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Do you find yourself out in the woods with a low mobile battery? No cord, no power, and a giant need to make or take a call? What do you do? MakeZine has a pretty sweet tutorial video on how to make some power to juice up your cell phone via a handcrank flashlight.

Simple Steps involved:

• Take apart handcrank flashlight.
• Solder in a 12 volt car adapter for the phone.

If you find yourself with power on your cell frequently, this could be something thats extremely simple for you to make up.

Or you can always get the Viatek Dynamo 3 LED Flashlight with a cell phone charging outlet for roughly the same price as the typical hand cranking flashlight.
[via Gizmodo]

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There was a big rush to get Wifi onto trains a while ago, and now apparently it has slowed down a considerable amount. Florida’s Tri-Rail system is not going to be speaking with potential vendors for internet access on trains, it will be building their own. Florida’s Regional Transportation Authority has touched base with Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade to create a large scale mass Wifi network across the counties. The UK, Sweden, and Netherlands are leaders in the train Wifi market.

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Being able to customize little pieces of our electronic devices is all about the mobile pimping lifestyle. Blakberry Forums has a tutorial on how to change up boring white trackballs on Blackberry’s new Pearl device to brilliant glowing multi-color balls. The tutorial goes over how to open and disassemble all parts of the device and where to color the innards.

[via Gizmodo]

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Hands feeling a little cold? How about warming them up a little with a USB mouse? Oh ya, this is the best solution out there, besides wearing gloves, for keeping your digits warm while banging away at your keys. There is a heat switch that can be turned on and off as needed. The USB Warmer Mouse comes in red, white, black, and yellow, and retails for $23 US.

[via TechFresh]

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Do you want to spice up your iPod a little bit? After all, its always attached at your hip, and a little bling can go a long way. Griffin has just let out the details on “reflect”, chrome seamless mirrored cases for iPods. Then the iPod is off, the face display is hidden. But when turned on, shines nicely through the chrome encasement.

The cases are available in sizes for 2nd generation iPod nano and iPod video (with 2 separate backs for the 30GB and 60/80GB sizes). Prices start at $24.99 US.

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Pulling down the most important up to date [or up to the second] is extremely important for certain individuals. Staying at the top of their game, and a top of the current news feeds helps them gain an extreme competitive advantage.

For some time now, I have been searching out the best possible way to manage RSS feeds on mobile devices so I can stay in tune with industry related news the second it drops. Netvibes has recently launched a new mobile service. This new service allows users pull in Netvibes feeds to their mobile devices. Netvibes is a custom Ajax start page that allows you to pull in all important RSS feeds and modules displaying them in one easy to read location in a browser window.

Start the service rolling by logging into your Netvibes account and starting a new “Mobile” tab, dropping in your desired RSS feeds and modules that you would like access to from your mobile device. Choose for notes, to dos, gmail, calendars, weather, and many different types of image and web searches. From your mobile device access http://m.netvibes.com from a browser, this will display your feeds in a plain text format all in one location. No more extensive data usage, or time wasted from visiting multiple locations. The information is displayed in a clean text format that is easy to read, and refresh on your mobile. The service worked so excellent on my Blackberry device when I tested it, that I will continue to use it to receive important information while on the go.

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Attention hospital workers, do you know where your assets are? In the hustle and bustle, and extreme busyness that hospitals can see, its no wonder that there is a company implementing an asset-tracking system. The London Clinic will be using a system that will allow its staff to quickly locate the valuable equipment that is scattered about the hospitals many floors. The system will use the buildings existing WiFi network paired together with a wireless chip technology. It will triangulate a signal between wireless chips and WiFi access points scattered around the building, and locate an item within 10 feet. How’s that for making your job a bit easier? Now if only they can get this up and running to track lost keys, wallets, and lost documents on my computer!

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