I quite like the look of Kensington’s new combination dock, stand and battery charger for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Called the PowerLift, the dock packs in its own battery to provide an additional boost of power for when you just can’t get to the mains.
It’s not a piddling battery either. The PowerLift actually will give your iPhone jolt enough to power it for another 3.5 hours of talk time, 1.5 hours of FaceTime, 5 hours of video and 20 hours of music. That’s a respectable amount of juice for when you just can’t get to the mains.
Of course, the PowerLift’s larger battery means it doesn’t have the most streamlined design in the world, but if you look at it as a travel dock that just happens to also be an external battery, there’s a lot to love here.
The Kensington PowerLift is available now for pre-order on Amazon for $50.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
