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!
All my Palm/Sony PDAs over the years. The iPhone 3GS is the logical culmination of the PDA and that makes it the best PDA of all time.
I had an Armitron. It was a robotic arm from Radio Shack that took eleventy-billion “D” batteries. Maybe it was 4 “C’s.” I’m not sure.
Easily my macbook, its like my 2nd girlfriend
Game Gear from Sega Genesis. I have lots of great memories with that thing. I just wish it didn’t need 8 AA batteries.
It’s gotta one of my laptops, either one. The Macbook pro or the Macbook. I take one of them with me just about everywhere it seems.
My IP 3g. I’ve never used something so much daily. I read my news on it, buy things on ebay at work (dang those firewalls), listen to music on it, im on it, oh yeah and it’s my phone too.
That’s my boring but factual answer. Have a good one!
Besides my iPhone, iPhone 3G, and iPhone 3Gs…..
My transparent purple gameboy colour…I love that thing.
probably my 4g 40 gig ipod that showed me how much i truly love music. also my 3gs because its so freaking incredible 🙂
I want a juice box!
My iPhone and MacBook!
My best has probably been the batteries in my voice recording Millenium Falcon. I’ve had it since elementary school, and it still works!
In the 70s I had (what I thought was) a really cool watch that played 4 video games on it. Monochrome screen, and shapes composed of little black balls on a whitish background. Endlessly distracting and a sign of things to come.
my remote control, you gotta love being lazy…
TV Remote
One of my calculators. Probably my nSpire CAS, or, my macbook pro.
From my childhood…definitely my Talkboy from Home Alone 2.
i like how all the commenters come out when something’s free! .. i comment on even the unpopular stuff!
my best battery powered item was an official navy-issued flashlight. had an extra bulb in the butt of the flashlight, had one of those 90º angled heads so i could clip it onto my belt, etc. for hands free lighting, and — if things hit the fan — i could use it to bludgeon people cause it was heavy with those D batteries in it. (and navy batteries lasted long than any other)
the thing was a beast
Non-Apple? Gotta be the GameBoy Adv a student left on my desk. I bought Banjo Kazooie for it and was hooked solid on it for weeks. I misplaced it, found it a year later, and I still played on that thing for over an hour before it needed to be recharged.
My old gameboy Man that thing kept me entertained for many a long car ride, rainy day, bus ride bored at family house. By far the best other than the iphone that ran on batteries for me
Well, as much as I want to say that its my iPhone, or even my MacBook Pro, technically cars “run” on batteries. I know that they actually run on the engine, but most of the time (if not all), there’s a battery that is needed to power on the car. And since I’m only 18 years old, and my first car is a 2008 $40,000 Mercedes-Benz, I’m gonna have to say that my car is the best “battery powered” item I have ever owned. My iPhone is way up there though, and I think it might even surpass the car if I had one of the juice packs, so hopefully, I’ll win this one, ’cause I never win anything lol. 🙂
Without a doubt my iPhone. How can it not be the greatest battery powered device of all?
I think my little mattel pro football game, from way back in the 70’s I think. It had the little football field, and you would move the little red dots with the up n down arrow keys on the handheld. I carried that thing everywhere,and got real good with it. I had that game for at least 3-4 years and played it more often then I’d care to admit to.
http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Mattel/FB.htm
My Palm m500. I could go a good week on that thing.
The TV Remote Control
In 1983 I owned my first battery powered laser toy gun. It may not have the huge impact that my MBP and iPhone have had on me, especially from a business standpoint. But for years that little gun kept me entertained. At that time, who needed video games, all the adventures occurred in my head.
Thanks for the great work. I love the site. It is the number Mac blog I follow.
GW
honestly is was my blackberry i had before my blackberry pearl before the original iphone. I think it was an 8300 but i would text and call all day on that and charge it once a week. I was very unbiased about phone batteries until the day i met iPhone lol.
Well, considering my car wouldn’t run without it’s battery, I’m going to say my Subaru.
The first thing that came to mind would be those old lego kits, specifically the Star Wars set that hooked up to your computer.
boring… but definitely my iPhone 3G
My Iphone. It is the single best gadget I have ever owned. I can’t live without that thing. Until the next version….
remote controlled car
old school diskman. saved me in many long road trips with the folks.
My stupid Mass TurnPike original “Fast Lane” transponder.
They said it was supposed to give up and die for a replacement after 5 years, but now close to about 13 years old at it still records my toll-booth usage and debits my bank account accordingly.
Arrrrgh.
I’m going to have to say the mobile that gets me back and forth to work and home every day! Without a battery your car won’t run. Without a running car… I wouldn’t have a job. Without a job… no iPhone. I think you get the idea. 😉
ScottyD
In order of appearance off the top of my head:
1) Remote Control R2-D2
2) AT-AT
3) Powerbook Duo 280c
4) ipod
5) iphone
6) Macbook
My iPhone is the very best battery powered item that I own, and the very best battery powered item that I have ever owned. Hands down.
Even though everyone is saying it, It’s my iPhone.
I hate not being connected, I think I have an addiction, but the first step to getting clean is admitting you have a problem.
GPS. Hands down. With my GPS I can find my way out of almost any situation, and I’m never lost. In fact, with my GPS, I always know where I am.
My blue Sega Game Gear.
My Night Scope
My flashlight. Most versatile for a number of things while having the ability to be super functional with too much dependance on other factors. No cell tower, gasoline, TV monitor, servers.
My flashlight. The most versatile battery operated tool for a number of things while having the ability to be super functional without too much dependance on other factors. No cell tower, gasoline, TV monitor, servers, no other electricity needed!
Best battery powered item… This is a tough one, I mean so many devices over the years, so many toys from days gone by and even now…
I’m going to have to go with the contraptions I built out of a bunch of electronic kits, and jerry-rigged misc old broken electronic devices, creating my own little inventions and experimental devices powered by many assorted batteries, from the simple electromagnet, to programmed robots, as well as many a rube goldberg contraptions with various powered triggers or mechanisms.
That or when I learned citrus could also be a “battery” … science became infinitely cooler when I found that out…
Do my Macbook Pro and my iPhone 3GS both count as one battery powered device if they’re tethered?
I can’t live without either one!
My original GameBoy that was the best battery powered device that I had growing up. I used so many Duracell batteries in that dang thing!
Definitely my walkman which saved my sanity while studying abroad in Ireland.
I had a TurboGrafixExpress (portable turbographics16 |sp!|) that had a TV hookup. It was like 3 pounds, as big and thick as a bible and I could play the same games on it as I could on my TG16 at home. It took 6 AA batteries and would last for about 2 hours on low brightness. So many car rides. So many zombies and giant eyeballs killed in Slaughterhouse… Slaughterhouse iphone app anyone? Just putting it out there.
The best use of a battery power product is my One-Touch ultra mini blood glucose meter. I’ve had it for over a year and half and its still running on the original battery. It hasn’t left me in the lurch.
My BELKIN tunepower for delphi roady xt
My iPhone, hands down. First the original, now the 3GS.