Powermonkey - Press Release

LAUNCH OF POWERMONKEY-EXPLORER & SOLAR SLAVE

From the heart of Africa to the Hardanger Glacier, the powermonkey-eXplorer has proved to be an invaluable piece of kit, providing essential power for hand-held electronic gadgets. Now being launched in the USA, powermonkey-eXplorer, with its powerful solar slave, lets you charge wherever, whenever.

The Dilemma:
Your cell phone dies during a crucial call...

Your iPod runs out of juice just when your favorite song starts...
You miss a life-changing picture because the batteries in your digital camera are dead...

The Solution:
Quite simple really -- the powermonkey-eXplorer -- compatible with multiple hand-held devices including the majority of cell phones, iPods, MP3s, PDAs, and digital games, including the Sony PSP and Nintendo DS & DS-Lite. The powermonkey-eXplorer will recharge your devices, giving you 96 hours of standby on your cell, 40 hours on your iPod, 5 hours on your game console, 48 hours on your PDA and 6 hours on MP3 players.

The powermonkey-eXplorer will also power most standard digital cameras long enough for you to take up to 1,600 more pictures!

Ultra compact, tough, and powerful, the powermonkey-eXplorer is water resistant and made with a rubberized casing so it can take whatever life throws at it, yet it remains the lightest, most versatile charger available today - only 2.4 oz, yet with 2-3 times the power of the average cell phone battery.

Featuring an LCD screen that displays battery capacity and the level of charge, the powermonkey-eXplorer is equipped with sophisticated electronics to provide the right charge level for your device. The wall adapter (included) has interchangeable heads for the US, UK, Europe and Australia - so you can use it in over 150 countries around the world!

The solar panel draws power directly from the sun - giving you free power wherever you are. Make sure your powermonkey-eXplorer has full power at all times by charging it with the handy solar slave, which can be attached to a backpack, hung from a window, left in a car, or taken anywhere the sun shines!

You can even use the solar slave to recharge your device directly - so you have back up power at all times.

Availability:
The powermonkey-eXplorer is available is from stuffjunction.com, REI, Think Geek, J&R Music World, Cyberguys, X-Treme Geek, Magellan's, Earthtech, Powderfin and other world-class travel, adventure and electronics channels.