I spend a lot of time on the command line, and personally find having that much info in my prompt <i>incredibly</i> distracting. I would really prefer to leave things like battery monitoring to my OS or Window Manager - not my shell prompt. The screenshots in this article look like the kind of stuff that you do when you're just starting with a new piece of technology and you want to use every single feature just to play around. Cool and fun, but at the end of the day perhaps not very useful.