
Philips just announced their upcoming Power2Charge and Power2Go chargers as part of their Power4Life line, a naming convention that’s a Little2Precious. In any case, the USB chargers, including the flagship SCM7880 (pictured), holds up to 60 hours of juice inside and then charges up your phone, MP3 player, or whatever else you have that needs charging. It’s got an LED indicator on the front that’ll let you know how much juice is left, and it has six connector tips to hook up to your various toys. It’s due to hit Europe this December, with no word on a Stateside release.
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There’s been a lot in the news lately about China’s penchant for putting cancer-causing lead paint on children’s toys that they then ship to the States. If you’re worried that the pacifier you’re about to stick into Nerd Jr’s mouth is hazardous, just grab one of these intimidating-looking X-MET3000TXR+ (now that’s a gadget name) from Oxford Instruments. It’ll scan for lead as well as arsenic, cadmium, mercury, chrome, nickel and other hazardous metals, ensuring that the only thing going in your kid’s mouth is good old-fashion American plastic.

Who needs new and slick when you can have old and wooden? The Shadow hard drive from Suissa is a beautifully-made wooden 750GB external hard drive that faintly resembles something your grandmother would store jewelery in. Compatible with any computer, the inappropriately-named Shadow has four USB 2.0 ports that are prominently visible on the front of the drive and is made out of sustainable, harvested maple. Read more… »

Remember those old Bluetooth laser keyboards from a few years back that projected a laser image on the desk that you could type on? Celluon’s releasing a new version of that old device, but this time it’s connected over USB instead of Bluetooth. Still compatible with Windows Mobiles, Palm OS, BlackBerry, Symbian and Windows 2000/XP/Vista though. Of course, you’re still typing onto a desk without any kind of “give,” which means painful fingers just like the old version.
Source: AVING via Gearlog