ChargeCard: iPhone Charger in Your Pocket

News Mark Postman 23.07.2012

There’s a nice way to forget about problems with charging your iDevice and it’s called ChargeCard iPhone charger. Using of Apple’s 30-pin connector is probably justified, but it probably will be eliminated by putting a 19-pin connector to the next iPhone. It creates a lot of inconvenience to users. For example, a problem to charge a discharged phone outside the home, unless you are absolutely randomly have a little white cable or wireless charger with you. In recent years the situation has improved significantly – in the big cities the army of iPhone owners are  getting bigger, but such situations still happen. The solution is simple and obvious – the cable should be always carried with you. Noah Dentsel and Adam Miller are here to implement this thought in practice.

The idea of ​​an ChargeCard accessory launched at Kickstarter, and the result was not long in coming. For 5 days they’ve collected the amount of money needed to start the production and more than 2,000 depositors have confirmed the consistency of ideas. What is ChargeCard actually?
ChargeCard – is a mimicry of the cable under the plastic card with all its consequences: the cable can be carried in your wallet, business card or a breast pocket of the shirt, and even hidden in the iPhone case with a special section. The physical dimensions of ChargeCard (height and width) are identical to a usual credit card, only the thickness bigger – 2.54 mm vs. 0.76 mm. Solid ABS plastic is used as a base material for a card with 30-pin Apple connector, flexible foot with USB is made of a thermoplastic elastomer.
The creators say the novelty has a lots of benefits, including not only compact size, but also the ability to connect to hard reachable sockets, use the phone in a large case and overall reliability.
At the stage of collecting pre-orders the ChargeCard iPhone charger available in three colors: black, white and turquoise-brown, also Birds on the wire available in limited edition. ChargeCard cost starts at $ 20, and international shipping will cost another $5. The contribution can be made on the Kickstarter project page. Given that the original cable (by the way, is not the most rugged) on store.apple.com costs $19, then the price of “cable card” is not too high.