ZipCharge: the Power Stick that ReCharges in 10 Minutes

Wire-free radio-makers Freeplay have come up with a brilliant device - a power stick that recharges in 10 minutes with enough power to fully charge a cell phone or iPod. Not a stapler, this is ZipCharge and its secret is a nano-phosphate lithium cell fed by an intelligent circuitry.

The portable power stick has a USB port with multiple adapters and it will work with 85% of cell phones, iPods and iPhones that are available on the market. Read more

New Lithium batteries: eight times more power

Besides never ending Starcraft tournaments, the Koreans are busy inventing new stuff. For example Professor Cho Jae-Phil and his team at Hanyang University in Korea have found a new way of replacing the graphite in lithium batteries with silicon particles (we don’t know how or what kind), and this new batteries are 90% Read more

Spy Tech: The Credit-Card Size Digital Recorder

I was always a fan of miniaturized tech things and this digital recorder it’s one of them. You can call me a spy, a tech freak or whatever you want, but there is nothing more satisfying than having your tech with you in mini-sizes. It’s the case of this mini digital recorder, a credit card size 1 Gb  digital recorder to be more precise, capable of 69 hours of high quality audio. Now, I don’t know if the hour capacity is a joke or just a coincidence, but it’s pretty impressive for its size. Read more

The solar plane: endless flying and utility

QinetiQ, the UK’s defense and research company, launched their latest solar driven airplane, named Zephyr-6. The 30kg plane flew without any stop, 3 days, more exactly, 82 hours and 37 minutes, controlled remotely from the ground. Chris Kelleher, from QinetiQ, stated:

“The principal advantage is persistence - that you would be there all the time,” he told BBC News. “A satellite goes over the same part of the Earth twice a day - and one of those is at night - so it’s only really getting a snapshot of activity. Zephyr would be watching all day.” Read more

Chevrolet Volt - a future success for GM

Chevrolet Volt will sale , no doubt about it. In a recent bid to show the demand for the upcoming all-electric Chevrolet Volt, the  details of an unofficial waiting list for the vehicle with over 33,000 prospective buyers was released. The list shows the highest number of potential Volt buyers in California, Texas, Florida and Michigan and also it includes potential buyers from 46 countries outside the United States. Read more