APC's Mobile Power Pack delivers juice via USB

Add the Mobile Power Pack from APC to the growing list of accessories able to provide your portable gadgets with precious extra hours of runtime. Promising up to 55 more hours of juice for your iPod nano or eight to ten hours for your Treo, the MPP UPB10 sports a high-capacity, user-replaceable lithium polymer battery that can power and charge nearly any device with a USB or mini-USB jack. If you don't have the time/inclination to build your own solution, this may be seventy bucks well spent.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 12th 2006 3:59PM]

I'll wait until something like this shows up on woot for probably $40 instead of the $70. I'm still not sure how this is such a good advantage. Anywhere I could leave this black box I probably have a laptop I could plug in and charge my iPod.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 12th 2006 4:45PM]

10Wh is kinda pathetic for $70.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 13th 2006 12:25AM]

Yes, but can I use it to charge my /other/ APC Mobile Power Pack?

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 13th 2006 7:03AM]

Folks interested in building their own charger might also wanna check out this:
http://www.uvm.edu/~aevans1/charge
Enjoy!