It has two shutdown mechanisms and protects against Fascher polarity warns Alkaline and bad cells. The LCD display brings not really additional information such as the reached capacity after charging, a diode per slot would thus also have. Perhaps it is by now cheaper for the manufacturers to install such a display. The USB port on the other hand represents a modern addition that previously have only a few chargers for cells.
Incidentally, one should not be blinded when particularly fast charging is promised. This works as a high number of pixels with cheap cameras, laymen are with half-truths out (to desirable appearing at first glance properties) astray. But the physics can not outwit, the heating of the batteries by a high charge current reduces their life to. Often one has time overnight and thus sparing charging current of 200-500 mA (200 mA here at AAA, AA 450 in 1000 over USB)!
For "normal use" one of the devices with individual supervision meaningful, because such is even more carefully with the battery around and can even faltering "refreshen". You can recognize it as one or three pieces will also work with odd numbers. From this quality, there are four-cell charger (Technoline BC 700, Technoline BC 1000 ...) almost to the money, which will cost the simpler eight-cell charger here. For this target group: further!
Conclusion: Do I have an average form of the two assessments "five star" and "Find Next"?