everyone I know EDCs a light. Usually it is Apple branded, sometimes Samsung, sometimes Google.
Would they be amongst those in Society who struggle to keep their phone charged?
The solution is clear: provide power to customers and employees so they can keep their phones charged by using cell phone charging stations.
electrontogo.com
I believe there is an old adage warning against having one's eggs all in the same basket
We probably all know
someone that's either begging for a charger and cable to top off their phone middle of the day or simply runs out of juice routinely.
But what percentage of our peers is that? I personally tend to end the day at >75% and that includes workdays at the office where I don't use the company wifi and still don't much ration usage. But I'm not
always on my phone either so there's that.
And also how much power is someone going to need to run a flashlight in a contingency situation? A couple minutes' flashlight usage isn't going to be much relative to streaming nextflix over the cellular modem.
I'm a
tad skeptical of Electron To Go's numbers since their business
literally benefits from this very sort of anxiety.
And how many carry one of these?
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It's a $5.00 2600 mAh battery pack. Available at five below.
I sense that there's this weird low-level antipathy in some slices of society against many things
preparedness-esque. I suspect some of this is snobbery - only
blue collar people carry toolbelts and only
the poors have lives unpredictable enough that they need to carry things outside of routine needs. And perhaps some of this is a subconscious sense of the tenuous nature of
modernity that's unpleasant to consider so it's pushed away.
Before the era of glued-together phones I
always bought a spare phone battery; nowadays I tend to have a full charging kit in my work backpack - charger, cables, powerbank. In both cases some people see this as somehow weird
(as I'm neither a road warrior nor backpacking through the Andes) - some even after I've rescued them from a predicament of their own creation.