Charge your ereader out in the wild

[owly]

BioLite http://www.biolitestove.com/campstov...view/features/has a nifty little camp stove that can be used to charge different devices as well as cook food.

[Rev. Bob]

No, it can be used to charge devices. No content loading capability...

[HarryT]

Given the storage capacity of most readers, content loading wouldn't seem to be high-priority issue. One can store 1000+ novels on pretty much any reader.

[MikeB1972]

Originally Posted by Rev. Bob

No, it can be used to charge devices. No content loading capability...

Be Fair. If your going to correct his English please do it in Swedish.

Hey, this will kick out 2W power, cool

Bet you get some strange looks in the pub charging your reader though.

[owly]

Hi all, I've now changed the wording. In Swedish you can use the word "ladda" for both loading and charging so I hadn't really though about the difference in English before, live and learn..

[HarryT]

I've changed the thread title appropriately.

[theducks]

Interesting

Beats a solar panel because it works even at night or under a NON-enclosed (CO danger) shelter

[Ravensknight]

bookmarked! As a casual "prepper", this looks much more attractive than some of those fuel disc stoves.
and recharging my electronics? Bonus!

Thanks.

[owly]

Here's a review http://gearpatrol.com/2012/09/11/bey...ite-campstove/

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by owly

Here's a review http://gearpatrol.com/2012/09/11/bey...ite-campstove/

It's shooting out flames

Does that mean you can only charge Kindle Fires with it?

[sadievan]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

It's shooting out flames

Does that mean you can only charge Kindle Fires with it?

And grilled bananas.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by sadievan

And grilled bananas.

yummm...

[crich70]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

yummm...

Gotta feed the inner monkey eh tubemokey.

[wizwor]

Originally Posted by owly

Here's a review http://gearpatrol.com/2012/09/11/bey...ite-campstove/

I'd love to have something like this, but I suspect this is more of a novelty or toy than a practical piece of camping equipment. It might be a better idea to build a device that can be dropped in a campfire.

Originally Posted by Review

Due to the relatively small size of the stove, you can only burn small twigs and wood scraps. This means that, while the stove heats up quickly, it also necessitates nearly constant stoking. Turn your back on the stove for a couple of minutes to set up your tent or fish out another beer, and your fire has dwindled and the charging system shuts down until it gets roaring again. Constant stoking also meant removing my cook pot repeatedly to add fuel. My friend and I quickly learned that running the stove to charge a device requires constant attention. It is not the kind of thing you can set and forget while you set up camp and come back to a charged iPhone for your evening’s Pink Floyd. We started with a completely discharged iPhone and it took about an hour of trial and error and scrambling around the forest floor looking for twigs to get the phone to about 8%.

Given the design of the BioLite, packing up required thoroughly cleaning out the ash and charred remains of the fire before nesting components back together. Even so, the stylish orange charging unit still ended up streaked and greasy with black residue the next time I took it apart.

Despite these gripes, there is something satisfying and magical to hearing that familiar iPhone “chirp” when charging begins merely from a fire in the woods. The key with the BioLite is setting reasonable expectations. A phone is a potential safety device and having a means to charge it even to 8% can mean the difference between an emergency text message and sending smoke signal semaphores from a hilltop. The BioLite will not power your evening’s entertainment, but that is probably a good thing anyway.