Speaker 1: Or unique ways to charge up your gadgets. I'm Rich Tamiro.
Speaker 1: This is rich on Tech Daily. If you're a regular
Speaker 1: listener to this podcast, you probably wondered where was I
Speaker 1: for the past week. Well, I took a little vacation
Speaker 1: and for the first time I think forever, I deleted
Speaker 1: all social media.
Speaker 2: Off of my phone.
Speaker 1: So literally I had no Facebook, no Twitter, no Instagram,
Speaker 1: no email for a week. The only way people can
Speaker 1: get in touch with me was through text or phone calls.
Speaker 1: Probably got zero phone calls but a bunch of texts,
Speaker 1: And I gotta say it felt kind of weird, but
Speaker 1: also kind of liberating as well. So if you have
Speaker 1: the opportunity to take a vacation and do that, definitely
Speaker 1: try it out. All right, on to today's information. These
Speaker 1: are some unique ways to charge your gadgets. I'm going
Speaker 1: to tell you about four different products. The first is
Speaker 1: the Tilt Block Party. This is a portable battery and
Speaker 1: a Bluetooth speaker in one. This has a twenty thousand
Speaker 1: million hour capacity That means you can recharge the tip
Speaker 1: iPhone about ten times.
Speaker 2: I really love what Tilt does with their products.
Speaker 1: So they make really nicely designed accessories they were very
Speaker 1: famous for, like their flat charging cable for the car,
Speaker 1: but they also have a bunch of other stuff as well.
Speaker 2: Now, this device is two parts. You get the battery.
Speaker 1: Bank on the bottom, than the Bluetooth speaker that sits
Speaker 1: on the top, and it can play tunes for up
Speaker 1: to seventy two hours. There's also four USB ports. Your
Speaker 1: friends can join in on the charging as well. This
Speaker 1: is one hundred and thirty dollars. Next up is the
Speaker 1: Loomy Power Light. Now you might have heard Loomy. They're
Speaker 1: famous for their light up phone cases. Basically they have
Speaker 1: cases for the iPhone that sort of have LED strips
Speaker 1: first on the front for selfies, then they put them
Speaker 1: on the back if you want to take them that way.
Speaker 1: But now they're applying that same LED technology to a
Speaker 1: portable power bank. So this is basically your typical backup battery.
Speaker 1: It's called the Loomi Power Light. But it also has
Speaker 1: a built in LED light. So one side of the
Speaker 1: battery is basically a flat screen of LED.
Speaker 2: And what do you use that for?
Speaker 1: Will you can get creative with your videos, you can
Speaker 1: light up your selfies, you can use it to light
Speaker 1: up your Facebook lives, there's also a strobe light function,
Speaker 1: so if you want to make your videos look extra unique,
Speaker 1: but more importantly, you're probably gonna use that to get
Speaker 1: some attention wherever you are, so it's kind of fun.
Speaker 1: This is built for functionality and also fun. But again
Speaker 1: it's called the Loomy Power Light and that is fifty dollars.
Speaker 1: Next up the rav Power Power Bank. And what's cool
Speaker 1: about this one is it's the first backup battery I've
Speaker 1: seen that has wireless charging built right into it. And
Speaker 1: now that the iPhone has wireless charging, of course, wireless
Speaker 1: charging is super popular. Everyone's looking for a way to
Speaker 1: wirelessly charge their phone. Samsung's had it for a while,
Speaker 1: but now that iPhone has it, it's.
Speaker 2: Really pushed the popularity up.
Speaker 1: So this rav Power power Bank lets you wirelessly charge
Speaker 1: your phone just about anywhere. All you have to do
Speaker 1: is lay your phone on the top and it will
Speaker 1: wirelessly charge it.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Rav Power says that their wireless charging is a little
Speaker 1: bit faster than everyone else's. They use something called hyper
Speaker 1: air technology. This is their proprietary technology to safely charge
Speaker 1: iPhones at full speed. They say it is faster than
Speaker 1: the competition. We tested the PB eighty model. This has
Speaker 1: a ten four hundred million amp hour battery along with
Speaker 1: a USB C and a USB C Quick Charge three
Speaker 1: point zero port. Basically, you're gonna be able to charge
Speaker 1: your phone the fastest input and output with this device,
Speaker 1: and it's got everything covered for you. Finally, this is
Speaker 1: the granddaddy of all chargers and my favorite of the bunch.
Speaker 2: It's called the Omni Charge.
Speaker 1: It's a little bit more expensive than your typical power bank,
Speaker 1: but it has everything. This is literally the nerds dream
Speaker 1: and the road warriors dream when it comes to a
Speaker 1: power bank. So let me tell you about some of
Speaker 1: the features on this thing. First off, it's a brick.
Speaker 1: It's big, but it has a lot of power. Twenty
Speaker 1: thousand plus millionamp hours of capacity, so that's pretty big.
Speaker 2: But they do have several different models.
Speaker 1: And the cool thing about this is it really gives
Speaker 1: you the flexibility to charge just about anything. So there's
Speaker 1: a built in AC outlet, so yes, you get a
Speaker 1: real power outlet just like you'd see in the wall.
Speaker 1: There's also a DC port, and what that DC port
Speaker 1: does is it allows you to basically charge things like laptops,
Speaker 1: Microsoft Surface all those things with kind of a little
Speaker 1: adapter plug and it's going to give you the fastest
Speaker 1: charge for all those devices. Now I didn't test this
Speaker 1: aspect of it, but a lot of people apparently like
Speaker 1: the fact that you can recharge the Omni Charge by
Speaker 1: plugging in a solar panel to it. So if you're
Speaker 1: really somewhere out in the woods, this device can be
Speaker 1: your all in one. And the other thing I really
Speaker 1: love about the Omni Charge there's a little built in
Speaker 1: LCD screen. And why do you need that? Well, it's
Speaker 1: really handy because most of these batteries that I've tested,
Speaker 1: these little portable chargers, they have like one, two, three,
Speaker 1: or four LED lights on them that kind of give
Speaker 1: you an indicator of how good the battery is, if
Speaker 1: you've got twenty five percent left, fifty percent left, seventy
Speaker 1: five percent, or fully charged. This one has an LED
Speaker 1: screen that literally tell you the specifics. It's gonna tell
Speaker 1: you how fast your device is charging, so you're gonna
Speaker 1: see that right on the screen. Plus's gonna tell you
Speaker 1: exactly how much battery is left, and all in real time.
Speaker 1: The Omni Charge starts at one hundred and eighty dollars.
Speaker 1: But believe me, if you're a road warrior, you gotta
Speaker 1: check this thing out, all right. If you don't want
Speaker 1: something expensive, you just want something basic, I recommend the
Speaker 1: Anchor Power Core. This is about thirty dollars and it's
Speaker 1: gonna charge your phone about three to five times.
Speaker 2: I've used it in the past.
Speaker 1: It gets lots of great reviews on Amazon, and you
Speaker 1: can get links to all of these devices on my website.
Speaker 1: Just go to rich on tech dot tv. Thanks so
Speaker 1: much for listening to the podcast. You guys thought I
Speaker 1: ditched you, but I did not. Glad to have you back,
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Speaker 1: at richontech dot tv.
Speaker 2: I'm Richidmirol. I'll talk to you real soon.