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Everything is in its right place. Every element has its own home. A special form fit dock for charging each piece of the Peg Puzzle Player.

The Peg Puzzle Player by Jongchul Kim is a modular stereo system which includes nine separate modules. The nine modules communicate through Bluetooth. Each of the nine pieces has their own custom spot on the docking station which charges the modules to full power. Isn’t organization nice every once in a while? Hit the jump for a few informational pics.

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Don’t you hate when you buy a brand-new gadget, take it out of the package, power that sucker on, only to discover that you have about 30 seconds of battery life to play with before the thing is tapped out. Apple, always thinking ahead, has submitted a patent which would allow their iPhone and iPod Touch gadgets to be charged while still in their packaging.

This “active packaging” would allow “power, data, or both power and data to one or more electronic media devices housed within the packaging.” Data too, huh? Does that mean a constant data feed to each device? That would keep all of their devices updated constantly.

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I pray for the day when wireless charging is available to the masses. Charging cables are ugly and a hassle to keep organized. But for now, they’re a mandatory product for us gearheads and gadget freaks. But do the cables really have to be so plain and ugly themselves? I mean, they can be a real eyesore, causing a damper of visual destruction in any room they infect. Is there a solution?

Not so much a cure as it is a distraction, Camouflaged Cables will take your mind off the ugliness of generic black wires and instead have you thinking, “Why the fuck are there vines in my house?” (more…)

Jonah over at MAKE points out that you can actually make your Arduino a lot greener. How? Use a Solio with an external USB cable to provide your favorite microcontroller with power. If you don’t know what a Solio is, it’s essentially a small solar powered gadget charger. While this isn’t exactly a breathtaking hack or anything like that, it’s a new way of using a Solio and an alternative way to power your Arduino come this Halloween!

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Now here is a very usefull product from Energizer that nearly every traveller can use. The Energizer Energi To Go allows anyone to take two AA batteries, place then in the Energi To Go, and charge their cellphones or other devices with those AAs. With the problems that are to be had with cellphone batteries dying at unexpected times or not having a spare on you at all times, the Energi To Go gives you as much time as you need, granted you have access to two AAs. Of course, each type of phone needs an adapter (ie. Motorola=Mini USB), and luckly Energizer has made the Energi To Go able to switch out adapters very quickly. Maybe you have two small mobile devices that don’t have the battery life, don’t worry your multi-million business call that popped up at the last minute won’t be cut short by dead batteries. The Energi To Go only takes about 30 seconds before your dead device will be ready for opperation again. With a price of $20, the Energi To Go is the perfect add-on to any traveller or avid gadget user. — Nik Gomez

Energizer Energi To Go Instant Cell Phone Charger [via SlashGear]