Quit While You’re Ahead

We’re living in a technological miracle age.

Not the AI thing where every company and app now filters your simplest interaction through a digital idiot who sucks. We could do without that part.

We’re talking about the charging thing.

Wireless charging is basically magic. Electricity jumps invisibly into a glass rectangle that contains your bank account, your camera roll, your group chats, and the entire known record of human civilization. And somehow, as consumers, we all acknowledge this technological marvel while drawing the line somewhere around eight bucks when it comes to paying for it.

What the heck.

You’re sitting there shopping for a device that’s going to interact directly with the innards of your $1,000 phone in ways that you (okay, we) do not even remotely understand. And yet buying something from a reputable company with a proven track record and a name you can pronounce barely enters the thought process.

What’s that? This plastic hockey puck costs less than half of what’s on the Starbucks menu, might fry your phone, and could also burn your house down? No problem. Surely an Amazon seller whose name contains no vowels will be around for the long haul if there’s ever a class action lawsuit for wireless death by technological inferno.

Sure beats paying the premium for something solid like Aukey, right?

Right?!

Well… kinda. Because even with all of that said, the regular price on a decent wireless charger really can be pretty hard to stomach. Half the staff here made a note on their phone calendar to snag one of these today, and the other half only didn’t because their phones are too hot to touch after sitting on a questionable wireless charging pad.

In any case, that’s why this deal feels like the rare sane answer: a 2-pack of Aukey MagFusion Qi2 2-in-1 Foldable Chargers for $30. They’re Qi2-certified, magnetic, foldable, adjustable, and built to charge a compatible iPhone at up to 15W while also giving your AirPods a place to land.

You don’t have to choose between cursed bargain-bin electronics and something that starts to cost a meaningful percentage of what the stupid phone did. You also don’t have to choose only one spot to benefit from all of this wirelessly charging goodness.

The hockey puck has served its purpose. Now it’s time to stop tempting fate.