This toaster-looking gadget boosts your phone’s battery in seconds - eviltoast

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

  • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    1 day ago

    You have to account for all of the additional hardware that is required to enable swapping of batteries. Have you ever picked up an EV battery they are incredibly heavy and huge. I really can’t see how you would do it without using the kind of engine lifting equipment that mechanics have.

    I can’t see it as practical or safe to allow general members of the public to use them. Even if you can pick them up, which you can just about do, you would seriously risk injuring your back.