A viral video shared by a TikTok user showcases what’s been dubbed the ‘card charger’ has created quite a stir online. This gadget, resembling a credit card in size, claims to recharge your phone in seconds just by leaving it on the screen. But is it actually real?
With TikTok’s insane power to make the most random things go viral, and its razor-sharp ‘For You Page’ algorithm, users find the weirdest and most wonderful things on the app every day, leaving people in the comments desperate to know more.
With videos from a man getting stuck in a waterslide to a woman realizing the chairs they’d just bought in fact were stolen goods from McDonalds, you really have no idea what the next viral video will be.
Another video that has gone viral in the past was a credit card-shaped ‘charger’ that is apparently able to charge your phone wirelessly within seconds.
TikTok user guapo.704 uploaded a video with the caption, “My boss living in 3021,” and introduced Randy Shirley to his viewers. Randy showed the camera that his phone was running low on charge, and then whipped out a futuristic-looking ‘charge card.’
He placed it on top of his phone and the battery percentage began to increase at an unbelievable rate, with the charge card’s indication bar going down simultaneously.
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Is the TikTok Charge Card real?
The insane video baffled its 10 million viewers, but not everyone was entirely convinced it was real.
“Lithium-ion batteries cannot charge that fast lest they explode from the excess heat. Also can’t charge over Bluetooth. This is CAPPPP,” one user said. “It’s just a screen recording guys. I hope you know it’s physically impossible for that to happen,” another wrote.
On Randy’s own account, people flooded his comments asking where they could get their hands on the cool invention, with the unexpected viral star only saying it’s a “prototype” and “if I get to 10k followers, I’d like to share all the info.”
So, unfortunately, it seems that for the time being, people won’t be able to get their hands on the nifty-looking invention, as it may not actually exist. How exactly Randy did it is unclear, but maybe he’ll let viewers in on the secret in the future.
