Moixa USB Cell: It Really Works!
About a month ago, Moixa Energy announced a brilliant idea: AA-sized NiMH batteries rechargeable over USB. They looked like penlight batteries but pop open its cap and you would see a USB connector. Plug it into a USB port and the battery would charge. Ingenious.
Now, the old hands at TrustedReviews got hold of some of those USB Cells and put them to a test. They stuffed the USB Cells into a Fujifilm FinePix S602Z camera and took pictures with it. For comparison, they used another set of Duracell alkaline batteries and did the same.
The verdict: pretty good; the USB cells did exceptionally well, taking well over 500 pictures compared with just a few photos taken with the Duracell alkaline batteries.
The downside: it’s quite expensive at $24 for a pair of AA-sized cell.
Indeed the USB Cell is a brilliant invention by Moixa Energy – a NiMH battery rechargeable over USB – but look at its very low score on value for money: TrustedReviews gave it a mere 6 out of 10 and we fully agree. It’s way too expensive for a penlight battery.
We remember that only about a year ago, it was ThumbDrive who first came out with a USB stick flash drive with a price so exorbitant it was disgusting. Then everybody made USB sticks and made them cheaper and where is ThumbDrive now?
Moixa had better go down in price soon or they could go the way of the ThumbDrive too.
[Via: TrustedReviews.com]
Moixa, USB Cell, batteries, ThumbDrive
