This desktop charger turns your iPhone into a robotic AI assistant

The DeskMate doesn’t person its ain display, it conscionable uses your iPhone’s.

CES is packed with AI companions and adjunct robots this year, but the DeskMate from Loona is simply a clever instrumentality connected the idea: it's a desktop charging hub, with 3 USB-C ports, 1 USB-A, and a MagSafe pad, that automatically activates an AI companion app erstwhile you connect your iPhone to the wireless charger.

What's unsocial astir the DeskMate is that by utilizing your phone, it takes vantage of tech you already have. It doesn't request its ain display, camera, oregon microphone, due to the fact that the iPhone provides them (and it is, for now, iPhone-only). By providing charging too, it mightiness regenerate a charger that's already connected your desk, alternatively than adding to the …

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