You'll NEVER Buy This Apple Product...

Today we have something very unusual inside this box

It is one of the few Apple products that was canceled before it ever hit the market

The most mysterious of all of the Apple products. If you can even find the prototype, it's going to run 20 grand

I don't know. This, of course, is a legitimate working prototype of Apple's most ambitious air power that you may remember from years ago

It's a map that you place your iPhone 8 or iPhone 10 down, and it just starts to charge

It doesn't stop there. You can place your Series 3 Apple Watch down on it, and it starts to charge as well

You can place your AirPods with the optional new wireless charging case on it, and it starts to charge as well

They all charge. I have a whole list of instructions as far as what I can and can't do with it

All I know at this point is I have a working prototype of one of the rarest, most exclusive Apple products ever

It has to be one of the most collectible items of Apple memorabilia

It's also taped in a strange way. It was gonna charge all your apple devices on one tiny little pad without the need for alignment using a huge series of coils

This prototype took it all the way up to 22 coils meaning that no matter where you placed your device

Whether it was an iphone airpods or even an apple watch it would be capable of wireless charging

I guess these packing peanuts are all coming out or at least a lot of them are now

Now it is very rare that Apple announces a product as they did in this case at a keynote

and then doesn't deliver it. It almost never happens. In fact, the last time it happened before AirPower

is around the time I was born. All right, I'm gonna treat this very sensitively

considering how rare it is and how few of them are in existence

Are you not riveted by the fact that we've uncovered the treasure of Apple collecting and collectors

See, I think Apple had a really high standard for what they were hoping to achieve

They were up against some pretty strict parameters when it came to the thinness

the types of devices they wanted to charge, the heat being generated by this variety of coils

charging multiple devices in a very small little piece of real estate

And there it is, the most mysterious of Apple devices never to be released, AirPower

Now, obviously this is a prototype. It would not have looked like this

Instead, it would have been covered in your typical apple, rubbery, plastic-y substance

likely in white, and it would be a soft touch material. You can catch some of the indentations

of the various coils which live underneath this cover. This whole thing started to leak out via China where these devices were being tested and then later recycled or ending up in waste facilities for e Content creator there got a hold of it

tore this thing open, examined the number of coils. I've been told that this version prototype

in front of me is 22 total coils which are stacked and this is what would enable you to place a

device, some AirPods, an iPhone. The original AirPower promised to charge an iPhone, an Apple

watch and some airpods on one singular pad that's a fairly tight region in order to accomplish that

could it have been larger possibly but then you would have had to extend the number of coils

further the cost would have gone up as well the feeling is that the cost for this would have been

more than people would have been willing to accept for a wireless charger could have retailed for

somewhere between two and three hundred dollars for a charger that may have been a little too much

So when you combine those issues with heat alongside the component costs

Apple just decided to bail out and leave this project to third-party companies

There was a company called Zenz. It's a glass top, a bunch of coils. It does work, but it's a lot larger than this

which is probably because they also had their own heat issues. There was a product called Air Unleashed, but never with this number of coils

Then you are still back to doing your typical wireless charging thing

of attempting to find and line up those coils. And then also you still have the Apple Watch, which would require some specialized indentation in most cases

And that wasn't going to be necessary on Apple's solution, at least the way it was shown off during the initial keynote

All right. Now, in order to use this device, I've been given a set of instructions

It's very dramatic. One and only one specific coil. I've been told it's in this region over here in the bottom right corner

Please do not leave the air power plugged in for an extended period of time

One minute at maximum with five minutes to cool down to prevent damage

Oof. If that doesn't sound like a collector's item, I don't know what does

But I will respect that, seeing as how these are extremely rare and I don't want to damage it either

There's just not too many examples of canceled Apple products manifested in reality

Apple just never fails. This product is a fail. I mean, I don't know what they learned

You always learn something when you head down a path attempting to engineer an ambitious product

So in that sense, you never truly fail. There's just so few examples of Apple products that have made it this far

this close to production, made it into a keynote, and then never made it into consumer hands

This is one of the only products of modern Apple that has met this fate

To power on the AirPower, use a MacBook Pro USB-C port with a genuine Apple Lightning to USB-C cable

do not use a high voltage power brick to prevent potential damage do not touch the back of the air power with the electronics exposed i accidentally did and got a bad electric shock These are the words of Apple demo on YouTube by the way Therefore I won do that

I have a genuine USB-C to lightning cable, which I will be plugging into this MacBook as suggested

Countdown now. I'm gonna place this into the bottom corner here. Ooh, that wasn't hard at all

started charging right away, and it stayed charging. It is not flicking off like some of the examples

I've seen in the past, and I'm not gonna leave it on there for too much longer. And I'm gonna unplug it, because I'm terrified

I don't even have any heat on it yet. I know we're all terrified of heat, and especially with a charger

Where are you gonna place this thing besides your bed? It's terrifying. I got 22 coils on the nightstand

And let me tell you something, if Apple's worried about heat, I'm worried about heat. Okay, I'm gonna plug it back in real quick

and let's go for the AirPods. and it flashed for a split second

even with the case on, flashed again. There, charging. This is the most functional version unplugging

of air power that I have personally seen, let alone hell. The vision of this product was that I could have

this variety of things charging simultaneously, plus my watch, my watch would have to have

a different type of strap too, you know what I mean? You'd have to have the flat strap

That's another downside of the AirPower solution versus what you're seeing now from companies like Anker

You have a separate section for the Apple Watch. It can clip around the loop

without the need to take off the strap, and it kind of holds the watch in an upright position

using a more typical watch-style connector that Apple already sells, and then having a separate section

for the wireless charging of your phone and your AirPod. Apple has obviously put their own variety on the back burner

I still feel there's probably a way to make something like this

In the science fiction future, I think we all imagine an opportunity to charge things on huge surfaces

Simply place your devices on tabletop and they happen to be charging

That is something we'd all love to see. Back in 2017, this was just not a possibility

This many coils, this tightly packed, this many devices and this amount of heat

It is still a beautiful thing to look at. Grants you some insight into Apple's engineering prowess

You see how beautiful a device like this looks. This strong frame around this variety of transistors and resistors

beautifully placed like a little civilization of electronics. Even this product was taken very seriously and even though this is a prototype it looks like it was getting close to completion I can help but wonder when they hit that critical point that caused them to put it down completely as they imagined some PR disaster in which these things were exploding or catching fire next to people beds

It must have happened with a prototype. There must have been concern. I think even at $200 plus, this thing would have sold well

Because so many customers in the Apple universe were desperate for wireless chargers at a point where the iPhone

in the form of the iPhone X, had recently adopted wireless charging

Anyway, there you have it. That's my best look yet at one of Apple's rarest, if not the rarest Apple product, the Apple AirPower

so it's all right that apple couldn't execute with the air power because we have a lot of

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