coming out of, or going into, your phones, your computers, and your tablets. The Under the Radar bags and pouches allow you to utilize electromagnetic blocking technology, the No Trace technology that BLACKHAWK has developed, to protect your devices. Now, this is a tablet pouch.

If we open it up, we're going to see that it's securely closed, and there's a fold with this interior electromagnetic signal blocking material, that ensures that if you've properly placed your device in here and closed it up signals aren't going to be able to get in or out, so your tablet is secure. Now that naturally means that you're not going to get your updates, you're not going to get any alerts if you put a phone inside of one of these pouches, like I have here in my back pocket. I've got my phone inside of this pouch with the No Trace technology. Now I thought we'd a little experiment. I'm going to go ahead and set this down here on the table.

And I'm going to use this borrowed phone from Mike Centola, of Allstar Tactical. He is helping us out with a video, he's got me set up to be called, and I'm just going to go ahead and call myself on my phone. And obviously that's going to take a second or two to go through, but I think the demo is definitely worth waiting for. And there you see, we're getting that call. So I'm going to go ahead and end that.

I'll end that here. And you probably heard that tone. I'm going to not do anything with the phone, except place it inside of this pouch. I'm going to give it a second in there and I'm going to go back to recent calls, and I'm going to call myself again. Same exact process.

So we can see Rob Pincus calling mobile. And we'll put that on speaker. I can hear that's ringing, but I'm not getting any signal into the phone. I think that's pretty cool technology. Not only for obviously being able to put that inside of the pouch when you need it to be muted, maybe when I'm a class, when I have any other reason I don't want to be disturbed, but obviously to block people from being able to get into this phone.

Now, this kind of technology will also be able to protect your passport. It will be able to protect a full computer. So in this case, I've got a full computer in here, all the data that I have on here, all the information, maybe credit card transactions, maybe student information, my own personal information, my travel agenda, all that stuff, that's inside of these electronic devices, completely protected inside of the Under the Radar bags. This particular courier bag over here is also cool, and that it has a couple of pouches using the No Trace technology. So I've got a phone pouch here on the outside.

I can secure my phone there. And then on the inside, I've got a much larger pouch, and that's going to allow me, in this case, to protect another laptop, or I can put a tablet, I can put my travel documents, anything that had an RFID tag, my passport, again, credit cards, anything like that, I could secure inside of that pouch. If you're like me and you travel a lot, I also end up going through about four or five or six different keys it seems like in any given week in the hotel rooms, because it gets near my tablet or it gets near my phone. Well also because I'm blocking electronic signals, I can go ahead and use this pouch just for my hotel room key. Put it in there, stick it in my back pocket, stick it in another bag, and I don't have to worry about it being near my phone, being near my tablet, or any other device.

The Under the Radar bag from BLACKHAWK are a great addition to their line for anybody who's concerned about electronic security, protecting your valuable gear, or maybe just even keeping a hotel room key working. The No Trace technology is cutting edge, it works, you just saw a demonstration. I think this product's really cool, It probably will help you if you have any electronic devices you want to protect as well.