XOO Belt on Nifty: keeps pants and charge your smartphone

Until someone does not come up with an inexpensive battery, a charge which is enough for a week, portable external battery will not lose its relevance. But here's the problem: most of them are quite bulky to carry without a bag (after all pockets and so always busy), and forget them somewhere easily. In Nifty decided to fix it with a new belt with battery XOO Belt, running the campaign on Indiegogo . After all, you need to have a special talent to lose his belt.

Nifty known for Minidrive , tiny storage solution that fits into the card slot of laptops Apple. During his last trip to China kofaundery Ridyard Pierce and Steve Levy discovered a new type of flat, flexible battery that has not yet been used for commercial projects. After some thought, the idea to unify the belts and battery in one unit.



Prototype XOO Belt like a regular belt, except that the buckle looks more normal. In it two batteries with a total capacity 2100 mAh: 1300 mAh one in the shoulder, the second at 800 mAh in the buckle.



Flexible battery in the prototype: Buckle (left) and belt (right)

Separation means that the battery takes only a certain part of the belt, and regardless of the length XOO Belt characteristics do not change. Agree, it would be unfair to have an advantage because of the wide bone.



Prototype XOO Belt buckle, printed on 3D-printer

MicroUSB-cable in the prototype was not very reliable in the production version of the belt it will be carefully fastened to the rear with a magnet.

Charge your smartphone is not difficult: it is enough to pull out the cable and plug it into the phone. IPhone users can use Lightning adapter. XOO Belt idea is that the user can charge your smartphone while he lies in his pocket, or even during a conversation with a minimum of inconvenience.



Belt and buckle are in fact two different devices, so that in the future the user can replace a portion of the belt on the more powerful. In Nifty want their belt combines style along with utility. Therefore, the startup is working closely with the house design Casely-Hayford, to provide a device trend appearance. Alternative designs will appear in due course.

In Nifty already have successful experience fundraising on Kickstarter for the production Minidrive. At this time, the startup has decided to run a campaign on Indiegogo. According to Levy is due to the fact that the main market they see the United States, but for a start from England to raise money in dollars has some difficulties.

The company managed to gather a large part of the sum is less than 24 hours. Initially, the goal was to raise $ 50 000. Now you can pre-order on XOO Belt for $ 155 or donate $ 5 to help the campaign. Funds collected on Indiegogo, go to Hardware and production, and their belts Nifty plans to send to customers in July 2015.

On the basis of: The Next Web
Author: Dmitry Figol i>

Source: geektimes.ru/company/madrobots/blog/241822/