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iPhone charging toaster delivers full battery in 2 seconds flat

iPhone charging toaster delivers full battery in 2 seconds flat
Drop your phone in and within mere seconds, it has a full, fresh battery pack
Drop your phone in and within mere seconds, it has a full, fresh battery pack
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The Swippitt link 3,500-mAh battery booster and protective case will come in a variety of colors
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The Swippitt link 3,500-mAh battery booster and protective case will come in a variety of colors
The sleek, understated design of the Swippitt Hub is meant to make it easy to store wherever is most convenient
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The sleek, understated design of the Swippitt Hub is meant to make it easy to store wherever is most convenient
The Swippitt Instant Power System appears to be a particularly useful solution for households, offices and other spaces with multiple phone users
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The Swippitt Instant Power System appears to be a particularly useful solution for households, offices and other spaces with multiple phone users
Drop your phone in and within mere seconds, it has a full, fresh battery pack
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Drop your phone in and within mere seconds, it has a full, fresh battery pack
Swippitt debuted the IPS hardware at CES 2025 and plans to begin shipping to customers in June
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Swippitt debuted the IPS hardware at CES 2025 and plans to begin shipping to customers in June
The Swippit instantly swaps the dead battery pack with a fresh one
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The Swippit instantly swaps the dead battery pack with a fresh one
Swippitt offers several Hub color options
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Swippitt offers several Hub color options
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One of the buzziest products at CES 2025 is far simpler than any massive, crisp-pictured TV or next-gen EV for street and sky. The all-new Swippitt IPS is a fast power-up solution for mobile phones. Forget handcuffing your iPhone to an electrical socket or wireless dock for the next two hours, simply drop it into the toaster-like Swippitt Hub and walk away with a fully charged battery in a matter of seconds.

Two-second charging sounds too good to be true because it is. Swippitt hasn't managed to eradicate the concept of charging time with some type of mega-voltage miracle charger. Instead, it's developed what it calls an Instant Power System (IPS), a simple but smart solution blending cutting-edge digital and more basic mechanical tech into a quick, convenient battery-swapping ecosystem.

Swippitt debuted the IPS hardware at CES 2025 and plans to begin shipping to customers in June
Swippitt debuted the IPS hardware at CES 2025 and plans to begin shipping to customers in June

That toaster-like desktop module is the Swippitt Hub, a multi-battery dock that stores and charges up to five individual 3,500-mAh battery packs at a time. Swippitt's proprietary software manages all five batteries for optimized charging and power level maintenance.

The battery packs themselves aren't make/model-specific internal phone batteries but compatible Swippitt Link add-on packs meant to serve as both a protective cases and phone life-doubling supplementary batteries. Pop the phone into the Hub slot and the Hub knocks off the original Link case and replaces it with a fully charged one via an internal conveyer system, automatically starting the charging process on the newly stored dead Link pack.

The Swippit instantly swaps the dead battery pack with a fresh one
The Swippit instantly swaps the dead battery pack with a fresh one

The speed-swapping process takes a mere two seconds so you can walk off with your phone immediately, no reason to leave it behind or camp out around the charger. Pretty handy.

With its five-battery capacity, a single Hub is ready to be used for multiple phones, providing a smart solution for households and offices. Multiple users can even replace their batteries one after the other as the Hub is ready for a new phone battery swap just four seconds after completing the first.

The Swippitt link 3,500-mAh battery booster and protective case will come in a variety of colors
The Swippitt link 3,500-mAh battery booster and protective case will come in a variety of colors

The third and final part of the IPS is an accompanying app that provides information about battery life, system management, phone location and more. It also provides details about battery usage patterns and lets owners set up security to prevent unauthorized users from snagging batteries.

While the IPS certainly sounds like a slick way of managing smartphone battery life, it's not without a couple of downsides. First, the Link battery cases will only be compatible with iPhone 14, 15 and 16 models at launch. Swippitt does plan to build out compatibility to Android devices and additional iPhone generations by the end of 2025, but the system's destined to be limited to a very select set of phone models for at least a while.

Second, buying up to five separate US$125 Link battery cases and a $450 Hub command center is obviously way more expensive than simply charging your phone with a plug-in charger the slow, old-fashioned way. That's more than $1,000 for battery refreshing speed and convenience. Worth it? Possibly for heavy smartphone users who don't want to go without for an hour or two but certainly not for everyone.

Potential buyers will soon get their chance to decide if Swippitt is worth it to them when preordering launches in the coming days. Those interested can sign up for notification on the company's website, and early birds can score the best pricing by combining the 30% January discount with the $100 CES discount on offer until January 17. Plans call for shipping to begin in June 2025.

See the Swippitt Hub in action in the intro video below.

How it works

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4 comments
4 comments
jimbo92107
I can't believe the marketing blindness. You must name this product "Phone Toaster" because everybody will remember that name. Do you think anybody will remember the "Swippitt IPS?" Nobody will. I didn't, and I just finished reading the article. But Phone Toaster? That I will remember. Explaining how it works is for the back of the box. Phone Toaster is for the front of the box. Sell. The. Product!
Chase
I require a phone case that actually locks where I mount it (I ride a motorcycle or bicycle 5 or 6 days a week) so this won't work for me. I do fondly remember years ago having two of the old Nokia brick phones, one that stayed on the charger and one that never touched one. I just swapped the battery every few days when I started to run low, so I can definitely see the merit to this idea. If they made it compatible with Quadlock or Rockform or something, I might consider it.
martinwinlow
I can't see you on Earth this is going to sell in the US given the propensity for anyone to sue for any reason no matter how completely daft.
"Darling, have you seen my iPhone? Hang on a minute… What's that smell?…"
warmer
Oh this is going to fry older iPhones. Charging that fast will make things HOT and batteries towards the end of their life will NOT be happy about that.