This 70s Era Monstrosity Will Keep Your MacBook Air Juiced In The Post-Apocalypse

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]

John Brownlee

John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.