You could Power Your Magic Trackpad With Magic USB In spite of everything [Hacks]

I get it, Magic Trackpad. You don’t want any gaudy cords messing up the sleek lines of your industrial design. But some of us prefer USB power over batteries-and we can’t be denied.

This simple, non-invasive hack requires only a wooden dowel (approximately Magic Trackpad battery-circumferenced) with a screw in each end, a USB cord, and some spare wire. Remove your Trackpad batteries, strip the USB cord-carefully-right down to red and black wires, and attached them to the corresponding poles of the adaptor. Like so: And there you’ve got it! It could possibly not be as pretty, but it surely’s much more efficient and green-assuming that the Magic Trackpad doesn’t mind the 5V of USB power in preference to the 3V two AA batteries offers you.

Assuming it does-and to this point, there aren’t any indications this has been a difficulty-the hack will even save you from having to buy a type of $30 battery chargers which might be probably just Sanyos anyway. Magic! [MacRumors Forums via Hack A Day]

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