With energy prices going through the roof, and rolling blackouts seemingly just over the horizon, it’s about time we start thinking about generating and storing our own electricity.
The Anker 535 PowerHouse is a stylish way to make sure you’ve always got your devices juiced up, and paired with solar panels it turns into the eco-friendly electrical generator you didn’t know you wanted.
Equipped with premium LiFePO4 batteries that offer 6 times longer lifespan, the Anker 535 PowerHouse is housed in a drop-proof unibody structure, and uses industry-standard electric components for enhanced durability.
What good is your own portable power station if it breaks down after a couple of years? Anker has you covered boasting a 10-year lifespan of daily device charging. It also comes with a 5-year full device warranty.
You want some more specs? I’ve got you. Let’s talk solar panels. The supplied panels convert 23% of solar energy to electrical energy EVEN ON CLOUDY DAYS. If you’re lucky enough to have direct sunlight, the Anker 535 PowerHouse will recharge to 80% in just 4 hours.
It has a whopping 512Wh capacity making it a great all-rounder to seamlessly power a portable fridge, header, TV, and lamp.
Finally, this all comes with top-tier customer support. If you’ve ever had any issues with an Anker product, or their spin-off brands, you’ll know how fast and painlessly they get things resolved. I’m a fan.
The Anker Powercore 10000 is smaller than a deck of cards, and that’s impressive because this portable charger can provide over three charges to your iPhone 7. Perfect if you’re not going to be near a plug socket for a while (or if you’re overdoing it a bit on Pokémon Go…). Not only will you have 10,000mAh of power in your pocket, but it also has High-Speed Charging using Anker’s exclusive PowerIQ and VoltageBoost which gives you the fastest possible charge for any device.
The Playdate is a handheld games console made by Panic, the company that published Untitled Goose Game, and designed with Teenage Engineering. It’s bright yellow, fits in your palm, and has a crank on the side. The screen is a 400×240 black-and-white display with no backlight. It’s sharp, and it’s easy to read in direct sunlight. The crank is used as a game control alongside the D-pad and buttons: depending on the game you’ll use it to reel in a fishing line, wind time backwards, or steer. It launched with a season of 24 games, released two a week. Panic also publishes a free SDK for making your own.
Teenage Engineering have never made a boring object, and the EP-133 K.O. II is no exception. It’s a sampler and sequencer about the size of a hardback and just 16mm thick, laid out like a piece of industrial equipment from a 1978 stockroom. Point the built-in mic at anything… a kettle, a door, your own voice, and it stores in one of 999 sample slots, ready to be chopped, pitched and sequenced. There’s 128MB of space to fill it with, MIDI in and out for the rest of your gear, and a speaker so you don’t have to dig out headphones to hear what you’ve done. All of this running on four AAA batteries, or USB-C when you’re near a plug.
The things you didn't know you wanted. Well-made, slightly unexpected objects you can actually buy, one every other day.
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