By hook or crook, I recently came into the possession of a Powermonkey-Explorer, a sort of remote battery that can be attached to cellphones, laptops, iPods and other digital devices to provide or prolong the supply of electrical power.Along with the Powermonkey came a thing called the Solar-Slave, a small, fold-out solar collector that can be made to charge the Powermonkey if AC power is not immediately available for charging.
Anyway, I love stuff that falls free as rain into my graspy clutches, so I was all fired up to give this groovy little product a rave review until...well, let's just say I'm havin' a little network difficulty on the iPod front right now. Gotta call Merry Ol' England (where the outfit is that markets the China-made Powermonkey).
Catch PMY Tries (in the "FYI" section of an upcoming issue of Power & Motoryacht) to get the full story.
Hmmmmmm. I wonder how smart it was to hook the Powermonkey up to my battered, hard-travelin' iPod while the Powermonkey was hooked to the Solar-Slave?
