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This toaster-looking gadget boosts your phone’s battery in seconds (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is awesome! For only $450 you can get a machine that can automatically swap battery packs placed on bulky $120 phone cases.

You don't need to plug a cable in your phone anymore, your over engineered machine can swap battery packs for you

I never imagined that I would live this long to see the future

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Why do so many western start ups come up with ways to make something simple complicated? This gives me lots of juicero vibes.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I mean a phone case with a removable battery? Yeah that’s cool. Already been done though … a very long time ago.

https://www.wired.com/2011/05/third-rail-case-adds-removable-battery-to-iphone/

But I don’t need a machine to take out the battery and replace it. It’s just something else to take up room on my nightstand and eventually break. I’d bet they somehow figure out a way to make it a subscription service too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

Yeah I had one of those charger cases for my S7

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Juicero was an attempt at replicating the printer (or Razor and blades) model for juice, that's why.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

They failed to consider that you can't squeeze blades. Maybe they should've added some to their bags as juice DRM

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Merkur 23C, btw, in case anyone is looking for a safety razor that's both inexpensive and very good. Unchanged for literally a century now, no fancy materials ("aerospace-grade aluminium") but good ole chromed zinc and brass. On the blade side, Russians being out of the picture, BIC is probably the right choice unlike other western brands they didn't slouch on quality. Feather is always an option but many consider them too sharp. Also, more expensive. BICs should be somewhere around 15ct a piece. Don't buy anything of that stuff from Wilkinson or such their offerings in that area seem to only exist to make safety razors look bad.