Swippitt comes to give you a solution to the nightmare of charging your phone with a very smart home device.
The new toaster-sized charging unit – unveiled at CES 2025 in Las Vegas – contains five batteries that can be almost instantly replaced with a dead one inside your phone’s case. You simply place your phone on top of the Swippitt Hub and the device automatically replaces the battery inside the case with a fully charged one.
This means you don’t have to wait for a phone to charge from the socket or carry a power bank with you. Within seconds, you have a fully charged battery on top of the one already built into the phone.
The device aims to provide a solution for families with multiple phones to charge. A companion app can tell parents how long their kids are charging and when they’ve changed their battery for a new one, reducing anxiety about whether a teenager will run out of battery when, for example, they’re away from home.
Swippitt’s system requires each phone to have a dedicated case before it can be entered into the Hub. The company’s chief executive Padraic Connolly said the company will initially produce cases for iPhone and Samsung Galaxy devices, with Google Pixel cases also in the works.
Each battery has a capacity of 3,500 mAh, which provides between 50% and 90% more battery capacity for the phone, depending on the phone model it’s paired with. The Hub automatically sorts batteries in order of charge percentage so users don’t have to swap out a dead battery in their case.
The case also has a USB-C port on the base, meaning you can plug in a conventional charger and top up both the phone’s battery and the one inside the Swippitt Link if you’re away from home.
Something equally nice is that the company will also have a replacement and recycling system for batteries that have reached the end of their useful life. Customers will be sent a link that can remove the dead batteries from the center and replace them with a new one. The Link can then be sent back to Swippitt, which will retrieve the battery and send it for recycling.
Perhaps the biggest downside to Swippit is its price. The Swippit Hub will cost $450, though the company is running a pre-order discount system that knocks the price down by $100 and is valid for the entire month of January. Each Link, including a battery, will cost $125.
Source: myphone.gr
