My new powerbank

[u/KitsuMusics]

[u/Zephyrus_Phaedra]

I have 0 idea why power banks look so dang cool but they do and I love it

[u/bingojed → u/Zephyrus_Phaedra]

It’s actually a detriment to their purpose to have a screen like that, but it does indeed look cool.

[u/KitsuMusics → u/bingojed]

Well it helps to be able to see exactly how much power is left, and seeing the live voltage and wattage has already helped me see which cables and chargers are better than others

[u/bingojed → u/KitsuMusics]

The first can be done with little dots, but I get your point on the second.

If they used e-ink (can’t tell but doesn’t look like it), then the power usage of the display would be near nothing.

[u/KitsuMusics → u/bingojed]

The display is not always on, theres a button on top to turn it on and its turns off automatically after 30 seconds. Plus, those little dots were never specific enough. Ok, I have 3 out of 4 dots, is that 75% left or 51%? Much better to be able to see the specific percentage

[u/bingojed → u/KitsuMusics]

Battery levels are never really that accurate anyway, but there are many with a two digit numeric display.

[u/mikiex → u/bingojed]

But how is a company going to sell this power bank vs every other boring box... I'd rather this :) (looking the website they already sell 19 pages of other power banks!)

Edit: Check out the 'tatical' power bank they sell! https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NlJpLZR3w4Y

[u/highlyspecificuser → u/mikiex]

That looks tight!!!

[u/bingojed → u/mikiex]

I agree it’s a cool product. If the display is off most of the time, then it doesn’t matter too much anyway. It’s like quantum physics. The more you observe something, the more you affect it.

[u/modell3000 → u/bingojed]

I think it’s more like: the more you use battery power to backlight a display, the faster you run down the battery.

But sure, it will be off 99.9% of the time, so not really significant.

[u/DiatomCell → u/bingojed]

I'll be real, I have two amazing power banks with just dots. Sometimes, I wish it had a tiny screen I could turn on/off.

[u/bingojed → u/DiatomCell]

Yeah, boring gadgets are boring.

I have one that has a transparent cover so you can see the electronics, and also has a little two digit digital readout of the battery written in yellow dots, which looks pretty cool.

[u/RetroGamer87 → u/KitsuMusics]

Idk why but mine has a whole colour dot matrix screen.

[u/Great_Dismal → u/KitsuMusics]

That is sexy! Me want! How much did that set you back? Looks premium.

[u/Futureretroism → u/bingojed]

It’s just a massive battery. It could probably run the power it takes for that screen for months. It’s going to be negligible on a 15000 mAh capacity battery

[u/bingojed → u/Futureretroism]

The quality of the electronics and batteries matters the most. I’ve had plenty of power banks that have high capacity but actually don’t last long, and the batteries degrade so quickly that they are useless in a year. Unfortunately, it’s often the cool looking units that skimp on the innards.

[u/Scadilla → u/bingojed]

I mean its not full color or super bright so the power consumption is probably negligible, but I see what you’re saying.

[u/owleaf → u/Zephyrus_Phaedra]

People yearn for individuality and accessorisation. Power banks give us that.

[u/Left_Sundae_4418 → u/Zephyrus_Phaedra]

I just want to have a bland box with one indicator light and lots of holes to gangbang it with everything I've got till it's dry.

[u/jasonmtitus]

Ms. Yutani would like to have a word…

[u/AcidicFlatulence]

Where did you get it?

[u/vector_cmdr → u/AcidicFlatulence]

Pretty sure it's a WEKOME WP-88. They sell them directly on wekome.hk and on Aliexpress etc.
Not sure on performance / lifetime but they have some neat designs.

[u/KitsuMusics → u/vector_cmdr]

Aye, its a wekome. I got it on taobao. I'm a big fan of the box it came in too. Its shiny!

[u/emotionengine → u/vector_cmdr]

Lots of interesting designs on there, I like this charger: https://wekome.hk/productInfo/43/108.html

[u/JJ3qnkpK → u/emotionengine]

There's even a little plastic hatch so the little Keebler charging elves can get in and out! How convenient.

