Kickstarter Campaign Brings MagSafe Charging to iPhone

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Posted July 17, 2014 at 7:54pm by iClarified

A Kickstarter campaign to launch 'Cabin', a slim aluminum portable battery for iPhone, also offers an adapter kit that brings MagSafe like charging to the iPhone.

Kickstarter Campaign Brings MagSafe Charging to iPhone

Cabin uses magnetic connection to provide additional power to the iPhone.

The key to Cabin’s ease-of-use is the magnetic connection between iPhone and Cabin. By designing a special MicroAdaptor for the iPhone’s Lightning port which magnetically attaches iPhone to Cabin, we have made the connection and charging process, if it may be said, incredibly delightful.

Alongside Cabin, there's also the Cabin Dock which makes use of the MicroAdapter.

Thanks to our MicroAdapter, placing iPhone directly on the Cabin Dock is as easy as putting your phone on the table. An iPhone and attached Cabin battery can also be placed on the Dock together, charging both in the process.

There's also a MagAdapter that you can attach to a Lightning cable for easy charging.

Our passion for improving the charging process has even extended to improving the Lightning cable itself. Our MagAdaptor for the Apple Lightning cable easily connects to our iPhone MicroAdaptor or Cabin.

You can pledge $25 to get the MagAdaptor and MicroAdapter, $59 for the adapters and Cabin Dock, $89 for the adapters and Cabin, or $135 for the adapters and both Cabin and Cabin Dock.

So far $24,062 has been pledged of the $50,000 goal with 42 days to go.

Take a look at the video below for more information...

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ShadowOne - July 19, 2014 at 7:14am

With the iphone 6 coming out in a few months, the cabin and cabin dock would become obsolete before the 11/2014 delivery. Add several more months of typical kickstarter project delay and this whole project becomes a non-factor.

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Dark shadows - July 19, 2014 at 8:54am

There's some truth to that but there are still gonna be some who have a 5 and 5s, I know people personally that still have and use a 3GS so maybe it'll be for them, but if you watch closely in the video you can see that they actually had one of the iPhone 6 dummy units so maybe they're waiting to see if that's actually how it will be before the invest in materials for it. I think it's a neat product and will be investing in it, didn't really want the case thing, just the connector and adapter though

RWR - July 18, 2014 at 4:55am

You guys read this comment because you aren't reading into the actual project. Yes, it does sync and charge. MAGSAFE IPHONE DOESN'T WORK WITH THE MACBOOK MAGSAFE! They send you a adapter for the lightening to magsafe and the magsafe to lightning for the phone for $25. You don't have to buy the case. Why this is nice? Well, you have a 1% chance of breaking the port with this plug in. Try dropping your iphone while the cable is plugged in and then youll see why magnets are a good idea. Don't be negative.

gamerscul9870 - July 18, 2014 at 4:59am

When iPhone drops, it may hold onto the cable but it is easy to remove like in the MacBooks but on MacBooks it drops easily because of the weight.

kapnkirk24 - July 18, 2014 at 5:56am

Reading is fundamental people!!!

sillydrew - July 18, 2014 at 3:35am

Here's the question I have. Does it sync as well as charge? I doubt it since they didn't mention that. Also from what I can tell your not using the same charger as your laptop. It's showing the lightning cable being plugged into the mag adapter and I don't see why that is impossible since only certain pins are used to supply power to the phone when only charging. I don't think it's possible to sync and charge like it would when plugging in the lightning cable.

Tajen - July 18, 2014 at 2:16am

I don't think this would actually work....Apple's power adaptor for MacBooks is 14.85V/3.05A. This product would need to convert this 45W into 5V1A (5W) for the iPhone. I don't think that is technically possible in this small adaptor captioned in part #3 in the image above. Also, there is no way this will pass Apple's MFI program.

justabrake - July 17, 2014 at 11:41pm

It would be nice if apple used the mag light plug on phones

gamerscul9870 - July 18, 2014 at 12:46am

I don't find it necessary. On macs it's acceptable because you open up, wait for loading, then you see if battery is charged or not, but for iPhone, just push the home button or sleep/wake button then you instantly know.

Forrest Gump - July 17, 2014 at 9:30pm

My first reaction was that a magsafe connector on the iPhone would actually be a neat idea. But then I realised that the iPhone is so light that the magsafe would never disconnect before the phone was pulled with the cable. So I don't think it makes sense out of the context of this gadget.

gamerscul9870 - July 17, 2014 at 10:13pm

Just drop your iPhone from the charger if charging in high places, besides you can just push down on MagSafe to easily remove it like it would on MacBooks.

gamerscul9870 - July 17, 2014 at 9:20pm

I'd rather have the add on for lightning rather than the entire bulky case.

gamerscul9870 - July 17, 2014 at 9:21pm

Even if it was MagSafe 2 which they need to do, but then again, does the charging improve?