April marks the start of the grass mowing season, and I'm fed up with those powercords that have to drape over one's shoulder and back to a nearby socket. So these Wireless Extension Cords are a brilliant idea - just plug the base station into a standard wall outlet, and plug whatever you need into the satellite unit. The unit uses microwaves in the 7.2GHz range (well away from wireless networks and bluetooth frequencies).
Now, all you need to do is adjust the antennae on the two units so they are aimed at each other, but the amazing thing is they are 'wide angle' so theres no need to be particulalry accurate. Turn everything on and you have the power! The distance the WEC units can broadcast differs from situation to situation (due to interference of such things as walls, power lines, and nearby microwave ovens), but I'm told they can beam power over 300 feet! There is a small warning about sustained use and not putting sensitive electrical equipment, food, liquids, flammable substances, magnets, or living things in between the base and satellite units for long periods, buy hey - who wants to trip over power cords! My thanks to thinkgeek for this.
On a similar topic, around innovation, I recently acquired one of the screened sphorbs that thinkgeek have been advertising. Its fantastic and although at first I thought it might have been a foolish purchase, now I can't imagine how I'd go back to not using it. There's a great demo of it across on thinkgeek. I suspect you'll end up wanting one.
And finally, I introduced some customisation to this blog a couple of weeks ago with the selectable folders and so on, but not as sophisticated as The Register which has taken web customisation to an art form. Check it out!
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