Pebble’s founder is back on Kickstarter with an iPhone battery case that also charges AirPods

Pebble’s founder is back on Kickstarter with an iPhone battery case that also charges AirPods

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https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/07/pebbles-founder-is-back-on-kickstarter-with-an-iphone-battery-case-that-also-charges-airpods/

Pebble’s founder and former CEO Eric Migicovsky is back with his first new product since the smartwatch maker got rolled up into Fitbit last year. The PodCase doesn’t have the same sort of grand ambitions as his last project, but the new case is the kind of clever one-off product Kickstarter was designed to deliver.

Up top, a pair of AirPod slots sit just to the right of the case’s camera cut out, so users can charge Apple’s Bluetooth earbuds using the same 2,500 mAh battery that keeps the phone powered. The industrial design certainly looks solid, courtesy of Pebble lead designer Steve Johns — though the Mophie comparisons are pretty much unavoidable right out of the gate.