Take notes, Apple
The little circle charger that came with your Apple Watch is plenty functional, but…kind of lacking, honestly. Apple Watches are fairly nice to look at (in an iPhone shrunk down to fit on your wrist sort of way) and they have that cool nightstand feature where it’ll display the time, but then they give you a charger that pretty much makes you charge the thing with the screen face down.
It’s like Apple did their usual big brain, sophisticated design work on the device itself and then completely phoned it in on the charging. Again. Think first generation pencil, that mouse with the power port on the bottom, inventing MagSafe and then abandoning it. You get the idea.
Well the good news is that there are some very slick third-party solutions to this, with today’s deal perhaps deserving a spot right at the top of the list.
It’s small. It’s aesthetically pleasing. It’s simple.
It lets you display your watch in the exact way Apple clearly intended in the first place before somehow air-balling the execution.
And while similar charging setups can be downright bold in their pricing, this little guy is just fifteen bucks. If you’re wondering, no, you can’t even get the basic factory Apple Watch charger for that much—those are $29.
So start charging your watch the way it was always meant to be. Your nightstand (or desk, or wherever) will never be the same.