The Power1 AirPods charging case gets a lot smaller - TechCrunch

We didn’t marque it to the in-person CES past year, but we did negociate to get our hands connected a fewer products from the comfortableness of our ain homes. That database included Power1, an iPhone artillery lawsuit with a built slot for AirPods charging. The product’s creator, AXS Technologies, has since done a  rethink of the accessory, which debuts astatine this year’s show.

Like its predecessor, the Model 3 relies connected the iPhone’s MagSafe feature, but alternatively of moving the afloat magnitude of the phone, it’s importantly smaller — though the the institution says it adds up to 5x artillery beingness for AirPods. There are 2 modes – 1 conscionable charges the headphones, portion the different charges some them and the telephone astatine the aforesaid time. The pad itself has a magnet beardown capable to instrumentality to a telephone successful a MagSafe case.

“Power1 Model 3 is our astir important and precocious plan yet giving users the quality to connect our charging strategy straight connected iPhones oregon connected astir MagSafe cases” says CEO John Merenda. “Power1 is the archetypal merchandise to connection all-in-one on-device charging of AirPods and iPhone and creates a caller class of charging systems”.

The merchandise is compatible with AirPods Generations 2 and 3 and is acceptable to commencement shipping successful the spring, priced astatine $100 – the aforesaid arsenic its predecessor.