Chocolate Hub 2 brings together your MacBook and iPhone in connectivity and charging bliss

As the holidays rampage towards us like a charging rhino covered in tinsel, your mind might wander to adverts where confectionary magically brings people together for a lifetime of love. Chocolate Hub 2 (from US$89) wants to do the same for your Apple kit. From above, this little device looks like a massive bar of chocolate, but that bit’s in fact a Qi charging pad on which to plonk your shiny new smartphone. And on the sides, you get plenty of handy ports for your notebook: 4K HDMI, 2× USB3.0, SD 3.0, USB-C pass-through. It’s enough to bring any under-equipped MacBook and thirsty iPhone together. (A top Stuff tip, though: don’t try to impress someone at the office party by breaking off a chunk of the Chocolate Hub 2 and suggesting that they eat it.)

Craig Grannell Contributor

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I’m a regular contributor to Stuff magazine and Stuff.tv, covering apps, games, Apple kit, Android, Lego, retro gaming and other interesting oddities. I also pen opinion pieces when the editor lets me, getting all serious about accessibility and predicting when sentient AI smart cookware will take over the world, in a terrifying mix of Bake Off and Terminator.

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Mobile apps and games, Macs, iOS and tvOS devices, Android, retro games, crowdfunding, design, how to fight off an enraged smart saucepan with a massive stick.