This is the second Wiimote charging station we’ve seen in a week’s time. First Sanyo’s Eneloop, now this 4x charging station from Penguin United hits the scene.
This one has Li-ion batteries that promise to give you 13 full hours of playtime from each Wiimote. And it juices them up in just 4 hours, with LEDs to show you charging levels. They’ll cost you $44.99 and insure that you always have a Wiimote ready.
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Written by Conner Flynn on July 30th, 2008 with no comments.
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It’s a beautiful summer day. You want nothing more then to play your Wii and enjoy the outdoors. But you can’t do both. Or can you? Now you can, thanks to this solar powered Wii station.
Whether it’s some exercise with Wii fit or a kick-ass round of Mario Kart, you’ll be having fun in the sun. It’s basically little more then a wooden case that houses the Wii, a high definition display, a solar power panel, and a battery, so I’m sure it’s entirely worth the $1,431 build cost.
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Written by Conner Flynn on July 2nd, 2008 with no comments.
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This is a concept for Singapore’s Metro Rail Line so that trains can pick people up without ever stopping. That sounds impossible, right?
The idea is that people who want to board the train get into a smaller car that piggybacks onto the moving train as it passes through the station. To get off, you get into the smaller upper car while on the train and it unhitches at the station. If what I just said was totally confusing to you, then you should watch this video clip to clarify. The clip is in Chinese (I think) but the graphics are self-explanatory and show how this concept would work.
Not only would this make overall train speed faster, since you don’t have to average in stopping times, but it would also be more energy efficient. Also, it’s super cool and futuristic.
You can read more about this concept, and its inventor Peng Yu-Lun, in this Taiwan Headlines article.
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Written by karen on June 17th, 2008 with no comments.
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For those who hate to get out of the car to fill up their gas tank, a new robot friend is only too glad to be of service and he may be in your future. Those who live in the Netherlands can take advantage of it right now. The Tankpitstop robotic arm cost it’s Dutch inventors $111,100, and it uses sensors and a car database to accurately open a car’s gas flap, unscrew the cap and fill the tank with gas.
Nico van Staveren, the inventor got the idea when he spotted a robot arm milking a cow on a farm. He figured if a robot arm could extract fluid from a cow, why could it not then put precious gas in a car. He hopes to see his robot arm in service at more gas stations around the Netherlands soon.
All of the bugs are not worked out just yet. It won’t work on gas tanks that need a key for access, for example and only the tested cars are guaranteed to escape scratches and dings.
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Written by Conner Flynn on February 6th, 2008 with no comments.
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The save clip concept measures how much electricity is used and displays it and shows users how much is used, saved, or wasted. If this releases to the public, you’ll save atleast a quarter of what you wouldn’t if you saved manually, but who knows.
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Written by Gizmo Girl on January 15th, 2008 with no comments.
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Don’t you hate when you get a shock from your car, tv, or even a person you come in contact with during your day? Well this is a result of electrons rubbing off you to the positive charge. Now you can eliminate these for good or atleast awhile with Static Electricity Eliminator by attaching it to your keyring or wherever and touch the rubber tip to a still object and the SEE will flash and you’ll know you’re static free! No need to use batteries considering that you’re the one providing the electricity. No more annoying and painful shocks, not even just to get your annoying co-worker or relative back. $10
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Written by Gizmo Girl on November 29th, 2007 with no comments.
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We’ve seen our fair share of diminutive power generators, but rather than worrying with vibrations or hyperventilating, Millennium Cell and Horizon Fuel Cell have teamed up to deliver an iteration that’s water-activated. The pair has been working together on this technology for some time now, and apparently, it’s readying a beta that will be demonstrated at next year’s CES. The portable power generator incorporates a “unique water-activated cartridge system,” which is designed to quietly provide clean energy to consumer products in emergencies and when far, far away from an electrical outlet. Reportedly, the device will provide an AC socket alongside two USB connectors, an operating time of over 16-hours, infinite shelf-storage life and 400-watts of instant juice by just adding H2O. Regrettably, we still have no idea what this thing actually looks like, but considering that CES is less than two months away, we’ll soon be seeing what this $400 gizmo can do up close and in person.
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Written by Darren Murph on November 20th, 2007 with no comments.
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Looking for power in hard to reach places? Perhaps M2E Power can lend a hand. The company — recently infused with a pile of money from venture capitalists — is in the business of creating power through the kinetic motion of everyday human and / or mechanical movement. The idea is that by simply walking or driving, energy can be produced that will power devices on-hand, obviating the use of outside sources — an idea that will be of particular use to soldiers on duty, as the technology could reduce their load by up to 30-pounds. The devices also contribute to efforts towards clean power and extended mobility on the consumer side, efforts your DS-playing kids will go bonkers for. For those down with the Faraday Principle (energy produced via motion of a magnet through a wire coil), you’ll be happy to know that someone is putting the concept to good use — for the rest of us, well, we’ll just be happy if we can get a few more minutes out of our mobile phones.
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
Written by Joshua Topolsky on November 16th, 2007 with no comments.
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