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iLive Solar Backpack with 4000mAh Power Bank

Charge your shit with this 4000mAh powerbank (enough to fully charge an iPhone 6 roughly 2 times)
Oh right there’s a backpack attached to it, but you can take that off if you just want to use the powerbank
Harness the power of the very sun to (very slowly) recharge the powerbank. Honestly that part’s just kinda fun to play with. Don’t count on it to take you off any grids
Store your stuff in the zippered compartment or whatever, but seriously it’s all about that power bank
No, you don’t get any tax breaks for going solar
Model: IABB56B (This no-nonsense model number totally owns search results, but also shows that nobody knows exactly what to call this thing. One place calls it a “Carrying Case (Backpack) for Tablet,” the iLive website calls it just a “Solar Backpack,” and lots of folks claim it is “Bluetooth” despite that making no sense whatsoever)

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Reggae Sunsplash: The Festival That Made Jamaica Famous

There’s no better way to say “I’m down with Father Sol” than by walking around with a freakin’ solar panel on your flippin’ back, cutting out the fossil-fuel middleman by charging your phones and whatzits with the stored power bank. Solar power isn’t just a concept with this backpack, it’s a militant slogan: “Solar power now!”

You know what else was powered by the sun? Reggae. So it’s only irie that the music’s iconic festival series, launched in 1978, was called Reggae Sunsplash. It was conceived to promote Jamaican tourism via reggae. But there was nothing phony about the power-packed, deep-roots lineups of those early years. By 1985 Reggae Sunsplash became a package tour, and has run intermittently in various forms ever since. But like reggae itself, it’s distant echo of what it once was. I’m Meh contributor @JasonToon, and for the next forty minutes or so, we’re going to hear some of the legends of reggae at the absolute peak of their onstage powers, all recorded during the annual festival’s first few years (also compiled in a YouTube playlist so you don’t have to put down your spliff to keep the groove coming).

Burning Spear - “Foggy Road” (1979)
Lest anyone doubt the roots cred of Reggae Sunsplash, check this haunting performance from Jamaica’s dreadest dread.

Peter Tosh - “Legalize It” (1979)
On this tripped-out version of his classic, Peter doesn’t sound like he was waiting for the legal system’s approval.

Black Uhuru - “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?” (1980)
Black Uhuru, backed by the legendary Sly & Robbie rhythm section, prove that the tightness of their records was no studio phenomenon.

Gregory Isaacs - “Soon Forward” (1981)
Where’s Bob Marley in this list? I couldn’t find a full-song video clip of any of his Sunsplash performances (although partial clips like this are electrifying enough). By 1981, Marley was gone, and that year’s Sunsplash was both a tribute to his memory and a showcase for aspirants to his throne. Here’s Gregory Isaacs, the ever-dapper “Cool Ruler”, making his case.

Eek-A-Mouse - “Ghetto Living” (1981)
1981 was also the year that the DJ style of talking over rhythms started to take form as “dancehall”, which would point the way for reggae’s evolution ever since. Here’s Eek-A-Mouse declaring the future to the Sunsplash crowd.

Steel Pulse - “Unseen Guest” (1981)
Britain’s Steel Pulse bring their version of the music back to the homeland.

The Twinkle Brothers - “Since I Throw The Comb Away” (1982)
The Twinkle Brothers may have grown their dreadlocks for spiritual reasons, but any rock ‘n’ roll weirdo can relate to this complaint about being an outcast because of your wild hair.

Yellowman - “This Old Man / He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands / Give Jah Thanks” (1982)
Honestly, I’m not a huge dancehall fan, but this performance from the six-and-a-half-foot-tall albino king of dancehall is undeniable.

**Toots & the Maytals - “Sweet and Dandy / Bam Bam / Pomps and Pride” (1982)
For contrast, here’s another medley from the same festival, of three of Toots Hibbert’s '60s reggae classics. The songs and the singer are older, but it’s delivered with the same gusto.

Sugar Minott - “Rough Ole Life (Babylon)”
There’s nothing rough about this smooth full-band number from the great Sugar.

Third World - “96 Degrees in the Shade” (1983)
Third World’s signature song was several years old by this time, but they’d lost none of their harmonic richness or instrumental precision.