No matter which direction you are heading the iPod USB Car Charger from Sonnet has got your juice. The sleek looking charger works with any 12Volt or 24Volt accessory jack from cars, trucks, vans or boats. Couple of points worth mentioning:
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If you can imagine my office has two drawers full of USB powered gadgets we’ve seen or reviewed from the past year. Along with those gadgets is an army of USB cables or card readers. Well, I’m throwing them all away in exchange for the Brando USB Bluetooth Card Reader. With support for 52 formats I don’t think I’ll need
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Koss premium sound found in Bluetooth ear-piece, the Cobalt. Well, who is Koss you might ask…well, in 1953, John Koss began Koss Corporation by renting television sets to Milwaukee area hospitals. A Big Band musician, and an avid music lover, he soon turned his eye and ear to the budding Hi Fi industry. Along with his old friend, Martin Lange, John Koss created
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For international travel the #1 item on most people’s list would be their iPod. Afterall spending 15 hours on a flight to Japan is an absolute drag without some tunes. Well, to insure there’s juice for the trip home Griffin introduces their PowerBlock Travel charger pack. The PowerBlock Travel is an international power pack which covers every location you could possibly visit.
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Ever need to leverage the plug-n-play ease of USB with extended coverage that current USB cables can’t handle? Well, the folks at Icron figured things out and developed something called ExtremeUSB Technology allowing you to span up to 1.2 miles away.
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New Wireless USB devices are coming, but will there be an operating system to welcome them? At the Certified Wireless USB Developers Conference, major hardware and software companies promised to start providing Certified Wireless USB devices by the end of the year. While this may sound hopefull,
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The Belkin Gigabit USB 2.0 Network Adapter lets you easily tap into a gigabit network without needing the specific Ethernet Gig card. The Adapter is backward-compatible with all existing 10/100 networks. With a simple insert to your USB port the adapter will instantly allow you to
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With products like the D-Link DPH-541 it’s very possible to wipe out those cell phone bills. D-Link’s Wi-Fi Phone is a standalone device that does not require a computer to use. All you need is an 802.11g or 802.11b wireless network with high-speed Internet access to make and receive calls. Use it at home, hotels, offices, airports, Internet cafes, school campuses, or
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Hewlett Packard’s UPS “G2” family now provides USB support, from 1000 VA (650 watts) to 2200 VA (1600 watts), and extended runtime for servers, storage, computer equipment, and network environments. These Uniterrubtible Power Supplies are the T1000 G2, T1500 G2, and R/T2200 G2, respectively, succeeding the XR series. The UPS R/T 2200 G2 can be converted easily from
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As with the Energi-To-Go product line, Motorola has unveiled the Portable Power P970 gadget, a power pack that plugs into any device with a mini USB port either to recharge the host or provide current immediately. The P970 is essentially a 1700mAh rechargeable battery in a curvy PEBL-like casing with a USB port on top. It weighs just 79g and measures 7.4 x 5.1 x 2.4cm. Motorola is pitching the product as an accessory for its own phones and accessories, but we’d bet it will prove handy for other gadgets that can recharge through their mini USB ports, such as phones, PDA and MP3 players.
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GetUSB.info Summary: Energizer launched a new line of battery power packs for USB powered gadgets, PDAs, cell phones and MP3 players. One very note worthy item is the airline headphone to USB power adaptor making it easy to power-up during airline flights.
Portable power in a box, that is what the APC UPB10 brings to the table. Giving 10 hours of extra juice to any USB powered gadget it helps you when help is needed most. Probably not a necessity for the everyday gadgeteer but for the business person on the go who needs to avoid downtime with their Palm Pilot, Treo, Camera or MP3 player the UPB10 is the ticket. Prices start at just around $70USD.
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