Win a Mophie Juice Pack Air for iPhone 3G / 3Gs!
[THANK YOU, WE HAVE A WINNER! THIS CONTEST IS CLOSED. CONGRATS TO FAITHFUL MACENSTEIN READER VINCENT!]
When you think about it, batteries may be the single greatest invention ever. They give us the freedom to use our electronics virtually ANYWHERE, completely freeing us from having to interact with other people. And probably the greatest battery of them all comes from Mophie, makers of the Juice Pack line of iPod and iPhone external batteries. And probably the greatest battery that Mophie makes is the Mophie Juice Pack Air, the super slim battery and iPhone case combined into one sleek, stylish, black, white, or purple case.
If you have an iPhone 3G, you want the Juice Pack Air. Why? Well, because the iPhone eats batteries for breakfast, and odds are you want an iPhone that still works well after lunchtime. The Juice Pack Air is a rechargeable external battery concealed inside of a protective form-fitting case for the iPhone 3G. It offers you the full protection of a hard-shell case while providing virtually twice the battery life of the iPhone alone; all in an ultra-thin, light-weight, low-profile design.
• The world’s thinnest Apple certified “Works With iPhone” external battery for iPhone 3G and 3Gs!
• Rechargeable 1200mAh lithium polymer battery virtually doubles your time to rock, talk, surf and send.
• Pass-through USB charging and sync with iTunes
• Extended smart battery and full case protection
• On/Off switch offers choice of battery or case
• Integrated 4 LED charge status indicator Iight combines nearly all the battery charging goodness of the Juice Pack (almost doubling your iPhone’s battery life) while protecting it inside a protective form-fitting case.
To enter: Batteries do nothing but bring joy to all that behold them, and are responsible for so many wonderful memories. So this week in order to enter, simply tell us what is the best battery powered item you own, or ever owned? (Keep it clean, people). Was it the giant AT-AT star was toy as a kid? Your digital camera? A Zune? Contest ends July 27th, and one winner will be picked randomly (US residents only this time, sorry folks). Good luck, and thanks for reading Macenstein!
Not to be mundane but it’s my iPhone. I use it a lot on battery power. Go figure.
The best battery powered item that I own is my MacBook, because it can do any that you could possibly want. Whether it be browsing the web to view my favorite website, macenstein.com, or watching my favorite television shows. The amazing MacBook is also very sleek and portable, which makes it the best battery powered item that I own, and the best one ever made!
My iPhone and my 17″ G4 Powerbook, back when the battery would power it for more than 5 minutes.
The second would be the baby swing or music light, which keeps my baby quiet!
I had a battery powered plane as a kid that you weren’t supposed to charge past 2 minuted. I charged it 5 and never saw it again!
Alien Attack by Coleco – a hand held video game I had when I was a kid.
It has to be my laser pointer! I annoy the hell out of coworkers, my children, and small pets with it. A close second is my MBP. The battery in my iPhone is pretty much a disappointment… Which is exactly why I need this Juice Pack Air!!
BTW: The link you have for the Juice Pack Air, http://www.mophie.com/products/juice-pack-air, goes to a 404…
Just so that I don’t mention my iPhone, I’m going to have to say that it’s my garage remote.
My transparent-casing Palm III. Not only did I have fun with it, I could say it was a work aid too.
My electric shaver. Always nice to start the day with a clean shave!
I have to say every cell phone I have ever had. Each one gets better and more to waste my time on. Now the iphone battery sucks but I guess I should cut back on playing games on it.
old school gameboy!
My Mac Portable. What’s not to love. 8Mhz 68000, passive matrix monochrome screen, and…lead-acid batteries. Quarter of a ton of Apple goodness.
I’ve owned a lot of batter powered devices, but I can honestly say that the iPhone is the best. But a really interesting device that I still have is a solar powered AM radio (with rechargeable batteries). It was really ahead of its time (and very expensive) when I bought it.
My iPhone is the single coolest most mind boggling thing that uses a battery.
My second iPhone 3GS has a good battery. The first one I got a couple of weeks ago would drain the battery in half a day. The new one at lasts at least a full day.
I think it’s easily overlooked, but my universal remote control for the DirecTV, TV, stereo, DVD, etc must run off the ether….cause I don’t remember ever changing the batteries….but then it’s a low-requirement item. 🙂 I couldn’t think of anything else, but I wanted to enter the contest!
Love my MacBook, gotta have the iPhone, but my video camera is priceless. Love watching video from years past. Now if I had a 3GS, I would have all 3 in one!
