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Fosi’s $150 Headphone Amp Snaps to Your iPhone Instead of Dangling

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The dongle DAC has become a familiar but awkward sight plugged into the bottom of a smartphone, a small reminder that the headphone jack didn’t disappear quietly. Portable audio has come a long way in sound quality, but the form factor hasn’t kept pace. Most of these tiny dongles hang loose from the charging port, tugging at cables and generally getting in the way of an otherwise pleasant listening session.

Fosi Audio’s MD3 MagDac tries to solve this with a fundamentally different approach to portability. Instead of hanging from a charging port, it snaps magnetically to the back of a MagSafe-compatible smartphone using 16 N52 magnets, sitting flush against the device like a compact audio module. The result is a pocket-sized DAC and headphone amplifier that actually looks like it belongs there, not like an afterthought.

Designer: Fosi Audio

The design doesn’t stop at clever attachment. The MD3 is precision-machined from 6063 aluminum alloy with a sandblasted anodized finish, available in silver or black, both with orange leather on the magnetic back. At just 50g and 12m thick, it slides in and out of a pocket without protest. What you’ll notice first, though, is the 1.28-inch circular LCD display on the back.

That screen handles volume in 100 steps, shows audio information, and rotates its orientation depending on how you’re holding the device. There’s also a Vista Button that opens a personal photo album, a small but unexpectedly human touch for a piece of audio hardware. A dedicated Ease Button and physical navigation controls keep everything accessible without ever needing to tap your phone’s screen.

For the audio itself, Fosi didn’t compromise on components. The MD3 uses the ESS Sabre ES9039Q2M DAC chip paired with four ES9603Q amplifier chips in a true balanced circuit, supporting PCM up to 32-bit/384kHz and native DSD256. Total harmonic distortion and noise sit at just 0.00075%, and the noise floor drops to 1.7 μV. For most IEMs and portable headphones, those figures translate to noticeably cleaner, more resolving sound.

The MD3 offers both a 3.5mm single-ended output and a 4.4mm balanced output, delivering up to 180 mW through the latter, enough for headphones ranging from 16 to 300 ohms. An aluminum alloy shielding plate sits between the magnets and the audio circuitry to prevent interference from coloring the signal, a careful engineering detail that keeps the magnetic attachment trick from undermining the whole point of the device.

Dual USB-C ports handle both audio and charging simultaneously, so you’re not forced to choose between listening and keeping your phone powered. The top port handles audio decoding and charging, while the bottom manages audio decoding and firmware updates. There’s also a volume memory feature, so the MD3 picks up at the same level every time you connect it, without having to reset anything.

The wired audio revival has been building for a while, drawing listeners who want something more intentional than Bluetooth. A magnetic DAC that attaches to the back of your phone without cables or cases seems like a sensible next step in making that experience practical. Fosi has been laying the groundwork quietly, and at $149.99, the MD3 might just be the portable amp that finally stays out of the drawer.

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This MagSafe iPhone Grip Is Actually a Self-Defense Spray in Disguise

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Personal safety products have a design problem few people talk about. Pepper sprays and personal alarms are either too bulky to carry consistently or so visually aggressive that most people feel uncomfortable with them in plain sight. The result is that these tools end up buried at the bottom of a bag or forgotten on a shelf, making them nearly useless when they’re needed most.

Safix is a concept that tries to close that gap by attaching a self-defense spray directly to the back of your iPhone. Built around Apple’s MagSafe ecosystem, it snaps onto the phone magnetically and functions as a finger grip during normal use. The idea is that the safest place to keep your protection is on the one thing you almost never put down.

Designer: Sunghwan Cho, Sooyeol Lee, Yeongeun Park, Geontak Oh, Daero Lee, Jinho Choi, Jungwoon Im (UNICHEST)

What makes this particularly clever is how little it looks the part. Safix borrows its silhouette from the rounded, organic contours of smooth river pebbles and comes finished in warm, muted tones. Its stone-like texture positions it firmly in lifestyle territory, the kind of object you’d expect sitting next to a room spray or a small succulent on a bedside table, not clipped to a keychain.

The team calls this approach the “Gentle Arc,” a form language that puts emotional comfort on equal footing with physical function. The thinking goes that self-defense tools carry a kind of psychological weight, and that weight itself is what keeps most of them in bags and drawers rather than in people’s hands. Designing something pleasant to hold and look at is meant to change that.

