Fuel Cell Charger
We have all heard about how fuel cell technology will revolutionize the world of power since they are instantly recharged with a small shot of methanol. Toshiba finally releases a practical fuel cell charger for real world geek use; a gadget charger.
Toshiab’s Dynario charger uses as little as 50 ml of methanol to recharge itself [...]
Batteries For The Web 2.0 Generation
Seriously, why has no other company come up with the idea of creating sexy looking batteries? We have gradients on every web 2.0 website out there, why not some colour on our batteries too?
Well first off, most devices that use batteries keep them hidden so nobody will ever see the flashy looking skin to your [...]
Nuclear Battery In Your Pocket
Yep, you heard me correctly, a nuclear battery. Researchers at the University of Missouri have created super tiny nuclear power sources that can be used as batteries. Dead gadgets and XBox 360 controllers will soon be a thing of the past.
The secret to these tiny power plants is the use of new liquid semiconductors instead [...]
Charge Your Batteries While You Walk
Everyone has seen solar gadgets that provide juice to electronics or charge batteries up, but these units require you to be in a good source of sunlight for hours on end just to get a bit of juice. While some people might be outdoors most of the day, the majority of people aren’t in the [...]
Massive iPod Headphones
I have a hard time keeping my white ipod earphone or my Shure E3’s. I find them to small to keep in my eye, they slip out all the time, maybe I need a set of these to pluck into my ears. The 500xl speakers look just like the plain headphones everyone gets with an [...]
Improve Your Cell Phone’s Battery Life
Cell phone batteries generally fail on you when you need them most. You know, when your on the road traveling and can only charge your phone at night when you get back to your hotel room.
Wikihow has a great article on how to make your cell phone battery last longer. You can increase time between [...]
Cordless Drill Battery Charger
Here’s a great video showing you how you can use your cordless drill as a hand crank charger for batteries. You just never know when your stuck in the woods and need to charge up your batteries for your flashlight. Looks like I will be putting my cordless drill in the truck of my car [...]
Best of the week – Sept 17 – 23
Mac Errors (Frank)
Unofficial Linux Support For New iPods (Frank)
Make it all portable: Thinstall it (Rob)
VMware goes flash with 3i (Rob)
Wii to get Turbografx Titles (Frank)
USB 3.0 to promise 5 Gbps (Frank)
6V Battery hack (Frank)
NES Clone – Good cheap memories (Frank)
GSM Phone Line Interceptor
This tri-band phone and room interceptor is capable of monitoring just about any landline call, regardless of whether they are incoming or outgoing and transmitting conversations to your location via GSM. It is smart enough to detect voices in a room automatically, using its extremely sensitive microphone to transmit the ongoing conversation. The internal [...]
Best of the week – Aug 6 – 12
iPhone unlocked, almost (frank)
Flashlight that will make you puke (frank)
Daily Free File – Coconut Battery (mike)
NES controller for your iPod (frank)
NES on your iPhone (frank)
Multi-Touch Macbook (frank)
Blackjack, Save $840 a year (mubix)
Facebook source code leaked (frank)
Robotic Bartender (frank)
Laptop battery hack (frank)
Great Laptop battery hack
The one thing I love about the web is the amazing things you stumble across and the many things you learn. I stumbled across this laptop battery hack when I was trying to figure out what to do about the dead battery on my old Toshiba laptop that my wife and kids use from [...]
Bluetooth Adopts New Core Version
The board of directors over at the Bluetooth Special Interest Group announced the adoption of Core Specification Version 2.1+EDR (Enhanced Data Rate). The new spec is set to make device set-up faster and increases batter life of bluetooth devices.
Other key enhancements include…
Improved Pairing – The new pairing process enables all consumers to quickly setup [...]
9V Battery Flashlight
How ridiculously simple and effective is this. Three super bright LED’s are housed in a small plastic cap that attaches directly to a 9V battery. There is also a small power button that allows you to leave the light connected without draining the battery.
The 9V battery flashlight will be available in October for about $10. [...]
Sugar powered batteries
Last week we saw the urine powered batteries now from one of the worlds largest battery manufactures, Sony, we see a battery that generates electricity from sugar. The device works off the same principles found in living organisms. Test batteries show the ability to produce 50 milliwatts – currently the world’s highest level of power [...]
Duracell Mobile Charger
Posted by Frank on October 4, 2007 · Leave a Comment
It was only a matter of time for battery companies to get in on the business of charging you gadgets on the go. With that said Duracell has launched it’s Mobile Charger for charging any devise that is powered by USB.
Link: iLounge
Link: Duracell Press Release
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