How many times has your smartphone run out of juice? For me, a ton of times. As much as 65% of people run out of power for their smartphone a day. That is an astounding number. Three, "ambitious high school girls," have take to Indiegogo with a unique solution to the problem: Jubo. Emily Sheng, [...]
Again, it is no secret that we love external batteries. Kyle has been known to walk around conferences with tens of thousands of milliamps in reserve. Anyhow, there is a real balancing act when it comes to finding the perfect external power source. You can load up and get a big, bulk battery with tons of [...]
The Jumper Card works primarily as a charger, and can pull power from any USB port. A major factor that separates the Jumper Card from similar devices, it includes the three most widely used connections: the Apple Lightning connection(iPhone 5 models), Apple 30-pin (Pre-iPhone 5 models), and the standard Micro-USB. That said, there is an on-board battery in the card that holds 480 milliamp hours, which can add about one hour of life to a phone.
2 Hour Power is a Rayovac portable power charger that runs on one lithium CR123A battery and you can use it to charge Apple 30-pin or Micro USB powered devices, namely mobile phones. Rayovac 2 Hour Power comes in two models: Apple 30-pin and Micro USB.
The Surfr case comes equipped with a 1400 mAh battery, which nearly doubles the size of your battery. There is also a pretty interesting feature, a .36 watt integrated solar panel. The solar panel is more of an emergency feature than a realistic way to charge your device.
WakaWaka manufacturers extremely high-efficiency, low-cost solar lamps and solar chargers. Thus, WakaWaka - 'Shine Bright' in Swahili - is an apt name for the product. At CES, WakaWaka's CEO answered a few of our questions and even showed us their newest product.
During our lead up coverage to the 2014 International CES, the one product I was most excited about seeing was the ZeroHour USB Battery Backup Flashlight. During CES, we had a chance to speak with ZeroHour Co-Founders Amy Truong and Aaron Son about the most badass flashlight on the market.
