World News Headlines August 6, 2021 Under One Ceiling 0 Check out this working prototype of Apple’s canceled AirPower charging mat 0 0000 0 0 more Check out this working prototype of Apple’s canceled AirPower charging mat August 6, 2021 Under One Ceiling now playing Transferring money from UAE abroad: what are my cheapest options August 6, 2021 Under One Ceiling WIN With Nespresso This Mother’s Day August 6, 2021 Under One Ceiling NBA Playoffs 2022: A Casual Fan's Guide to the Postseason August 6, 2021 Under One Ceiling Best New Climbing Gear of 2022 August 6, 2021 Under One Ceiling A Local Weekend Travel Guide to Austin, Texas August 6, 2021 Under One Ceiling First Drive: 2022 Range Rover Ups the Luxury SUV Experience August 6, 2021 Under One Ceiling Most Stylish Rain Jackets, Parkas, and Trench Coats for Men August 6, 2021 Under One Ceiling EU eyes Russian oil import ban as Moscow strikes western Ukraine August 6, 2021 Under One Ceiling World-class Clark Int’l Airport opens new 110,000 square-meter passenger terminal August 6, 2021 Under One Ceiling PCG: Bodies of 5 children who drowned in Taal Lake found August 6, 2021 Under One Ceiling Check out this working prototype of Apple’s canceled AirPower charging mat Oh, what could have been. Back in the spring of 2019, Apple did something it almost never does and canceled the AirPower wireless charging mat after it had been officially unveiled two years prior. Now, someone has their hands on a (somewhat) working version of this rare blemish on Apple’s hardware track record. Giulio Zompetti, an Italian collector of Apple prototypes, was able to acquire a prototype AirPower mat from China, according to The Verge. In photos Zompetti provided to the publication, it’s evident the unfinished wireless charging mat lacks the materials that would have coated the outside of the product had it actually shipped as intended. So you can see all kinds of internal charging coils. Zompetti also posted a video to Twitter showing a phone charging on the device. Tweet may have been deleted Zompetti told The Verge that the AirPower mat doesn’t even work with a standard-issue iPhone, instead requiring specialized iPhone prototypes to charge anything. He also said he hasn’t run into the heating problems that reportedly caused Apple to kill the project entirely, but can’t rule out their existence. Zompetti has a history with this sort of thing, coming across prototype Apple Watches a few years ago. Apple’s cancellation of AirPower was noteworthy not necessarily because we were all super jazzed about it, but because it’s exceedingly rare for Apple to kill something after it’s been revealed publicly. Between 2017 and spring 2019, we kept expecting AirPower to show up at every Apple event, only to scratch our heads every time it didn’t. Personally, I’ll take credit for seeing things how they actually were before Apple made the news official. Still, it’s cool to see a partially working version of the star-crossed charging mat. There aren’t many tech companies more heavily scrutinized than Apple and, for the sake of historic preservation, it’s cool that even its biggest blunders are able to survive out in the wild like this. Related Related posts: Lives Lost: Brazilian toddler was saying her first words Ex-envoy fails to secure prisoners in talks with Venezuela’s Maduro tags: RSS Feed World News 0000 0 0 previous Covid: Live events to be protected by £750m government insurance scheme next Ron Watkins said he had election fraud evidence. Instead he sent QAnon believers spam.
