Why are these jaded veterans of tech SO excited about chargers you can’t get for months?

Audio & transcript lightly edited for clarity:

VoiceOver:
Benjamin Rockwell is a PC Keith M. Sedor is a Mac yeah we laugh about it around the office…

Benjamin:
How are you this week?

Keith:
Benjamin I am excited yeah this is the kind of excitement that I would have expected from an Apple Keynote I mean I’m a Steve Jobs level of excited…

Benjamin:
This is hardware that is compatible with your Apple mobile devices as well as if you have a Samsung or Android phone this is compatible with that too.

Keith:
We should note that that Keith refuses to go over to the dark side for good reason I like iPhones too so come on there is a product on the market called Magfest where i should i should clarify that benjamin say it’s a product coming to market it’s called mag fast wall it is basically a charging system that plugs into the outlet on the wall and then you take your

Benjamin:
iPhone or other mobile phone and it has a lightning port on top that you can dock and charge your phone this is the evolution or should I say revolution I mean when you have a device that was as inspired as the original was and then you do the things that see more segments who is the during creator of the company mean I would characterize this person as a hybrid of James Dyson and Steve Jobs

Keith:
I mean if you watch his presentation you could tell all he’s done is watch Steve Jobs give presentations from his cadence to his vocabulary from his amazing use of adjectives it’s straight out of the Steve Jobs give a presentation playbook but let’s talk about the product because I’m really really really jazzed it’s actually a whole system so it’s really just really really really just and never mind sorry

Benjamin:
when I get this excited because yeah I haven’t seen that much out of Cupertino lately that excites me this much so when an accessory maker does something like this I want to talk about it sure okay so you start with the magcast wall that’s the base product and much like Apple’s MagSafe charger that would plug into the Mac books this device allows you to connect other peripheral devices like the mag Fastlife so the same way many people carry one of those charging bricks in their backpack where they can recharge their laptop and they can recharge their phone a couple of times mm-hmm this connects magnetically to the underside of the MagSafe wall and then they have another one called the mag fast

Keith:
life extreme which has an immensely larger amount of capacity in fact it’s 2700 milliamps it has enough power to recharge your phone up to a dozen times and it even has a kit that you can actually jumpstart your car with it they actually sell a little kit with the alligator clips that you could plug into it and if you have to you could jumpstart your car with it they have another module which is the mag fast road that has a 12 volt adapter that you can plug right into the adapter on your car to either power your devices charge them more charge access devices the one that really excites me because I got my wife the iPhone 10 last year and whatever is the next iteration will be whether it’s I phone

Benjamin:
11 plus or whatever the big ones gonna be called this fall I want an inductive charging stand that keeps my phone upright well the mad fast air is really neat because it’s so versatile and what I love about it is Tillet II because you can plug it on top of the Magfest wall you can take the Magfest life and plug it into the back of it or if you want to go old-school there’s a little kickstand you can pull down

Keith:
the back and actually plug a cable in to plug it into a wall charger and you’ve got all kinds of versatility there to have inductive charging there it’s it sounds magical I I hear the chimes in the background well that’s more technology at work that’s the ring video doorbell but without that on another day all right sounds good and what’s really neat one of the things I really liked about this company Benjamin

Benjamin:
is the fact that they’re not incorporated as a regular company they’re incorporated as what’s known as a benefit corporation where in their articles of incorporation they actually are there to make a positive social impact so when you’re a regular company your number one goal is profit and when you’re a benefit corporation you have the obligation to create a positive impact on society on your employees on the

Keith:
community and environment and for every one of the Magfest advices they sell they’re going to be planting a tree and when you buy the entire Pro kit of all the devices together they’re gonna plant seven trees in your name okay that’s pretty cool so so there they’re thinking about the environment they’re working on on keeping us all well breathing cleanly I like that absolutely and so they want to have a positive impact not just on your experience with charging your devices but on the environment as a whole and there are a lot of great incentives for

Benjamin:
those people who want to be early backers they can buy just the mag fast life and mag fast extreme which are the two big chargers yeah and when you buy those upfront for I think two hundred ninety seven dollars one hundred ninety nine one thousand ninety eight when you buy those two on the front they’re gonna give you everything else in the pro kit for free clothes and the other one the other one

Keith:
I forgot and this is a big one they also have a really cool Apple watch charger as well which i think is really neat okay very cool this is Benjamin Rockwell and I’m Keith MC dart and you’re listening to computer time great I’ll be back with more in just a moment yes you will [Music]