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The World’s Smallest 100W Charger Fits in Your Palm and Charges MacBooks at Full Speed

There’s a reason it’s called a charging ‘brick’. It charges, and it’s honestly brick-shaped. Laptops and phones have gotten thinner in the past decade, but their chargers honestly haven’t. GaN technology changes that. I’ve sung praise for GaN chargers in the past, and I swear by the one in my laptop bag right now, which replaces 4 different chargers while being the size of a hockey puck. Now Rolling Square’s gone and made the GaN charger even smaller.

Holding the title of the world’s smallest 100W charger, the aptly named Supertiny is 65% smaller than Apple’s 96W charging brick, but packs enough power to fast-charge your laptop without breaking a sweat. At just 2 inches long and 1.38 inches wide, the Supertiny is as small as your Airpods case, fitting in your palm or even your pocket. It comes in three global plug formats (US with foldable prongs, EU, and UK), weighs between 100 and 115 grams depending on the variant, and packs a single USB-C port to supercharge your laptop. But pair it with Rolling Square’s inCharge Life 2in1 cable and you can now fast-charge your laptop as well as your phone together.

Designer: Rolling Square

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Gallium Nitride has been around since the 1990s, first used in LEDs and satellite solar cells, but it took decades for the tech to migrate into consumer charging. The advantage is straightforward: GaN produces significantly less heat than traditional silicon, which means you can push more power through a smaller chipset without needing massive heat sinks or bulky casings to prevent thermal meltdown. Silicon-based chargers lose a chunk of energy as heat, which is why your old laptop brick could double as a hand warmer after an hour of use. GaN flips that equation. It’s ruthlessly efficient, converting around 95% of the energy from the wall into actual charging power, with only 5% lost to heat. That efficiency gain is what allows Rolling Square to cram 100W of power delivery into a form factor that genuinely feels like it shouldn’t be possible.

The Supertiny measures 2 inches long on the US version with foldable prongs, 3.19 inches on the EU model, and 2.81 inches on the UK variant (the EU and UK versions come with fixed prongs). To achieve this ridiculously compact format, the company rebuilt the internal voltage transformer from scratch, optimizing how components align to reduce wasted space and lower operating temperatures. Advanced heat conduction silicon and thermal sheets route heat away from critical areas, and the exterior design plays a functional role too. The ribbed pattern running along the sides prevents your fingertips from making full contact with the surface when you unplug it after charging. Flat surfaces conduct heat directly to your skin, ribbed surfaces don’t. It’s a small detail, but it’s the kind of thing that separates thoughtful industrial design from spec-sheet engineering.

The charger outputs 100W max through its single USB-C port, with support for Power Delivery 3.0 and PPS (Programmable Power Supply) that adjusts voltage between 3.3V and 21V depending on what your device needs. That means it’ll fast-charge a MacBook Pro, a Dell XPS, a Lenovo ThinkPad, or any other USB-C laptop at full speed. In case you’re wondering, yes, it can handle e-bikes and e-scooters too, albeit at 100W. For phones and tablets, it delivers fast charging across iPhones, Samsung Galaxy devices, Google Pixels, and pretty much anything else with a USB-C port. The lack of multiple ports is deliberate. Rolling Square designed this charger for people who want maximum power in minimum space, and adding extra ports would have inflated the size.

If you need to charge two devices simultaneously, Rolling Square offers the inCharge Life 2in1 cable as an optional add-on. This modular cable splits the 100W output intelligently between two devices, letting you charge your laptop and phone together from a single power source. The cable stretches 1.5 meters (about 5 feet), features a durable nylon braid reinforced with aramid fiber, and uses premium metal connectors built to last. Rolling Square backs it with a lifetime replacement guarantee: if the cable ever fails, you submit a short video showing it fully cut along with your order number, and the company ships a replacement immediately. No returns, no forms, no hassle.

Rolling Square is a Switzerland-based company that’s been refining everyday tech problems since 2014, starting with the original inCharge keyring cable that packed multiple charging connectors into a tiny form factor you could attach to your keys. The company followed that up with the AirCard wallet tracker, the TAU keyring power bank, and a lineup of modular MagSafe accessories under the EDGE Pro branding. The Supertiny is their 19th product launch, and it fits the company’s design philosophy cleanly: solve one specific problem extremely well, make it as small as physics allows, and build it to last. Rolling Square products tend to be the kind of gear you don’t notice until you need them, at which point you wonder how you ever lived without them.

The Supertiny 100W GaN Charger comes in three versions: US, EU, and UK plugs. Early pricing starts at $46 for a single unit, or a $68 bundle that also includes the inCharge Life 2in1 cable. Rolling Square is shipping the chargers globally starting in May 2026, and all three versions carry full international safety certifications including TUV Rheinland. The company backs the product with a two-year warranty and a 30-day return policy. I touted GaN chargers as a tech must-have in 2025, so if you’re reading this now and you still don’t own one, take it from me. You, your cluttered workdesk, and your heavy laptop bag will thank me.

Click Here to Buy Now: $52 $70 (25% off). Hurry, only a few units left! Raised over $672,000.

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Your Phone Has 12 Calendar Apps. None of Them Look Like This

We are living through a slow, quiet rebellion against digital everything. Vinyl record sales have been climbing for years. Film cameras are back on shelves. People are buying paper planners again. And now, a wooden perpetual wall calendar made in France in the 1970s is having a moment through a Korean design shop called Wertwerk, and I am completely on board.

