This $50 power bank is safer than my lithium-ion battery - and it's coming on my next flight

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By now, most of us have seen videos of the power bank fires on commercial airliners. If you haven't, well, here you go:

I'm flying again in a few days. As I'll be taking a power bank with me, I'm keen not to be in the news -- or in a national air accident investigation body's report -- as the owner of a power bank that went rogue on a plane. And to be honest, it's not just power banks on aircraft that bother me. I don't want that issue happening in the car, in my backpack, or next to my bed when I'm dreaming of the next bit of kit I'll be reviewing.

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