We didn’t make it to the in-person CES final 12 months, however we did handle to get our arms on a number of merchandise from the consolation of our personal houses. That listing included Power1, an iPhone battery case with a constructed slot for AirPods charging. The product’s creator, AXS Applied sciences, has since performed a  rethink of the accent, which debuts at this 12 months’s present.

Like its predecessor, the Mannequin 3 depends on the iPhone’s MagSafe characteristic, however as a substitute of working the total size of the cellphone, it’s considerably smaller — although the the corporate says it provides as much as 5x battery life for AirPods. There are two modes – one simply expenses the headphones, whereas the opposite expenses each them and the cellphone on the similar time. The pad itself has a magnet robust sufficient to stay to a cellphone in a MagSafe case.

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“Power1 Mannequin 3 is our most important and superior design but giving customers the flexibility to connect our charging system immediately on iPhones or on most MagSafe circumstances” says CEO John Merenda. “Power1 is the primary product to supply all-in-one on-device charging of AirPods and iPhone and creates a brand new class of charging methods”.

The product is suitable with AirPods Generations 2 and three and is about to start out transport within the spring, priced at $100 – the identical as its predecessor.