Koss Totem Mani-2 Manuel d'utilisateur télécharger pdf (Page 51)

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t struck us when we were packing

up to go to Vegas for CES and

T.H.E.Show: each year we need

more and more chargers to go

anywhere.

Not all of our chargers are related

to audio, to be sure, though some of

them are. Two of us went along to

cover the shows (see Vegas 2006 in UHF

No. 75), and we actually brought along

no fewer than seven chargers! Count

’em: an iPod, a Palm Life Drive (which

is a video players among other things),

a Palm Tungsten T, an Apple iBook, a

Pentax Optio digital camera, and two

telephones (Siemens and Motorola).

We wondered what all those boxes and

wires would look like on an airport X-ray

screen!

Which is why the iGo Everywhere

Dual Power 130, shown above, grabbed

our attention. It promised to replace all

of our chargers except the one for the

camera (the Optio battery unfortunately,

can’t be recharged in the camera). It

comes in two parts. The larger box can

charge laptop computers. The smaller

add-on box, which is an option but is

included in the package we got, can

charge the iPod, phones and other small

products. Your main problem will be

rounding up the adapters for everything

you own, but with the company’s help we

got ’em all, even the one for a Motorola

P280 phone, which took a little longer.

There’s one down side: the iGo can

recharge all six devices, but not all at

once. On the plus side, you can travel

worldwide with it, because it adjusts itself

to whatever voltage is in the wall.

Each device of course requires its own

adapter tips, and in our case that meant

six adapters. The vinyl iGo carrying

pouch has a pocket for adapters, but good

luck ﬁguring out that “A20” is what you

need for a Motorola phone. We picked

up one of those dollar store giant pill

boxes, with seven compartments for the

days of the week, and relabelled them.

Do you need one?

Not everyone travels with as many

devices as we do. Six chargers is a lot,

whereas three or four may be a bearable

number.

And six devices may not mean six

chargers. If one of the devices you carry

is a laptop computer (you’re unlikely

to buy the iGo otherwise), it’s possible

that other devices can be recharged by

simply plugging them into the laptop’s

USB connector. That’s true of the iPod,

and it’s also true of the Palm Tungsten

handheld (though not of the Life Drive).

Indeed, the Palm and iPod travel char-

gers are substantially identical: plug-in

cubes with USB jacks.

And the iGo Everywhere may not

make your luggage lighter. We weighed

all six chargers we wanted to replace and

came up with a total of 762 grams. The

weight of the iGo with its cords, except

the optional car cord? It was 738 g, and

that didn’t include the six adapter tips.

But weight isn’t everything. If we had

measured the kilometers of tangled cord

on each of our adapters, it would have

put the iGo way ahead. What’s more,

rounding up our six chargers means get-

ting down on hands and knees to unplug

them, and the danger of forgetting a

charger for a critical device is very real.

What it costs

As we went to press we didn’t have

ofﬁcial list prices, so we relied on iGo’s

on-line store (www.igo.com), and in

Canada, the catalog for The Source.

The unit we have seems to sell for

US$150/C$190, with adapter tips going

for US$10/C$12. Considering the going

price for just a charger for a modern

laptop, that’s not bad. And street prices

may be well below that.

An alternative?

At the same time we saw the iGo, we

also looked at an interesting universal

charger from a company called MFuel.

It’s called the Universal Power Bank,

and there was a picture of it in our Vegas

report in UHF No. 75.

The MFuel device can also charge

everything you’ve got, but it can do

more. It has its own rechargeable battery,

and it can power those devices, to give

you extra usage far from a power source.

We asked for a review sample and got no

reply. Since Vegas, its price rose from

US$300 to $400.

Our guess, however, is that it weighs

a lot more than 738 grams!

Power On the Go

And how many power

chargers do you

travel with?

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