On most days, Safix earns its place on the back of your phone the same way a PopSocket does: by making it more comfortable to hold. The built-in rubber band loops around your fingers, giving you a stable grip for texting, photographing, or navigating. The MagSafe connection keeps it firmly in place yet detaches easily, so it never feels like it’s fighting you.

When you actually need it, pulling Safix off the phone takes a fraction of a second. The casing opens to reveal the spray mechanism inside, and a clearly marked button handles the deployment. A safety indicator on the front helps prevent accidental discharge. The whole interaction is built for speed, the kind you’d need in a moment that doesn’t give you time to think.

Consider someone walking home at night with their phone already in hand. They don’t have to dig for anything; the Safix is right there between their fingers, always within reach. That shift from “somewhere in the bag” to “in your hand as you use it” might sound trivial, but it’s the difference between a safety tool that works and one that only works when you remember you have it.

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Insta360’s $80 Snap Lets Your Phone’s Best Camera Shoot Selfies

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Anyone who’s owned a modern smartphone knows the frustration. The front camera you rely on for selfies and vlogs is almost always the weakest lens on the device. Rear cameras have grown increasingly capable, packing larger sensors, multiple focal lengths, and advanced computational photography, yet most people never use them for self-facing shots because there’s simply no way to see what’s being captured.

That’s the problem Insta360 is solving with the Snap Selfie Screen, a portable magnetic display that attaches to the back of your phone and gives you a live view of what the rear camera sees. It’s a fairly obvious idea in hindsight, one that’s been a long time coming, but there’s enough thoughtfulness in the execution to make it feel like a genuinely practical accessory.

Designer: Insta360

On iPhones, the Snap attaches magnetically to any MagSafe-compatible model from the iPhone 15 series onward and connects through the USB-C port. That wired link is what keeps the preview stable and responsive, in a way that Bluetooth or Wi-Fi-based alternatives simply can’t match. The Snap draws power directly from the phone as well, so there’s nothing separate to charge or carry.

Insta360 says the wired connection keeps latency down to around 30ms during 4K recording, close enough to real time that there’s no discernible gap between movement and what appears on the screen. Android users aren’t left out either, as those with USB-C and DisplayPort Alt Mode support can use the Snap with the magnetic ring adapter that comes included in the box.

The 3.5-inch touchscreen goes well past a passive viewfinder. It fully mirrors your phone’s display and responds to touch, so you can adjust exposure, switch focal lengths, change apps, and tap the shutter all from the back of the device. Any camera app on your phone works exactly as it normally would, including Instagram, so you’re not tied to Insta360’s own software.

The premium edition adds a ring light around the screen, co-developed with beauty-tech company AMIRO. It comes with three color settings and five brightness levels, which makes a real difference when shooting indoors under flat lighting or outdoors at an awkward hour. For content creators who’d rather not carry a separate panel light, this version handles fill lighting without adding much to the bag.

At just 6.8mm thick, the Snap fits into a bag without adding much. The protective cover that folds over the screen also secures the USB-C cable when not in use, so nothing tangles with other gear. That tidy design makes daily carry feel easy, and it’s especially handy for solo travelers who’d rather have a reliable way to photograph themselves than hope a willing passerby is nearby.

Both editions are available now through Insta360’s store and Amazon. The standard version starts at $79.99, with the ring-light edition at $89.99. Smartphone cameras have been improving for years, but always with the assumption that you’d be shooting other things. The Snap flips that around, putting the device’s most capable optics in the hands of the person holding it.

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The Smallest E-Reader You Can Buy Now Snaps Right Onto Your iPhone

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MagSafe was supposed to unlock a universe of snap-on accessories that would turn your iPhone into a modular Swiss Army knife of functionality. Instead, we got wallet cases, battery packs, and a parade of stands. The ecosystem felt like a promise unfulfilled, a magnetic ring waiting for someone to actually think beyond charging. Chinese startup Xteink apparently got the memo everyone else missed, because they just shipped an e-reader designed to live magnetically attached to the back of your phone. The device weighs 58 grams, costs $79, and slots into the exact use case MagSafe seemed built for: turning dead space on the back of your iPhone into a second screen you actually want.

