Ladies and gents, a leather-based case on your MagSafe puck

I’m not going to faux to grasp how product growth conferences work, however there will need to have been one thing fairly particular within the water when Nomad’s crack workforce of accent specialists put collectively its newest pitch. From the corporate that was courageous sufficient to encase your AirPods Pro case in leather-based, comes an all-new leather-based MagSafe case. That’s proper, it’s a leather-based case for the iPhone 12’s magnetic charging puck.

Nomad’s argument is that the case, which is accessible in both black or brown, provides a MagSafe charger “a classic, yet bold new look,” and that it makes the charger barely greater and simpler to grip to take away from a telephone. But it additionally prices $25.

As a tech blogger, I contemplate it my responsibility to keep up a base stage of open-mindedness about new know-how. But I additionally reserve the precise in distinctive circumstances to level out when one thing appears simply plain foolish, and encasing a charging puck in leather-based is a kind of moments. I can get behind the concept of a leather-based case for something you’re going to be carrying round in your pockets to guard it from the stresses of on a regular basis life, however a charger? A charger that you simply’re nearly definitely going to go away plugged in subsequent to your mattress for 99 p.c of its life? Please.

If you’re already a completely paid-up member of Nomad’s expanded leather-based universe, and also you’ve already bought a leather-based case on your MacBook, your iPhone, your AirPods, and your AirTags, then certain, why not additionally cocoon your MagSafe charger in leather-based for the hell of it. Maybe strive following our exhaustive information to getting a pleasant patina in your leather-based equipment when you’re at it. You’ve earned it.