Gadgets

Mobile battery packs are great inventions, especially nowadays with our tendency to carry around more and more kit that needs more and more power. With phones, tablets and even watches that need juice regularly having a little brick that you can use to charge them at any given moment can be both useful and liberating in equal measure.

The huge developments that we've witnessed in technology, and in particular within the consumer electronics industry, over the last decade has undoubtedly made a lot of our lives easier and more efficient. We can now carry around small handheld devices that contain pretty much everything we need at the tap of the screen. Phone calls, messages, emails and navigation are all just a few taps away. That progression is arguably for the greater good, but wouldn't it be even better if we had technological advancements that not only made our lives easier but also in some small part helped saved the planet? Let us introduce you to MIITO; the sustainable alternative to the electric kettle.

Modern technology is great when it's making our smartphones smaller and our tablets faster, but where it truly comes into its own is when it empowers people. The world of prosthetics is exactly the kind of area where technology can, and indeed does make true, life-changing leaps.

Mobile power banks and battery-padded cases are part and parcel of smartphone and tablet ownership for many, but while these products have become smaller and more power-efficient in recent times, one startup is touting a complete game-changer that safely boosts power using eco-friendly lighter gas. This completely alternative approach, which has more than doubled its initial half-million-dollar Kickstarter goal with four weeks of campaigning still to go, offers consumers a way out from lugging hefty power devices around, and with a three-second top-up of lighter gas able to muster 11 cycles of charge to an iPhone, this could be the development that the mobile market has long since craved.