An Accessible Tactile & Voice Power Bank—Made Better by You!

Hey, this seems like a pretty cool power bank. My question is would this be available in Australia?

10000 milliamp hours for $80 is insane to me. I know, I know. The TTS, and the pins. But you can get a regular power bank that is around 45,000 milliamp hours for almost half the price.

22.5w charging speed is less than half of what the speed the iPhone 18 pro can do. When you’re charging your phone via power bank, you’re looking for a quick charge, you wanna be back using it very quickly, so charging speed is important. I’m very disappointed that it’s so slow at charging devices.

Is this power bank only offered in English? I only ask because on your website you mentioned you support over 20 countries so…

I ordered this on Friday evening. I can't wait to check it out! A power bank isn't really something I have need for very often, but perhaps that would change if I actually had one I liked and could fully use.

How do you use a powerbank rong? you plug it in to the device in question, and it charges. Most newer banks have tiny numerical screens that seeing AI or even the normal lockscreen camera on iPhones have no trouble reading if you really must know the level. A feature like level read out is more important on smaller power banks like this but then, your paying more for less because you now have to acount for fitting in electronics for the speech and pins, now you could have got 2 to even 4 times the copasity for its cost, and its only extra function is to talk and show indicator pins that are in percentages of 25 with no ability to choose the language on the device. well i guess i personally just don't see the point. Not even 4 points. or pins. :) I like the idea, and its awesome that someone from the company is here answering questions, and maybe one day if the capacity gets bigger while staying in that price range i will jump to them, because small companys and all that. Also seeing how the longterm life of the pack is, because that is what i have seen other atempts at accessible battery banks skimp out on. Best of luck and hope to see awesome things in the feuture.

If this had solar charging I'd be all over this thing. Think of all the users you'd get with both solar and USB charging? Keep in mind I have not looked at the specifications and if this is indeed the case then disregard. I camp and fish sometimes and would love for this to be on the roadmap.

Just use the camera of the very same phone that you're charging to know the status of the power bank. The power bank charges the phone; the phone tells you how much juice the power bank has left to charge it as the power bank continues to supply power. This mutual interaction and reciprocity between two technological devices can be turned into a dramatic novel or movie. An AI written one. And then you can make quite a lot of money. The concept of an accessible power bank is one that I thought of so long ago, but I don't have the money to actually manufacture it. So you have the idea but someone else has the money and sells a niche product that does stuff that can be done in other ways, at quite a high price because we can always be exploited for our needs and demands.

To me, having a talking power bank is infinitely more time efficient than firing up live recognition or whatever to check the status of the power bank. Why would I want to waste 30 seconds or longer doing something that would take 10 seconds or less using this power bank?

That will come in 30 years. I do have many chargers and I check how much is my phone charging until it gets to 100%. In a perfect world, we get one that is fast, over 10.000 and not so much pricy. Accessible can be done with haptic, and tone, do we need the braille dots? I do not think so.

1. Haptic feedback is already silent enough; you may not need Braille dots/pins at all.
2. If a company that already manufactures power banks and sells them to the so-called average or typical user were to decide to ship a new or existing product with additional accessibility enhancements, the price would still be lower. So the problem is not only that this thing is a niche product; the problem is also that the company is a smaller one targeting a tiny user base trying to sell this thing and make too much revenue from a product that offers less compared to its so-called mainstream counterparts, on grounds that they need money to compete with larger companies, or that their product is a truly unique and exceptional game changer/life saver.

the hate for developers and creative on this site is starting to get out of control. I know people have their own opinions, but it's really not cool when people are trying to help the people who actually need it, this product could be useful for some people.
but being dragged down and down and down by people who won't even use the damn thing.
Seriously, just because you don't use the product or won't use the product doesn't mean you should take everyone else with you. Some people will have use cases for it.
I use an android so checking the battery status of the power bank may not be as easy so checking it on the power bank itself sounds pretty appealing. Does that mean I would buy it? Probably not. But do I still feel sympathetic to the developer because people who aren't even going to use their product are not even trying to give any good stuff for them at least trying to develop this? Yes. Especially if the power bank does turn out to be a device that lasts long in every way such as how long it will last in regards to years and battery life itself.

