Having gadgets is great but charging them can be a pain. Where is the Apple cable? Where can I hook it up … sigh I forget to charge my phone again…

Power sent straight to your gadgets without needing to plug them in? This is witchcraft of the highest order – electricity needs a cable, surely? Not any more it doesn’t. The WildCharge is an incredible gadget that’s about to break the shackles of normal, everyday charging. Every time you lay your mobile, BlackBerry or iPod on the WildCharge mat, it’ll transfer all the juice you need directly to the device without you having to do a thing.

The WildCharge mat is a flat, thin surface with conductive bars running across it that are fed from a power cable. The WildCharge comes with adapters that you can place on your mobile, BlackBerry or iPod that bridge the gap between your battery and the mat. When you look, the adapters have four tiny metal contacts that create a circuit when they’re placed on the mat – thanks to their smart positioning, you can place the device anywhere and in any orientation on the mat and you’ll still be charging up! It’s as simple as dropping a brick – though nowhere near as dangerous…

Available in the UK and in the US

Built by Tilted Twister, this creation is the world’s first sudoku puzzle-solving LEGO robot. Basically, “it scans the sudoku puzzle using a light sensor, calculates the solution to the puzzle and then writes the digits.”

By using a Google Streetview-like camera, a system with six lenses, not as a photo but as a video camera, an all-encompassing picture is captured. […]
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Ever wondered what your dog is saying when he barks? A Japanese toy company has invented a device it claims will be able to detect your pooch’s emotion from its bark and then translate this into human words.

Called Bowlingual Voice, the talking gadget can detect six senses: sadness, joy, alertness to danger, neediness, happiness and frustration. It also has a recorded repertoire of spoken phrases such as ‘play with me’, ‘leave me alone,’ and ‘I feel sad’.

The device, which was unveiled at the International Tokyo Toy Show 2009, is said to work best on adult dogs. The £129 gadget, produced by Takara Tomy, has a microphone that is placed around the dog’s neck and a hand-held unit-operating device for pet owners to carry.

When the dog barks, the microphone records the sound and transmits the data to the owner’s wireless hand-held device, which then ‘translates’ it. A speech synthesizer reads out the dog’s intentions, which also appears on the screen of the gadget.

An answering machine function can also record your pet’s expressions of desire when owners are absent. The model was first created seven years ago by Dr Matsumi Suzuki and sold more than 300,000 units, but the latest version will be the first to include sound.

Available at the shops in Japan, there are no plans to launch an English version, so dog lovers in the UK will need to rely on body language instead.

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At first glance, it may look like any other miniature-sized car, but the AIRPod is far from normal. With seating for 4, this vehicle is powered by compressed air and can travel up to 140-miles on a single charge — 46-gallon tank can be charged full in 8-hours via A/C outlet / 2-hours at an air station. It’s available now, priced from just $7,500. Continue reading for a video.