Weekend spend – Pebble portable battery charger

The great outdoors is all well and good, but it’s a bit lacking in the power department. So if you’re a regular Ray Mears and want to make sure you have enough charge to book a room in the nearest luxury forest retreat for the night, you’ll be needing some backup.

The Pebble portable battery charger has a huge 5000mAH capacity  – four times the size of an iPhone 3G’s battery – so should be enough to replenish your phone three or four times. The handy blue LED charge indicator makes sure you’re never caught short and 5 different adaptors including mini USB, old-style Nokia and iPhone give you lots of options.

At a mere 132g it’s lighter than a traditional stone (a feature we look for in all gadgets), and is eminently pocket friendly at just 13mm thick.

£49.99 from gadgetshop.com

Dan Grabham Editor-in-Chief

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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Computing, mobile, audio, smart home