What I said is that the price is too high for such a thing, partly because of certain reasons mentioned earlier that are only partially understandable. And this (that certain users will buy such products anyway, no matter how expensive) is already exactly why their prices remain so high even despite all these explicit objections. Because they always find someone like you to come up and defend them. I have no personal hatred or anything toward anyone; I knew and still know nothing about the poster even after posting about this power bank. But I do have the right to express my take on the product itself without getting personal.

And how much? What would qualify as "sufficiently better" for you? What's the threshold? Who decides on that? And let me ask you another question. Well, this may be one that deserves an answer from the company rather than you, but my question is this: Before we can even ask whether a product with certain specs would satisfy you, we have to ask whether a product with the same specs produced by a rival company would satisfy Wiltrue. If they really fight for a noble cause and aim to make everyday items accessible, than it shouldn't matter to them if another company does that better, as the ultimate objective would be accomplished after all. But if they still protest and say, "No, wait, we're gonna do it, and we were already working on it but you beat us!" then what they ultimately strive for is their own profit and they would do nothing without this incentive, just like Apple and other global corporations. And now let me ask you a second question Ernesto. What would you do if you were the CEO and even owner of a global giant like Apple, Google, Meta, or Microsoft? Let's say you're sighted and you don't care about accessibility unless investing in it brings more profit in return. And users like me bombard you with critical reviews and complaints. And then someone else comes up and tries to win over me by releasing something that is allegedly more blind-friendly and attempting to convince me. You would try to crush that rival before it becomes a real threat, right? Even if you couldn't make your own stuff as accessible? Or what would you do if you were that minor competitor instead? Would you really fight for justice and directly address the global giants and spend all your money to demand them to make their products more accessible, or would you just found your own company and compete for a larger share of the market? Would you really resist exploiting the needs and expectations of those with disabilities? And what about Apple? How much would Apple prioritize accessibility if it depended on us to exist and grow? It's because Wiltrue is not as rich as Apple that they follow a so-called clever and careful strategy and address blind users only, claiming their product fills a vital gap. They do fill a gap, but in the market, rather than in our lives. Large corporations won't lose much if they ignore accessibility because blind and visually-impaired users make up only a small fraction of their customer base, but minor competitors like Wiltrue position themselves in that exact spot and build their narrative on this. This is why they pretend to care about us, because we constitute their customer base as they can't afford a larger one, unlike larger companies, just because we can't afford certain products as opposed to richer people. You know what? Even many blind developers themselves do the very same thing. They release an app or introduce a product, build their narrative on unrealistic and overly optimistic/empathetic claims, charge us a high price and beg for money, only to disappear after a while. And then there are some who really try to do something but don't have the money to fund their effort. So I do know what I'm talking about.

Okay, if you say so, then I won't insist.

Sorry, but I can't resist the following observation: ironic, isn't it, that a debate about a power bank has brought forth such a highly charged string of comments? even more ironic, isn't it, that the comments' becoming highly charged seems to have stemmed from the power bank's apparent lack of charging capacity? These are truly, truly golden days indeed! Don't spoil it, Michael! speaking for myself, I like the convenience factor of this product. I'm not sufficiently familiar with power bank capacity to comment on the capacity. Mrs Bingo bought me a power bank a couple of years back. How much power it adds to my elbow, to say nothing of my iPhone, I've no bleedin' idea. The bloody thing either has charge in it, or it doesn't. I can see how this is not a desirable state of affairs to continue. I daresay I could recreate what this product does by taking a photo of this, running it through that app, then checking I'm correct with the other app, in the same way that I could achieve the same speed as a car simply by taking enough horses in harness for my carriage, but it does seem rather a lot of work. I think there's the makings of a good product here and as soon as I can get away with buying another power bank without hurting the other half's feelings, I might just do so. Is it available in this our England?

I remember that game. Loved it. that is all.

22W is entirely to slow. support 45w or higher I'll be in. You get what you pay for.