Lasts up to ten years: extra battery for Apple AirTag

The American company ElevationLab has introduced an unusual accessory for AirTags. with case shaped timecapsule Owners of smaller Apple devices can dramatically extend battery life. The manufacturer promises that an AirTag should last for ten years without changing the battery.

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The TimeCapsule is opened to insert the AirTag and two AA batteries before use and must be completely waterproof when closed. With the technology only the upper half of the AirTag is placed on the corresponding interface which is similar to a CR2032 battery. No metal base required. The manufacturer promises that AA batteries increase the energy capacity by 14 times. TimeCapsule costs $20. It remains to be seen whether AA batteries actually hold their charge for that long.

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The disadvantage of the accessory solution is that AirTags require a lot of space. For example, someone who uses it with a TimeCapsule in a motorhome or boat, as ElevationLab describes it as an example, will definitely be able to get a handle on it. In the case of bags, things look quite different depending on the available space – for some uses the device is no longer recommended with extensions.

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The inspiration for the product is that a stolen camera bag was the deciding factor. When the TimeCapsule inventor tried to find the AirTag in his pocket, he discovered that the battery, which lasts an average of a year, had been dead for three months and he had forgotten to replace it. The Time Capsule aims to solve the problem, although the question arises whether it is just postponing the problem. People are unlikely to forget to change the battery in the AirTag, at least because of the very few warnings it gives repeatedly and very urgently against it. The functions also reduce in the last stage of battery.

Small side note: The name of the accessory evokes memories for longtime Apple users of the Time Capsule, a device Apple discontinued years ago that served as network hard drive storage, for example. To store Time Machine backups of Mac.

(MKI)