Charge your iPhone Through its Protective Case
One of the more bogus things that can happen when you're out of the house is your phone dies -- more so if it's a smartphone. Not only do you no longer have a phone line at your disposal, you don't h...
One of the more bogus things that can happen when you're out of the house is your phone dies -- more so if it's a smartphone. Not only do you no longer have a phone line at your disposal, you don't h...
Recall that battery face-off we did a while back where the Sanyo's Eneloops came out on top? Well, if you didn't, you should know that they're positively one of the awesom-est batteries out there - an...
Ok, not really, but if that tubby Italian and his lanky brother lived in the real world, we think their home would look a little like this. The Mario-themed décor includes shelves, an end table shap...
Case-Mate is definitely on the forefront of the iPhone case game. We recently wrote about their Create Your Own Case option, which is pretty genius! We know several people who have designed, ordere...
Last week we posted about Smart Home's 2010 opening, featuring a whole slew of new technology. Janel Laban of Apartment Therapy Chicago posted a house tour of the original interior and has now gone b...
If there's one thing that we hate, it's wasting power with vampire transformer sucking in electricity even if devices aren't plugged in. There's just a lot of wasted energy, which can be saved if yo...
Normally we offer a variety of options or techniques to hide the eyesore of cable/wire clutter. But what if you've got an awkwardly positioned outlet and a cable or wire is just something you have to ...
What do you do when you covet a piece of furniture you just can't afford? You put together all your crafty skills in the hopes that you can build one yourself. That's exactly what someone did after ...
We recently had an employee from our cable provider visit our house to help us install a new device we purchased. He ran out of outlets to plug items into and asked for a power strip &mdash we weren...
While living digitally has made us greener in some aspects it also has its eco drawbacks. From the amount of waste created to make all our digital doodads to the amount of power it takes to power t...
If you've ever used a traditional dimmer switch with a CFL dimming bulb you've probably noticed that the brightness transitions are a bit stop and go. That's because standard dimmers aren't optimized...
Every single building we spot with a solar cell on it makes us grin. It means that the world is getting closer and closer to making solar energy a viable resource. But solar power for private residen...
Did you know that not all game consoles use the same amount of power? Peter Troast of Energy Circle soon discovered this very fact when he brought a Nintendo Wii and an Xbox 360 to his PS3 household....
Having a home office makes working from home a pleasure, but not when you have to live with (and look at) a stack of modems, routers, ethernet cables, power cords, external hard drives, and the lik...
It's rare to find two-prong outlets in homes these days. Landlords and home owners have slowly switched over to three-prong outlets as more and more devices and appliances need them to power up. Oc...
It's that time of the year again. The annual Greener Gadgets conference has announced its nominees for their Greener Gadgets competition. There are 18 entries you can vote for, with the winners annou...
We cannot count the number of times we've been out without a phone charger and our phone dies &mdash or trying to get ahold of someone, but their phone is dead. Scosche came to their senses and rea...
iPhone users are well aware that their favourite handheld mobile device has some notable limitations when it comes to everyday use, specifically battery life. So it would not hurt to have a backup pla...
Moving your home cross country can be a huge feat, but staying online to work during the whole ordeal doesn't have to be. With the right gadgets you can log in just long enough that your boss won't...
There are many studies that have shown that you can save quite a bit of money by simply shutting down your devices and gadgets that are always consuming power, no matter if you are using them or not. ...
Lamptops is not so much as a home electronics product itself as one that helps rein in and hide away the cable, wiring and hardware that accompany the installation of pendant lighting. Overhead ligh...
I was raised in a household that was very energy efficient. We always had to turn the light off when leaving a room, shut down computers at night, and unplug devices when we were no longer using th...
We only have one bathroom in our house and sometimes I'm somewhat forced to use another room to finish getting ready. Blow drying my hair is an intregal part of getting ready in the morning and the...
It's always amazing when something that was only a concept a short while ago will actually be made real. For now, this isn't the case for the Cute Cube compact socket which won a Red Dot Design award ...
The most popular first reaction to hearing about the wireless charging Powermat is "OMG It's here and it's real!" That exclamation is quickly followed by disgust as you realize space-age air charging ...