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This toaster-looking gadget boosts your phone’s battery in seconds (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 day ago by Wispy2891 to c/technology
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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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[–] CrowAirbrush 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Aren't battery packs really bad for your phone tho? Keeping it at 100% constantly until it runs out

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

The article says the app can be used to limit your charging to 80%.

Still pretty batshit. Swapping external batteries yourself would be too hard?

[–] Jimmycakes 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They would get lost for sure if they left the toaster. You must not have kids. Which i suppose would be a boon for this company to sell you refills.