when we clean out our computer or other electronics we tend to turn to what Jeff any guesses a can of compressed air compressed air yeah a can of compressed air right we've all been there anybody who's worked on computers this is kind of what we're used to using and go to yeah the fact is is that you don't even think twice this is kind of what you go and grab but here's the thing what do you see danger danger keep out of reach of children extremely flammable yeah there's a whole bunch of warning signs all those are the things and sometimes when you're working on you cleaning your computer out or something like that it can actually squirt like a moisture the weird watery things yeah yeah which to me like I don't particularly want that getting into my computer and as it turns out this is not actually full of compressed air at all oh it's like flammable gases and a mix of all kinds of chemicals and everything else yeah oh I'm completely serious here Jeff so John Shearer set out to provide an alternative okay and John is joining us here to talk about his Canlis air product John thank you so much for being here on the show with us this week you're welcome I appreciate you can you tell us a little bit about yourself right out the gate just I'd love to know a little bit about your backstory and where you come from and how you found yourself developing a product as an alternative to this canned compressed air well well I talk computers for with video professor for 20 years and I did that and got out of that and a guy came to me with an idea long story short it's Canlis there is the idea I took the product and redesigned it re-engineered it and it is what it is today it's what I believe you have in your hand problem I'm gonna grab it here for for us John so here it is this is the Canlis air system I've got the X 3 hurricane thank you very much John for sending that to us yes that's right and so what I want to show you is that the footprint between a can of canned compressed air and the Canlis air is roughly the same so on a shelf this is virtually the same but when I think about like what I want to what I want to use if I'm environmentally conscious is something like a compressor right right which takes up a massive amount of space compared to something like this or this why does it really matter and and maybe before I even ask that question John I think I mentioned at the top of our discussion here as a computer geek myself as a computer user and a technician I'm always using this kind of thing that the compressed the traditional compressed air and I never think twice about it ok so consider that like that's readily available I can pick that up at any ready shop and any computer shop is selling that and as a computer guy I have never thought twice about it and then along comes Canlis air system and starts to make me think well maybe I should be thinking about the environmental impact can you tell us a little bit about what is dangerous about these like compressed air dusters and and and how the products differ well what you have is a bomb actually in your hand I mean literally yeah when they're that can if that was exposed to we're in Arizona if that was left in your car in the summer for an hour or two it would explode it's it's very dangerous the the thing that you in getting our product you must have realized you must see that that our product can do every canned air could do it it runs for a long time mm-hmm it doesn't freeze up because that can of canned air has dangerous chemicals in it and if did you use canned air on your camera lenses yeah I've used it on camera lenses on computer keyboards on servers on the inside outside everything yeah I hope that you won't use canned air anymore because one of the worst things to use canned air on camera lenses you could ruin the lens really because you know how candy or sometimes spits out liquid yeah that's a concern for me on the inside of a computer or something I think about yes if it gets well of it for sure if it gets on a camera lens it'll ruin Wow it'll ruin a camera lens what we have a lot of camera shops a lot of camera people buying our products because it's safe yeah it's just blowing air it's just you know air coming out of here and you can turn it upside down or sideways it doesn't matter not if you have you ever turned the can deer upside down uh-huh that's when the liquid comes out the liquid comes out you're correct yeah and so and and it freezes up you know that you that can after a while gets very cold yeah what causes that John that's the chemicals in there and turning it upside down if you sprayed it on you can get frostbite from if you turned it upside down and sprayed it on your skin for a little bit you can get frostbite so there's many reasons that I developed this product I mean there's the green aspect there's a safety aspect for sure and people didn't have a choice they they had no choice and so that's why this got developed and and I made it Y heard you mention about the size the same size of canned air that's what we did we had the engineers polled canned air in their hand and then design this and it's designed for a woman's hand too it can a woman can hold this very comfortably and use it how's that feel faster feels good I feel all right oh yeah there you go yeah we had women that actually test it and pull the trigger on it it's easy yeah and this last as you know it lasts about a good solid 15 to 20 minutes if you pull the trigger and let it run yeah it'll run that long that's awesome you