With the trend of unremovable batteries in laptops and smartphones, power banks have become quite essential to one’s daily carry in their backpack. At first, consumers were looking for 5000 mAh battery packs, then 10000 mAh, and then 20000 mAh, as our electronics become more and more power-hungry. Well, one Chinese influencer has taken power banks to another level as he has now created a 27 million mAh power bank from scratch.

Chinese electronics handyman influencer, Handy Geng, recently published a video on his Weibo and YouTube, titled “I Made a 27,000,000 mAh Portable Power Bank”. In the video, he satirically mentions that he is fed up with his friends having bigger power banks than him, and he wanted to show that he had the biggest and longest-lasting battery of them all.

From the construction of the power bank, it seems like the man bought himself a huge flat battery pack, similar to those you would find on the bottom of an EV. He then protected the battery pack with a silver metallic casing to make the design resemble much of a power bank albeit enlarged.

Next was to set up the input and output charging ports, the mad lad installed 1 input charging port with 60 output charging ports that support up to 220V of electrical potential voltage. 

He demonstrated that with his newest “invention”, this power bank can now charge up to 20 devices ranging from smartphones, tablets, and laptops at the same time. 

In addition, with the power bank’s high 220V voltage rating, it can also support charging a TV, a washing machine, and an electric induction cooker pot, all at once with no major short circuits. 

However, due to comedic and exaggerated purposes, the power bank is no longer portable due to its sheer size. But hey, at least when the power is out, this power bank can now save the day with its humungous capacity.

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Smartphones have come a long way in the past few years, from being a brick-like electronic gadget for the sole purpose of making and receiving phone calls, to a device that can potentially replace computers.

Almost every part of the new age phone has seen some kind of upgrade for a better experience, but I am sure many would agree that battery life is still one of the biggest issues among smartphones today. Of course, there are large battery phones, but sometimes even they don’t as last long as you want.

Then, there’s the option of a powerbank, which almost all heavy smartphone users seem to resort to nowadays. But that may not be ideal for many, given that you have to carry an additional gadget around (which weighs a bit) and then there’s the possibility you forget to bring one in your bag or worse, you forget to charge the powerbank itself. For people, who always seem to be struggling with their smartphone’s battery life, AnkerBox seems to have come up with a solution.

We have seen Chinese companies come up with some innovative ideas in the past, but this one’s unique. AnkerBox aims to provide charging-as-a-service. Yes, you heard it right, this company thinks that providing a charging station for your smartphone at a small cost is a great idea. It’s literally renting the charging for your smartphone.

So how does it work? Well, AnkerBox (a subsidiary company of Anker) will install its AnkerBox Charging stations (filled with many 6700mAh Anker powerbanks) in prime locations like malls, stores, cafes etc, where you can go and charge your phone. The idea is simple, you install the special app for this service and go ahead and rent a powerbank on the Ankerbox. You can get up to 30 minutes of free charging for your phone. But if you want more charge, you can take one of the many Anker powerbanks in the Ankerbox for a rent of $1.99 per day. If you want to go a step further, you can keep the powerbank for yourself, by paying $30. Pretty neat, right?

This idea could potentially solve the problem of dead batteries on smartphones when you are out, but its success really depends on how well consumers find it useful.

Initially, AnkerBoxes will be installed in over 200 gyms, bars, stores in the city of Seattle. For now, there’s no information about availability in other cities/ countries. But if it works well, expect such boxes to come to your favorite bars and stores.

So, what do you think? Does it sound like a good idea to you?

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