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> The recent fad for particular brands of child oriented power banks in the through hiking community is the most recent one I can think of.

This sounds interesting. Can you elaborate?

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Through a chance piece of design, the leading power pack in terms of energy density is made by / branded on behalf of Haribo, a confectionary company:

https://www.ultralightnerd.com/index.php/2025/06/26/haribo-m...

What’s interesting is, like the other products, it was designed and marketed for one purpose but has become very popular for another. (Although in this case it could well just be a fashion, especially given how uniquely identifiable the product is.)

I read some analysis about specifically this battery pack, that shows it may not be the bee's knees: https://www.lumafield.com/first-article/posts/whats-hiding-i...

The main aspect of the design for popularity being low price, bought with subpar quality. It will fade soon after recent examination mentioned in sister comments to yours.

It was to good/cheap to be true.

It doesn't fit into the list as a revolution (or even 'evolution') as it's just a high-density, compact and cheap battery [1] that turns out to be quite unsafe [2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45322135

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46071317

It's probably a reference to the Haribo power bank thing (which appears to be poorly made and dangerous).

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