You can now drill the best wireless charging AirPower alternative right into your desk

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The Liberty built-in charger is designed to be integrated directly into your desk and is an excellent alternative to Apple's failed AirPower charger.

The original Zens Liberty charger was released back in 2020 and offered an innovative 16-coil design that allowed you to simply place a phone or device anywhere on the wireless charging pad instead of having to carefully align charging coils or rely on a MagSafe-style magnetic system.

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The original model sat on top of your desk, while the new Liberty Built-in charger is designed to be integrated directly into your nightstand or desktop for a more seamless design. You can use the extra 30WUSB-C charging port to plug in a phone or tablet for faster charging.

The Zens Built-in is more likely to be used by companies to buy in bulk and integrate into office settings rather than for individual customers to buy and drill apart their nightstands in order to get a nicer looking charging setup, although there is nothing stopping you from buying one and trying.

The biggest issue with the new built-in model is that it doesn't have enough power to be integrated into a desk. The built-in model tops out at 10W each, instead of the original 15W model, due to the fact that the charger has to share power with the added port. 30W isn't enough for most modernusb-c laptops, even though the integrated charger is shown ambitiouslycharging a laptop in Zen.

The Zens built-in starts at $249.99 for the plain white model, while the far more interesting-looking glass model is $299. The regular version costs $169 in the US, while the glass-topped model costs $199.

The new Zens Liberty Built-in is an evolution of the original design. I can understand the appeal of adding an integrated wireless charger to my Ikea nightstand, even though it's unlikely that I'll be hacking it apart anytime soon.

The Zens Liberty built-in wireless charger will be available in March.