Powermat and PoweKiss: Wireless Charging Firms Settle Differences

Transatlantic travelers took another step closer to ditching their phone chargers this week with two major wireless charging firms announcing they’ll use a common standard. The deal is between American firm Powermat and Finland-based PowerKiss, which are among the leading providers in North America and Europe respectively. Both firms use a form of inductive charging […]

“30-Second Cellphone Charge” Not Here Yet

A California teenager has attracted widespread media attention after creating a “supercapacitor” that could recharge a cellphone battery in under 30 seconds. But much of the coverage appears to have downplayed the word “could.” 18-year-old Esha Khare (pictured above left) won an Intel Young Scientist Award of $50,000 at the company’s International Science and Engineering Fair. […]


Government fires back in 3D printer gun dispute

The makers of the blueprints for the first 3D printer-produced gun hoped to spark a debate on the first and second amendments to the US Constitution. That’s just what they’ve got thanks to a government demand to take the designs offline. The group Defense Distributed recently attracted attention with the first firing of a gun […]

I Just Got An iPhone and I’m Never Going Back! [Editor Says: Yeah, Right…]

Editor’s note: Be sure to read my note at the end of the post. On Friday, cellular carrier T-Mobile released the widely anticipated iPhone 5 to their customers. Until this point, if you wanted to own an Apple phone and use it with T-Mobile, you would have to purchase it directly from Apple or a […]