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Juice up your disposable cells with Battery Wizard - Sep 21, 2009

Crave We all know that battery chargers typically recharge nickel-cadmium and nickel-metal hydride cells, but the Battery Wizard claims it can top up disposables, too. Yes, this charger can recondition standard alkaline ... Read story »

Wii controller gets renewable power pack - Jul 24, 2008

Crave Here's a chance for you to chip in to the well-being of Gaia and go green. Sanyo and Nintendo have joined forces and introduced a new Eneloop Wii battery pack complete ... Read story »

Report: 9.6-inch Apple tablet expected in February - Sep 16, 2009

Crave All has been quiet on the Apple tablet rumor front since the company introduced its new iPod lineup a week ago, but now a new report reveals components information for the ... Read story »

Get longer uptimes with Windows 7 - Sep 2, 2009

Crave Ruston Panabaker, Microsoft's principal program manager of strategic silicon partnering, shows how later builds of Windows 7 were able to let the processor enter low-power states for longer periods of time, ... Read story »

AMD Tigris and Congo platforms promise better battery life - Sep 16, 2009

Crave AMD on Thursday announced its Tigris laptop platform, intended for mainstream applications and offering full 1080p, DirectX 10.1 support and offloading video encoding to the Radeon HD 4200 GPU. With new ... Read story »

Tokyo electric taxis to test battery-swapping service - Aug 27, 2009

Crave Better Place will test its battery-swapping service with electric cars used as taxis in Tokyo. A test at Better Place's automated battery-swapping station in Japan earlier this year. The project, ... Read story »

Zinc air battery aims to replace lithium eventually - Nov 6, 2009

Crave The components of ReVolt's current rechargeable battery technology include an air electrode, an interface below it in blue, and a zinc electrode. Startup ReVolt Technology is developing rechargeable zinc air ... Read story »

Samsung launches new laptops with impressive uptimes - Sep 4, 2009

Crave Samsung's X3 uses a six-cell battery to offer nine hours of battery life, or six hours when playing video. BERLIN, GERMANY--Most companies find one press conference sufficient at gadget shows, ... Read story »

Dell unveils rugged tablet PC - Oct 28, 2009

Crave Dell unveiled a 12.1-inch rugged convertible tablet PC, the Latitude XT2 XFR, the first multitouch tablet PC that can withstand ballistic shock, extreme temperatures, dust, sand and moisture. The Latitude XT2 ... Read story »

Tag Heuer Meridiist gets Lamborghini flavor - Nov 3, 2009

Crave If you like fast cars, you might get revved up by the Meridiist phone from luxury sports watch maker Tag Heuer. The company has teamed with Italian super sports car ... Read story »

Timbuk2's TPack carries your Netbook - Sep 24, 2009

Crave Netbooks are generally small enough to fit in most any bag you've got, but if you want something small to carry around your Netbook (and your Netbook only), Timbuk2's new ... Read story »

Top picks: Noise-cancelling in-ear headphones - Oct 28, 2009

Features Full-sized headphones with noise-cancellation features are great. But for those who want that feature in a smaller package, here're our top five picks. Read story »

Packard Bell debuts new laptops and PC - Sep 17, 2009

Crave Packard Bell has refreshed its line-up of desktops, laptops and netbooks with the announcement of the all-in-one oneTwo M and L, the EasyNote DT85 gigantor laptop and dot m/u netbook. Let's ... Read story »

Solar curtains to tap those rays - Oct 19, 2009

Crave More clever ideas to incorporate solar panels into your home, the Some Shine Solar Energy Storage System by designer Ming-Ching Hsueh hangs, literally, at the window. There's a lot of ... Read story »

A PlayStation 3 laptop mod - Oct 19, 2009

Crave The original PlayStation 3 was one huge machine and modding it into a laptop was probably unsuitable. But when the smaller PS3 Slim came about, Ben Heck, an amateur modder, ... Read story »

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