Young Entrepreneur Creates Portable Power Bank for Mobile Devices that Charges in 14 Minutes
Tired of your phone running out of Battery just before an important phone call or Skype meeting? Abdullah Soomro, a 23 year old entrepreneur from Pakistan, has invented a power bank called ‘Flash Pack’, which charges up completely in just 14 minutes from any standard laptop charger. Just in under quarter of an hour, this charger packs up enough Power to last for one and half charge of an iPhone 6S, making your Mobile devices truly Mobile. Flash Pack is currently under development with a fully functional prototype and will be shipping to Indiegogo backers by June 2016 and later would be available at Indiegogo as on demand product.
Flash Pack addresses a very important issue when it comes to charging devices directly from wall socket or from power packs – the amount of time consumed. Battery banks charge at the same speed as your phone would take to charge, adding convenience but killing the purpose of saving time. Flash Pack overcomes that problem by making charging fast, efficient and convenient for people who rely on heavy smartphone usage and are always on the go.
Abdullah Soomro, the founder of Micropower Labs, graduated from one of the Best Engineering Institutes in Pakistan, GIKI and is also the designer of Pakistan’s First Gravitational Water vortex turbine. He has won several awards to date, including the National Young Innovators award from Pakistan Innovation Foundation and National Technical Speaker Award (SoFE) from IMechE Pakistan. Talking about the inspiration behind this idea, Abdullah said that even in this modern age of technology, one has to plug in devices for hours to charge fully, which means productivity is limited to the distance from a wall socket. Abdullah first started working on this as a hobby, but when he discovered that no such product existed in the market, he decided to turn it into a full time development project.
“Flash Pack is small, it’s handy and easy to carry around and charges in a flash – just under quarter of an hour.” Says Abdullah. “The product has been designed keeping in mind our hectic and happening life these days. This is no ordinary power bank – it can be used to charge anything that comes with a charging cord – your smart phones, tablets, laptops, flashlights and more. We have an experienced team already working on adding more enhancements and features to Flash Pack.”
Abdullah is part of the third cycle of incubation at The Nest i/o, a project of P@SHA with global partners Samsung and Google for Entrepreneurs and a supporting grant from the US State Department. Earlier last year, he was invited to Chile for a program called Start-Up Chile, where he received seed grant to fund the development of Flash Pack. After 6 months of intense testing, development and several prototypes, he is ready to launch the product through a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo.
Pledge your support for Flash Pack now! The funding campaign is now live on Indiegogo: www.indiegogo.com
About Micropower Labs
Flash Pack is a product by Micropower Labs, a technology innovation company focused on creating next generation devices and gadgets for day-to-day use. Their introductory product is Flash Pack, which is a Power Bank that charges up in just 14 minutes from your own laptop charger and packs up enough juice to last you for whole day (e.g one and half charge of an iPhone 6S). The technology inside has been developed at some great places like GIK Institute in Pakistan and Fablab UC in Santiago Chile. Apart from power banks, Micropower Labs technology has many applications in devices like mobile medical apparatus, delivery drones etc.
For more information regarding Flash Pack, please contact:
Phone: +92 334 276716
Email: info@micropowerlabs.org
Website: micropowerlabs.org
About Start-Up Chile
Start-Up Chile is one of the biggest accelerator program funded by Government of Chile under CORFO, each year two batches of global entrepreneurs move to Chile for 6 months to converts their dreams to reality, Start-Up Chile provides each team with an equity free grant of 20Million Chilean Pesos. Along with the grant Start-up Chile facilitates entrepreneurs by connecting them to their wide spread network of alumni and investors around the world.
Contact:
Email: abdullah@micropowerlabs.org
Facebook: fb.com/flashpack2016
Twitter: twitter.com/flashpack1
