Check the latest price at Amazon UK →The BSTCAR Emergency Wind Up is for that moment when the power goes off and the house becomes an unusually expensive tent.
Features and considerations
Its telescopic antenna extends to 30cm to help reception. Pull it up, tune the radio, and you've a way to hear news rather than asking the darkened router for answers. It has resigned.
The built-in three-LED flashlight gives you light for the immediate business of finding supplies in the gloom. There's no brightness figure supplied, so let's not appoint it lighthouse keeper.
The 2000mAh battery can be charged by USB, solar panel or hand crank. USB is the civilised preparation; solar needs daylight; the crank is your fallback when the weather has removed both electricity and any enthusiasm for going outside.
Sir Trash Panda verdict
That combination earns it a place in the emergency cupboard, though I'd charge it before the storm rather than plan an evening of wrist-powered broadcasting.
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