Are you looking for an external battery for your MacBook Air cobbled together from the cutting edge of Kruschev-era Soviet electronics? Want less functionality in that battery than one of Sanho’s excellent HyperMac offerings while also doing your small part to slaughter Mother Earth? Most importantly, want a gadget that can accomplish all of these heady things at a price far, far greater than the more eco-friendly competition? We’ve got you covered.
Meer the MacBook Air External Power from Bird Electron. For around $290, not only do you get a gadget that looks like a 60s era tape recorder and (at 3.3 pounds) weighs just as much, but it even runs off of the same power source as one: eight huge C-cell batteries.
Compared to HyperMac’s batteries which, for a similar price, will charge your Air for about 9-10 hours, Bird Electron’s offering will only give you two extra hours of juice. It’s such a laughably crappy deal that we’d be hesitant to even plug it, except, you know, this might be the only thing keeping your MacBook Air juiced up in the electricity-free post-apocalypse. If you think you’re likely to see one of those anytime soon, give it a go
[via Gadget Lab]
