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All smartphones drain batteries like electricity is going out of fashion but many external battery are bulky, fiddly or both. Gosh!'s new Parallel battery for the iPhone 5 might be the first that's both sleek and convenient. The Parallel comes in two parts, the battery pack itself, and a matching iPhone case that makes connecting the phone to the battery
Last week I was at a trade show for electrical wholesalers and I came across these single and double power sockets with a USB charging point built-in. As soon as I saw them, I thought, "Those would be handy..." and then I saw the price...£62.74 for the single and £76.60 for the double socket and they're trade prices too (ex
The Idapt i1 Eco is the portable member of Idapt's family of universal chargers: by using the same interchangeable tips as the dual and triple versions, the usefulness of the system is extended from the home to the car and travel. If you aren't familiar with Idapt, their system offers a wide selection of charging tips that are snapped into
Veho probably isn't the first name that springs to mind when thinking about gadgets but they have a sizeable range from miniature video cameras to digital photo frames and Bluetooth headsets. In the UK, their products are sold in the main big boxes - PC World and Currys. On Veho's stand at Gadget Show Live, I played with a USB
Verbatim are best known for their data storage products and I can remember having piles of Verbatim floppy disks back in the day, as it were. Younger readers will know the company for blank DVDs, memory cards and USB memory sticks but Verbatim have recently launched an LED lighting business. Offering direct plug-in replacements, the goal is to encourage consumers
The need to charge today's mobile gadgets on an almost daily basis is one of the downsides of faster processors and bigger screens. Although companies like Palm have tried to introduce inductive charging, most gadgets need to be simply plugged in. This leads to the proliferation of wall chargers and a mess of cables. IDAPT's solutions bring order to the
The great thing about CES is that every now and then an unknown shows off something cool. I'd never heard of Fulton Innovation but they have smart products based around wireless power transmission. Todd learns more about eCoupled from Dave Baarman. Fulton Innovation have developed an inductive coupling solution that scales from simply making a magazine cover light up as