Saturday, May 25, 2013
Next time you find yourself with a dead battery on your iPhone and no USB charger or electrical outlet in sight, try and find yourself some oranges. Aside from serving as a delicious distraction from your power woes, the citrus fruit actually has the ability to charge the battery of your iPhone. Just hope you’re [...]
Just hours before Steve Jobs pulled the metaphorical curtain up on Apple’s highly-anticipated iPad at an event in San Francisco last week, Microsoft founder Bill Gates was filmed shaking it in a serious way at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, UT.
There truly is nothing that Coca-Cola cannot do, including serving as the power source for a new type of Nokia cell phone. We’ve seen batteries being powered by urine, and now we have a Coke-powered battery giving a cell phone the juic..soda necessary to properly function. “Bio battery is an ecologically friendly energy generates electricity [...]
Do you have one of these in your first-aid kit? The source of this photo is a Flickr user by the name of Anticitizen. Upon finding that the battery cover of his Droid was loose(he’s not the first to have this issue), Anticitizen took it to a nearby Verizon store in search of a remedy. [...]
Looking for a unique, affordable, eco-friendly gift to give a certain someone for the holidays? While it may be better suited for a ‘white elephant’ gift exchange, the new Battery Eater can nonetheless serve a valuable purpose. As you get ready to recycle disposable batteries that have seemingly run out of power, you should be [...]
Nobody likes dealing with the consequences that come with having a battery run dry on you, especially when you’re launching a valuable rocket into orbit and relying on a battery-powered GPS for it’s recovery. Such is the case for the New Zealand aerospace company Rocket Lab, whose 2kg payload and flight computer from a rocket [...]
Lets forget for a second that the new eBoard Neo Motorized Skateboard allegedly accelerates from 0 to 14 mph in just four seconds (whether or not you’ve ever skateboarded, you can probably imagine that’s pretty fast when standing unstrapped upon a piece of wood). But to make the electronic skateboard controlled via a remote control [...]
Believe it or not, even with Halloween having just recently come and gone, people all around the world are already making their christmas shopping lists and checking them twice. Of all the infinite possibilities of potential christmas gifts that make their way to these lists, hamsters seem to be among the most common. They’re cute, [...]
This may seem like a ridiculous idea for a video, but I’d be willing to bet that almost everyone at some time or another has had issues getting the battery cover off when trying to switch batteries on a cell phone. This particular smartphone tip comes from the fine folks at crackberry.com. Those who own the [...]
Imagine busting this bad boy out at your next board meeting!
This article shows you how to clean corroded motorcycle battery terminals. The same technique can be used for all lead-acid [...]
In most cases, the Yuasa YTX14-BS motorcycle battery is not factory sealed with electrolyte. This means the customer is responsible [...]
