You have to love these guys - I have a powergorilla - with the extra solargorilla for a sunny day (!) - and i can't fault it. It keeps me watching movies for hours on a plane while powering my laptop, while recharging my iPhone.

So their next product is:

startmonkey
Dead car battery? We've got the power...

Introducing the startmonkey - the world's smallest "jump start" system for car batteries.

In 2009, the RAC were called out a whopping 177,916 times to jumpstart cars! A flat battery was the number 1 reason they were called out for breakdown assistance during last year.
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The mind boggles over the use of the Litter Kwitter - the cat toilet training system :

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From the release notes :

Arduino Software Release Notes

0018 - 2010.01.29

[core / libraries]

* Added tone() and noTone() functions for frequency generation.
* Added Serial.end() command.
* Added precision parameter for printing of floats / doubles.
* Incorporated latest version of Firmata.
* Fixed bug w/ disabling use of the RW pin in the LiquidCrystal library.
* No longer disabling interrupts in delayMicroseconds().
* Fixed bug w/ micros() returning incorrect values from within an interrupt.
* Fixed bug that broke use of analog inputs 8-15 on the Mega.

[environment]
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Out of sheer curiosity I decided to measure the temperature and humidity levels in the air being expelled from our tumbledryer.

So this little one was born :

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I's a Jeeduino mounted on top of a batterypack (with 3 * AA batteries) and a SHT11 sensor on a set of wires to allow me to insert it into the exhaust tube. In the end I decided to put the whole assembly inside the tube, where it wirelessly sends its measurements into the rest of the house automation system

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