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

  • aluminium@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

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

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      15 hours ago

      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.

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        13 hours ago

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

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        21 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.