Balance Board Power Up Charging Stand from Mad Catz just dares you to revert to AAs

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget....tz-stand-1.jpg

There's just something so defiant about this "Power Up" charging stand from Mad Catz -- it seems specifically designed to take up as much cubic footage as possible, and even the name is domineering. The stand is bizarrely formed in the likeness of a miniature Wii Balance Board, with a replacement battery pack included in the kit with contact charging points to take out all the exertion of flipping the B-Board and swapping out batteries. A foot pedal release mechanism pops the Balance Board out of the stand, and there are a couple of free-spirited USB ports on the thing for charging up whatever other awkwardly-shaped gadgetry you might have around the house.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/w...catz-just-dar/

Proprietary rechargeable batteries = fail.