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The USBCell seems to be available for ordering now in the US.  For those of you who haven't seen this yet, it's basically a rechargeable AA battery, except it has a built in USB plug so that it can recharge via the USB ports on a computer. Capacity is only 1300 mAh, which is a little over half some of the highest capacity ...

I read Jeff Atwood's decision making process on buying a laptop (he picked an Asus W3J) with great fascination today.  I suppose one of the main reasons anyone becomes interested in something often has to do with seeing parallels and similarities in one's own experiences...and I've obviously gone through the notebook buying experience a few ...

Several years ago, at the height of the Internet craze, a company called NetPliance released a product called the I-Opener.The I-Opener was a computer based on a razor/razor blade model.  Sell the hardware (which was worth about 300 bucks) for 99 bucks and require people to use the I-Opener to subscribe to their internet service.  ...

My very first laptop was an IBM Thinkpad 500.  I won't go into the specs except to say it was OLD.  One spec I will mention is that it had a Trackpoint.  You know, one of those eraserhead things that barely stick out of the middle of the keyboard.  At the time, I thought it was pretty cool.  Never really got much use out ...

In my previous post on unwiring the house, I mentioned that one of the primary motivations came about because I wanted to give the Roomba clear berth to do its job.  I promised to write more about the Roomba, so here it comes. I'm all about cutting the drudgery and complexity out of my life, so owning a Roomba is in perfect keeping with that ...