The Xteink X3 comes in two display sizes, 3.7 inches or 4.3 inches, both built around E Ink panels with physical page-turn buttons and zero touchscreen functionality. Navigation runs through a grid of tile-based icons controlled entirely by hardware controls, giving the device a throwback MP3 player vibe that somehow works at this scale. Battery life sits at 10 to 14 days per charge assuming one to three hours of daily reading, and the whole package ships with a 16GB microSD card pre-installed, magnetic stick-on rings for non-MagSafe phones, and a proprietary Pogo Pin charging cable. For iPhone users, it snaps directly to the MagSafe ring and stays there, a permanent passenger in your pocket that weighs less than a deck of cards.

Designer: Xteink

The industrial design leans into minimalism in ways that feel deliberate rather than cost-cut. Product shots show a frosted white variant and a black option, both with rounded corners and a clean bezel that frames the E Ink display without visual clutter. The startup/sleep screen displays typographic word art, phrases like “MINIMALISM,” “PURE,” and “LET EVERY WORD LINGER” arranged across the panel in varying weights and sizes, which gives the device an identity beyond generic tech. Button placement spans three edges: power on top, page-turn controls on the left and right sides, and a row of navigation keys along the bottom for Back, OK/Confirm, and redundant page controls. That redundancy matters, it means one-handed use works regardless of which hand you’re holding the device with, a small detail that signals someone actually thought through real-world ergonomics.

You give up a lot at this price and size. There’s no front light, though Xteink sells a magnetic clip-on reading light separately for $9.99. There’s no touchscreen, which means navigating menus involves button-mashing through tile grids rather than tapping what you want. The smaller 3.7-inch display pushes compactness to a point where readability likely suffers for anyone used to a standard Kindle’s 6-inch panel. Resolution sits below the 300ppi standard most e-readers target, and early user reports suggest MagSafe alignment with certain iPhone models can be finicky depending on orientation. These are real compromises, the kind you accept when portability is the primary design goal and everything else is secondary.

The X3 works best as a concept piece for what the MagSafe ecosystem could become if more companies treated that magnetic ring as an opportunity rather than an accessory mount. At $79, it costs less than most MagSafe battery packs and delivers more utility for anyone who reads regularly. Whether it survives real-world use comes down to whether the form factor trade-offs are worth the pocketability gain, but at least someone is finally asking the right question: what else can we snap to the back of this phone?

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$130 Charger Turns 3 Nightstand Cables Into One Folding Pad

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Most people who own an iPhone, an Apple Watch, and AirPods have quietly accepted the nightstand situation: three cables, two adapters, and a general sense that none of this should be as complicated as it is. The chargers come off the desk in different orders every morning, find their way into bags, and somehow never make it back to the same spot twice. Journey’s ARIA 3-in-1 Wireless Charging Station is built as a direct answer to that arithmetic problem.

The ARIA is Qi2-certified and Made for Apple, which places it in a fairly short list of chargers cleared to deliver the full 15W to an iPhone 12 or newer. That Qi2 certification also means magnetic alignment is built into the standard, so the phone locks into position rather than needing to be nudged around until the charging indicator finally appears. It is a small difference that makes the whole routine feel more deliberate.

Designer: Journey

Apple Watch gets fast charging as well, and AirPods charge at up to 5W, all three running simultaneously from a single USB-C cable. That consolidates the whole power situation down to one cord running to one spot on the desk. One honest caveat: a 30W adapter is recommended for full performance but does not ship in the box, something worth factoring into the price tag before deciding how good the value proposition really is.

What separates the ARIA from a flat charging pad is a folding mechanism that gives it a second mode entirely. Lay it flat, and it works as a compact 2-in-1 pad, 16 cm long and under 2 cm thick, low-profile enough to disappear into most desk setups without demanding attention. Pop open the phone section, and it props the device up at just over 70 degrees, in either portrait or landscape. The transition takes about two seconds.

That dual-mode flexibility becomes more interesting when packing a bag. At 230g and folded down to 19mm, the ARIA fits into a Dopp kit without the usual negotiation over whether the gadget justifies the real estate. A magnetic alignment ring is included in the box for non-MagSafe phone cases, extending compatibility without requiring a case swap or any real effort.

Qi-enabled Android phones also work in flat mode, though at the reduced speeds their hardware supports rather than the full Qi2 ceiling. The ARIA handles international voltages from 100 to 240V as well, which means it travels without issue as long as you bring your own wall adapter and plug converter for the destination. For a device that sells itself on travel readiness, the missing adapter in the box still stings a little.

