$100 ‘Charging Station’ Is Just A Leather Pouch With a USB Hub Inside
You probably own a charging station like this already
Why carry just a tiny iPad charging brick and a few miniature USB cables to juice all of your gadgets when you could instead schlep this huge "Portable Charging Station with Cable Rack" along with you instead? That’s what AViiQ hopes you’ll do, and it also wants you to pay $80-$100 for the privilege.
The "portable" charging station is a zip-up pouch with a 4-port USB hub inside, and a wall-wart to power it. Also in the bag are four cable-winders to keep things tidy. You can choose from two different materials for the pouch — nylon for $80 and leather for $100.
But I honestly don’t see the point. You can of course charge more than one device at a time, but I almost never need to do that when traveling. I really do find that the iPad charger married with a set of Griffin’s miniature USB cables is easily enough to keep my iPod Touch, my iPad and my Kindle powered for weeks at a time. Better, the charger comes free with the iPad, and if you don’t care to buy a set of travel cables you can just dig some out from the tangle of USB cables you already own.
- Thanks Pedro!
Charlie Sorrel sits in his gadget nerve-center in Barcelona, Spain, and spits out words about various weird plastic widgets while the sun shines outside his iCave. Previously found at Wired.com's Gadget Lab covering cameras, power cables and sneaking in as much Apple-centric coverage as he could, Charlie spends his rare moments outside perched atop a bicycle and snapping photos. You can follow him on Twitter via 
