3-Pack: Incipio Ghost Qi 15W Rapid Wireless Charging Pads
- These work with any Qi-enabled stuff.
- Myself, I’m more coffee-enabled!
- Anyway, they have a rubberized surface so devices don’t just slide off, and they make noises at the beginning and the end of the charging process.
- 15W means it maxes out the 10W capacity of current gen phones, plus an additional 5W as technology improves.
- That’s slower than if you plug it in to an 18W charger, but a lot faster than the 5W Qi wireless chargers out there.
- With 3, you can put one in the living room, one in the bedroom, and one in the solarium.
- Model: PW-309. The PW stands for Packs (a) Wallop (of energy)!
The Uncanny Valley Of Simple Yet Impossible Tasks
We actually touched on the reason your phone isn’t charged even though you remember plugging it in last week.
But, to recap, what happens is this: your phone is nearly dead, so you plug it in, but then you want to use it to look something up or tweet or play a game. Next thing you know, you’re totally lost down some dumb online rabbit hole, and now you’re pulling it free of the charger and carrying it into the other room when it’s only 3% out of the red.
By buying this 3-pack of Incipio Qi charging pads, you’d combat this problem and not only because you can put each one in a different highly-trafficked room in your house; it’s also because to charge you merely set your device down.
We know what you’re thinking: plugging in a charging cable does not take considerably more effort than placing something on a flat rubberized surface. And that’s true. Technically. But also, not true at all.
Are we all familiar with the ‘uncanny valley’? Wikipedia summarizes it like this:
The concept of the uncanny valley suggests humanoid objects which appear almost, but not exactly, like real human beings elicit uncanny, or strangely familiar, feelings of eeriness and revulsion in observers.
In other words, we can accept one of those weird Boston Dynamics robots because we’re not supposed to believe it’s human. And we could, hypothetically, accept an android that looked and acted exactly like a human being because we wouldn’t know it was a robot at all. Yet those robots right on the cusp of appearing human but falling just slightly short are TERRIFYING.
It is our estimation that there is a similar phenomenon with tasks. We can assemble a futon because we know ahead of time that it will difficult and time-consuming. Conversely, we can turn out the lights because it requires almost no effort at all. But the things that take the smallest amount of time, energy, and thought are entirely impossible. We’re talking about replacing the toilet paper roll, or putting a new bag in the bin after you take the garbage out, or, that’s right, plugging in your phone and leaving it there. These tasks are neither automatic, nor difficult enough that their completion brings about any satisfaction.
Luckily, there are these the charging pads. They’re the perfect shepherd to deliver you safely to the other, easier side of the uncanny valley of simple yet impossible tasks!
(And yes, we did just make up that concept and now we’re using it as a catchy ending line like it’s common knowledge, but c’mon, that’s what copywriting is all about, people!)
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