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Adorably Wrap Your iPhone Charger Like A Needle And Thread
Until smartphone batteries last for weeks on end, carrying a backup charging cable wherever you go will be a necessary evil. But at least you don’t have to deal with a perpetual tangle of wires if you import SoftBank’s new Itomaki AC Adapters. They’re shaped like a thread spool letting you wind your cable around so it’s always neat and tidy.
Finally Someone Stepped Up And Designed A Way To Not Lose MagSafe Adapters
The $12 MagSafe to MagSafe 2 Converter is annoyingly expensive, but it’s better than buying new gear. And now for $US15 you can adopt an annoyingly expensive, but ingenious way to keep track of the tiny dongle. It’s the Apple way.
200-Year Old Tech Allows The Epiphany One Puck To Charge Your Phone Using Coffee
If you’re unsatisfied with the level of geekiness involved with charging your phone, you’ll be able to reclaim some degree of street cred with the Epiphany One Puck, a USB charger that uses the heat differential from a hot or cold drink to power a small Stirling engine.
The Nexus 4′s Charging Orb Is Now On Sale In Google Play, But Only In The US
The Nexus 4 has been around for a few months now, but the Android phone’s pretty wireless orb charger is just now available in the Google Play store. The only catch is that you have to be in the US to get it. Don’t worry, there are ways around it.
We Would Not Have Survived CES Without This Gear
New gadgets take the spotlight at CES. And though we’re occasionally blinded by the bright, shiny things, we know where our loyalties lie. Behind the barrage of posts and sprinting between booths, the real stars of the show are the tried and true bits of gear we’re using behind the scenes. Each of us has our own beloved item — tech or otherwise — that we’ll swear is the only reason we made it out of Vegas alive. Spoiler: There are a lot of batteries mentioned in this post.
