Batthead: A battery in charge

[Strick9]

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/29491051/batthead-a-battery-in-charge?ref=category

A standard size AA rechargeable battery that can switch itself on and off, and is controllable from your smartphone or tablet.

Well… it’s sort of a cool idea; but wow are the batteries expensive!!!
A single battery is $40

And finally, for the power user out there that wants to always have Battheads charged and ready to go, we’ve added an NiMH charger and a dual set of four cells at the $300 level. Each set of four has one controllable and three non-controllable Battheads. Whether you use the included flashlight or pop your Battheads into other gear, you’ll never want for controllable power because you can always have a set charged while the others are in use

Hmm… isn’t a non-controllable NIMH battery just a standard NIMH battery???

[leaftye]

It is, but if it's in a battery holder that puts the cells in series, it'll still lock out all the batteries.

[Bort]

not worth it, it has some nice application ideas, and i only skimmed through the page but unless they are eneloop they are not good enough, and if they are then they just cost too much

[Chloe]

It looks like they’re using 2/3 AA cells for the “batthead”. It isn’t hard to match NiMH cells with a good charger. Not sure about mixing an unknown 2/3 AA cell with higher capacity eneloop AA though.

[Buwuve]

The idea is nice, but it's really expensive not available outside the CONUS, unknown capacity (I will ask this the developer) and the $137.000 goal is hard to take.

[leaftye]

@Buwuve

The idea is nice, but it's really expensive not available outside the CONUS, unknown capacity (I will ask this the developer) and the $137.000 goal is hard to take.

A supporter asked 5 days ago. No answer.

[texaspyro]

Didn’t there used to be a cartoon show about this product… Beavis and Batthead…

[Bort]

@texaspyro

Didn’t there used to be a cartoon show about this product… Beavis and Batthead…

they will be demanding royalties then