Tag: power
Pebble Smartstick Is Your Marker-Sized Emergency Charger
As far as battery life on your mobile device goes, there is no getting around the fact that it will eventually run out. Until some clever innovator comes up with a way to harvest power from thin air, we will always run out of power when we least expect it. There is no shortage of solutions that will ...
Reactor: Hand-Crank Power Case For The iPhone 5
There have been many ways to charge our smartphones that have been introduced throughout the years. They come and go, and only the most optimized solutions stick around long enough to be refined and perfected. We have seen an increased number of hand-crank devices in the last few years that will cha ...
ChargeBite: iPhone Power Cannibalism Goes Mainstream
There are no shortage of power chargers on the market for any smartphone these days. All you really have to do is walk into an electronics store, and you will pretty much be presented with a boatload of them. What you choose is of course a personal preference, but you always want to pick the one tha ...
Drivable Life-Size LEGO Go-Kart For Adrenaline Junkies
Today is Sunday, and we are all looking forward to a new week of hard work, right? Well, I guess I won't get many people to agree with me on that one. It was worth a shot I guess. Anyway, a Sunday like this could definitely use a little fun, don't you think? Seasoned LEGO fanatics seem to have the g ...
Power Charger Fuels Your Smartphone Using Just A Hot Or Cold Source
How many smartphone emergency chargers have you read about by now? Quite a few I reckon. Well, it seems there are still a few ways you can reinvent the smartphone power charger. The "new" solar power chargers are in abundance right now. You can get them for your jacket, your backpack, you name it. W ...
Wrist Charger Puts An Emergency Power Source On Your Wrist
Most of us have at some point found ourselves in the annoying situation when our battery runs out on our mobile device. At that point, there is little to be done other than trying to find a power outlet or USB device so we can charge our device once again. When you start thinking about it, it's real ...
Chewing Gum Batteries Could Power All Our Gadgets In The Future
What do you do when seemingly the entire world is focused on creating the next groundbreaking gadget? What can you possibly do to leverage all that competition? Well, you invent the power source that is going to power all of those gadgets of course. That's probably the most sound advice anyone could ...
Electricity Tracking Device & iPhone App Keep Your Bills Down
The one thing that could quickly send your personal economy into a depression is the unpredictable electricity bill that keeps surprising you from time to time. If you don't remember to turn off lights, TVs or even your computer when you leave home or go to sleep, it can quickly get out of hand. The ...
USB Rechargeable Batteries Could Be The Greatest Invention Yet
If it wasn't for batteries, almost none of our gadgets would work. I recently wrote about the emergency flashlight that you could cram any size batteries into, and it would still work. It's a genius invention, but what happens if all of your batteries are out? Rechargeable batteries are good and all ...
Gadget Charger Table Lamps For A True Geek’s Living Quarters
What does your device charger look like? Is it the default one that came with the device itself, or did you buy a new one that is more optimized? I bet whatever you have, it's something that compliments your geekiness. There are of course thousands of different device chargers, docks and whatever yo ...
Emergency Flashlight Runs On Any Size Batteries You Can Find
When the power goes out, we all find ourselves in a situation which is unnatural for most of us. Pretty much everything around us is dependent on electricity, and without it, it's almost like we are sent back into the stone age. There have been people working on emergency power devices for decades, ...
Syndee: The 4-In-1 Charging Station For Those Who Love Power
Recently I took a serious sabbatical from writing to concentrate on a number of other projects, but since the holiday season is firmly upon us, I thought I would step back into the writing thing swinging. I recently stumbled across this little nugget from the manufacturer Kanex, and it would make a ...
Hand-Crank Phone Charger (For When You’re Without Electricity)
Living without electricity is a big deal, and if you are blessed enough not to know what that feels like, try doing it for one day. It will be torture. Electricity is one of those things that we completely take for granted. If you think it's hard to live when your Internet goes out, try going withou ...
Arc Reactor LEGO Build Realizes Movie Magic
Someone once told me that your creativity will always be greater than your imagination. I know it's a mind twister to try and decode, but the more you think about, the more it makes sense. The thing is, you will always have the urge to create the impossible. As we know, the impossible is made up of ...
Power Outlet Design Innovation To Be Excited About
I sometimes feel like everything around us is reinvented, refined and perfected. However, when it comes to more standardized things like our power outlets, faucets and homes in general, I've seen little innovation. Why is that? It can't be because there is no technology to support it. There are plen ...