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"How would you like a portable battery that could charge any kind of phone \u2014 including the latest iPhones \u2014 without any kind of adapter. That was the whole thrust of Pop, a rechargeable battery that would have built-in cables for almost every kind of port, the Lightning connector included.\nIf it sounds too good to be true, that's because it was. Pop is dead before it even went into production, even though it had a very successful Kickstarter campaign that raised almost $140,000, more than double its original goal.\nWhy is it dead? It's because Apple has the final say on which devices use its connectors, and it had issues with the Pop. Find out more in the video above.\nHomepage image courtesy of iStockphoto, bedo\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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