Episode 20: The Colossus That Is Power
I want someone, anyone to just roundhouse kick me in the fucking mouth. Not Chuck Norris, though...that would do me in for good.
I know that many of you, my dear readers are really wanting to know why I'd request such a thing. It's because I didn't think to invent the iGo chargers. If it's one thing that was driving Misty up a fucking wall, it wasn't all the electronic gadgets, gizmos, doodads and whoozemwhatzitz I carry with me at all times. It's all the chargers.
At any given time, in our bedroom, there was a charger for about six or seven portable devices though I only used maybe two a total of seven days a week. All those cables were everywhere and I kept losing the charger to my emergency backup phone. I still keep a Virgin Mobile around just in case my iPhone died at a really inopportune time. Not only that but the only way for me to charge my Palm TX was to leave my computer running and charge it through the sync cable which was the worst thing I could do. I didn't want to have to fire up the computer just to charge a device.
If necessity is the mother of invention, frustration is definitely the father.
Enter the iGo charger.
I stopped into a local RadioShack to pick one up and I had a shopping list of tips. I'd done my research on this device and I was initially turned off by the "i" in iGo. I thought it was a cheap marketing gimmick that was one of the most insipid and trite gimmicks ever conceived. Every time I turned around there was a new iProduct on the market; The iPod, The iTouch, The iPhone, The iHome and now, The iGo. It wasn't just the name of the product line that initially turned me off but it was the seemingly insipid puns like The iGo Everywhere Max (for laptops) and, to me, the price just wasn't right at all.
I'd been considering some ways to organize the chargers until I finally finished the research and talked to owners of the iGo Solution. I'd finally listened to those in the know and found, much to my horror, they were right. This charger was the way to go.
The first thing I charged was my Palm TX and, though the battery was stone dead, this thing rapidly charged the device awesomely. Later, at a restaurant, I'd strategically chosen a table near a power port and plugged in, this time I plugged in my iPhone as it was running low and I was expecting a call from a friend. For this particular tip, if you're an OtterBox user like me, remove the OtterBox. It gets in the way of the tip. It worked and got me enough of a charge to keep the Google Map feature going as well as allowing me to look up info on my favorite Heroes characters until we returned home. We weren't at the restaurant for too long. When the iGo says it "rapidly" charges your devices, they don't screw around.
I usually talk a lot about my electronic devices but it's the power aspect I fail to mention.
Got that locked in your brain? Good. Here's where the really cool part comes in and I hope The Church doesn't mind that I shopped at The Shack but they were right there. I know that my high priest is going to be pissed at me for that. Not that I really care, I needed a solution and I don't give a crap and a half about the heresy I've committed. Okay, cool part, right. All I bought was ONE charger. That's right...ONE wall charger. I ended up with interchangeable tips for my Virgin Mobile Phone, my iPhone, my iPod, my Palm TX and my PSP (PlayStation Portable) and a splitter for charging two devices at once. This is when I learned just how the buying process works at The Shack.
When you buy a Charger (Home or Auto), Splitter, USB Cable or Backup Battery, you get five bucks off your first tip. Trick is, make a shopping list of your devices. Make sure you have model numbers if you need to. The Sales Associate at RadioShack is more than happy to look them up for you. Make your list along with the prices. I'm going to warn you ahead of time that you're probably going to spend a decent amount (a good charging solution is probably going to run you almost $100 if you have multiple devices) but the money you save on lost chargers is worth it. Get your home charger, a splitter and all your tips or just a few for starters and revel in the genius of this product.
You leave one charger plugged in, if you're only charging one device, pop that tip on to the open end and charge your device, when you're ready to charge your next device, switch tips. If you need to charge two at once, pop a tip onto each open end of the splitter and then pop the whole thing onto the open end of the charger. You get the picture. Need to store the tips, a simple, cheap camera case is ideal for keeping your tips or, if you only have a couple of tips, there is a nice little holder designed to hold two tips on the cable of the charger itself. iGo has really made an awesome product.
