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The $250 Flashlight

Ok, well, it's more than a flashlight, really. This piece of tech has some features you won't find on the spare emergency light you keep in the kitchen drawer....

Make Your Own 9V Battery-Powered USB Charger

Battery-based USB chargers are pretty cheap, but it's always cheaper and more fun to make your own. The basic concept is a battery that powers a USB port so that you can juice up your gadgets. ...

Volta Batteries are the Sexiest Ever

Funny we should swoon over something as mundane as batteries. But we are, thanks to ACME Industries' colorful design for Volta batteries......

Take Care When Flying With Gadgets

Flying restrictions have made taking trips away from home safer than ever (even if a little more frustrating). But the New York Times is reporting that there's still one last unrestricted flight fire ...

Eco Alkalines World's First Carbon Neutral Alkaline Batteries

Venom Power's Eco Alkalines batteries are a big fat zero: 0% Mercury, 0% Cadmium, 0% Lead . They're also certified Carbon Neutral by Carbonfund.org, with support going to the Paso Pacifico Return to F...

Do You Unplug at 100% Battery?
Survey

For those of us out there who have made the jump to embracing the laptop as a replacement for your desktop, you've probably run into this issue before; dealing with the 100% charged battery. So, do yo...

Best Product: CyberPower 9-Outlet Intelligent LCD UPS

Seeing as many colleges seem to still be in the process of upgrading their power grid in the midst of all the incoming freshmen, we wouldn't be surprised if the power decided to cut out once or twice ...

Energizer Xpal: Cheap and Effective Power Pack

It's a given that at some point your fancy smartphone will run out of power. These devices tend to suck a lot of juice, which is why there are so many different power packs available to recharge them....

Flip the Switch on Battery-Powered Devices

The only thing worse than realizing your remote control/razor/digital camera has killed it's batteries is peeking in the kitchen/utility closet/desk drawer and finding exactly one fewer battery than y...

Survey: Do You Refrigerate or Freeze Your Batteries?

Urban legend or myth? We open it up to you guys to argue the benefits (if any) of tossing in your D-cells and triple A's to the fridge to "hold its charge..." ...

I'm Not a Battery: Salt and Pepper D Cells

Salt and pepper shakers have a bit of a following here at Apartment Therapy. You've got the traditional wood pepper mills, some quirky animal inspired ones and for good measure a roundup of more moder...

MiLi Power Pack for iPhone Protects and Charges

On the cusp of a new iPhone 3.0 announcement from Apple tomorrow, here's a bit of hardware news about how to expand the utility of your existing 2G or 3G iPhone you might have today. The MiLi Power Pa...

Exploding Gadgets Remind Us To Check Our Models

Yikes! What a disaster! This Mac PowerBook exploded recently in a London marketing office, apparently filling this tiny cubicle with smoke and sparks. There's still no word on whether or not the lapto...

Improving Your Celly's Battery Life in Five Easy Steps

We spotted this list from UK tech blog Tech Digest and think it contains some useful tips for making sure your Blackberry doesn't quit on you right before that important phone interview for the job yo...

LED Silverware: Some Things Are Best Left Analog

Really? I mean, we love tech as much as the next blog... but when is it time to say 'that's enough'? We're wiring up the most unnecessary products and putting LEDs on everything imaginable. Next in li...

Solar Blinds: Stores Power By Day, Shines By Night

Here's a "bright" idea if we've ever seen one: Take your standard Venetian blinds, attach some thin solar panels on them, and let them store energy on batteries during the daytime and allow them to gr...

Incase 3G iPhone Power Slider Protects and Powers

We think we have a winner for best iPhone case with the Incase Power Slider, which not only protects your mobile handheld computer/phone like any other case, BUT also throws in the whiz-bang-wow facto...

Mommy, Where do Sweaters Go When They Finally Dry?

Having recently moved from South Florida to a (slightly) more northern state, we're finally seeing what Autumn and Winter are supposed to look like. What do we love about the crisp weather? Red leaves...

Kensington Battery Pack for iPod and iPhone

When you are on the go with no way of recharging your iPod or your iPhone, usually you'd just do the unthinkable and switch them off. No More! Kensington is coming to the rescue with its new battery b...

How To: Make Your Own 9 Cell Laptop battery

One of the main reasons in choosing the right laptop is finding one that has decent battery life. Any road warrior will tell you that plugging that electricity guzzler of a laptop isn't always easy on...