Please help my idea become an invention

[Bushido]

you're introducing a middleman into a context which needs no middleman

if you were to make the iAdapt and then be the only first-party developer for it's add-ons then people would just make tools that don't need to interface with the iAdapt and just connect directly to the iphone

which is exactly what they are doing already

[Ad Bot]

[TristanLuigi]

The electronics just don't work like this, I think. Don't quote me on this, but I believe ports for this kind of thing on pretty much every modern phone has a diode so power doesn't flow backwards.

[Pencil42]

its completely useless, you can have a lightning to usb adapter and plug in a loving usb fan instead, 0/10

[Flatflyer]

10/10 OP confirmed to be next steve jobs

[BluetoothBoy]

The electronics just don't work like this, I think. Don't quote me on this, but I believe ports for this kind of thing on pretty much every modern phone has a diode so power doesn't flow backwards.

Some power flows backwards, but only enough to send electrical signals to the computer - no where near enough to power anything worth powering.

[Ducky duck]

I would vote thumbs up, but I'm too lazy to get a quirky account.

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Same

[Electrk.]

great idea, lance

[Pie Crust]

IIRC, iPhones (or any istuff) will not output power via the 30/9-pin plug. One way you could do this is using the headphone plug and play a high-pitched tone outputting a steady 5v.  But you can recieve a call and the output power will drop depending on the sound as it uses PWM.

[Night Fox]

hi lance

um...?