Our new Galaxy S3 phone has a removable battery. So rather than carry a charger or a cable to plug into a wall outlet, we carry an extra battery. But most smart phones and tablets don’t have this option.
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An impressive app is now available on the Nissan Leaf electric car and soon to be available on Ford’s Focus Electric, announced today at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Here’s how it works: You’re at home and it’s 15 degrees outside. You don’t want to get into a cold car, so you whip out your smart phone and warm your car to 68 degrees. Since the car is still plugged in, you’re not draining the battery. In summer, on a 100 degree day, you tell the car to be cool when you step in. It’s all done by way of an app provided by Airbiquity, the same company responsible for the OnStar system and Ford Sync, a service [...]
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Duracell’s charging pad eliminates messy cords.
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There are a score of portable power packs available today for reviving your dead or dying cell phone, iPod, music player, game machine, Blackberry, etc. We’ve written about a couple in previous columns, but we particularly like a sleek new black one from Kensington.
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This company makes a wind-powered recharger that works with many cell phones, digital cameras, PDAs, older iPods and other 5-volt rechargeable devices.
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We recently tried out the new PowerAid Mobile from US Modular, a backup battery that comes with five adapters that fit cell phones, iPods, Treo PDAs and many other devices designed to take their charge from a computer’s USB port or a wall outlet.
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