The blobject had its moment, and then the world decided sharp edges were more serious. Hartmut Esslinger’s organic curves gave way to chamfered aluminum rectangles, and for about fifteen years, consumer electronics collectively agreed that softness was frivolous. The pendulum is swinging back, and the evidence is showing up in the least glamorous product category imaginable: the power bank. Ugreen’s new PB610 arrives in a silver-bodied, organically rounded form that feels less like a charging accessory and more like a smooth river stone that happens to have a USB-C port. At 199 yuan (roughly $29), it is making a quiet but confident case that the blobject revival is real, and it is coming for your bag.
The PB610 is a 10,000mAh, 45W power bank with a built-in braided USB-C cable, a 1.47-inch smart display, and a design language that Ugreen is calling “Mini” in its marketing materials. The silver aluminum finish and the aggressively rounded corners give it a density that render photography cannot fully capture. The red braided cable loops through the top like a vascular element growing out of the device, functioning simultaneously as a carrying strap and the single most visually decisive design choice on the whole product. Ugreen has made charging accessories before, but the PB610 feels like the first time they have treated the object itself as the message.
Designer: Ugreen
A 1.47-inch screen sits inside a pill-shaped recess that reads as a void pressed into the form rather than a component bolted onto it, and it pulls off the trick of feeling simultaneously purposeful and playful. In its default mode it surfaces real-time data: output wattage, battery temperature, remaining charge percentage, and overall battery health. Connect the PB610 to Ugreen’s companion app via Bluetooth and you can push custom images or personal graphics to the screen instead, a minor feature in functional terms but a significant one in design terms. Letting the owner author the face of the object is a very deliberate softening of the boundary between tool and personal accessory.
The hardware underneath is genuinely solid for the price point. Two 5,000mAh cylindrical 21700 steel-shell cells handle the capacity, and an NTC temperature-control chip monitors heat levels continuously to keep charging safe at sustained wattages. The port configuration runs two USB-C outputs and one USB-A: the built-in cable and the standard port both cap at 45W, while the USB-A tops out at 22.5W. Ugreen claims the 45W output delivers a 65% charge to an iPhone 17 Pro Max in thirty minutes, with comparable numbers for current Huawei and Xiaomi flagships. Three devices can charge simultaneously, though the total 45W ceiling gets divided across active ports, so managing expectations on simultaneous high-wattage draws is fair.
At 109 x 58.5 x 25.5mm and 239 grams, the PB610 sits in a physically unremarkable footprint for its capacity class, and that is precisely the point. The design work is not trying to achieve a new size record or a new wattage record. It is trying to make a mundane carry object feel considered, even covetable. The PB610 launches in China on May 26, with global availability expected to follow given Ugreen’s established international distribution. At $29, the only real question is whether the rest of the category is paying attention.
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