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Giveaway: Go Cordless with the Energizer Inductive Charger

Posted 10/5/2010 at 12:00 pm by

When you gallivant around town as much as we do, never knowing which lucky lady’s pad you’ll be crashing at next–or more like getting unexpectedly drunk at the gang’s fantasy football party and being banished to the bathtub for the night–there are a few essential items to have on your person at all times. Eye drops (you figure it out), mouthwash (too difficult to brush on the go), and those damn phone-charging cords so we can make sure we’re able to call in sick to work the next day. We’d all be much better off if such cords were banished from existence and phones could be magically charged on some sort of pad or surface. Well…

It’s not exactly magic, but the Energizer Inductive Charger ($89, Energizer) gets the job done. The anti-wire and hassle-free device works like a charging pad that boosts your iPhone or Blackberry Curve 8900 battery by placing your device on the charger. Energizer uses Qi technology to create the inductive energy that supports the wireless charging, which is enabled by special Qi-compatible sleeves for the iPhone or Blackberry (sold separately). See how it works in this video demo:

Lucky for you, we’ve got a few extras to give away to three esteemed readers. Just a few simple rules, first:

In the comments below, tell us about that one time you lost your cell phone or had it unexpectedly die. First three commenters to make us chuckle win.

Giveaway closes Friday, Oct. 8.

Don’t forget to provide a legit e-mail address when you comment, so we can let you know you’ve won.

Sorry, U.S. contestants only.

We’ve heard some pretty horrific stories, dudes, so don’t short-change us on details, here.

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“Giveaway: Go Cordless with the Energizer Inductive Charger”
  1. 1
    T Hill says...
    1:19 pm on October 5th, 2010

    Once while on a helicopter ride over a small town in Florida I tried to take a picture of the houses below me and dropped the phone. Of all the places to land it hit the windshield of a parked Jaguar. With all the info in/on the phone there was no way to sneak away. So after landing I had to hunt out the car, explain the story, buy a windshield AND a new phone. The upside was the owner of the Jag was a hot cougar and we are friends now. =)

  2. 2
    Wakan says...
    1:29 pm on October 5th, 2010

    I was sending and recieving photos with my girl and my phone died on me after I got a nice explicit one of her and she got all worried I didn’t like it cause it took me forever to get home and plug my phone in.

  3. 3
    Gow Wow says...
    1:34 pm on October 5th, 2010

    Went out and got hammered at a Happy Hour open bar. I was trying to take this girl home, we were making out and having a great time when I started to vomit (projectile) in her mouth. She immediately pulls away which really just gave me a much broader canvas to paint. She yells at the cabbie to stop the car, cool part was we were driving by a bar that was pretty packed and she got out when they had a line of people trying to get in! So at this point he cabbie notices that I have trashed the back seat of the cab and wants to me get out….I told him that i would pay to have it cleaned and begged for him to get me home since the damage was already done. He agrees… Here is how I lose my phone…. He drives me home and he is bitching on his bluetooth to his other cabbie’s and no doubt calling me every name in the Koran’ so I tell him to go 1 blk away from where I actually live and when he stops the cab I ran for the hills and ditched his ass. So he is stuck with a puke cab and I skipped out on the $20 ride and in my haste and drunken stooper i leave my phone in the back seat. He called all my friends in my call log and told them he was looking for me and is calling the police!

  4. 4
    HelloNurse says...
    1:38 pm on October 5th, 2010

    I got my first cell phone in highschool at age 17 (approximately 15 years late by current standards)and last month, at age 25, I bought an iphone. My second phone ever. The fact that I managed entirely to skip the “holy crap it’s got a camera on it” phone generation and about a dozen phone changes for each friend should mean that I’m exceptionally responsible and never damage or lose my phone. In fact, the truth is exactly the opposite, my phone had been abused more than any other peice of technology since photoshop. On one occasion while bike touring Italy I managed to drop my phone somewhere along the road. I didn’t notice until days later that it had gone missing so I figured that it was gone and resolved to never see it again. Until I got home. There in front of my door was an aeromail package from a man in Lizzano who’d found my phone along the side of the road and whose daughter had contacted my friend via facebook to get my mailing address. So there it was, my phone, like a small metallic, vibrating stalker, waiting for me to return. The best part of this whole exchange was that the old man had a request attached to the phone; a bottle of Tobasco sauce. He even included a mailing label.

  5. 5
    JOSH says...
    2:13 pm on October 5th, 2010

    was at work and got robbed at gun point for my damn iPhone… worst part was the pics of my wife that were on there that she thought i deleted…

  6. 6
    Scottie Richmond says...
    2:39 pm on October 5th, 2010

    Well I’m starting off with a warning this one is “Adult Only” I know this is “The Smoking Jacket” but, this is a CRAZY Story.
    So I with this girl (Sue) about 2yrs. ago. She was a Freak (the good kind of freaky) & we’re makin’ out hard rounding 3rd on the way to home when she stops me & says She loves to have “things” stuck up her butt while she … “makes love” (love had nothing to do with it I’m just trying to be polite), so I had a quick look around & as we were in the parking lot of a Hot Springs, Phallic props were in short supply so in a moment of lust & without to much thinking I grabbed my Sony Ericson slide phone tossed it in a condom & Bobs Your Uncle. After the “deed” was done I removed my Phone from the dome & found that the screen was fogged from the inside< I guess that being wrapped in latex & stuck in a tight damp place caused Sweating that fogged my screen, 2 days later the speaker quit & the phone was done but it was worth it at least from my point of view (the story has hands down been the nuttiest sex story told among my friends)& I'm fairly sure she enjoyed it as well although she probably would have preferred a good old fashion butt plug. I often think about Sue & wish we had, had more than 3 days together.

