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If you’re one of the many mobile phone users who sometimes experience getting cut while in the middle of an important call, and a cellphone charger is not around, IOGEAR has offered up a remedy - the GearJuice Rescue Charger GMP3001W6. Like what it’s name suggest, the GearJuice Rescue Charger, well, will rescue you when your phone battery has lost its juice. The rescue charger will give you an additional 15 minutes of talk time. And since the GearJuice Rescue Charger is supposed to be an added accessory that you have to carry around, the good news is that you don’t have to worry of having an additional weight on your already fully-packed accessory bag. The rescue charger is ultra portable and lightweight so you can even put it in your pocket for easy access anywhere, anytime.

Now for a little bit of fun, this Rescue Charger can also charge up other devices. And to think that it only costs $11.99 with a one-year warranty, this nifty device is definitely a steal.

Via [FarEastGizmos]

IOGEAR’s latest portable media player is nothing but a portable storage device for all your media. The idea is, transfer your digital media from your PC or laptop and then connect the portable media player to your TV to view your videos and photos or listen to your music. Why would you want to listen to your music using a TV as an output device is something I don’t really understand.

Since you either have to connect the device into a PC to transfer your files or to your TV to view/listen to your digital files, IOGEAR’s has thrown in several cables into the box. I could actually see 4 different cables from the publicity photos. If that’s portable to IOGEAR, then I definitely do not find it portable to be carrying around several extra cables with my device. Not to mention a portable media player typically has a display, isn’t that what makes it portable?

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IOGEAR who has recently claimed that their products, especially the Wireless Laser Mouse, are germ-free, is being fined by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The $208,000 fine is for the computer peripheral company’s unverified claims that pathogens and bacteria are eliminated by their products.

Associate Director of EPA’s Communities and Economics Division Katherine Taylor said:

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When it comes to catching cold and flu, you might start wondering if that innocent-looking computer mouse on the desk is actually a petri dish with buttons – especially if it is connected to a public computer at a school or library. At least one mouse is fighting back: the Germ Free Wireless Laser Mouse from Iogear has a special coating that its maker says will neutralize 99% of the microbes on its surface.

The outer shell of the mouse is coated with tiny particles of titanium oxide and silver, and it uses a chemical reaction to battle bacteria and viruses. The titanium oxide attracts oxygen and water molecules, and when those are combined with light and the titanium oxide’s electrons, they give off free oxygen ion bases.

Iogear says these ions reduce or eliminate germs – and also create more carbon, oxygen and water particles to start the process all over again, making the mouse self-cleaning. 

Read [Iogear]