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This toaster-looking gadget boosts your phone’s battery in seconds (www.theverge.com)
submitted 3 weeks 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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[–] [email protected] 79 points 3 weeks ago (15 children)

Swapable batteries were common on cell phones in the 80's and 90's except no fancy machine was needed.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Some fairly recent phones even had docks that would charge your phone and a swappable battery at the same time

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] pixely 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You mean a decade. A century is 100 years.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I mean /s

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