Ever found yourself out and about and wishing you hadn’t forgotten your smartphone or tablet’s charging cable? Wrist Charge feels your pain, and wants to end it for just $15. Kickstarter supporters are getting a price break, of course. When Wrist Charge is finally available for retail sale, they’ll sell for $29.99 each.
The clever little little cable is available with three different tips: Apple’s 30-pin connector, the newer Lightning style, and the ubiquitous micro USB. The team has set a goal of raising $50,00 in 31 days. That seems easy enough to achieve, especially considering that they’re already past the $5,000 mark.
Why spend even $15 on a cable like this instead of just pocketing your existing cable? Because it doesn’t wrap neatly around your wrist or commuter mug. Besides, many of you are probably wearing at least one silicone wristband anyway… why not slap one on that actually offers some handy functionality?
But why not by something cheaper? Chinese manufacturers have been churning out similar cables for quite some time, and you can pick them up for a fraction of the price from several different websites.
What sets the Wrist Charge apart from, say, this $3 bracelet-style cable from DealExtreme? It’s the offset plugs that allow Wrist Charge to actually wrap around your wrist like an ordinary bracelet. There’s no weird magnetic clasp that connects two plug ends and leaves the actual plugs exposed. There’s no silly floating silicon receiver that accepts one end while the other dangles loose.
The difference, as they say, is in the details. It will be interesting to watch what happens now that Wrist Charge has hit Kickstarter, however. Shanzai manufacturers move exceptionally quickly, and it wouldn’t take much tweaking to a mold to make it churn out cables that connect to themselves as smartly as Wrist Charge does.
If you’d rather support a hard-working indie team, by all means, don’t wait. Head over to Kickstarter and pitch in to reserve your Wrist Charge.