No matter how sleek, slim and absurdly portable your personal army of gadgets gets, every device in it has one critical weakness keeping it from true free-roaming independence: Electricity. At the end of the day, even the most rugged portable devices need to return to Mother Power Grid to suckle that sweet, sweet electricity.
For most people living the civilized nine-to-five lifestyle, that dependence on power from the grid doesn’t become much of a problem. After all, the nearest electrical socket is usually only an arm’s length away. But as anyone who’s ever been on the road or lived out of a backpack for a few days can attest, the perpetual quest for the next socket can become a liability in more adventurous circumstances.
