AA foldable solar charger
powerfilm has produced a new AA foldable solar charger for all your AA-powered equipment. this looks like it would make an excellent addition to your backpacking gear or your quasi-imaginary post-apocalyptic gear list. i don't know how many of you have such a list, but i do. its a few pages long and i go back to it every year or so. maybe it was the era that i grew up in, but i've always been fascinated with the whole mad max scenario. living day-to-day in a post-ww3 world where food is scarce and virtually everything civilized has been completely annihilated, leaving nothing but small interactions of humans across vast wastelands. i grew up playing these scenarios in rural fields wearing jeans and camoflauge, with fruit roll ups in my back pack, and toy guns in my belt. the most common catalysts for such a state as i recall them were "we had a nuclear war with russia", "zombies invaded and ruined everything", and "there was a world-wide electro-magnetic pulse and all technology is now useless". i always had a good reason that the world as we knew it had ended, but the 'why' never really mattered so much as the 'what do i now' type questions. that's where the fun was. my friends and i would exile ourselves to that fantastic world for hours at a time. as an adult [which is what people keep calling me], i find that many with that same end-of-the-world bent as myself have grown up and now call themselves "survivalists". they seem to hang out at sporting shops, horde canned fruit, make more amazing homemade stuff than macguyver could ever dream of, and they like to quote people alot - usually in the form of a prophetic "i told you so" kindof way. but its really all the same thing to me - zombies, nuclear war, john titor, y2k - whatever gets you there. in the end, we just crave destruction and desolation, rebirth and the reinvention of ourselves. and also a cool fort. Matt @ 2:11 PM