RoadWired Advanced Protection System (R.A.P.S) Review

RoadWired Advanced Protection System (R.A.P.S) Review

I recently received a 20" square RoadWired R.A.P.S! wrap. When it comes down to it, you could say I paid for a 20"x 20" square of padded felt-like fabric that has Velcro in each corner. But this is no ordinary fabric, it's especially designed to preserve metals such as electronics components from corroding.

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The secret to the advanced protection is on the inside -- lining the interior is a special copper colored new-age composite material called Corrosion Intercept . Developed by Lucent Technologies Bell labs this corrosion resistant polymer helps to protect the metal parts of what could be inside, namely electronic components.

Inside of R.A.P.S (view large image)

Outside of R.A.P.S, available in 4 colors, seen here is the yellow option(view large image)

I have also seen this technology employed by guitar string company D'Addario and I have to say that it does keep my guitar strings crisper over longer periods of time. This is because over time the harmful gases in the air we breathe everyday, or even just plain old humidity, can be harmful to your electronic components and certain materials. Thus the purpose of this wrap is three fold: protection against corrosion from harmful gases, natural elements and impact. So that's it, you can make the R.A.P.S fit any shape to hold anything you might put in it. It can hold a camera, lenses, top secret, highly sensitive, corrosive prone electronic devices, or even a laptop. I personally purchased it in hopes of holding books and stuff in my huge messenger bag because the corners get frayed.

wrap electronics devices (view large image)

or wrap books to keep the corners from getting dog-eared (view large image)

If you have a laptop you'd like to use this sleeve like device for, I was able to fit a 13.3" Macbook into the sleeve as seen in the pictures.

MacBook getting wrapped in R.A.P.S! (view large image)

MacBook fully wrapped (view large image)

The RoadWired R.A.P.S are available in 4 colors and in 3 sizes (12", 16", 20") to suit your moods and needs. Best of all, they are fairly inexpensive at $8.29, $9.57, and $11.49 for the respective sizes.

Availability

• RoadWired R.A.P.S at Amazon.com
• RoadWired R.A.P.S at eBags.com

Related Links:

• RoadWired Website for R.A.P.S

 

Interesting product. What do you think is the largest system size that 20" cloth could wrap?

And I thought I loved my books... .

 

raps is technical crop out of which oil and bio-diesel are made and color of raps is yellow too...

that macbook of yours looks like a baby wrapped nice and thight

 

I need to make sure that you understand, it's not my macbook

 

Whats the point of it?

 

What is this - a joke? Who has a problem with electronic components mysteriously corroding?

I live at the beach, where I've walked every day for five years with my mp3 player, surrounded by salt air, humidity, and those notoriously corrosive "gases in the air we breathe." Surprisingly my mp3 player hasn't corroded yet. I've also carried the same cell phone all that time, and it hasn't corroded either. Nor have any of my innumerable laptop and desktop computers, my digital cameras, my calculators, or anything else with electronic components, all right here in a beach environment. Are you kidding me?

What are you going to do -- keep all your electronic stuff wrapped up in this magic tarpaulin all the time and only take it out when you need it? Maybe you should also wear a copper bracelet on your wrist or a sprig of garlic around your neck to heighten the magical protective effect. (As a side benefit, the garlic would also protect against vampires.)

There may be some especially corrosive environments or especially sensitive devices where this product would be needed, but for protecting the average person's "corrosive prone electronic devices?" Doesn't sound likely.

If you want to spend money to solve a problem that doesn't exist, this sounds like the product for you!

 

I have to agree with the above two posters. I don't get why this product exists.

I recently needed to use an old walkman I bought back in the 80's that has been sitting on an open shelf in my office for about 10 years. All it needed were new batteries.

I have mice, memory storage cards, and all sorts of electronic crap lying around that doesn't seem to need special protection.

I'm glad you're happy with the product, and it's interesting to learn about a class of product that I didn't even know existed. I'm just not sure of it's value to me. If I thought a device needed protection, I'd probably just put it in some bubble wrap ( and no, I wouldn't even worry about a static charge )

 

It exists for the more paranoid who go to extreme measures to take care of their electronics. In theory, it does in fact work as I can testify to this with my guitar strings. Practically speaking, I just bought it because it's padded, cheap, and I plan to use it for books. At the very least, it's an easy way to pad things when they are in larger bags.

 

"In theory"? What is this, their marketing department's crazy corrosive gas theory?

Guitar strings are not electronic devices.

 

yeah this product seems so useless

but since NBR posted the review, this raps will get free advertising and more attention than it deserves...and nevermind the people who will actually waste thier money on this....