A new mobile power solution features modular portable power bank bricks that can be combined in a wide variety of different ways depending on how much power you require. Launched via Kickstarter the ...

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Your phone’s power brick is typically a relatively innocuous piece of tech, but recently, researchers at a Chinese security firm discovered a way to hack a fast charge power adapter so that when ...

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Boring old bricks might not seem like something that can really be made high-tech, but researchers keep proving us wrong. Now, a team has found a way to turn bricks into energy storage devices, using ...

In another twist on doing more with less, system designers are asking the half-brick dc/dc converter to stand in for the traditional three-quarter brick; quarter-bricks to replace the half and, most ...

Half-, quarter- and eighth-brick DC/DC converters, with twice the capability of their predecessors, are tracking bigger game. Quarter- and half-bricks are becoming the preferred power hub in more ...

All my life I’ve been fascinated by multi-use products. When I was just 11 years old, I saved up my pocket money to buy a penknife that had a folding spoon and a fork on it. Something about the idea ...