This Gadget Matches In Your Backpack & Powers A Campsite With Nothing However The Wind

As a tech fanatic, it doesn’t matter what scenario I’m in, I’m all the time enthusiastic about energy. Whether it is putting in a whole-home backup battery in my home or conserving a conveyable energy station readily available to cost up my gear when I’m on the highway, one basic reality stays — with out energy, all my devices and gizmos are nothing however costly paperweights. So after I heard about an organization referred to as Aurea Technologies strolling the present flooring at CES 2026, I needed to take the chance to satisfy with them.

The firm’s two co-founders developed and constructed the Shine Turbine 2.0, which is a wind-powered backup battery that matches right into a backpack and might energy your complete campsite if want be. Everything it is advisable to energy your units is discovered inside this compact unit. It’s the dimensions of a really giant water bottle — not fairly the dimensions of a Stanley Thermos, however bigger than a Kirkland model water bottle for certain. The apparent profit is that it will possibly slip into most backpacks, and hold the lights on for you.

When we met on the present flooring, co-founder Rachel Carr demonstrated the setup course of. First, you open the system and take away the pole, stakes, and man strains. Set these into the bottom and check the turbine on prime. 

Then, you prolong the arms and tighten them down earlier than securing the turbine on prime of the pole. The turbine rotates itself into the wind, and that is it. There’s a 12,000 mAh battery constructed into the system for energy storage and a single USB-C port that may output at 75W, which is nice to cost up most units. You can even purchase a separate adapter and use the turbine to cost bigger energy stations from the likes of Jackery or EcoFlow.

Shine 2.0 is designed to work in winds of as much as 28 mph, which Carr famous was pretty widespread in her native Nova Scotia. The firm offers estimates for a way lengthy it should take to cost up varied units in light breezes (round 8 mph) all the best way as much as a “rocking wind” of 28 mph. A typical smartphone can take wherever from 12 hours in a mild breeze, to 17 minutes in a powerful wind. A laptop computer can take wherever from 75 hours to only beneath two, once more, relying on how strongly the wind is blowing.

Of course, in a mild breeze, issues are going to take longer, however one of many benefits to the Shine 2.0 turbine is the battery storage functionality. You can depart the turbine up, day and night time, to cost up earlier than it is advisable to plug in your units. That’s a key benefit over photo voltaic, which often is available in two components — the photo voltaic panel and the battery individually. Shine 2.0 is constructed right into a single unit.

Speaking of photo voltaic, the apparent benefit is Shine 2.0’s capacity to work in any respect hours — day or night time. The system additionally has an IP54 score, which implies it has mud ingress safety, and it will possibly survive splashes of water too, which is greater than lots of moveable mills can boast.

Of course, when you’re in an space with little to no wind, this system will likely be of restricted use, however it’s truthful to say most locations could have some quantity of air motion. Considering the system solely weighs about three kilos, it isn’t a foul system to maintain with you when you’re heading off the grid for any period of time. If this appears like your kind of factor, you may preorder the Shine 2.0 on Indiegogo.