Does the PADACS Ultracharge become an actual bomb scare? It was time to find out.
This battery promises to charge 98 per cent of mobile devices and add up to 20 hours to the iPad’s operating time. I just wish it didn’t look quite so explosive.
On the whole, most smartphones only give you a day’s usage before the battery fizzles up – but Androids seem to be particularly juice-sucking. According to Larry Page however, if you’re not getting a full day’s use, there’s “something wrong.”
The technology for Energizer’s Zinc Air batteries may go back 35 years, but it’s certainly being used well. These new batteries, which we’ll see this summer, will be smaller and have three times the run time of prior versions.
While most of the cars on show at the Tokyo Motor Show are high performance cars (this will change when it opens to the public soon), Toyota still chose to show off its Plug-In Hybrid Prius. While it’s not completely electric it’s certainly another step in the right direction in terms of moving towards full electric vehicles.
It looks like a battery-eating iPhone case, but the reNEW Solar Battery Charger concept is actually a clever little device that spits out fully-charged batteries while attaching to your windows with suction cups. Your back-of-the-house, no-one-will-actually-see-it-here window.
The mission. Fully deplete the battery in an iPhone 3G a long way from home to see if a Kensington Mini Battery Pack/Charger could keep it alive for the return journey.
Like the Callpod but fancier since it props up your gadgets on a shiny platform, the Messless Charger comes with six connectors for charging up to four gadgets simultaneously. It’s about $US100 thanks to the gloss factor, though. [pocket-lint]
