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12.05.08

Have Soldering Iron, Now Travel

By Dave Prochnow Posted 10.08.2007 at 3:03 pm 0 Comments

If youve been looking for a portable soldering iron, modPRO has a battery-operated model that might be able to handle your remote soldering chores. Although this Chinese product could be difficult to locate, its 3-AA battery power source could warm you up to the task of finding a dealer. The suggested retail price is approximately $50 USD.

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Charge 2 Go

Juice your cell with a single AA battery

Posted 11.08.2005 at 3:00 am 0 Comments

This multiuse portable cellphone charger is a third the size of conventional chargers and far more convenient. Simply put any ol' AA battery into the aluminum canister, plug in your cellphone using the appropriate adapter (available for all phones except Sanyo and Audiovox), and a chip inside the device amps the battery's 1.5 volts to a voltage powerful enough to charge and run the phone. A two-hour charge provides up to three hours of talk time. $25

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"First Yan Xiao tore strips of bamboo from the stalk and arranged them in such a way as to provide the most strength. He then coated the strips with glue and compressed them in a self-built hydraulic press into beams, 33 feet long and up to three feet wide, each capable of supporting eight tons."
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"Adobe AIR's programming tools let developers create snazzy desktop applications that connect to the Web."

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