Richard Nicoll has teamed up with Vodafone to create a handbag that can recharge your cell phone on the go.
This may be one of the smartest designer collaborations I’ve seen. The bag looks great, and it should put an end to the days of cell phone battery stress! Unfortunately you’ll need one of those fancy new phones to use it. While it’s useless around my very basic Nokia, it’ll power up Blackberries, iPhones, Android phones, and even tablets.
The Richard Nicoll bag is charged from the main’s power using a magnetic cable. Once its internal battery is full it’ll charge cell phone handsets and tablets for approximately two days.
So we don’t need to remember to charge our cell phones before we step out anymore, but we need to remember to charge our bag. I’ll bet some scatterbrained girls still get caught short!
Pairing with the communications giant might seem a bit gimmicky, but Richard Nicoll says the handbag has a “relevant” place in his current collection “because it’s all about the notion of work and all its facets in modern times.”
A prototype of the innovative new handbag was presented at Nicoll’s recent LFW presentation ahead of its predicted release late this spring.
