Imagine the following situation: a flight of 12hours on United Airlines and your iPod is dying! Don’t panic! You won’t have to stick your head in the toilet bowl for the entire duration of the flight because you’re suffering from flying UA… Elecom has THE solution for you!

Meet the Elecom AVD-DCAA2 series of external battery packs which will keep any iPod sportin’ the universal dock pumping the tunes for up to 2 hours (as tested with 1G nano) off 2x AA batteries. Remove the batteries and the whole kit compresses for easy portability. Sure that off-center slab ain’t pretty, but it has to slide to the side to maintain access to the headphone jack, Jack. Available starting mid November for about 16 bucks.