Simply drop your iPhone into the toaster-like Swippitt Hub and walk away with a fully charged battery almost instantly.
One of the buzziest products at CES 2025 is this all-new fast power-up solution for mobile phones. No need for charging cables or the constant fear of running out of juice, simply drop your iPhone into the toaster-like Swippitt Hub and - like magic - you pull it out fully charged.
If two-second charging sounds too good to be true, that's because it is. Swippitt hasn't actually created a mega-voltage miracle charger. Instead, it's developed what it calls an Instant Power System, a simple, convenient battery-swapping ecosystem. It's already being done for electric mopeds and for electric cars, so why not for phones?
That toaster-like desktop module by Swippitt is a multi-battery dock that stores and charges up to five individual battery packs at a time.
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 speed-swapping process takes a mere two seconds so you can walk off with your phone almost immediately with a fully charged replacement battery.
With its five-battery capacity, a single Hub is ready to be used for multiple phones, providing a potentially popular solution for homes 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.
Buying up to five separate US$125 Link battery cases and a $450 Swippitt Hub is obviously substantially more expensive than simply charging your phone the slow, old-fashioned way. So, whilst this new device offers refreshing speed and convenience, it's probably - for now -sadly too expensive for most of us.
However, potential buyers will soon get their chance to decide if Swippitt is worth it to them when preordering launches in the coming days.