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Mouse Hacked to Run On Rechargeable Cellphone Battery
Just as a bike tire will always burst when you are far away from home without a patch kit, your mouse will run out of juice just as you are up against a deadline. But what if you could just ...
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Third Rail Case Adds Removable Battery to iPhone
The Third Rail case is much less dangerous than it sounds. Instead of being a huge metal beam that carries a gazillion volts with the dual purpose of powering underground trains and terrifying...
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Wavejet: Powered Surfboard Mixes Electricity and Water
It seems like there is a conspiracy afoot. A conspiracy designed to turn even the sportiest of people into lazy lumps of lard. A conspiracy to put electric motors into every human-powered mode of...
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Huge, Heavy Retro-Styled Box Juices MacBooks with C-Cells
If you were looking for the most expensive and least ecologically-friendly way to power your MacBook, then you could do a lot worse than pick the MacBook Air External Power from Bird Electron. If your...
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Tiny Rotary Engines Could Power Gadgets with Gasoline
Clarian Lab’s new generator is a gas-powered battery. That might sound backward in today’s world of hybrid cars, but it actually turns out to be a pretty clever device. The Hybrid Battery is small,...
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iOS 5.0.1: Breaking Reports Suggest Update Not a Battery-Life Fix for All
With new reports continuously streaming in by the hour, it now seems the iOS 5.0.1 update -- which was just released to address severe battery-drainage problems on devices running iOS 5 -- hasn’t been...
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Broadcom Offers 10-Year Battery Life for Bluetooth Keyboards
What are the things that annoy you most about Bluetooth? If you answered “poor battery life, and pairing,” then Broadcom has some good news. It is already making a chip that will allows keyboards to...
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Apple Patents Explore iPod Charging, Noise Reduction and Battery Design
The USPTO published a host of new Apple patent applications Thursday, providing us with a peek inside the minds sequestered away at One Infinite Loop. This week, we see innovation in the form of a new...
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Harvesting Power From Lobsters and Snails
Good news: An electrical grid powered by human bodies, as seen in The Matrix, might be feasible! Teams of researchers at three universities—Clarkson, Case Western Reserve, and Joseph Fourier in...
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Hand Crank Is a Backup for Your Backup Battery
Eton has released a series of backup batteries that come with their own backup solution for when the initial charge runs out. The BoostTurbine Series come equipped with a hand crank that will let you...
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