There is also a touch-controlled ambient light built into the base. A single tap produces a soft glow that works well at a bedside without flooding a dark room, and it beats reaching for a phone screen at 2 a.m. just to orient yourself. Small features like this tend to matter more in practice than they look on a spec sheet.

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This $100 Stand Fixes Why Wireless Charging Gets Hot and Useless

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Most wireless charging setups involve a flat pad on the nightstand, a couple of extra cables for watch and earbuds, and a phone that gets warm and slides out of alignment if you nudge it. Most 3-in-1 MagSafe docks solve the cable mess but still feel like static sculptures, not stands you actually use while you work or watch something, and they rarely address the heat that builds up when pushing 15W or more through magnetic coils.

LISEN’s MagSafe Charger Stand puts everything on a vertical stem with a chunky barrel at the top. Inside that barrel is a Qi2.2-certified 25 W magnetic charger and a cooling fan, with Apple Watch charging on top and AirPods on the base. It looks unconventional compared to the usual flat arches, but that shape does more than just stand out in listings.

Designer: LISEN

The Qi2.2 spec lets the stand push up to 25W to an iPhone 17 Pro, roughly six times faster than old 5W pads, which usually means heat and throttling. Here, a built-in fan and temperature-control chip keep things under control in Cool Mode, so you can stream, video call, or scroll while charging without the phone turning into a hand warmer or dropping to slower speeds halfway through.

The day and night modes matter more than expected. During the day, Cool Mode keeps the fan running quietly while your phone jumps from low battery to usable in a short break. At night, you tap the touch-sensitive button on the base to switch to Sleep Mode, turning the fan off so the stand becomes a silent overnight charger. Charging continues safely, just slightly slower, but the room stays quiet enough to actually sleep.

The rotating barrel and adjustable angle turn the stand into a proper phone holder. You can flip between portrait and landscape for video calls, recipes, or watching something with someone on the sofa, all while the phone stays magnetically locked and charging. The phone is visible and usable instead of lying flat and forgotten on a pad somewhere under a stack of papers.

Of course, the base charges AirPods and the side puck handles Apple Watch, so one cable and the included 45W adapter replace three separate chargers fighting for outlets. The weighted chrome-plated base and matte finish keep the stand from tipping or looking cheap, and the whole thing reads more like a small piece of desk hardware than a pile of plastic and tangled cables.

LISEN’s stand looks a bit strange compared to usual flat pads and minimalist arches, but the cylinder, fan, and rotation all serve a purpose. It is built for people who actually use their phone while it charges, want Qi2-level speed without cooking their battery, and would rather have one odd little totem on the desk than three separate chargers that look boring and get warm anyway.

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Moft MagSafe Wallet Stand Stops You from Losing Your Phone and Cards

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Leaving the house with just a phone and a slim MagSafe wallet is convenient until the jolt of realizing you have no idea where you left that combo. Most wallets and stands solve carry and comfort, but do nothing for the “where did I put it” problem. Moft’s trackable stand-wallet is a small tweak to that daily stack, adding a Find My brain without bulking up the back of your phone.

The Trackable Snap-on Phone Stand & Wallet is Moft’s thinnest design yet, just 0.25 inches thick and about the size of a credit card, managing to be a wallet, stand, and grip in one. It snaps onto a MagSafe-compatible iPhone, holds up to two cards, folds into three viewing modes, and quietly adds Apple Find My support so it shows up in the same app as your AirPods and trackers.

Designer: MOFT

On a commute or a day at a café, the wallet is just there on the back of the phone. On the train, you flip it into portrait mode to read, at a desk you switch to landscape for a video, and during a call you use floating mode to prop the screen higher. Walking, the folded panel becomes a comfortable grip, making the phone feel more secure without adding a bulky case.

Realizing the phone-wallet stack is not where you thought it was means opening the Find My app to see its last location, triggering a 70dB alert to find it in a messy room, or relying on the Find My network if it is truly out in the world. The tracker runs for about six months on a wireless charge, and the app shows battery level, so it does not quietly die.

The magnets are tuned to around 15N of snap force, strong enough to trust when using it as a stand or grip. Because it is MagSafe-ready, you can snap a charger onto the back without dismantling your setup. The 0.25-inch profile and 62g weight mean it does not turn the phone into a brick, which matters if you are sliding it into a pocket or small bag.

