Portable Technology Category - Page 2

This particular item sounds less like an actual gadget and more like a deleted scene from Stephen King’s The Tommyknockers, I know, but it’s still pretty impressive. If you’ve got eight C batteries handy, you can stick them in the Bird Electron EP-15V, and get yourself a full charge for [...]

It has to be said that, whatever your opinion of Apple or, for that matter, Steve Jobs it’s nay on impossible to not respect Apple as a company or Jobs as its polo neck attired figurehead though, equally, it also has to be said that both Apple and Jobs are [...]

Sometimes, people have been known, especially at this time of year with extra daylight and accompanying heat in the Northern Hemisphere, to go to that mythical place of hazards and sweating known as “outdoors”. And if you happen to be one of these intrepid souls, you know how easy it [...]

The X-Prize is a pretty big deal in tech circles–you might well have seen them try to get a commercial rocket flight off the ground previously–but now, they’re going where no prize has gone before. Okay, okay, so that was a little on the nose of me, but that’s exactly [...]

Dutch GPS manufacturer TomTom is in a bit of trouble after it’s come out that they sold traffic data they collected from their GPS units to police, so the police could set up speed trap cameras. Considering the fact that people generally seem to hate speeding tickets, and that our [...]

Talk about a vote of some confidence–seems that mobile payment app Square, (reportedly founded by Twitter’s own Jack Dorsey) which works on a variety of devices including iPhones and Android phones, got some venture capital going from a rather unlikely source: Visa.

You may already be aware that the space program has given us a lot of hardware that we use every day. Things like cordless tools, television satellite dishes, and even certain kinds of ball point pens came out of the space program. Well, this time, the military’s throwing in a [...]

Considering that we just had a big thing here a while back detailing the many various ereaders you could get your hands on, it becomes well worth your time to know that, should you be one of the folks buying an ereader, you will be in fine company indeed. Why? [...]

Solar power is a great idea, at least on paper–stick something outdoors, let it suck up daylight like no tomorrow and then turn said daylight into usable juice whilst watching your power meter spin in reverse and laughing at the power company who must now send you a check for [...]

For those of you who love having your mobile devices on hand–and if you’re here, you probably do–you’ll now have a way to keep them juiced up even when you’re not near a USB port or a power outlet. Fresh from Japan, it’s the Sanyo Eneloop Mobile Booster, and it’ll [...]