Flavor 6: The Perfect Portable Charger

This block should be the standard for all chargers.

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What: The Anker PowerCore Fusion 5000 Dual Wall and Portable Charger

Anything I should know?: Buy more than one. Makes a great gift for a Boomer. They love low bar tech gadgets. Pair it with some 6 foot charging cables.

I love a good power bank charger while in transit with my phone or iPad, but there are so few frivolous things worse than going to plug your phone into a portable charging bank and finding out it’s out of juice. Unfortunately I’ve found myself in that situation more times than I’d like to admit. But when your charger needs a charger and you have to remember to charge the charger, shit happens!

That’s why the Anker PowerCore Fusion 5000 is a game changer. Introduced to me by my husband Dan, a former gadget reviewer for Gawker’s Gizmodo, this portable charger doubles as a wall block and it charges up while it’s plugged into the wall and while it’s charging your phone and other devices. No more needing a charger to charge the charger. Just pop it out of the wall and you’re good to go — it’s always at 100%.

It feels like it should be a given, like this should be a standard for all portable chargers. They should be able to charge by plugging into the wall. Without needing their own block and cord. But it’s not the case. Which is why this one is so special and why hundreds of people on the Gee Thanks! Instagram rushed to buy one as soon as I posted about it a week and a half ago.

PS. Dan is this week’s guest on Gee Thanks! returning for a second time after coming on in December going through all of the things I bought in 2020 and ranking them from worst to more worst. He’s going to talk about the charger and one other gadget he says is amazing. And also, the litter robot! You won’t wanna miss thissss!

Keeping it short this week because it was a short week.