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

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

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