I spent several years working as a PC repair technician, and can’t even count the number of issues people had that were attributed to their power supply. Most of the time what had happened was that they’d done some major upgrades to their hardware, and left their old puny PSU to power it all. These days if you’re running a high-end gaming rig, you need some major power, which is where this new NZXT Performance Power 800 comes in.
Philippe Starck may be best known for semi-minimalist furniture, tricky to read watches and a portfolio that could fill your entire home, wardrobe and garden, but the poor guy has recently been taking some time out to sob about how criminally materialistic we all are. His solution: a personal wind-turbine, called Democratic Ecology.
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No matter how slick the adaptor you plug into your wall, if the socket it's going into looks ugly then the Good Housekeeping people will never be around to photoshoot your home. Thankfully Bocci are on hand with an alternative to cracked plastic outlets or brass-finished surrounds. Their flush-fitting outlets appear to float in the plastered drywall; of course, the system behind making it look so effortless is never quite so simple.
Check out the demo video of exactly how the system works, after the cut
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Engineers Without Borders attended the recent Makers Fair, and brought their low-cost wind turbine along to demonstrate. Intended to provide power for LED lighting in off-grid locations, the vertical turbine uses simple plastic or canvas blades and steel tubes, using a cheap DC motor (reversed) to create electricity. The device can managed 10-15 watts , sufficient to charge a 12-volt battery, and the upright design makes it more sturdy in the face of poor weather conditions and strong winds.
Check out the video of the turbine after the cut
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The Mophie Juice Pack on its own weighs in at 3 ounces and measures at 2.4x4.75x.75 inches and latches on to your iPhone. Once connected you get 250 more hours of standby, 24 more hours of audio playback, 8 hours of additional talk time, and 7 hours of Video playback time, according to Mophie.
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The Energy Saver Bar is a lot like that gadget that Belkin came up with, but far less cool. Essentially you plug in all of your home theater equipment, preferably the kind that won’t suffer drastically from having its power completely cut, and then when you are done, you turn ever thing off, and then hit the button on this power strip and watch the energy savings go up.
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Splashpower, one of the many companies striving to bring us all wireless charging in our gadgets, has sadly had to end its run. It never even really produced an actual product, but they did do a lot of research and development which hopefully someone will pick up the pieces from.
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The BlueLounge Sanctuary is a product that is shaped/styled a lot like a Mac Mini, but its used to store your daily fare. Below the surface of this gadget there are integrated charging tips for charging up to 1500 mobile devices and then a USB port for the fifteen hundred and first one that isn’t covered.
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Ladies and gentleman, we have finally arrived. A manufacturer finally took notice of the increasing number of devices that charge via USB and has been kind enough to finally start integrating that technology into surge protectors/power strips.
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It’s a thousand watt power supply and its certified by NVIDIA for 3-Way SLI usage. It can also power multiple processors, several hard drives, and does it all at 50 degrees Celsius, tops.
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All in one devices seem to be prevalent today. Not to be outdone by gadget consolidation, Freeplay Energy has launched and all in one power source called the Freeplay Companion.
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In a world dominated by cell phones, computers and mp3 players it’s important to have a power source at hand no matter what. Sometimes a wall charger is just too inconvenient to carry around or wait around for and that’s where Powerstick wants to come in.
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