The piece is exactly what it sounds like: a wall-mounted calendar built from a warm wood base, with a row of plastic sliders numbered 1 through 31 that you manually shift to mark the date. No batteries. No notifications. No algorithm nudging you toward anything. Just wood, a little plastic, and the deliberate act of moving a slider every morning. That’s the whole thing. And yet, it manages to do something almost no digital tool can: make you stop and actually notice what day it is.

Designer Name: Wertwerk

What makes this particular object so interesting is the decade it comes from. The 1970s were a sweet spot in product design, especially in France, where makers were beginning to marry natural materials like wood with the new optimism of plastic. The result was objects that felt warm and industrial at the same time, organic and modern, useful and beautiful. A wooden calendar with plastic sliders is a textbook example of that tension. It doesn’t feel like a throwback. It feels like a design decision that simply worked the first time and never needed revisiting.

The word “perpetual” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here, and it deserves a moment. A perpetual calendar doesn’t expire. It doesn’t have a year printed on it. It covers every day and every month indefinitely, because those numbers don’t change; only the arrangement does. You can hang this on your wall and it will be just as functional in 2045 as it was in 1975. Compare that to your phone’s calendar app, which will feel dated in five years and be incompatible with something in ten. The perpetual calendar was designed with an understanding that good things don’t need to be replaced, just updated slightly, by hand, once a day.

Wertwerk is the Seoul-based shop behind this particular find, and they deserve full credit for the eye. Their name pulls from the German words for “worth” and “work,” and that philosophy runs through everything they source. They’ve built a devoted following by seeking out vintage objects that carry actual value beyond nostalgia. Their pieces sell out fast, sometimes within hours. They’re not selling aesthetics for aesthetics’ sake. They’re making a case that a well-made object from fifty years ago can do something a new one cannot: carry the evidence of its own history.

I’ll admit I’m biased toward objects that reward you for paying attention to them. The wooden perpetual calendar does exactly that. Each time you slide the date, you’re reminded that time is something you track, not something that tracks you. It’s a small distinction, but it adds up over days and months. Moving a physical date marker is categorically different from glancing at a lock screen, and not in a pretentious way. It’s just more deliberate.

The design also photographs beautifully, which is partly why it’s gaining traction in design communities. The wood grain set against the geometric order of numbered sliders reads as both nostalgic and contemporary. It’s the kind of object that looks intentional in a space, not decorative for decoration’s sake, but genuinely considered.

If you’ve ever bought something because it made you feel a certain way before you even used it, this is that kind of object. It quietly tells anyone who notices it that you care about how things are made and how long they last. Not everyone reads a wall calendar that way. But for those who do, this one from Wertwerk is worth finding before it disappears, and based on how fast their inventory moves, that won’t take long.

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Anker’s $70 Power Strip Clamps to Your Desk, Keeps Cables Off Floors

Desks have gotten more crowded. Between the laptop, the monitor, the phone, and whatever Bluetooth peripherals have accumulated over the past few years, keeping everything charged without making a mess has become its own challenge. Power strips have always been the go-to solution, but most still end up on the floor or behind furniture, at the end of a cable that creates the very clutter it was supposed to fix.

Anker’s Nano Power Strip (10-in-1, 70W, Clamp) approaches that problem from a different angle, quite literally. Instead of sitting on a surface or hiding under a desk, it clamps onto the desk edge, putting 10 ports right where they’re actually useful. First unveiled at CES 2026 and now available in the US for $69.99, it aims to reduce the mess that most power strips quietly make worse.

Designer: Anker

The clamp structure sits on either side of the desk edge, with ports distributed across its upper and lower sections. Six AC outlets handle the larger plugs, while two USB-A and two USB-C ports take care of smaller devices. Splitting the ports between two zones keeps things from crowding on one side, a small but practical detail that makes the strip feel properly considered rather than just generously stocked.

The USB-C charging capability is where the performance stands out. A single USB-C port can deliver up to 70W, enough to run a MacBook or most other laptops without needing a separate wall adapter. That output relies on GaN technology, which keeps the strip slim at just 0.75 inches thick despite the power output, and avoids the extra heat and bulk that older charging components tend to generate.

Installing it takes seconds. The adjustable clamp fits desk edges between 0.6 and 1.8 inches thick, covering most standard desks, and locks in firmly enough for one-hand use. That might sound like a minor detail, but plugging in a cable while the strip shifts around is exactly the kind of daily irritation that compounds. A stable mount means you’re not bracing the strip with your other hand every single time.

Anker also built in 1,500J of surge protection, along with a smart overload mechanism that includes a reset button. When it trips, the button pops out to cut power instantly. Press it again, and it’s back to normal. It’s a simple failsafe, but a useful one on a strip mounted at desk height, where a sudden power surge or overloaded circuit could easily go unnoticed until something stops working.

Anker markets it for gaming and office setups alike, and it’s easy to see why. Gaming desks accumulate powered accessories faster than most, from peripherals to controllers to headset chargers. The dual-zone layout helps spread those cables rather than pile them in one corner, and the 0.75-inch profile doesn’t take up surface space or interfere with the kind of clean, organized desk that people actually put effort into building.

Cable clutter isn’t going anywhere, but it can at least be contained. The Nano Power Strip doesn’t reinvent the power strip so much as it rethinks where one should live. At $69.99, it’s a reasonable ask for 10 ports, 70W of GaN-powered fast charging, and a desk-mounted solution that keeps the tangle off the floor and closer to where it actually gets used.

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