Laptops are considered to be mobile devices, albeit their weight being quite hefty. You won’t strain your back by carrying it from one desk to another in your hands, but put it in your back pack and walk around the city for five hours and you’ll see what I mean.
Add to the laptop’s weight the pretty bulky chargers, notebooks usually come with, and you’ve got yourself a pretty consistent back-ache.
But the lumpy charger brick might be headed for extinction soon. The FINsix startup (former MIT project) has created the Dart micro notebook charger, a shrunken alternative to what's currently available today.
The Dart is a tiny, lightweight 65W laptop adapter that arrives complete with a 2.1 amp USB charger built-in for charging a smartphone/tablet at the same time.
Furthermore, Dart eliminates the annoying mid-cord box and takes up only a single socket spot. The new chargers are compatible with every major brand.
Moreover, the Dart is supposed to run pretty cool, as opposed to the usual charging brick that heats up like a frying pan.
The technology underlying Dart employs new innovative techniques that miniaturize power conversion by virtue of high frequency methods that have been developed to be more portable and more cost effective.Early pledges on Kickstarters for Dart (not MacBook Compatible) start at $79 / €57. For this amount of money, early adopters will get to pick their coloring option from blue, magenta, silver, gunmetal or orange.