can recharge it 500 times Wow so one charge of this is equal to I don't know five or six cans of can deer just watch alright alright that's incredible this unit this unit is equivalent to a minimum of a thousand cans of canned air okay well that is at least a week of compressed air for me John at least that that's a big amount of money I don't know what you pay for Korean deer but probably somewhere between five and ten now yeah there are like eight bucks a can like this that times a thousand that's $8,000 true so it's it gets very big for the homeowner it's you know a homeowner may use a can every month or every few months or whatever it is yeah but a business burns through them they burn through sure what we had happened we've had corporate america's is the ones that discovered us and they use this we had a company that has bought this product from us since we started they bought about eight thousand of these units so far they use them between cash registers ATM machines parking meters computers use it for every Oh fire alarm people professionals Oh industrial fire alarm make sense they use these okay John can I ask so these these guys here so if this is if this is really gonna do say a thousand cans of compressed air for me what is the again I've never really thought about this okay what's the environmental impact of the traditional like blow-off compressed air what kind of impact are we having on landfills the chemicals all of those kinds of thing you must know the stats being in the industry ah the environmental impact I used to have all the numbers I used to know all the the major impact that it has but I could let me tell you this first of all corporations that buy canned air have to dispose them that can you have when it's done yeah they have to take it and drill a hole in the can and you don't just throw it in the trash I know you guys probably do evidence you know how homeowners something just throws in the trash yeah that's on I I throw it in the recycle with high leaves with high hopes that it will be recycled yeah but I don't really know like is it recyclable I don't really know the answer to that right it probably is it probably is but the environmental impact it's like I forget how many kid there's 30 million cans of this stuff as near as we can tell thrown away every year that's a big number and and they I don't know what they end up doing with it I really don't other than you know they drill out the they drill a hole so it can't explode then once it's being recycled but it's corporate America gets points they get green points for sustainability yeah in buying if when they use our product they get points because their candor is on the list a list of bad things okay well that's good that's very good so when I think about so if this is going to replace say a thousand cans of compressed air how long is it actually going to last like what how long is the product good for oh well you can recharge it 500 times so if it lasts 20 minutes times 500 they eat we have people that bought these back in 2012 and they're still using them you use it forever if I looked at one today in the office that was all taken apart I've been sent back something happened at the bottom of the motor it was a weird thing we've never seen before we sent the person a new one but they've been using it for I don't know seven years so they they're just really really durable good good man and what are some interesting uses I mean you can think of the the practical use like I can tell you what I just used compressed air for this weekend which is not the best thing in the world to do it turns out I were using like the traditional my husband's gonna be so happy he was right yes so I was dusting off he has these little model motorcycles and they have little spokes in the wheels and I said hon can you get me some compressed air and he handed it to me he's like be careful with this it's really dangerous and I was like whatever started spraying away thinking there was no problems now he's probably watching now doing like the touchdown dance yeah I was right you know of the dangers of this product that you've got right you know that he you know people off that stuff I've heard that John why why would you be ready oh they get high they get really high really it's a high it's more addictive than heroin you gotta be kidding oh yeah to to shoot that in your mouth more addictive than heroin the problem is folks yeah do not do this but to shoot it in your mouth with the thing like that can't read up it gets in your lungs yeah and everybody is different I might squirt some in my mouth I'm fine you squirt it in your mouth for the same amount of time I did in your dad goodbye because you can't breathe it suffocates you Wow so something like that's that okay that's a whole other can of worms that were jumping in oh no that's a whole other deal yeah it's a dangerous thing to have in the what guess I'm saying and that's exactly what comes to mind as a parent yes if somebody's listening to us now and they have candy or in their home and they have children get it out of there and I mean that sincerely hide it do whatever if you insist on having it they're in and out away from where the kids can get to it so the question then John and I'll word it like this can I get high off of your product you know we had somebody write a review and they said the problem is we can't get high it's not the same thing it's not the same thing I read that the other day we can't problem with this is we can't get high off oh