Replace Your Own iPhone Battery For Less Than $8

Phone batteries have to be replaced every so often, since they give out much like any other piece of hardware. The problem is that with the iPhone, the battery casing is non-removable. This means in order to replace the battery on your iPhone, you have to send your device to Apple and have them do it for you.
Not only is this a real pain in the butt, having to wait to have them send your phone back intact is stressful. And don’t forget that Apple charges around $90 for a replacement battery. If you’re feeling a mixture of frugality and daring, you can attempt to replace the iPhone battery yourself, with this $7.29 Replacement Kit.
Even shipping is free with the iPhone Replacement Kit! The package comes with everything you need for replacing your iPhone’s battery from home, including a screwdriver, a case opener, and the iPhone compatible 3.7V 1400mAh Li-Polymer battery.
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Full Radiohead Back Catalog Now Available On iTunes

Here’s some great news for all of you “Paranoid Androids” out there who might or might not be afflicted with “The Bends”. It seems that Radiohead and Apple have finally reached an agreement on the band’s entire catalog. An agreement that has unleashed the entirety of the Radiohead album collection for purchase through the iTunes Music Store.
The release of the Radiohead catalog through iTunes is done in correlation with the release of the band’s new greatest hits compilation, The Best Of Radiohead, which was released today. Although hardcore fans are panning the new album as an injustice to Radiohead’s album-styled music, we’re waiting to see the albums fly up the charts.
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BTM-118 FM Radio Bluetooth Headset

The BTM-118 FM Radio Bluetooth Headset definitely goes one up on all other generic Bluetooth headsets as it does way more than just handle all your conversations so that you can make available both hands to attend to other matters at the immediate moment. It comes with an integrated FM radio, allowing you to tune in to your favorite FM station whenever you’re bored at the office and having run out of MP3s to listen to. In addition to auto-search, the BTM-118 can also store up to eight different stations for future convenience. Available in black or white colors, the BTM-118 FM Radio Bluetooth Headset retails for $53.
4-Port USB Hub with cell phone charger
Man, USB hubs these days seem to get more and more useful. Take this one for example – not only does it feature a quartet of high-speed USB 2.0 ports, it also doubles up as a cell phone charger. If you happen to use a compatible handset (Nokia, Samsung, and Sony Ericsson models only – sorry, Motorola!), all you need to do is hook it up to resume catching up on the latest news with your buddies. Once done, the USB cable and cell phone charging cable can be wrapped within the hub for that neat look. This device retails for $16.50.
Artificial Heart

This artificial heart you see here grosses me out, but count me in if it will be able to save lives. Originally invented by a human who is now too feeble to even row a boat, the artificial heart can pride itself in being the first practical robot organ to be incorporated into a living Russian dog. Unfortunately for us humans, our body will most likely reject plastic organs since we aren’t Barbies to begin with. Thankfully the advances of science has since been able to make us survive much longer than we ought to, and I would love to see more technologically advanced medical discoveries in the near future, with the artificial heart paving the way.
Source: Boing Boing Gadgets
SanDisk intros new SSDs
SanDisk, a name synonymous with quality when it comes to flash memory, has outdone itself yet again with a new line of flash memory-based solid-state drives (SSDs) which were specially designed to cater for an emerging new category of portable consumer electronics known as Ultra Low-Cost PCs (ULCPC) or “netbooks” . Among the products that fall in such categories are the phenomenally successful Asus Eee PC and MSI’s Wind. The whole point to this new form of SSD is to provide an enhanced experience when surfing the Internet over a Wi-Fi connection. Dubbed the SanDisk pSSD (Parallel ATA solid state drive), this new technology does away with the need for a hard drive as it is able to provide more than enough space for both operating system and applications without missing a beat.
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The Powerfilm Solar Battery Charger

Many of us have wireless mouses and other random gadgets that require batteries and for most of us we have resorted to rechargeable batteries. Well if you’re going to charge them up every other day, you might as well do it the eco-friendly way. This way you seem environmentally concsious, even if you do spend your entire day on your computer, at least the batteries that keep your mouse running will be a bit more energy efficient. Also anyone who will be out camping or hiking this summer and has a flashlight or other small gadgets that need to keep going this solar charger can go anywhere with you.
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Xceive Corporation uses XC5000 in Pinnacle PCTV HD Stick
Xceive Corporation has just released news that their next generation of Pinnacle PCTV HD Stick and Pinnacle HD Pro Stick product families will feature the XC5000 chip inside for a higher degree of performance without burdening the consumer with a more expensive price tag. To find out more on how the XC5000 is able to offer such promise, head on after the jump.
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