http://www.elliott.org/power-trip/the-socket-seekers/ Consumer advocate Christopher Elliott's site. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:25:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.elliott.org/power-trip/the-socket-seekers/comment-page-1/#comment-29283 Elizabeth Power Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:24:08 +0000 http://beta.elliott.org/photos/the-socket-seekers/#comment-29283 The good news is that SOME airports and SOME gates now have the Samsung charging towers--these are likely to cost less to install and by offering multiple outlets on one vertical "stalk" they increase power availability dramatically. Yes, they are commercial advertising, and yet I for one prefer them to trying to get up and down (indelicate and not professional) off the floor (filthy). BTW, anyone heard of the goold old universal battery? Minimal additional weight, lots of extra juice. No looking. No floor crawling. No competition. The good news is that SOME airports and SOME gates now have the Samsung charging towers–these are likely to cost less to install and by offering multiple outlets on one vertical “stalk” they increase power availability dramatically. Yes, they are commercial advertising, and yet I for one prefer them to trying to get up and down (indelicate and not professional) off the floor (filthy). BTW, anyone heard of the goold old universal battery? Minimal additional weight, lots of extra juice. No looking. No floor crawling. No competition.

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