Tools for Road Warriors!

ByDon

The Malleable Devices SynCh is one of those little handy devices that might help to lighten your load while on the road.

This is a retractable USB cable assembly that has many different tips to allow you to simultaneously charge and sync your iPod and your cell phone, too.

So, why is this important? Well, you can leave that cell phone charger at home, leave that iPod cable and charger at home and just take the SynCh.

Hapy brought this to our attention (and of course, being the purchaser he added it to our list of products) and had this to say about the Malleable SynCh:

“This little device and it collection of tips is quite a space saver. It includes a retractable USB cable with a splitter on one end which has a USB port on one end, and a power port on the other. You can connect all sorts of tips to the connector to provide power to your mobile phone or Treo device, and the USB port can be used as a normal USB cable, or with the included dock adapter you can synch or charge your ipod. No more need to cart your phone and ipod power adapter with you on your trip! Or buy one for your office machine to charge your phone at work.”

Barkings readers can get any of the Malleable Devices SynCh (there are different models to coorespond with your cell phone) with FREE UPS 3-Day shipping by using coupon code: “ireadbarkings”

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