Powergorilla and Solargorilla – portable power for laptops

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

Powertraveller, the UK manufacturer of power and charging solutions for electronic devices, has opened the cage and unleashed two new beasts - the powergorilla, a portable charger for laptops and its ‘mate’, the solargorilla, a solar panel capable of powering a laptop.

Uniross launches solar, wind chargers

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Uniross announces the launch of a new range of eco-friendly battery chargers. With gadgets an everyday part of people’s lives, an unfortunate side effect is that 660 million batteries end up in landfill sites every year. Our increasing reliance on portable power means the last thing you want to worry about is carrying spare batteries, [...]

Motorola shows hydrogen battery for mobile phones

Monday, February 18th, 2008

Angstrom Power and Motorola seem to have developed a way to power cellphones with a hydrogen fuel cell. Of course, it’s still in the testing phase, with a prototype, but the concept is certainly interesting. Imagine, all you’ll need to do is fill up your cellphone with water – and voila, it’ll start working again.

Subaru Forester 2.5 XT

Monday, January 14th, 2008

Subaru introduced the all-new, third-generation 2009 Forester, a total re-design of the award-winning crossover utility vehicle (CUV) that has built a strong reputation as an icon of safety, dependability and versatility. The 2009 Subaru Forester, which arrives in Subaru dealerships this spring, builds upon that reputation while projecting a bolder, more SUV-like design and making [...]

Kia Borrego, power and design

Monday, January 14th, 2008

To me it looks like a mix of Range Rover / Ssang Yong  vehicles Kia Motors announced the world debut of the all-new Borrego midsize SUV at the 2008 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit, further bolstering its product offerings in the United States. Inspired by Kia’s “less is more” design philosophy, [...]