The iPhone charges up pretty quickly, but once you run out of power, there’s not much you can do except stow your phone until you find an outlet, or a batter pack and enough time to juice it up again. This case proposes that you use a crank to manually charge your precious smartphone.
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Have you ever been stuck in the wilderness and your devices are about to fail because there is just no way to charge them back up? Check out BioLite’s CampStove, which will allow you to cook or heat your food while charging up your gadgets at the same time.
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Have you ever wished that you had an electric bike, especially while hauling groceries home from the store? Well the Ridekick trailer promises to do everything an electric bike does, plus offer you some extra storage space as well. It also allows you to unhitch the trailer and go without using electric power.
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Old lamps are not something that you should throw away. There’s so much that you can do with them, especially if you have a bit of technical knowhow, which will allow you to use one of these hacks to get more life out of your tired lighting fixtures. You can also experiment, because if you break your lamp, it’s not that much of a loss. Here are a few cool ways to hack your lights into something almost new.
Q: I’m not very tech-savvy, but I’m surrounded by gadgets. I’m wondering what kind of surge protectors I should buy to keep them all safe. My apartment is very old with limited outlets, and I worry about my iMac and soon-to-arrive Samsung 40″ LCD HDTV. Any advice?
It’s true that most tablets do need to get charged up regularly, so it would be nice to come up with a way to reduce the need for recharging. The Ecopad concept was given a special award in Fujitsu and designboom’s ‘A Life with Future Computing‘ design competition for its innovative approach to juicing up.
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There’s something that bothers us about simple light switch plates. They are very simple, but the switch that is the most common sticks out of the wall and we’d like something new. Also, the newer touch-based light switch plates can get confusing in the dark, especially the ones with a touch-based dimmer. However newer light switch plates can save you money in the long run, and have some safety features, which will help make your home more secure, particularly when you’re away.
Utility companies are trying to figure out way to tap the electricity that has been hiding about in your home. It’s surprising, but with smart-grid technology, it will be possible to sell back some of that untapped electricity to your favorite utility company, to save you money in the long run.
It’s a given that we all need power strips in our home offices and home theater rooms. It’s quite impossible to do without. However, there are quite a few different solutions out there that will make life easier, and hopefully less cluttered. These are our favorite techy power strips.
Fujitsu has just released information on a new power strip that will monitor its energy usage. That sounds kind of cool. Usually, energy monitors need to be plugged into the power grid in some fashion, but these things are just what they are advertised to be: power strips that monitor how much electricity is shunted through them.
