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Wireless power chargers on the way

Do you have a tangled mess of wires in that corner electronic outlet in your house for all your various gadget chargers? Well if consortium of companies gets their way you’ll be able to charge all your devices wirelessly and get rid of the mess. The Wireless Power Consortium made up of companies like Sanyo, [...]

eSATA and USB in one flash drive from Kangaru

All the new thumb drives out on the market seem to be the same, just with different designs and colors. Or they would incorporate the USB flash drive into a popular cartoon or movie character. Kanguru has actually released something new for the USB market, they’ve released a thumb drive with a USB 2.0 drive [...]

Coosh iPhone Earbuds

The Apple earphones that came with your iPhone not cutting if for you? How about these iPhone earbuds from Coosh, they’re pretty similar to the Apple earbuds. They even have the inline microphone and remote on the cord. There are a few differences, one of which is the head phone jack. It features a 90 [...]

South Korean team squeezes 8x more life from lithium batteries

A South Korea research team discovered a way to make lithium batteries up to 90 percent more efficient than the current lithium batteries available today. The team says that their findings will help notebook and cellphone batteries to last as much as eight times longer than current batteries. They were able to boost efficiency but [...]

Best Buy Gift Card is also a speaker

Yesterday, we reported on Target Gift Cards that double as a digital camara. Well now I guess it sparked a trend a trend because Best Buy has come out with their own special gift cards as well. Best Buy are now selling gift cards that double as small speaker. The mini speaker comes with a [...]

How to wrap your headphones

Don’t you hate it when you pull out your headphones and they’re all tangled up and you end up holding up the line at Starbucks or In-N-Out. Well this video demonstrates how you SHOULD wrap your headphones in order to avoid situations like that. Enjoy!

- Geoff
[Source: Gizmodo]

Panasonic to take over Sanyo

Looks like the race to gobble up the competition which is hurting these dark economic times has started, it was recently reported that Panasonic has reached an agreement to take over their troubled competitor Sanyo. Official word of the takeover will be announced on November 7th.
-Ray
[Source: timesonline]

JVC ends production of standalone VCRs

It’s an end of an era, brand new stand along VCRs from JVC are no more. JVC of Japan has stopped production of VHS-format videocassette players and will end their sales when inventories run out. No else makes VCRs anymore so if you’re in the market for a standalone VCR now is the time to [...]

Silver zinc batteries last 40% longer than lithium-ion

Silver zinc batteries may be the new mainstream battery pretty soon replacing Lithium-ion which is currently the most common battery. ZPower is developing their new silver zinc batteries and is suppose to be used on notebook computers in 2009. They claim their silver zinc batteries offers up to 40 percent more battery life over regular [...]

U.S. surveillance program a good thing?

Check out this very interesting article regarding the new surveillance program of the United States and its potential to violate the privacy rights and civil liberties of U.S. citizens.

New surveillance program will turn military satellites on US
By Julian Sanchez
An appropriations bill signed by President Bush last week allows the controversial National Applications Office to begin [...]