  7. 7
    Ryan Price says...
    2:59 pm on October 5th, 2010

    Had my phone on me for an entire concert with the battery dead. Got into a cab after having a few drinks, the cab driver drove us 30 mintues out of the way to get us home. Tried charging us about $30 extra for the ride!! Woke up the next morning and couldn’t find my phone….Left it in the cab with a dead battery no way to call it and no idea what cab we were in. FML

  8. 8
    Lowelldabney@gmail.com says...
    3:33 pm on October 5th, 2010

    My phone was lifted from my person and a couple of days later while on a bus to buy a new one I saw some woman with it on the street, I knew it was mine because of a sticker and bent antenna. It was a rough part of market street so I just let it go. Good times. Ugh

  9. 9
    Dizzy says...
    4:44 pm on October 5th, 2010

    This happened a couple years back, when I just bought a brand new phone. I was showing it off to my Mom while we were riding in the car, she was driving and I was in the passenger seat. Its a warm day so the windows are down, she makes a call on it to test it out. Next thing you know a bee flies in the car right in her face, she flails with the phone and next thing you know the phone and the bee are out the window. We went back to look for it but it was all scratched up and in pieces and we couldnt find the battery…

  10. 10
    Chris says...
    6:12 pm on October 5th, 2010

    This happened about a year ago or so. I went to an amusement park and rode one of those roller coaster rides that turn you upside down. I had my phone in my shirt pocket thinking that it would be okay. Well i was wrong. I did not know that until after the ride however. When i got off the roller coaster, i was feeling the rush as you normally would and shortly after exiting and walking towards the next ride i noticed my phone was missing. I put two and two together and realized it must of fell out. About 50 ft from the exit i saw my phone, completely destroyed. FML!!!

  11. 11
    Andre says...
    7:41 am on October 6th, 2010

    Was doing a k9style with a hot Aussie drunk girl (she wasn’t passed out!) and couldn’t take a picture of her because the battery was dead… nobody ever believed me. :)

  12. 12
    Valerie says...
    11:58 am on October 6th, 2010

    I work at a brewery, and give tours of said brewery. I’m a girl, so end up being pretty popular with the boys. One day, I was showing these cute guys the bottling area in the brewery, where are on a balcony overlooking the bottling operation. I set my phone down and was trying to act all cool, and one of the cute guys asked me a question. Not thinking, I moved my hand and dropped my phone 30 feet to it’s doom.

    I looked like a total dork because then I had to leave the group, and go down to the bottling line to get my phone, and just ended up looking like a total a**hole. So much for getting their number.

  13. 13
    T money says...
    6:27 pm on October 6th, 2010

    I was having an awesome night with 2 girls at a sorority party. I took down their numbers in the beginning of the night and some how got separated from them. I didnt really care because I just figured Id call them to meet up. As soon as I took out my phone to call it was OF COURSE dead. Stupid blackberry batterys suck and didnt let me have the threesome we all were talking about.

  14. 14
    Danny Ritter says...
    10:08 pm on October 6th, 2010

    i was at a party at this mansion on miami beach, and got completely loaded at the open bar, mostly from taking jello shots. they had every flavor, watermelon, lime, cherry, orange, etc. apparently 30 or so jello shots wasn’t enough, so i decided to steal a bunch of them and take them home with me by smuggling them out of the party in my jeans pocket. when i got home, i realized my cell phone had been in the same pocket, covered in sticky jello, completely ruined. i didnt even care at the time, i still guzzled whatever of the shots was left, and my phone smelled delicious.

  15. 15
    Matt Rapp says...
    12:28 pm on October 7th, 2010

    My father and I have season tickets to the University of Minnesota basketball team. Our tickets are on the first row of the upper deck. During a big play a jumped up and started cheering. the phone felt out of my sweatshirt and down over the ledge in to the crowd on the lower level. I eventually made my way down to the lower level and no one was hit by my phone but no one could find it. I went back to my seat and after the game looked some more and eventually found my phone under some seats. It still worked!!!

  16. 16
    Richard K says...
    10:18 am on October 8th, 2010

    I have the Twilight Zone set on my iPhone 4 as the ringtone. Our home sits on a large salt water pond,, which goes to the ocean. Early this summer I was kayaking, and like usual I had my phone with me. I keep the Kayak on a cradle on our dock, so after going for a spin, I put it back on its cradle, but did not realize my phone had fallen into the Kayak Later in the day I realized I had lost the phone but I could not find it. That evening my wife and I went to the dock to sit and watch the evening sky – something we often do. Off in the distance over the ocean, which is only 1/2 mile away from us it began to lightening and thunder All of a sudden, I hear the Twilight Zone ringtone coming for the Kayak – as if we were at the beginning of some episode of the TV program. I pulled back the cover and there was the phone caught on the seat under a safety cushion, a little damp, but working like a champ.

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