Gadgetory

technology in gaming has had a lot of advances but one area that we're still hitting a bit of a wall in is charge solutions for controllers now different companies have different ways of addressing this Xbox for instance still relies on removable batteries because they last a lot longer but the downside is you do need to replace them once they die PlayStation and switch on the other hand use internal rechargeable batteries but those don't necessarily last as long and it's really annoying when you end up needing to plug them into something because you forgot to charge them sometime thankfully though there's an emerging technology that is going to hopefully make this a lot easier for upcoming systems and that's wireless charging now obviously wireless charging is not a thing that is standard in any current gaming systems but there are some ways you can kind of start to mess with it a little bit on the current generation one that was actually recently brought to my attention is this little guy right here this is found by our good friend completo of Austin Evans Channel I'm Ken bolito from the Austin Evans channel you got this Willie was in Japan and it's a wireless charging battery pack that you can attach to a DualShock 4 controller so the idea here is that for a dual fuck for instead of having to always plug it into the system make sure that it gets a full charge or having to buy a charger stand or something you can just attach this guy to the back of the controller and have a wireless charging service that you can just place it on whenever you're not playing and that's gonna make sure it always has a full charge when you need it so how well does it actually work I don't know yet because he actually even even opens Patridge so let's check it out just get this open and if she just attached to the back of our DualShock controller probably look a little better on black one but the white give a nice contrast and right away first thing I notice is that this isn't as nearly as bulky as I thought was gonna be I mean looking at the picture I thought I was gonna be sticking out a lot more but it's really just enough to where it's gonna lay flat when you set it down because the grips on the ps4 controller don't go that far back so yeah it's really doesn't really impact the size of it at all I mean doesn't affect my grip either that's good so we got this guy connected and we have a charge surface right here so let's just set down and it's charging there you can be seen light lighting up awesome now I don't you know how fast this charges we probably need to read the box I think we need to translate this she rode it over to yes that's 600 milliamps at Butlins and we will effectively actually oh hey wait hold on this is actually the charge five so according to this translation it takes about three hours to charge up a ps4 controller which I always take information like this on boxes with a little grain of salt maybe add on like half an hour to an hour to that but even by that logic if it's as long as four hours that's not that much slower than a regular PS port charging controller that takes about two two and a half hours depending on condition of your battery so this is about half as fast maybe just a little above that but that's still really awesome for something that's so convenient the hope here is that with talk of next-gen system starting to come up where we have maybe a PS 5 or whatever Xbox doesn't act and down the line when the switch is replaced that companies start to embrace the idea of wireless charging over these plug in solutions because it's so convenient and if they all did it together you can have great really simple setups I mean imagine just having your gaming setup or you have a stand next to you it's a charging surface and you're able to sit down your playstation controller your xbox controller your Nintendo portable you just have a nice little place to set down your controllers and they're always fully charged whenever you need them and really this is something you can kind of rig up right now I mean we have this service right here we're using the ps4 control that we have set up and there's something we've actually experimented with before setting up a way to do a wireless charge switch where you get a USB C charge pad rig it up inside of a hybrid case and that lets you charge it by setting it down now the switch does demand a lot more power than a controller does so it's not really as efficient as the ps4 controller is but it's a really cool way to show off this proof of concept now I know we said earlier that we got this guy from Japan thanks to Ken but we looked into it and you actually can grab these on Amazon as well so we'll put a link for that down below if you guys want to check it out it's a really cool way to help clean up your gaming setup