The outer shell uses Moft’s MOVAS vegan leather with high stain resistance and color retention, handling coffee tables and travel without looking tired. Underneath are fiberglass, magnets, metal sheets, and a compact PCB. It comes in four colors that pair with Moft’s Snap Case line, so you can build a coordinated stack or mix tones for contrast without losing the clean geometry.

This is not a brand-new category. It’s a quiet upgrade to something many people already use. By folding a tracker into a stand-wallet that was already thin and useful, Moft makes the everyday phone-back accessory into a little piece of insurance. It does not ask you to carry more, just to expect a bit more from what you are already carrying every time you walk out the door.

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PISEN 140W Tower Replaces 7 Chargers with One Vertical MagSafe Hub

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Most desks end up with a laptop brick, a phone charger, a watch puck, a wireless stand, and a small power strip fighting for space. The ritual of swapping plugs, stealing power from lamps, and dragging cables across the keyboard becomes part of the background noise. The problem is not just power but how scattered that power has become and how much horizontal real estate disappears under adapters.

PISEN’s 140W Mega Charging Hub is a compact vertical tower that pulls everything into one place. It combines two AC outlets, three USB-C ports, one USB-A port, a Qi2-certified 15 W MagSafe pad for iPhone, and a dedicated wireless charger for Apple Watch and compatible earbuds. Available in black or bright yellow, it is meant to live on the desk, with its color and form turning a charging hub into something closer to a small power console.

Designer: PISEN

Dropping a laptop cable into one USB-C port, plugging a monitor or lamp into the AC outlets, and snapping an iPhone onto the magnetic pad, the tower becomes a small staging area. The watch rests on its charger, earbuds sit nearby, and the remaining ports top up a tablet or spare phone. Instead of a tangle of bricks scattered across the surface, there is one hub doing the work, tucked into a corner but fully loaded.

The hub uses GaN to push up to 140 W through a single USB-C port when needed, enough to feed a power-hungry laptop. It supports PD3.1, QC3.0, PPS, AFC, FCP, DCP, and PE, so tablets and phones see their preferred fast-charging profiles. When more devices join, power is shared intelligently across ports instead of everything grinding to a slow trickle, keeping the desk humming through long sessions.

The Qi2 MagSafe pad on top locks onto iPhone 12 through 16 series with proper magnetic alignment and can tilt up to 65 degrees, making it easy to glance at notifications, take a call, or watch a video while charging. That small hinge turns the charger into a stand, which matters when the phone effectively becomes your second screen or the only thing within arm’s reach when the laptop is buried.

An Aurora Australis-inspired breathing light pulses gently when charging, shifting color with voltage, green at 5 V, purple between 9 and 15 V, yellow at 20 V. It is part status indicator, part ambient detail, giving the hub a slightly cyberpunk, glowing-console vibe. Underneath, nine layers of protection handle overvoltage, undervoltage, overcurrent, overheating, short circuit, and foreign object detection, with GaN keeping temperatures under control.

It is not a minimalist block that disappears. Once loaded with cables and a phone perched on top, it looks more like a small power tower with intentional visual density. The yellow version especially leans into that industrial, almost sci-fi energy. The PISEN hub condenses that scattered ecosystem into one vertical footprint where everything plugs in, pulses, and charges without taking over the entire desk.

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UGREEN built an AI Recorder into its 10,000mAh Power Bank and I don’t know if that’s genius or crazy…

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At CES 2026, where every tech company seemed legally obligated to add AI to something, Ugreen announced a power bank with voice recording. The MagFlow AI Voice Recording Magnetic Power Bank packs 10,000 mAh, wireless charging, and AI-powered note-taking into one device. It’s either brilliantly practical or completely unnecessary, depending on how often you find yourself needing both a dead phone and a voice memo at the exact same moment.

The real question is what market Ugreen’s actually targeting. Dedicated AI recorders like Plaud and Limitless offer superior transcription and integration with productivity tools. Meanwhile, power bank buyers are mostly obsessed with capacity, charging speed, and MagSafe compatibility. Ugreen’s product sits awkwardly between these worlds, somehow simultaneously targeting both the serious note-taker as well as the charging purist. Maybe that’s the genius: creating a category where none existed, or maybe it’s just feature creep with good intentions.

