Gadling

Scott,

I enjoyed your review. A couple of thoughts:

You wrote, "The advantages of the device don't come to their full potential unless you find yourself in a situation where you are nowhere near a regular power source for several days . . ."

I think this kind of misses the point. This product is ready to use right out of the package, never needs charging from a wall socket, and for the first time allows complete independence from the wall socket (unless you want to mess around with something like Energizer's "Energi To Go" and lots of premium AA batteries). It's not so much about "finding yourself in a situation where you are nowhere near a regular power source for several days" (although this product would be great for that - camping, extended grid outages, etc.). It's more about your handset battery not being able to get you through a day of voice calls, mobile web browsing, etc., and finding yourself in a situation where you have to sit near a wall socket and wait for your handset battery to charge, thereby limiting your mobility. The Medis product allows you to effectively take the wall socket with you. No more waiting. Freedom from the socket. A socket in your pocket.

You also wrote "once you activate a power pack, it immediately starts making electricity until the fuel cell runs out".

I think this could be misleading. The product does have a self-discharge rate once it is activated, but the fuel cell is self-regulating, and its self-discharge rate is much slower than when the product is actually charging something. If you were to activate a power pack and immediately put it in a drawer without charging anything you could come back many weeks later and still be able to charge devices with it.

Thanks again for the thoughtful review.

David Redstone, Editor & Publisher
"The Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Investor"
http://www.h2fc.com/

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