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With the holiday season fast approaching and the pandemic over, international travel is back on the agenda once again. However, those long flights across the world's oceans will inevitably have your phone, tablet, laptop or Nintendo Switch running low on power well before the wheels touch the tarmac once again. And if you have children on the journey with you,
Battery packs are ten-a-penny on crowdfunding websites but this one from Chargeasap caught my eye. It's a total beast of battery pack, packing in a beefy 20 000 mAh of charge and delivering power to four devices simultaneously at a total rate of up to 150 W. The Australian team behind Flash are using advanced batteries developed by Tesla, which
Charging hubs seem to be a dime a dozen these days – ok, they cost a bit more than that, but you get the point. That being said there’s also some great innovation going on these days. There now hubs with multiple ports to allow to charge things from one outlet. Today we’re looking at the Charge Hub X3 from
This is a salutary warning to all geeks out there....even with all the year's of experience, it's still possible to make a rookie mistake and forget that all microUSB cables are not the same. Last week at work, I needed to present an Android tablet screen via a data projector. The tablet only had a microUSB port, so connecting up
In the past couple of weeks I've received three notifications from haveibeenpwnd informing me that a couple of organisations didn't do a good enough job keeping my info secure. While it's always going to be a good idea to change your login and password, any sites that use 2FA significantly reduce the value of stolen credentials (as long as you've
USB chargers are two-a-penny these days but often they are cheap knock-offs with poor quality transformers that either pose a fire hazard or fail to deliver the required current to quickly recharge a smartphone or tablet. For not much more money, iClever offers a CE-marked UK spec wall charger with two USB A ports, delivering up to 2.4A from each.
I have a Compaq desktop PC that’s a few years old that is handy for tasks such as doing taxes or writing articles with. Unfortunately, it came with Windows Vista. More than a year ago I installed an inexpensive 128 gigabyte SSD in it. The SSD sped things up dramatically to the point where Vista was actually usable. To be
It's a real first world problem - finding enough USB charging points to keep your gadgets powered up, especially for families with multiple phones and tablets. Fortunately there's a solution in Choetech's 6-port USB-A desktop charger which combines two QC 3 ports and four smart ports that will deliver up to 2.4 A for charging thirsty smart phones and tablets. Let's
The physical USB type A interface connector seems to have been around forever and to be fair, it's had an impressive lifespan starting with USB 1.0 back in 1996. Since then, the communication standard has been updated several times and the connector is still very relevant with USB 3.1 which now sports transfer speeds of up to 10 Gb/s. USB
Generally USB car chargers fall into the dull but essential class of gadgets and with today's power-hungry smartphones, they're more essential than ever. The market's in a state of transition too, with new USB-C and various fast charging technologies vying for supremacy. On review here is Choetech's 33W USB-C Car Charger (TC0002), which is a little misleading as the charger
As USB-C becomes more prevalent, it's unsurprising to see non-OEM vendors start to produce power adaptors for this new standard. On review here are two Choetech USB-C power adaptors designed for the UK power sockets. No, I don't know how to pronounce Choetech and their marketing rep was non-committal too, so I will leave that as a linguistic exercise for
Scott Ertz interviews Rock Smeja, vice president of operations for ChargeHub. They discuss the ChargeHub, which is a round 7 port USB charging hub. You can charge up to 7 USB devices simultaneously while being connected to one power source, either AC house current or and included automotive 12-volt adapter. The ChargeHub is priced at $59.99 and is available at
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