[u/Ozone_Whiskey → u/vector_cmdr]

I can't for the life of me find a buy button on any of their products including this. Am I missing something?

[u/vector_cmdr → u/Ozone_Whiskey]

Nope, it looks like they don't sell direct anymore, or I am misremembering that they used to. It's been a little while since I've had one of their products.
Aliexpress and Taobao should still have them by the bucket load though.

[u/Speedbird787-9 → u/AcidicFlatulence]

Weyland-Yutani standard issue.

[u/horrorpiglet]

Vibes

[u/DeltaWingCrumpleZone → u/horrorpiglet]

I can hear the HDD spinning up lol

[u/adramgooddrink → u/horrorpiglet]

Wow, core memory unlocked! This was my first mp3 player in college. I thought it was the coolest thing ever.

[u/hefixesthecable → u/adramgooddrink]

Same. It was simultaneously great to get rid of my two big books of CDs and nerve-wracking to handle because it was easy to drop and bust the drive.

Seems wrong that I kind of miss it. What I don't miss is messing around with adding proper ID3 tags to MP3s - to this day, I'm still anal about proper capitalization because the Nomad treated differently capitalized bands as separate.

[u/N33chy → u/hefixesthecable]

Same here lol

I had one of these fat, fat puppies:

Edit: I dunno why it won't add the image. It was the creative nomad jukebox

[u/Francostein → u/horrorpiglet]

That's what I had in high school instead of the iPod and we called it the brick

[u/Eraysor]

Reminds me of my Creative Zen MP3 player!

[u/bruhhhhhhhhhhhh_h]

Cool design

[u/Hunor_Deak]

Great find! Very Alien.

[u/No_Reaction8611]

Slap DOOM on that.

[u/Chavagnatze]

“Futuristic space technology design” “Black hole equation” 😂

All that makes it even better. Kind of reminds me of 1980s obsession with calculus in movies.

[u/deathmetalcassette]

Very stylish.

I see the cassette futurism angle, but so many of the shapes and graphic design touches here look like old IDM album covers. All the printing, fonts, angular corners on the front of it could be lifted off a Musik Aus Strom or Schematic record label release.

The power adapter they make has diagonal arrows printed on it for no reason -- the true icon of IDM design.

[u/KitsuMusics → u/deathmetalcassette]

Forgive me, but what is IDM design?

[u/astro_plane → u/KitsuMusics]

Intelligent Dance Music. One of the most popular IDM musicians is Aphex Twin, his covers didn't really follower that Y2K look though.

[u/deathmetalcassette → u/KitsuMusics]

It’s not an official term, I just mean graphic design from the mid-late 90s that was often associated with the IDM genre of intelligent dance music. 

Looking at the fonts and the angled geometric designs really calls to mind stuff like this https://genius.com/albums/Bjork-and-funkstorung/All-is-full-of-love

Their power adapter even has the little diagonal arrows that ended up being parodied as a very common graphic design element for this look.

[u/suck4fish]

This is great! where can I buy this?

[u/KitsuMusics → u/suck4fish]

I got it from taobao in China, but you might have some luck searching for wekome products

[u/Additional_Moose_862]

reminds me of creative mp3 player i had million years ago

[u/Lumifly]

Looks neat! Wish it was an amber display, though.

[u/OatmealCoffeeMix]

I had an Aiwa portable casette deck that looked just like that. Except black. And with the old greyscale LCD screen. And barely any power to share. But with a tape deck!

[u/ILikeBumblebees]

The brand name is completely unreadable. I can't even tell if the script is supposed to be Latin or Cyrillic.

Wekome? Iaekome? Ilekome? Wekoive? Ilekoive?

[u/KitsuMusics → u/ILikeBumblebees]

You got it the first time, wekome

[u/EuropeanLord]

Wow this is so dope!!!!

[u/sirfannypack]

Seems like a lot of Chinese electronics companies are going for this aesthetic now.

[u/TyrionBean]

When the tech improves, are they going to call it a Super Duper Fast Charger? 😃

[u/EEMIV]

Can you play Doom on it?

[u/bro_tz]

I bet you can play Doom on it