Use it as a big oversize recharable battery pack for your GPS and I-pod(that what I use for papperless). Get a couple of long USB coords, put the power pack in a pocket and away you go.
Looks like you get 8 “popular” connectors or can buy addon’s and just drop your device on the pad rather than clicking things in and out.
Saw this in the store. You don’t “get 8 popular connectors”. The mat is 90 bucks and each “connector” is 30 bucks for each device and the store I visited had 3 device editions: Ipod touch/I phone, Blackberry something or other, and one other device.
Minimal investment of $120 for a single device to get a charger that you lay your device on rather than plug into the wall to charge.