Hasta La Gadget!

When Apple sicced its legal dogs on battery and accessory maker HyperMac, did it lay down to die? Did it hell. The company, which makes giant external battery packs for Mac and iDevices, just got cleverer.

Apple’s legal ire was caused by HyperMac’s use of MagSafe connectors on its products, a device for which Apple owns a patent. But HyperMac wasn’t even making its own adapters: it was harvesting them from actual Apple power-bricks.

Now, after a rather convoluted solution involving airline adapters and the like, HyperMac is back, with the HyperJuice Magic Box, described as a “MagSafe modification kit”. This kit lets you safely chop the cable off your own MagSafe power adapter and use it with HyperMac’s batteries.

The $50 HyperJuice Magic Box comes in two parts. You chop your Apple cable (the thin part, not the part that runs to the wall) and insert one quickly fraying section into each box. These boxes both have their own cord on the other side.

Now you can either plug one into the other and carry on as before. Or you can take the box that hooks to the computer and plug that into a HyperJuice battery. Or you can charge the battery with your Apple charger.

HyperMac says that the snip-n-fix only takes two minutes, and it looks as easy as wiring an electrical plug. The solution isn’t as clean as the previous one, which did without the two extra boxes, but for travelers it’s probably worth the trouble. Available now.

HyperJuice Magic Box – MagSafe Modification Kit [HyperMac]

See Also:

• HyperMac Crams 16-Hour Battery into iPad Stand
• Accessory Maker Pulls the Plug on MacBook-Charging Battery …
• Battery Pack Boosts iPad Life to 99-Hours