Author: Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine

So you’ve finally got your new iPhone. You stroke its sleek shiny lines and imagine it purrs seductively at you. Then the battery goes dead. The Solar Surge is designed to get you out of the bind. It’s a lightweight slip-on solar panel that cleverly charges your iPhone 3G or 3GS and iPod Touch whenever there is enough sunlight available, making the hassle of charging on the go, well, no hassle at all really…

Tags: Apple,
iPhone,
iPhone 3G,
iPod,
iPod touch,
Solar

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“Two-in-one” products generally mean there’s a compromise. A desktop replacement laptop is great until you’ve lugged its weighty frame through five airports in two weeks, a road-trail motorcycle is fine until you hit a really snarly stretch of dirt, and a keyboard that becomes a mouse when you turn it upside down, well, lets not even go there. So when Toyota introduced its new Prado Landcruiser mid-size 4WD as a “best of both worlds” solution for both the highway and the rough stuff I was a little skeptical. But after taking on all types of terrain – including, open roads, tight forest trails and a formidable purpose built 4×4 track – I may just have been convinced otherwise. The vehicle’s versatile performance owes particular thanks to a sophisticated new suspension system and electronics suite, and although there’s no point pretending that it can be a sports coupe one minute and a monster truck the next, as a two-in-one auto solution the fourth-gen Prado comes very, very close…

Tags: 4WD,
Australia,
Luxury,
Toyota

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