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Why your outdoorsy friend suddenly has a gummy bear power bank

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258 points arnon | 1 comments | 21 Sep 25 12:31 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

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AdmiralAsshat ◴[21 Sep 25 13:50 UTC] No.45322732[source]▶
Are these actually designed by Haribo? Or is it just a branding on top of a Chinese generic?
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sva_ ◴[22 Sep 25 01:53 UTC] No.45328374[source]▶
They're crowdfunded: https://www.makuake.com/project/haribo_dcglobal/

If you Google XU102998-24006, you can find some seemingly identical generic version

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1. AdmiralAsshat ◴[22 Sep 25 13:42 UTC] No.45333365[source]▶
Power of SEO--the top result on Google for "XU102998-24006" is actually your HN reply. :)