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Standardized inductive charging with the Qi standard is a beautiful thing, but previously Energizer’s only charging pad had room for not one but two devices. If your independently-minded smartphone just still isn’t ready for that kind of commitment the pink bunny has you covered with a new single-pad Inductive charger

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Energizer makes single-device Inductive charger for singles looking to wirelessly mingle

All things considered, $200 for a 14-inch, Display Link-powered monitor isn’t too shabby. Especially when it spits out a 1366×768 resolution and only requires a USB cable to function

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Toshiba’s 14-Inch USB Monitor Only Costs $200 [Gear]

People who are in the know have been waiting for Sword & Sworcery for many, many months. More

Last week we asked you to share your favorite frequent flyer program , then we rounded up the most popular programs to crown a favorite. Now we’re back with the results.

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Best Frequent Flyer Program: Southwest Rapid Rewards [Hive Five Followup]

The upcoming Tesla Model S has a big ‘ol slab of batteries that make up the floor of the thing, shown above, but Tesla CEO Elon Musk says that sort of technology just won’t do in the long run.

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Tesla CEO Musk says the days of batteries are numbered, ultracapacitors will power us into the future

I’m in the middle of putting together a PC right now, and I just can’t believe the amount of stress people seem to put on flashy, brightly-lit components.

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NZXT’s H2 Case Is The Strong, Silent Type

We suspect that some other laptop manufacturer will be coming out of the woodwork in around 4.98 seconds here to refute Gigabyte’s claim, but as of now, the 15.6-inch P2532 above is the planet’s thinnest laptop with a second-generation ( Sandy Bridge ) Core i7 CPU.

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Gigabyte’s 15.6-inch P2532: world’s thinnest second-gen Core i7 laptop (video)

HTC’s HD7 was certainly one of the most handsome devices to be launched back at Windows Phone 7’s retail introduction late last year — and really, when you take the HD2’s heritage as your starting point, it’s hard to go wrong. Of course, in the last year and a half, mobile display technology has advanced by leaps and bounds — and the original HD7 was using nothing more than a standard, old-school TFT LCD with less-than-perfect contrast and viewing angle specs. Well, that’s where the HD7S comes into play: the “S” in the name presumably stands for Super LCD , the newer type of display that HTC’s been using on recent 4.3-inch models like the Thunderbolt

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HTC HD7S hands-on

The recent exoplanet spotting by NASA’s Kepler probe revealed there might be more than a million Earth-like planets in our galaxy. Now a new estimate says as many as 1 out of every 37 sun-like stars has an Earth-like world

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There might be two billion Earth-like planets just in our galaxy [Exoplanets]