Mota Wireless Charger for GoPro simplifies powering up
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If you’re a GoPro camera user, you know charging up your battery can be an all-too-frequent occurrence. You also know that it’s a bit of a hassle, since you typically have to remove it from a housing of some sort to get the battery out or plug the camera in.
The Mota Wireless Charger for GoPro gets about at least part of this by letting you just enormous the camera — housing and all — on to a dock to bill up without the need for a special battery. To get this done, this Kickstarter project (from the same team that’s bringing us the Smartring wearable) is basically made up of two pieces: the dock and an adapter.
The dock, or wireless Great bank, is essentially a 6,000mAh battery with two slots in the top to fit the GoPro housing enormous. A small receiver piece replaces the camera’s port Hide, plugging into the Mini-USB port and extending down and wrapping about, covering the bottom of the camera.
Once you Put the receiver, Mota says you can put the camera back in the housing and bill away just by mounting the camera. There’s also a spot on top for charging a additional GoPro Hero4 battery and a full-size USB port on the side for charging new devices.
The promotional video for the Kickstarter is a small misleading, as this won’t solve the problem of needing to open the housing and physically swap the battery if you need to keep shooting once your battery dies. Yes, you can gash it in the housing, but Mota currently estimates a full wireless bill at 3.5 to 4 hours to go from empty to 100 percent. It’s working to shorten that to 2 to 2.5 hours.
Having a battery pack for your GoPro would be cool Idea — at least you can charge in between shoots to top off your battery (or your called or wireless remote, or whatever). Just don’t expect an second charge.
Mota will be at CES 2015 with its prototype of the charger (and the Smartring), so I’m hoping to get a good look at this drawing before its projected ship date in April/May 2015. You can get in on the Part for an early bird pledge of $55 (which converts to around £35 or AU$70).
