I ordered this cute pair of handwarmers from the Amazon brand Bearwind. They arrive well presented and would make a good gift. My young 'un particularly likes the lilac colour and has bagsied these for the wintertime. For the most part, I like them. The actual mechanics of them works well, with a USB-A to USB-A cable, and you can charge both at the same time. There are three heat levels ranging from pleasantly warm to frankly too hot. The shape, with rounded profile, and size, are pleasant to hold and tactile to fiddle with. I'm a bit less enamoured that only one side warms up; if I'm holding it in my hand my finders curl around, so it surely it should be warm on both sides?
To be fair, you can join both warmers together to make basically looks like an early 2000s clamshell phone 😀 That way, both sides heat up.
I like the way there is a battery indicator to let you know how much charge is left; meaning I can choose whether to heat my hands a lot, or decide to keep a percentage of power to see me through the journey home ;-D
I do have one other downside, and that is that the instructions indicate that you specficially shouldn't use these in the rain, they are not waterproof. If they're not waterproof, I daresay they won't do in the snow either. Which would be the number one place you'd wanna wear them, surely.
While I don't suppose we'd expect to submerge them I do think they should have some degree of protection from the British weather. The heaters are small however and have a narrow profile, so if you had mittens – and I guess you'd need waterproof ski-type mittens – you could probably pop them inside those. Toasty.
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