Designer: Ugreen

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You’ve got 10,000 mAh, which is respectable but standard for MagSafe-compatible power banks in 2026. Wireless charging is included, though the company hasn’t confirmed whether there’s a USB-C port for wired fast charging. A digital display shows battery level and presumably real-time charging stats. Then there’s the voice recording hardware with built-in AI for translation and summarization, which sounds impressive until you realize Ugreen hasn’t explained how you’ll actually access these recordings. Is there an app? Does it sync to your phone? Do you have to plug it into a computer and dig through files like it’s 2015?

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Compare this to something like the Plaud NotePin, which costs around $169 and is purpose-built for recording. It connects seamlessly to your phone, transcribes in real time, integrates with LLMs like ChatGPT for summaries, and weighs practically nothing. Or look at the power bank side of things. Ugreen’s own Qi2 25W MagFlow Power Bank retails for $89.99 (currently $69.99 on Amazon) and does one thing exceptionally well: charges your devices fast. This new AI version will almost certainly cost more, probably around $120 to $150 if I had to guess, which puts it in direct competition with premium power banks that offer higher capacity or faster charging speeds. Not to mention most AI services do come with the looming threat of a subscription fee at some point. Imagine subscribing to a power bank…

Jokes aside, the bundling makes sense if you’re the kind of person who carries too much stuff and wants to consolidate. A journalist running between interviews could theoretically use this to charge their phone while recording background audio for articles. Students might appreciate having one device that keeps their laptop alive during lectures while capturing notes they can summarize later. But these use cases feel niche, and niche products need exceptional execution to justify their existence. Ugreen hasn’t shown us that yet. The company has a solid track record with GaN charging technology and their NASync NAS series crushed it on Kickstarter with $6.6 million raised. They know how to build hardware. Whether they can build software that makes voice recording feel natural on a battery pack is the real test.

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MagSafe Power Bank with Built-in Ring Light and Kickstand is a Vlogger’s dream-come-true

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You know those ‘Shot On iPhone’ images and videos you see? What they don’t tell you is that they didn’t just use an iPhone to shoot the content, they used an entire ecosystem of rigs, lights, lenses, dongles, microphones, stabilizers, and a bunch of other tech alongside the iPhone. ‘Shot On iPhone’ implies that all someone did was use their phone and nothing else, but the reality is more ‘Shot On iPhone using thousands of dollars worth of other gear’. While most content creators can’t afford that entire setup, one humble power bank hopes to make things easier.

The ‘Creator Beauty’ power bank may sound like a Chinese product name translated rather poorly, but this little device promises to uplift your iPhone’s video and photo capabilities significantly. Most MagSafe power banks snap on and begin charging – this one snaps on and turns your iPhone into a vlogging machine. Aside from giving your iPhone juice while it films, the Creator Beauty power bank packs a swivel-able light-source, and a kickstand that lets you prop your phone either vertically or horizontally, depending on what content you’re creating.

Designer: Max

The entire power bank has a Leica meets retro Polaroid aesthetic. You’ve got a two-tone beige/grey body with a red dot on the corner that you’d think was a Leica logo (but it just has Max written on it, i.e., the designer’s name). Meanwhile, the light itself sits on a swiveling joint, connected by an arm that has Polaroid’s original candy-colored rainbow printed on it. The visual beauty of the light is that, when closed, it sits at the center of the power bank, looking quite literally like a camera. Swivel it out, however, and it becomes an adjustable light source that’s softer-yet-stronger, perfect for filming content without relying on your phone’s flash.

What you see as a fairly novelty-ish light source is, in fact, a true content creator’s dream – because it’s dual-sided. On the outer side, it’s a disc-shaped light, capable of providing a broader wash of light while filming… but look on the other side and you’ve got a ring light, designed to make content creation a breeze without needing to invest in a separate ring light accessory. Buttons on the rim of the light let you toggle between front and rear lights, as well as brightness. The lights draw power from the power bank itself, making the entire arrangement super convenient – and the swiveling design gives you the ability to uniquely position the light source anywhere around the camera to get the right lighting angle or to avoid glare.

The kickstand is icing on the cake. Instead of being one of those flip-out kickstands, this one stays tucked inside the power bank itself, so it isn’t really visible until you need it. Pull it out like you would a drawer in a cabinet and position it at a 90° angle and the kickstand can be used either for docking your phone vertically or horizontally. Together, the three features give the Creator Beauty power bank quite the edge over other power banks. You practically don’t need an extra light or a tripod while recording – just snap the power bank on, swivel the light out, knock out the kickstand, and hit record!

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