Power Outlets Archive

  • Charry: Outdoor charging box for electric vehicles

    Charry: Outdoor charging box for electric vehicles

    Posted on May 3, 2010 | No Comments
    One critical factor that stands in the way of electric vehicles becoming mainstream is the lack of charging stations once you're on the road with your e-bike or electric car. In the case of bicycles, 37km, for example (as seen in Panasonic's newest models), isn't a bad number for an assisted travel distance, but it's not enough for those really long trips.

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  • Sagem’s Solar-powered Puma Phone Says Hello to the FCC

    Sagem’s Solar-powered Puma Phone Says Hello to the FCC

    Posted on April 28, 2010 | No Comments
    You're an outdoorsy type, aren't you? You only read mobile-phone blogs on your down-time between hiking and BASE jumping. I can tell. Being that you are that wonderful blend of outdoorsman (or outdoorswoman) and phone aficionado, I bet you're often peeved about the whole lack of power outlets in the wild (I know I am). Well, well, looky here, someone out there has heard your cries. Sagem are soon to release their solar-powered, puma-branded feature-phone to the masses. How do we know that? Well, it's just gone and had it's first photo shoot with the FCC, that's how.

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  • Meet the EV-neo, Honda’s new e-motorbike (video)

    Meet the EV-neo, Honda’s new e-motorbike (video)

    Posted on April 15, 2010 | No Comments
    While we mostly cover electric bicycles and the occasional electric car, there are surely some people waiting for a decent electric motorbike, too. Honda has now announced an e-scooter, and it looks their model, the EV-neo, is quite decent.

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  • Convert a standard outlet to a USB outlet

    Convert a standard outlet to a USB outlet

    Posted on December 3, 2009 | No Comments
    If you've got a surplus of power outlets in your home, I guess you should probably convert one to a USB outlet. It can be done for less than $10 and apparently only takes about 30 minutes.

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  • Nokia’s latest batch for emerging markets includes its cheapest phone ever

    Nokia’s latest batch for emerging markets includes its cheapest phone ever

    Posted on November 6, 2009 | No Comments

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    We spend most of our time talking about Espoo's Maemo- and Symbian-based lineup, which makes it easy to forget that the company has a vibrant business taking care of the very lowest rungs of the wireless industry -- devices that shatter price barriers and take service to entire new market segments in the furthest reaches of the world. Last year, it was the 1202 raising eyebrows with a €25 price tag, and this week, Nokia's beaten its own mark by coming out with the 1280 (pictured) at just €20 unsubsidized. The phone comes as part of a new five-pack of emerging market devices Nokia has shown this time around, including candybars ranging from the monochrome 1280 to the 1616 and 1800 with color displays for just €4 and €6 more, respectively; we've also got a 2220 slider and 2690 candybar that move a little upmarket at €45 and €54. All of the handsets feature FM radios (particularly critical in some of the markets where these phones will be sold) and feature killer battery life, perfect when power outlets can be hard to come by for days at a time. Indonesia will be the first to get these bad boys in early December, but we imagine they'll find their way to other regions shortly.

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  • Type much? Watch out for data-thieving lasers and power outlets

    Type much? Watch out for data-thieving lasers and power outlets

    Posted on July 12, 2009 | No Comments
    hamburglarArticles like this make me glad I lead a relatively boring life and rarely type anything interesting enough to steal (or even read?) into my computer. Hackers will demonstrate a couple new methods of data theft at Black Hat USA 2009 in Vegas later this month. Both methods involve reading which individual keyboard keys are struck from afar. One method reads the impulses through electrical outlets and the other uses a laser shined on a flat surface of the computer to detect the minute wobble generated when each key is struck.

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  • Eye-Fi Pro Adds RAW Support, Selective Transfers

    Eye-Fi Pro Adds RAW Support, Selective Transfers

    Posted on June 10, 2009 | No Comments
    Is it possible that Eye-Fi could make its range of geo-tagging’, Wi-Fi sharin’ cards any more useful? We didn’t think so, but it turns out we were dead wrong. The company has today released the Eye-Fi Pro, a 4GB SD card with a couple of very handy new features. First, the cards finally support RAW files. [...]

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  • Brando sound activated security camcorder socket GO!

    Brando sound activated security camcorder socket GO!

    Posted on June 5, 2009 | No Comments
    You want to spy? You live in country with weird power outlets? You not afraid of being arrested? Go now to Brando! $64 sound-activated security camcorder socket sound to activate no special technique is required mount it anywhere and take video of unsuspecting lady! Upskirt! Cleveland steamer! Go go go!

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  • LIVE: EA E3 2009 press conference

    LIVE: EA E3 2009 press conference

    Posted on June 1, 2009 | No Comments
    We’re live at EA’s press conference here at E3 in Los Angeles… 4:42 PM: Devin Coldewey Yo. We’re Live at EA’s press conf. Still a while before it goes live. Looped animations, Clif bars and an asset drive full of stuff we’ve already seen. Get ready for some Mass Effect 2 footage though, we’ll get it [...]

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