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The Zipcharge Quick Charger is another device that allows you to charge up your mobile phone, PDA or MP3 player while on the move.

The device is available over at Firebox where they claim the charger can charge a phone up to four times quicker than a regular lithium-ion charger. Just 15 minutes of charging time is capable of giving your iPod another 20 hours of music playback and a standard mobile phone about 10 hours of talk time. Obviously those numbers won’t match up for the iPhone and other large screen smartphone devices, but for a smaller phone that requires a lot less battery juice to keep running it certainly will come in handy.
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KDDI and Okinawa cellular have collaborated to launch three new colorful clamshell handsets. Dubbed as the Lotta (Produced by Kyocera), these cell phones will be available in White, Green, and Yellow and each one is represented with an embedded number 3, 7 and 5, respectively. For your info, the name “Lotta” means “a lot of fun”. The handset boasts a large 2.8-inch LCD display, a 2MP camera with an LED flash, a microSD card slot for expanding memory and GPS.

ABI Research said Tuesday that Apple’s iPad highlights the “real start” of a tablet computer market that should grow more than tenfold to reach about 57 million devices sold annually by 2015.

“Apple?s iPad is not the first media tablet,” said ABI senior analyst Jeff Orr. “But it does help define this new device category.”

The main focus of a media tablet is entertainment, according to the US-based market-tracking firm.

ABI defined the tablets as having touchscreen controls, wireless Internet connectivity, screens from five inches to 11 inches (12.7 cms to 27.94 cms) in size, and video and gaming capabilities.

“A tablet will not replace a laptop, netbook or mobile phone, but will remain an additional premium or luxury product for wealthy industrialized markets for at least several years,” Orr said.

ABI predicted tablet computer makers will ship four million units this year.

Apple is expected to be a “fairly sizable player” in a tablet arena with traditional computer makers such as Lenovo and Hewlett-Packard as well as small firms such as Notion Ink.

The culture-changing California firm may have done all media tablet sellers “a favor” by raising the public profile of the devices with iPad hoopla, according to Orr.

Apple chief executive Steve Jobs hailed the iPad as a “revolutionary” device when he introduced it to the world on January 27 at an event in San Francisco.

Some technology analysts predict the iPad with its multimedia capabilities will be the best-selling electronics device in 2010.

Others question whether people will want to tote around what some called a notebook-sized iPhone without a phone.

Unveiling the iPad, Jobs admitted he was taking a gamble by trying to carve out an entirely new device category between the laptop computer and the smartphone.

Here come some tiny robots that were handmade using recycled and surplus electronic components of your computers, cellphones and other gadgets. Their eyes are made of two LEDs and they carry solar panels that collect sun juice to power them up and provide them with the walking capability at a speed of 1.5 inches per second in bright sunlight.

The tiny robots also work in room light including fluorescent. We’ve got a few interesting ones listed here, such as shown above, one that sings like a bird when it’s been fully juiced up in sunlight.

Buy online, $55, Solar Sound bot.

Nokia has today announced that they are recalling 14 million mobile phone chargers, the chargers were manufactured by one of Nokia’s third party suppliers China’s BYD Co Ltd.

Nokia have said that the charges could fall apart, which would expose the internals of the charger thus making them potentially dangerous.