Antec now makes it easier than ever to charge and power your notebook while on the go with the SNP90. This notebook power adapter’s slim, lightweight design offers the utmost portability, making it perfect for travel. And with seven detachable connectors, the SNP90 works with virtually any notebook on the market, including the latest models from Dell, Toshiba, Acer, HP, Sony and more. Lighten your load and charge your notebook with 90 watts of Continuous Power with one notebook power adapter: Antec’s SNP90.
This Energy Star certified charger includes 7 detachable connectorsfor compatibility with nearly every laptop on the market. This power adapter has a minimum high-efficiency rating of 87% at full load, saving you money and energy. It is available at Amazon.com and other fine electronics retailers.
Yogen Universal Mobile-device Charger will charge your mobile device with only a few minutes of pull/release time. They have versions for iPods, iPhones, MP3 players, Cameras, Navigation GPS and many more devices. It is really good for travel, hiking, camping, loss of power emergencies, etc. Great to keep one in your car’s glove box or emergency kit. Yogen Charger
Mobile phone users probably don’t know it, but a charger left plugged into a wall wastes electricity – enough to power 24,000 homes for a year, or brew three to four million cups of coffee each day. The new AT&T ZERO Charger, available in May, does not waste power when left plugged in, and also improves charging efficiency when powering a device.
The AT&T ZERO Charger will also make life easier for customers, with a ‘block and cable’ design for maximum interchangeability, allowing them to use the same charger for future handsets and will, over time, cut the number of chargers produced, thus reducing future landfill waste.
The charger works by automatically sensing when a mobile phone is not plugged in to the charger thus cutting the power supply from the wall socket. The charger will be sold in packaging using 100% recycled paper as AT&T recently announced a transition to smaller and more eco-friendly packaging for the wireless device accessories sold in their stores. The change will eliminate more than 60 percent of the paper and more than 30 percent of the plastic previously used for their products. A big GREEN thumbs up for doing this!
The ZERO charger will be available starting in May at AT&T retail locations nationwide or at www.wireless.att.com. For more information on the ZERO charger, visit www.att.com/ZERO.
RCA Airnergy is a small USB device that harvests electrical power from Wi-Fi signals. Anytime the device is in the vicinity of one or more Wi-Fi sources, the Airnergy is charging, converting the wireless antenna signal into DC current that can power myriad small electronics. This idea isn’t novel, but this is the first time anyone has created a commercial product efficient enough to be useful. The Airnergy unit stores the charge in an internal lithium battery, so you don’t necessarily have to be in a hotspot to recharge, say, your phone. If you have Wi-Fi at home, the Airnergy will automatically charge itself anytime it comes in range of your wireless hub.
Minor Limitation
The Airnergy unit, expected to hit the store shelves some time later this year (~ $40) is expected to only have a USB connection, meaning it won’t sync with a lot of devices like your iPhone or iPod without using a connection converter. So this means you will have another piece of gear to take with you. We hope RCA realizes this short coming and takes an appropriate action. We would also like to see the USB port also accept power input so it can be charged from your laptop or PC.
More Innovation
RCA is also developing Wi-Fi energy harvesting batteries that should cost roughly the same as the OEM batteries in most electronic devices. This means your phone/iPod/Blackberry/etc. will be able to recharge itself wirelessly anytime you’re near a hotspot without any extra peripheral devices. As cities and carrier networks experiment add more Wi-Fi clouds that blanket entire cities, the day may not be too far away when our smartphones download our email, update our Twitter pages and recharge our batteries all from the same signal, all the time, using otherwise wasted energy!
Who thought we would see such innovative products from a an old time company like RCA, the inventors of the 7″ vinyl single well it turns out RCA is actually now a brand from electronics giant AudioVox… who knew!
