 Yesterday, I received this very interesting product from Amazon, the Max Hub UCM40. I've had my eyes on this product for some time to elevate our hybrid meetings. And when Amazon recently offered a steep discount during its prime day, I couldn't resist the offer. In this video, we'll have a quick look at the product and then see how it actually performs in a hybrid meeting. Let's get started. Inside the box is this sleek looking device and two cables, one for USB and one for the power. Looking at the device itself, there is one tripod mount and two ports, one for power and one for USB-C. As for the controls, there are only two, a mute button on top and a button to control the camera views. So what exactly does this device do? It is a three-in-one device that combines a camera, a microphone and a loudspeaker. If we connect this device to a laptop, we have an all-in-one conference system. How will it perform in a hybrid meeting where the attendance is usually 10 to 15 participants? Today, we are going to find out. Here we are in a hybrid meeting room where I'm going to set up the Max Hub device. This is the area where the speakers will come to deliver their speeches to the audience. So the ideal location for the device should be somewhere over here. I'm going to place a tripod and then place the device on top of the tripod. I'm keeping this space open so participants can walk without knocking over the device. Let me fit it into the tripod thread and that is nice and steady. Plug in the power socket and the USB cable. I need to plug this into an extension, so I'm ready with that. So that's all set. All I need to do is now connect my laptop to the Max Hub. Luckily, this room also is equipped with a very long HDMI cable which allows me to plug into my laptop. Plug in the Max Hub into my laptop and we are almost ready. So the Max Hub is connected to the laptop and the laptop in turn is connected to this large display. Let me switch on the display and the display is mirrored to my laptop over here. So this is my scheduled Zoom meeting for today. I will click on start. I will check the setup for the sound. So let me go to audio settings and we can see that the speaker is automatically set to UCM40. That's the Max Hub as well as the microphone. Based on the levels that are displayed, it looks like it is working just fine. Let's try testing the speaker. That is definitely loud and clear and I believe it will be more than sufficient for a room of this size. What about the video? Let me switch it on here and that's the default view from the Max Hub. If I want to change the camera view, all I have to do is use this button. For this hybrid meeting, I believe I will be using this view. This means that when the speaker is on the stage, the audience will see the speaker on the top of the screen while they will see the rest of the audience in the room in the bottom half. There are additional views and depending on the situation, different views might be advisable. For example, this view might be suitable if the participants are sitting around a conference table. For now, let me switch to the desired view, which is this and I'm ready for a hybrid meeting. All we need now is participants in the room and in the Zoom meeting. That was yesterday. I believe we had one of the best hybrid meetings thanks to Max Hub. This is a sample of what the physical attendees heard from the Max Hub audio. The audio was not very loud but everyone could hear it clearly and this is what the online audience heard from the audio picked up by the Max Hub microphone. Time management is the process of organizing and planning how to divide your time between different activities, get it right and you will end up working smarter, not harder. The time management for me is like a history. It is divided by two before I get married and after I get married. As far as I am concerned, that is very impressive. And finally, this is the view of the physical room captured by the Max Hub cameras and transmitted to the online audience. It created that wow factor and elevated the hybrid meetings to the next level. As mentioned earlier, Max Hub can create different views depending on the situation but for my particular case, I believe this was just perfect. There is a companion software that can be installed on the laptop for further customizations. For this particular meeting, I did not install any software, it was all plug and play. My final recommendations, if you are hosting a hybrid meeting in a small to medium sized room, the Max Hub is perfect.