you can't see it's just it's taking an error in these vents right I mean that's here and blowing it out this here it's the same over there if your room is full of hot air which I assume your room is there guys a lot of hot air and you pull the trigger in John and it is blow out hot air all kids just whatever's in the room all right let's give it the ultimate test the X 3 hurricane Canlis air system with the variable speed control on my anemometer and I'm gonna start at the very lowest speed and gradually work my way up from there so hitting about 9 10 12 20 almost 30 kilometres an hour only see the how'd it kind of dropped way down and then start it up again almost like it switched into second gear okay increasing let's hit 50 kilometres an hour almost there oh and you see there it goes again so now we're in like a third gear so there's some kind of gearing mechanism in there and my anemometer can only go up to 90 kilometers an hour we're probably gonna hit that oh there we go 96 I guess 100 so I guess the anemometer is reading higher than its limit but it's probably inaccurate at this point hitting a hundred and 1.5 kilometers per hour and capping off so I think that's all my anemometer is capable of but obviously we're getting over 100 kilometres an hour wind off of the x3 hurricane now John one of the questions we have from our chat room is they're wondering after you've expended the 500 charges is there a way to extend the life of the product buy a replacement battery no how long do they want this to last I think the rest of their life indefinitely John 500 times just to give you an idea around the house people that have these I have these around my house yep around the house if you charge it once a month that's probably a lot right so let's say you charge it once a month so 12 times a year and it's good for 500 times that's going to do that right now how old are they gonna be that's that's quite old yeah so how so no we this thing is sealed the batteries in there it's not a it's not take the batteries out with other batteries in these are high in batteries that we use in here we were talking about the other day in the office and we said it took us a while to perfect this and get the right combination between the battery the charger and the motor the battery we have it's unbelievable Fantauzzo so whoever rope went in tell them you and is guaranteed for a lifetime pretty much yeah yeah exactly oh that take care of that question yeah now as far as as far as the guarantee for a lifetime what kind of warranty comes with your unit a lifetime oh it is lifetime warranty okay it's not simple easy so you mine is that person does not have to worry about changing the batteries okay if something goes wrong send it to us we'll send you a new one that's fintax Allah John where can we buy Canlis air because you know there's the the cost savings yeah Canlis air calm okay is that an analyst air calm and everything we've been discussing here yeah is on the site it compares canned air with our product it shows all the different models we have the one you guys have in your hand this x3 variable speed is the absolute best unit we've got very nice because you can pull it the trigger just a little and just a little air is come out you can pull a lot a lot angry this done [Music] sorry size up here but it's it's called kingless air comm where you can buy it people also buy it on Amazon he's got to be Amazon right but but to go straight to us is the best way to do it to go right to Canlis air comm buy the product okay very good John yeah the variable speed oh yes well is it really variable oh my goodness John are you kidding me I didn't even realize you didn't know that it's like it's like a drill oh look at that yeah so this is like yeah so you can have the light yeah and then you can have the intense don't worry other ones we have other one love it one yeah this this is the only one speed fast okay just better but for your for your viewers and for you guys the thing you have in your hand there this one the variable speed next is or hands-down the best thing we've come up with and I love it because you don't always need all the power yeah a little bit so awesome yeah that's awesome and I mean even the attachments that it comes with the different heads like so you guys know gives it a lot of functionality is it they're like vacuum heads no no real big deal but I mean it's it's something yeah it just extends it right but I mean that's nice because that's something you don't get with a can of compressed air slide a little tube you have the environmental impact but you also have the longevity of life impact and now you've got these extensions I mean it's like it's everything you need yeah that's awesome yeah so John thank you so much for the product for the time that you've spent with us you're welcome I hope if anything we've gotten across I mean yeah this this is a product that as a computer technician or somebody that's working in a computer like you just absolutely have to have it you cuz you're gonna have this anyway so this product is a great product it's used by by half the fortune 500 companies use this product yeah Wow and that's pretty impressive very good man well congrats on a fantastic product and we wish you every success with Canlis err well thank you thank you and I again I appreciate being on anytime you want a good laugh and we'll hook up again very good sounds thank you John thank you thank you as well get your ex 3 hurricane camless air system at Canlis air dot-com