Wrist Band Portable Battery charges your phone, electrifies your look
By Laura June 
posted January 19th 2009 7:39PM
posted January 19th 2009 7:39PM
There are plenty of terrible portable chargers out there, but the "Wrist Band Portable Battery" sure isn't one of them. The name pretty much tells the whole tale -- it's a wrist band packed with a lithium-ion battery (that supposedly gets about five hours of juicing time) for charging numberless portable devices. It comes with 7 different adapters, and the totally awesomely-styled band itself has a set of LEDs which indicate the battery life remaining. It'll cost you about $25 to get one of your own and prove once and for all that no, punk is not dead. Check out a few more pics after the break.
Put some bling on it and it will be just the thing for the girls who have their cellphones permanently attached and in use.
Sheba is, a punk rocker!
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Next is the model that taps in directly to your body's electrical field through all your piercings...
I'd hate for this battery to blow up. I would lose my "lonely nite" hand!!
Well it's ugly, but it sure could come in handy sometimes.
more handy if they make it kinetic charging...
i guess if you join the Galactica crew like that set up top it could come in handy. Or you could find a plug here on earth.
Bordering Crapgadget territory?
Think they can scale this up to bandoleer size? I'm thinking it would be perfect for the gadget obsessed Wookie: http://www.starwars-chronicles.com/Bios/Bios_images/Chewbacca2.jpg
Did anyone call for a bando? Oh, wait...
No, they called for Lando.
You called?
I'd buy one.
Fugly. Just make it army belt style so I can wear my laptop around my neck a la Flavor-Flav and keep it powered via electrified waist .
ooo ooo i can now be an official geek. i sorta like the idea if it looked a bit better.. maybe throw down a watch display.
be careful washin your hands
wrist-wear? utility belt FTW!!!!! then we can all be like the caped crusader.
looks like you are under house arrest
Wookie womenz aer teh hawt!
And you thought wearing a bluetooth made you look like a nerd...
There seems to be two schools of thought: some people think it looks ugly, and some people think it makes you look like a nerd.
I, on the other hand, think it looks like quite a functional idea, and would be picking one up if the price was just a little more reasonable.
No, it wouldn't make me look like a nerd. Other items acquired and worn from similar logic have already handled that. But I don't worry much about appearances, and probably enjoy life a lot more than those who do.
Wearing a bluetooth headset maybe ugly but its way better than holding your phone in one hand and crashing your car on a poor pedestrian on the other. Bluetooth headsets should be sold at a cheaper price atleast to stop people who drive single handed.
Sadly using bluetooth makes almost no difference to how dangerous you are when driving and using a cell phone. You are still as much of a menace as someone on the the drink/drive limit
Actually, I think this would be perfect if they made it a little larger so you could wear it as an arm band, tucked up under your sleeve discretely charging your devices. That, or maybe I'll buy one and see if i can retro-fit it to my belt without making it look too obvious, not that a white-leather belt doesn't stand out as it is ;P
Yipieeeee I love random bags of electrons
maybe if it was less ugly
I love all the incredibly random videos thrown into the post nowadays. You rock Laura! Shouting out from Chi-town! Give it up! Woof!
Notice how the Apple Charger is already pre-plugged in? I guess that person must own an iPhone.
I'd probably buy this, if they included even the crappiest LCD watch display on it.
Garth: Excuse me - I have to get by now.
who walks around these days?
isn't that why we have ac plugs in our cars?
Uhh, some people live in real cities where they don't drive around they walk and take subways/trains/buses. And live close to stuff.
Tool.
I ride a bike, you insensitive clod! ;)
But yes, some of us don't in fact drive around in cars all the time, even if our alternatives vary.
so when you take a bus down to the grocery store and that old lady think it's a freaking wrist bomb, what the hell are you going to do? plug it into your phone while everyone hits the deck?
yeah, did we think of the design and the "homeland security" factor of this?
Seriously...? A wrist bomb?! Clearly displayed for everyone to see? Are you all that paranoid already?... For that matter, why not start tackling guys that enter buses wearing baggy pants? Or kids with back packs? Or women with really big handbags...
I say tackle them all to the floor, beat them, and only then, check for sanity. On your part, I mean...
Sounds like fun; where do I sign up to join the Anti-Terrist Beatdown Force?
But see next comment down; maybe these _are_ wrist-bombs.
And when the batteries spontaneously combust, they'll blow your hand clean off. Sign me up for two, I hate having hands.
hell yea that was my thought as well given more likely to just set you and your clothing on fire but still seems like a bad idea as having them there they are much more likely to get damaged and combust
Does it shoot web also?
I am a BORG! I will assimilate this gadget...
I think this would be better for wearable electronics, like using it to power a lilypad or something. That's what I'd do with it. No more battery pack in pocket, now you have it on your wrist! Or something.
I think it'd be more useful working with that than powering/charging a cell phone.
lol kind of makes me think of stormtrooper power packs from star wars...
My thought was the the "convenience" of wearing it on your arm is negated by the fact that you still have to carry around the cable and adapters. You've got to stick them in your pocket or purse. So, if you've got to do that anyway, then carrying the thing on your arm is pointless. You might as well put it all in your bag.
looks like a crapgadget from here. UUUUUGGGGGGLLLLLLLYYYYY!
"Wan too tee foor!"
why cant they make some sort of really cool device charging percussive instrument, like a miniature set of bongos or a sly tambourine or pandeiro. it can capture the energy you use while playing it, and then charge cell phones/ipod/etc. plus you would have an excuse to play a tambourine solo in public...
Looks like another episode of KIRF: There is a fake Germany logo on the woman's upper arm ("Deutscher" = male German) and the logo behind the guy's fake iPod looks like it was heavily inspired by Ford's.
And even with all of those adaptors, none of those look like they'll fit my sony ericsson k508i.
I really should buy a new phone... using this as an excuse...
Is Sony using proprietary/expensive/hard to find connector?, it is hard to believe!
:3
Why not add like, a watch function? You can wear it as a watch with a slightly thick wristband, and it charges your mobile devices. Or add spikes. Or wear it around your feet, harder to see, and more movement.