Boost your AirTag’s battery life to five years with this waterproof case

Elevation Lab has announced a smaller version of its TimeCapsule battery-boosting case for the Apple AirTag. It’s astir half the size of the original and uses a brace of smaller AAA batteries alternatively of AAs truthful the AirTag’s artillery beingness is extended to 5 years alternatively of 10. It’s disposable present done the company’s website for $19.99, but discounted by fractional if you bargain a four-pack for $39.99.

As with the original, the caller Time Capsule replaces the AirTag’s CR2032 coin compartment artillery with an electrical interaction that delivers powerfulness from the AAA batteries. The institution specifically recommends utilizing Energizer Ultimate Lithium AAAs to maximize artillery beingness and to debar corrosive leaks fixed the instrumentality perchance won’t beryllium touched for up to 5 years.

The smaller mentation of the Time Capsule besides carries guardant the original’s robust IP69 standing protecting it against h2o and ungraded ingress, and it’s made from the aforesaid fibre reinforced polycarbonate worldly that won’t trim the scope of Bluetooth oregon UWB signals. It does marque the AirTag a small heavier — 1.9 ounces with batteries installed compared to .39 ounces for the AirTag unsocial —and it could beryllium a small harder to find the tracker by receptor arsenic its audible chirps volition beryllium muffled by astir a third.