Browsing through the Officeworks website and found this item. When it was released it was $149 RRP. Granted, not a product for everyone, but for less than ten bucks, you can own what was considered cutting edge technology a few years ago. Starter kit only comes with one disc and eight connector options. Phone sleeves sold seperately and also the 8 included tips does NOT include any Apple connectors apparently.
Specs here from Uniden website that also contains a video showing how it works.
I'd be interested in the efficiency losses of using this product
Designed by the same guy that invented the Motorcycle Ashtray.
Useless product!
You plug in an adapter into your device, which allows you to charge using the plate.
Instead of plugging your charger into your device DOH !!!!
OP could have summed up the deals. Its no point of getting all deals displayed here for a single retailer.
Agreed, Why not combined 2 deal into 1 as it's same retailer.
They're pretty pointless without the extra discs and OW doesn't stock them. They've been $10 there for several months now.
I know… how about summarising all the OW clearance items and we can then neg it into oblivion for no stock? Better than multiple deals for the same retailer and ultimately with the same issues.
In all fairness it does save on power boards and for the iPhone I believe you can get a silicon cover that charges on contact, one day all devices will come from factory with this capability until then it does have some limited use
sold out in nsw
available at west ryde, when i was there earlier today.
It has been on clearance for this price in store for a long time now. Pretty useless I think as you still need to plug in an adapter into the devices and couldn't see any extra sleeves being sold in the store.
ROFL. Yep, cutting edge technology, created by none other than nikola tesla OVER A HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
NOTE - This is NOT inductive charging (like Tesla invented).
It is simply a physical electrical connection between the disc thingies (connected by normal plug to the device) and the conductive metal strips on the base.
Both the sleeve and the power disc have four small metal connectors on the bottom and power is delivered through the metal strips on the Power Pad.
Here is a picture of the connections on the back of the iPhone sleeve
http://shop.techbuy.com.au/images/extra/16/8/e2011041272217.…
damn that is one ugly sleeve! good concept, poor execution! they need to develop some kind of nano receiver you plug into the charger port and forget about - sort of like a cap, however given most charging ports are also the data port that might not be practical for smart phones.
Agree…. it LOOKS cool.. but.. really not that fantastic when you read all the small details.. like charger sleeve..
I had this idea.. few years back but not work so stupid like this…
it was a induction battery concept.. where you would recharge for example your iphone or phone when it is near the source.. (wireless power)
But i looked it up and turns out someone already started inventing it back in '03
So look forward to a future where.. batteries can be charged when it is just near a source!!
then maybe wireless USB will finally kick in… (after 5 years) =_=
Wireless USB? Its called WiFi.. and its a heck of a lot faster than USB! Just need the manufactures to utilise the function. Pretty sure if you jailbreak your iphone u can do wifi teathering
I think you will find wireless usb is called "bluetooth" :-)
Wifi is more analogous to ethernet obviously, in that they are single-purpose network-level interfaces.
Wired is always faster than wireless, at the same cost and technology level.
When I first came accross them (quite a while ago) for $10, OW also had the iphone sleeve on clearance for something like $6.
I bought one from OW for $10.
I do find it useful.
ie. the standard adapters that it come with allows me to
charge my nokia and my samsung, and one of the
guys at work occasionally charges his sony ericsson
phone on my unit. I have it at work.
So it saves me having 3 separate chargers with diff heads.
So do they have several of the same plugs? I'd love to be able to charge my Droid, Missus BB & kindle at the same time
One one plug of each kind.
I bought one and agree it is a useless device as they include only one disk. To charge more than one devices you need additional disks and office works does not stock them.
Obviously a crappy product, at any price IMO.
It might sell for $1 at a garage sale… maybe… :-)