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Tech for the Nature Lover: Kikkerland Charging Station

Tech for the Nature Lover: Kikkerland Charging Station

If you know a nature or plant lover in your life that needs a cool place to charge up their cell phone and gadgets, here’s a good gift for those people. It’s nicer looking and more creative than many of its ilk, and it actually works well too: The Kikkerland Charging Station. Just throw your [...]

Convergence Joy: The POWERplus Eagle Solar Charger and Torch

Convergence Joy: The POWERplus Eagle Solar Charger and Torch

Don’t you just hate it when you’re carrying around the latest gizmos and gadgets, and they die on you right when you need them? Well, this gadget promises to make this a thing of the past. The POWERplus Eagle Solar Charger & Torch combines a charger and a powerful LED light all in one, and [...]

The Standardized Power Gadget: AC to 5-USB Adapter

The Standardized Power Gadget: AC to 5-USB Adapter

USB charging seems to be the way most devices are going these days, and with good reason. It’s one of the few gadget standardized formats, it’s inexpensive and simple to use. Gadget comany Brando takes a step towards a new reality for charging devices with their AC to 5-USB Power Adaptor, allowing you to plug [...]

Within Reach: The Belkin Clamp-On Surge Protector

Within Reach: The Belkin Clamp-On Surge Protector

Surge protectors are usually a necessary little evil with complex electronics, especially if you live in storm prone areas. Typically, they lay on the floor crammed into a dark recess of your desk, and if you need to turn stuff off or reach it often, they can be a pain to get to.  Belkin has [...]

Give your life a jump start: The Car Starter and Torch

Give your life a jump start: The Car Starter and Torch

It’s almost a rite of passage for any long-time driver: the dead battery. Forgetting to turn off lights, or just a battery wearing out its lifespan. It’s happened to most of us, and it isn’t any fun at all. With this new gadget, you needn’t ever worry about this happening to you. With the new [...]

“Wireless” charging may a reality soon – The Powermat

All of us carry far too power chargers and adapters for all of our assorted gadgets we use to function in our everyday lives. Perhaps this newest display at CES 2009 may change all of that forever, assuming it takes off. “Wireless” recharging has been in development for years actually – last year’s CES the [...]

Power with a Voice: The Duracell Powerpack 450

Power with a Voice: The Duracell Powerpack 450

Duracell is a name that virtually goes with any mention of batteries or related power sources, and a catchy bunny ad campaign sealed that association. Their most recent release is the Duracell Powerpack 450 with Voice, a solution that ought to be in the home of every American since most people are not adequately equipped [...]

A super-fast charging battery you can reuse 5,000 times?

A super-fast charging battery you can reuse 5,000 times?

Imagine a rechargable battery that lasts 10 times longer than the current generation of rechargables, and recharges in 15 minutes or so? Toshiba’s Super Charge Ion Batteries (SCiBs) have been used for industrial application for a while now, with consumers wishing they could get their hands on them with their super fast charge time and incredible lasting power (5000-6000 charge cycles to [...]