Supercapacitors (ultracapacitors, supercapacitors) are a new type of rechargeable batteries which are characterized by a very short time of recharge, but nevertheless withstand tens of thousands of charge / discharge cycles.
One of the first gadgets that use the similar technology, is a flashlight with a long name 5.11 Light For Life Tactical Series UC3.400. This device is charging for just 90 seconds and is able to work after that for 90 minutes without interruption, providing illumination of 90 lumens.
You can recharge this gadget for 50 thousand times, it does not have any problems relating to degradation of the battery or the “memory effect”.
The preliminary cost of such a flashlight is 170 dollars.
I’d like to believe that soon ultracapacitors will be widely used as batteries for mobile phones and other electronic gadgets, as 90 seconds of charging is really great.
All the owners of Apple iPhone or iPod Touch player know exactly, that the set of even simple texts of on-screen keyboard of the device is connected with certain difficulties.
However, it is possible to turn your iPhone into a good competitor of EEE PC with a compact BTKeyMini wireless keyboard. With this device, the input and editing of the text will never cause you any difficulties.
The gadget has a special stand to set the player or phone, and thanks to its small size you can always carry it with you, as it occupies much less space than the smallest laptop.
Ordering this very useful device can be made on the manufacturer’s website and it costs about $ 90.
A small-screen portable multimedia player iPod Nano is clearly not intended for long-term video viewing. But what to do in the long boring trip, when the only means of entertainment is this player?
The compact gadget iPod Nano 3G TV will solve this problem. It has a design of a tiny VCR, which enables you to watch movies stored in the memory of your iPod Nano, on the 2.8 inches(7.1cm) display and listen to the sound with built-in speakers.
Unfortunately, iPod Nano 3G TV supports only iPod Nano 3rd generation Players, but if it is ok for you, you can buy this 170-gram device for $ 23.
All the housewives know that cooking is a real science. And any science requires the measurement accuracy. So the Digital Thermometer Pan is designed exactly for those who are used to control all and everything.
A digital liquid crystal display is built in the handle of device that shows the current temperature of dishes, which are being prepared in this pan. With Digital Thermometer Pan, you can follow the recommendations of even the most complicated recipes that require a certain temperature at different stages of preparation.
The pan can be bought from the online store ThinkGeek for $ 50.
Christmas and New Year holidays are just around the corner, which means it’s time to think about buying gifts for relatives and close friends.
One of the solutions of this issue could be a gadget Christmas Ball Digital Photo Frame, which is a digital photo frame that has a design of the Christmas tree decoration. This device has only 8 MB of internal memory, but this is enough to store and display digital pictures of your loved ones.
The Christmas Ball Digital Photo Frame can be supplied from the USB-port of the computer or from AA type two batteries, so this Christmas tree decoration can be located on the desk, and you can hang on the Christmas tree, like any other ornament.
You can order the Christmas Ball Digital Photo Frame at Chinavasion store for 12,5 dollars.
Do you spend most of your working day sitting? You want to move more, but time is absolutely not enough? Hence, it is time to look around for such a device, as Walkstation, which is a combination of workstation and treadmill.
Speed of the Walkstation path is not very high – about 5 km / h, so working on a personal computer does not cause any problems. Walkstation is produced in various modifications, details of which can be found on the official site.
About 400 units of this device are already sold, mainly in big companies, because Walkstation is not cheap – 4000 dollars.
TV, perhaps, is the source of information, entertainment and is an easy way to kill time. But sometimes there is an irresistible desire to turn it off, and not by just pressing a button on the remote control, but pulling the trigger. Well, it can now be done without any harm to the device.
Ray Gun Remote is a classic “blaster” from cartoons, but it is able to work as a TV remote control. It has only one button in the form of trigger. So it can be programmed only for one action.
Of course, you can change channels, but it is much more logical to use a blaster to turn off the TV. But it’s up to you.
You can buy this remote control for 9.95 pounds (about $18).
Almost all drivers have a bad experience when the car battery is discharged at the impropriate time. Solar battery Coleman Solar Battery Charger is just designed to avoid such situations.
This gadget in simple and inexpensive way will charge the car battery. You just need to put this device on the dashboard or in another place, lit by the sun, and connect it to the cigarette lighter.
Coleman Solar Battery Charger is useful to those motorists who rarely use the car. It is enough to fix it at a garage box (included with 3-meter cable allows it) and no longer fear that the battery is discharged during a prolonged stay. If it becomes necessary to charge the battery directly, the device comes complete with special clamps.
The price of this useful device for motorists is only $30.
The quality of photographs taken by cameras built-in iPhone, of course, yields images of modern digital cameras, but the latter do not know how to make and, of course, will not let you play Super Monkey Ball.
iPhone Telescope will improve the quality of images and provide additional abilities when shooting with the iPhone. Lens with a 6-fold optical approximation is slip-on the built-in phone camera. Focusing is done by means of rotating ring, as in the good old cameras.
The length of iPhone Telescope is 7 cm, diameter – 3 cm. The set includes a hard case to protect your phone. The price of this device is $18.
I’m sure many of us dreamt to be an elusive agent 007 James Bond himself/herself and test any technical device from his rich arsenal.
If your child also has such a desire, you can give him/her Spy Kite.
Spy Kite has a fixed digital camera. It provides an opportunity to get quite reasonable pictures from a height of 25 m. The photos are taken by remote control.
After the end of the surveillance, the device can be connected to your computer and pictures can be stored in its memory. The price of this spy gadget is about $60. Not so much to see your little 007 agent happy.
