In today’s iGRIND, we have a few cool items to start your weekend off right, especially if you plan on traveling. We have a case for your iPhone 4 that doubles as a charger, a preview of a house phone made from paper, a machine that will help you successfully avoid being groped by TSA agents.
Take a look and enjoy!
What: Elite Battery Case
Made By: Phonesuit
What It Does: iPhone4 Case that charges your phone.
Price: $80
Extra batteries for cell phones are large and too bulky to use your phone comfortably. The Elite Battery Case, however, has solved this problem with an iPhone 4 case that simultaneously charges your phone with an 2100mah lithium-ion polymer battery in less than two hours. The case is about the size of many of the normal iPhone cases on the market and is definitely a great accessory for any person who is constantly on the move.
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The additional colors of the Elite Battery Case.
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What: Origami Phone
Made By: Weii Design
What It Does: Normal functions of a land-line telephone
The folks over at Weii Designs have applied the smaller is simple concept to your house phone, that ancient device that kept you strapped at home base. We assume this phone would really come in handy when you are moving, although it may make your telephone a bit harder to find afterward, given it’s made of foldable paper. Either way, the telephone has not had updates for decades, so it is cool to finally see something a bit different, even if it’s just a concept for now.
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More Pics of the folded Origami phone.
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What: Screening “Puffer” Machine
Made By: TSA
What It Does: Analyze particles from air blown around you.
Normally why you go to the airport you have to empty your bag, your pockets and get patted down by a TSA agent. Many people have complained about the “pat downs”, that they’ve been a little too personal and too often. Naturally, TSA came up with a way of doing the same thing with a machine instead of an intimidating TSA agent. The Federal agency new approach to safety?
An explosives trace-detection portal—more commonly known as a “puffer machine.” Here’s how it works: people who walk through the machine are blasted with multiple puffs of air to dislodge particles trapped on hair, the body, clothing and shoes, which are collected and analyzed by the machine. A scanner of sorts is then used to detect trace amounts of explosives and drugs. Normally it’s used as a secondary device in addition to the standard pat downs and backscatter x-rays. You can see the machine in use at the Denver airport after the jump.
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