Hack Your Kids Toys

Thu, 08 May 2008 19:56:00 GMT

My steps to make a children's toy better.

USBCell - The batteries of the future

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:19:41 GMT

OK, so they are not that futuristic, but it's ideas like this that make me drool. Most of use use batteries all the time for one thing or another. I know I go though countless batteries and while rechargeables are good for at home, when you are on the go, bringing the charger can just be a huge hassle. So someone thought about the power sources many of us take with us or have access to somewhere and USB came to mind, it is on every computer, modern game consoles, even some TV's have USB ports. So with the combination of a normal AA battery and USB a new era was born.

Enter the USBCell, this wonderful idea allows you to take the charger with you, because it is in the battery.

I ordered a set of 2 for use in my camera. Currently they are charging in my laptop, I have read that these do not get the same amount of charge compared with regular batteries, but I am going to put that to the test. I am going to take as many pictures as I can with these and then compare it with some regular batteries. Until I do that I am going to continue to this that these are totally geeky cool. I love them.

I will get back to you on how effective they are.

The first one

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:59:58 GMT

Here I am a blogging away. This is my first step into a larger world. I am not sure what I am going to focus on in this blog, but I am going to start by just putting up everything I can think of. From there I will maybe decide a direction to go with it, or perhaps not. We shall see.

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Hack Your Kids Toys

USBCell - The batteries of the future

The first one