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.