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The Duracell PowerSource Mini is the second generation of a lithium-ion battery pack. It uses a mini USB pivot and can charge two devices at the same time.

Performace: an extra hour of Backberry talk time and an extra 24 hours on an iPod Nano.
The PowerSource mini is charged with an AC adapter.

Check out the Duracell PowerSource Mini at Newegg.com

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Home servers aren’t in many homes right now. But that’s about to change. More and more of us want/need to be living living in the terabyte world.

Digital media is moving off desk tops, note books and their external drives onto servers which work as a hub for entertainment content.

Why isn’t the external drive doing the job of the central hub?

When hard drives crash, and they’re more likely to crash on desktops than on servers. Syncing is also often tough.

And storage. Our appetites are growing. By 2010, the average user will have two terabytes of content. Video fuels our thirst.

Look for a growing number of home server options to be rolling out. And look for our interest in hooking up a central hub to really take off when devices such as LCDs, audio systems, and set-top boxes bake in server-like functionality.

But things are happening already.

Microsoft launched Windows Home Server Software seven months ago.

Hewlett-Packard is looking for early adopters to use its Media-Smart servers.

The European household seems to be gravitating toward servers more quickly than the American household. Fujitsu Siemens and La Cie are leading the way.

Seagate’s Mirra and Apple’s Time Capsule are available in the U.S.

The Sony HES-V1000 offers 500 GB of storage with 200-disc Blu-ray DVD changer; it is compatible with PlayStation3 and Sony TVs with the XrossMediaBar. This is an onscreen menu that offers access to content from home networked devices.

On the smaller side of home servers, Harman Kardon’s DMC 100 Digital Media Center delivers 250 GB of storage and handles four streams of music.

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Fold this BBQ up and it’s not much bigger than a laptop. Open it up and throw on a steak.

Pour in the charcoal, fire it up and you’re in business.

Depending on how our dollar is behaving, about $38.00 from the GadgetShop.

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Sleeping troubles on the road are as common as flight delays. There’s not much you can do about the airlines.

But you can fire up a little tranquility when the lights in your roof are turned off with the battery-powered Sound Oasis.

The loops of the sound effects are too short for our liking. But the choices are good: north woods, spring rain… and the audio quality is good.

An alarm clock is included to do the other job… getting you up after a good night’s sleep.

The Sound Oasis Travel Therapy System retails for $89.95.

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Yes… the MyVu video glasses look rather bizarre. But what you’re looking at when you plug these into your iPod looks pretty good.

Watching video with MyVu video glasses isn’t exactly a brave new world experience. The MyVu doesn’t completely wrap around you so the distractions of the outside world seep in.

Gamers… nothing special.

But the MyVu goggles deliver a decent, if not stunning resolution…. At least 320×240.
A bit pricey at $270.

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