Hand held torchlights and lanterns are useful where you need to shine some light during an emergency, such as a power outage, but these are only as useful as the length of their battery life.

In a category all of its own, Japan’s Green House Co. Ltd. has come up with a lantern that runs solely on salt water. What’s even better, the device also doubles as a USB charger.

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Keyboards are essential in everyday computing, whether it’s for typing a URL, a blog post or an IM message. Although there are other methods of text input in computers today, I believe most will agree with me when I say that the keyboard is still the fastest way to input text into your computer.

When working though, our electronics should be always be kept far away from liquids, but with Logitech’s keyboard all your worries of spillage can be put to rest with their K310 washable keyboard.

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When one thinks of a high quality notebook or sketchbook, what comes to mind first would be the Moleskine brand. Digital notebooks have also become increasing popular over the years with the advent of tablets and smartphones.

Match the two together and you have the Evernote Smart Notebook by Moleskine and Evernote, with their online collocation and storage app that allows you to sync to different devices and browsers.

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Charging up devices is essential in our daily lives as our technology becomes increasingly smaller and portable allowing us to bring with us our trusted mobile phones, tablets, computers, cameras, you name it.

Intel and Integrated Device Technology (IDT) are working together to make our lives more convenient by making wireless charging technology available by next year.

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Printers have long since been used to create many a document, artwork and even self-made books. We’ve also seen amazing 3D printers that make model work a piece of cake.

Now here are some more innovative uses of printers that people have thought up of: Printing smells, chocolate photographs and using a bit of sunlight to print on fabric.

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