A pack of two NiMH AA cells will cost you $19.50. The positive end of the battery flips back to reveal a USB connector. Plug the batteries into any USB port on your computer or into a powered hub and voila, five hours later you’ve got freshly charged batteries.
 has been draining the ol’ wallet for a couple weeks now.
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<strong>UPDATE:</strong>USBCell was commended last week as a finalist for the Design Week Award for best consumer product of 2006. The Apple Shuffle was the winner in the category, not too shabby guys.<br />
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When charging, the rim of the battery maintains a constant green glow. At 90 percent it begins to flash and it finally turns off when fully charged. Pretty sweet.
The company plans to roll out AAA, C, D and 9-volt cells in the near future. It also has cellphone batteries in the works. We can’t wait.
very interested to hear how long they last in the xbox controllers – almost bought them for that reason a while ago but was turned off by the cost
Two things:
1) That is 65% more expensive then the rechargeable pack that they have been selling for ages for the XBox…
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B) Try plugging that into the USB port on the front of the XBox without taking off the front panel.
Actually they fit into the front of an Xbox 360 quite nicely.
That is sweet, I’m going to have to pick some of these up. James, keep in mind that you can use these for more than just the xbox, and they virtually eliminate the need for a separate battery charger.
The crew at USBCell was nice enough to give CrunchGear readers a discount, so just shoot me an email and I’ll pass along the code. peterha at crunch gear dot com. Thanks again guys!!!
I was just busting on Peter and his using Alkaline batteries for his XBox controller… also surprised that they fit in the XBox
This would do the same thing.
http://www.budgetbatteries.com/product/20422/GPUSB180.html?_pageid=23