I’d have to go with flashlights.
my rechargeable batteries for my Wii remotes. always ready to throw those bowling balls in Boom Blox!
Of course, it has been my old TI-83 Plus calculator!
I’ve had it since high school trig and amazingly it’s only needed new batteries once in 8 years! Sometimes triple A’s aren’t that bad 🙂
These days it’s the MacBook Pro, no question – but if you’re thinking all time, I still have fond memories of the old STAR BIRD and BIG TRAK toys from the 80’s…
I’d have to say my old Kenner® Red Line hand held game. No screen, just loud drag racing-like sounds, variable car classes, and bright lights. I drove my folks NUTS with that thing, but I loved it dearly. I still have it…somewhere…may have to break it out for the boy who’ll be 4 soon. Loved that game…can’t recall if it took just one or two 9-volt batteries. I made Ray-O-Vac a rich company on my own back in the day.
My Macbook, how else would I be able to do my homework in the middle of a ranch in rural Texas?
My very first netbook – the HP100LX.
It was the coolest thing to pop in a couple of AA batteries and be able to run Lotus-123, minesweeper and all the other apps in the palm (well, plams) of my hand. And with the PCMCIA modem you could even get on the internet via the terminal. (sigh) The days before graphical web browsing, flash and all this newfangled stuff. And viruses, email bank scams and all the other fun… (wistful look).
I have to chose one? seriously? I menu I love my MacBook Pro. And of course what would my early teen years have been like without the original Game Boy? But I have to say I cannot imagine my life now without my iPhone.
As a kid, I had a sit’n’spin that looked like the Battlestar Galactica (non-licensed, I’m sure) It had a visor that you looked into while you spun and showed led blips while you pulled triggers that made laser sound effects. Definitely the best toy ever. I attribute my almost complete motion sickness immunity entirely to that toy. I sat’n’spun for hours.
So many wonderful things run on batteries. But my favorite was a flashlight. I know it might sound boring, but to me as a young lad it became a light saber (with of course the red or green lenses put in).
I’d have to say my original 1980s vintage Dark Tower board game.
MacBook Pro
My iPhone and MacBook are right up there, but the best battery-powered device I ever owned was this amazing Japanese English electronic dictionary and translator that I used every day for two years while I was living in Japan. It could look up kanji characters, string them together to form words, and then give you different English language translations. Kept me alive while living abroad.
Easily, my iPhone 3GS.
Definitely my iPhone 3G S. I’ve had every model of iPhone and there’s been nothing but improvement. Unless I need to type a document I really have no need for a Mac anymore.
i would have to say the remote to my DVR….Always on the road, love coming home to all my shows.
I have this little pen light that projects an NHL logo. I think I”ve had it for 5 yrs and it’s still running strong. It could be because I never use it as it projects the Oilers logo and I’m a Blues fan. An ex who was an Oilers fan gave it to me as a gag gift.
my 12″ PowerBook G4. it’s still trucking and i rely on it heavily for school.
my tv/vcr remotes, cuz u know it was too much work to get up and pause a movie or turn the volume up or down. LONG LIVE OBESITY!
Oh tough one. I’m gonna go with my TI-82 calculator. First you had to program line by line, THEN you could play pacman in class. Oh it was awesome.
My old shiny 15″ MacBook Pro, had a great battery life and the backlit keyboard was sooo cool, I missed it when it smoked (perhaps the battery was just too powerful?!?)
jeez its either the iphone or the macbook…or the camera. ha. ill go with the iPhone.
My old iBook. The first computer that was mine and I didn’t have to share with my brother… I treated it like garbage and it still works today.
my camera has a great battery. quick to charge and lasts forever!
I purchased a Sharp scientific calculator my freshmen year of college (1985). Not only did this calculator survive the heavy load of a five year undergraduate engineering program but another seven years after that – all on the original batteries. And this was _not_ a solar calculator it really worked for 12 years on a single set of batteries.
Hope I win,
Michael
I used to have a Big Trak that you could program from a TRS 80 CoCo, and it would carry items to my brother’s room and back. I loved how I could make my computer do truly useful things, and my Big Trak’s 6 D cells made that possible!
my grasshopper RC car that did like 30mph
My xbox 360 contoller. I can play games from my bathroom.
It was the Mattel Football game. Played so much, wore the buttons down.
Gameboy Color
Me iPhone 3G, it keeps me going through the day.
as a child, any semi-functional 9-volt powered toy that required you to test the battery charge on your tounge.