Now why do I want someone to roundhouse kick me in the fucking mouth? Because I wish I had thought of it.
I know that many of you, my dear readers are really wanting to know why I'd request such a thing. It's because I didn't think to invent the iGo chargers. If it's one thing that was driving Misty up a fucking wall, it wasn't all the electronic gadgets, gizmos, doodads and whoozemwhatzitz I carry with me at all times. It's all the chargers.
At any given time, in our bedroom, there was a charger for about six or seven portable devices though I only used maybe two a total of seven days a week. All those cables were everywhere and I kept losing the charger to my emergency backup phone. I still keep a Virgin Mobile around just in case my iPhone died at a really inopportune time. Not only that but the only way for me to charge my Palm TX was to leave my computer running and charge it through the sync cable which was the worst thing I could do. I didn't want to have to fire up the computer just to charge a device.
If necessity is the mother of invention, frustration is definitely the father.
Enter the iGo charger.
I stopped into a local RadioShack to pick one up and I had a shopping list of tips. I'd done my research on this device and I was initially turned off by the "i" in iGo. I thought it was a cheap marketing gimmick that was one of the most insipid and trite gimmicks ever conceived. Every time I turned around there was a new iProduct on the market; The iPod, The iTouch, The iPhone, The iHome and now, The iGo. It wasn't just the name of the product line that initially turned me off but it was the seemingly insipid puns like The iGo Everywhere Max (for laptops) and, to me, the price just wasn't right at all.
I'd been considering some ways to organize the chargers until I finally finished the research and talked to owners of the iGo Solution. I'd finally listened to those in the know and found, much to my horror, they were right. This charger was the way to go.
The first thing I charged was my Palm TX and, though the battery was stone dead, this thing rapidly charged the device awesomely. Later, at a restaurant, I'd strategically chosen a table near a power port and plugged in, this time I plugged in my iPhone as it was running low and I was expecting a call from a friend. For this particular tip, if you're an OtterBox user like me, remove the OtterBox. It gets in the way of the tip. It worked and got me enough of a charge to keep the Google Map feature going as well as allowing me to look up info on my favorite Heroes characters until we returned home. We weren't at the restaurant for too long. When the iGo says it "rapidly" charges your devices, they don't screw around.
I usually talk a lot about my electronic devices but it's the power aspect I fail to mention.
Got that locked in your brain? Good. Here's where the really cool part comes in and I hope The Church doesn't mind that I shopped at The Shack but they were right there. I know that my high priest is going to be pissed at me for that. Not that I really care, I needed a solution and I don't give a crap and a half about the heresy I've committed. Okay, cool part, right. All I bought was ONE charger. That's right...ONE wall charger. I ended up with interchangeable tips for my Virgin Mobile Phone, my iPhone, my iPod, my Palm TX and my PSP (PlayStation Portable) and a splitter for charging two devices at once. This is when I learned just how the buying process works at The Shack.
When you buy a Charger (Home or Auto), Splitter, USB Cable or Backup Battery, you get five bucks off your first tip. Trick is, make a shopping list of your devices. Make sure you have model numbers if you need to. The Sales Associate at RadioShack is more than happy to look them up for you. Make your list along with the prices. I'm going to warn you ahead of time that you're probably going to spend a decent amount (a good charging solution is probably going to run you almost $100 if you have multiple devices) but the money you save on lost chargers is worth it. Get your home charger, a splitter and all your tips or just a few for starters and revel in the genius of this product.
You leave one charger plugged in, if you're only charging one device, pop that tip on to the open end and charge your device, when you're ready to charge your next device, switch tips. If you need to charge two at once, pop a tip onto each open end of the splitter and then pop the whole thing onto the open end of the charger. You get the picture. Need to store the tips, a simple, cheap camera case is ideal for keeping your tips or, if you only have a couple of tips, there is a nice little holder designed to hold two tips on the cable of the charger itself. iGo has really made an awesome product.
Now why do I want someone to roundhouse kick me in the fucking mouth? Because I wish I had thought of it.
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