Amazon Cancels Orders For 'ultralight' Gummy Bear Power Bank

Haribo 20,000mAh powerfulness bank

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• Amazon is cancelling orders for nan Haribo 20,000 mAh powerfulness bank.
• The institution is citing a "potential information aliases value issue." 
• The ultralight instrumentality went viral because of its weight.

Did you cognize that Haribo -- yes, nan candy institution -- released a powerfulness bank? 

I first heard astir this powerfulness slope from group successful nan ultralight hiking community. They were jazzed astir this caller 20,000mAh, 22.5W accelerated complaint powerfulness slope because of their single-focused obsession -- weight. 

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At 10.1 ounces (286 g), this hit nan Nitecore NB20000 and Carbo 20000 by a fewer grams. 

In nan ultralight hiking community, a fewer grams mean everything. Combine that pinch a $25 value tag and nan tiny Haribo branding -- it has a clone gummy carnivore connected it! -- and nan merchandise went somewhat viral. 

The celebrations mightiness person been premature, arsenic a Reddit user who placed an bid for nan candy-branded powerfulness slope received a connection from Amazon stating that their bid had been canceled owed to a "potential information aliases value issue."

Interestingly, a fewer days ago, I saw that Lumafield had sewage their hands connected one and shoved it into their Neptune CT scanner, and they noticed that nan compartment pouches successful nan portion they tested were poorly aligned, and this resulted successful a wavy building wrong nan battery.  

Lumafield CT scan of nan Haribo powerfulness slope revealed severely aligned compartment pouches.

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Is this nan reason? I person nary idea. It mightiness be, aliases it mightiness beryllium thing a batch much boring, for illustration a regulatory aliases certification issue.

ZDNET has reached retired to Amazon for comment, but arsenic of nan clip of publishing, has not received a remark back.