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Wireless Battery Charger Charges Batteries From... Batteries

by Evan Shamoon on April 17, 2009 at 10:53 AM


Having just gone through a pair of AA batteries in two days playing some tennis on Wii, we're once again reminded that batteries are very, very wasteful. But not as wasteful as the Battery Powered Battery Charger.

The device charges up AA or AAAs batteries, not from a wall outlet, but from D batteries that you put in the other side (not included). As OhGizmo points out, disposable D batteries typically have a capacity of 12,000 mAh, while rechargeable AA batteries have capacities of around 2,500 mAh or less, meaning that you could potentially charge a whole gang of AA/AAA's on the road without outlets (say, when camping), so long as you brought along a few D's to power them. But the environmentalist in us thinks that carrying a bunch of smaller batteries is probably the more efficient option.



Oh, and the realist in us actually thinks the product is totally fake, as implied by the name of the company that supposedly makes it: Naivetek. [From: OhGizmo]

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Tags: batteries, battery charger, BatteryCharger, funny, naivetek, not green tech, NotGreenTech, top

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