Posts Tagged ‘charger’
Tom Tom takes multi tasking to a faster level
Not content with taking the sat nav world by the scruff of the neck and shaking it until all the completion falls away, Tom Tom is seemingly making itself almost indispensible to other hardware manufacturers too. Tom Tom has long led the in car sat navigation market with its wide range of driver friendly, intuitively easy to use devices that have got me out of hopelessly lost causes, pointing the…
IEC approves universal smart phone charger
I was at an airport last week and there was a mobile charger station there which was free to use for passengers. There were, and I kid you not, over twenty different connectors sticking out of it which in many ways puts this story into perspective. Finally, it seems manufacturers have come to their senses and agreed on a universal way to charge phones. The IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) has…
Don’t leave home without it: A gift guide for a loved one with the travel bug
What do you buy a travel junkie that seems to have everything? Well that’s simple, any one of the following… Livescribe Echo Smartpen If your loved one’s tendency for travel is business rather than pleasure related, the chances are he or she will love the Livescribe Echo Smartpen. This ingenious device records audio and matches it up with what you are writing. People taking notes during a presentation or a…
PowerMat 2010 range hands on
Powermat invited us down to have a play with their latest range of lovely new wireless charging accessories. When it was first released, Powermat’s range of wireless charging gizmos magical on paper, but with a slightly chunky range of cases needed to make the device work, I (and others) had a few reservations. This year however, thin is in and the 2010 range was decidedly svelte. The iPhone 4 and…
The GE Wattstation electric car charger – redefining the electric car industry
“Good design is when a new technology enters our lives and makes it more simple, beautiful and healthy”, were the words of the great industrial designer Yves Behar, founder of Fuseproject, a branding and design company based in San Francisco. Pertaining these words of wisdom to the electric car industry, which currently boasts only relative popularity, and is notably absent from roads in the United States, Behar has announced the…
Charger clutter? One For All launch universal multi-charger
The explosion in affordable portable technology means that the average person now has more gadgets and gizmos than they do teeth! Okay well that may not be strictly true seeing as I just made it up but from mobile phones to iPods, and laptops to digital cameras the chances are that you’ve got 3 or 4 power hungry portables on the go at any one time. The problem with all…
