Duracell Powermat with 8800mAh & 1850mAh Power Bank Set or just the Powermat

  • Practice now for the coming inductive power revolution
  • You just set the Powerbanks on the Powermat for - you guessed it - power
  • The full package includes a Powermat, one big ol’ 8800mAh, 2.1A charger, and one cute li’l 1850mAh, 1A pocket charger
  • If you already bought the power banks, you can get the Powermat by itself for $10, but nobody ever said “I have too many batteries”
  • Model: PCSB1, M2PB1 (That first model number is ideal: a logical abbreviation followed by a single number. Perfect. The second one makes less sense to us, but we’ll assume they know what they’re doing based on how good the first one is.)
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The future is later.

The day is probably coming when nobody will charge anything portable with a cable anymore. You’ll just set it on a mat, leave it there, pick it up, and it’ll be charged. And not just your phone. Or your tablet. Like, you’ll park your electric car on a charging pad every night. The coming generations will think of plugging in your phone the same we think of how our forebears charged their phones by - what was it? Natural gas? Turning a crank? See, we don’t even remember.

With the Duracell Powermat, tomorrow arrives… tomorrow.

We have no idea exactly what form wireless power will take, or what standard will prevail as the technology improves. You got your Powermat, you got your Qi, you got your induction and your transduction and even maybe, in the future, something called “laser power beaming”. Sometime soon, Apple’s going to “innovate” its way onto this bandwagon, at which point the media will finally notice.

One of those versions will win. Maybe two. Some manufacturers already build devices with wireless-power receivers - the Samsung Galaxy S6, for instance, is compatible with both Powermat and Qi chargers. But little people like us are just waiting to see how it all shakes out.

And well, Galaxy S6 aside, the long run isn’t looking any too good for the ol’ Powermat. Who knows, maybe it’ll make a comeback, or it’ll be compatible with whatever wins. Or it’ll be like buying a Betamax VCR. It’s fun, it’s cool, its future is uncertain. Who knows? Not us. The whole mess is complicated.

What isn’t complicated is that the Powermat will always be able to charge these two batteries. And portable batteries will still be the best way to tote power around when you’re nowhere near an outlet-bound inductive charger.

And these particular portable batteries might be our favorites, as we’ve said before.

Along with the Powermat, your $20 gets you a big 2.1-amp charger to throw in your backpack, and a more compact 1-amp charger for your pocket. Or, if you’re one of the thousands who bought the power banks last time, you could just buy the Powermat for $10. We’ll just say: we bet all those people who were stuck with functioning Betamax VCRs wished they had bought more tapes when they had the chance.

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