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The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product.
Name of Product: BattEQ Battery Equalizers
Manufacturer: SmartSpark Energy Systems Inc., of Champaign, Ill.

These new Pleomax USB drives are Samsung quality and USA made. There is no one to blame but yourself if you don’t have your personal digital life backed up securely on removable, convenient flash memory. The USB on a stick approach is hard to beat for convenience and portability.

These MADE IN THE USA, sleekly designed, and durable flash drives hold up to 16 GB of secured files and applications, and they are about the size of your thumb (2.5″ long by 3/4″). They can be plugged directly into any USB port drives and are certified USB 2.0 and 1.1 compatible. They are small enough to allow insertion of multiple drives into closely ganged USB ports without the need for cables.

PowerGenix has improved already efficient NiZn technology by increasing cycle-life, lowering cost, reducing size and weight by 30% and improving low temperature discharge behavior. The small size and low internal resistance of PowerGenix NiZn 1.6 Volt Rechargeable AA Batteries enables the delivery of significantly more power during periods of peak demand than a nickel-cadmium (NiCd) or nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) battery of comparable size.

NiZn, with its 30% increases in capacity and power over existing batteries of similar size, is ideally suited for high-power, low-drain applications, such as HEVs.

Move over Li-ion , Zinc is about to get all up in your area. Energizer has already announced the Zinc Air Prismatic , and now DepotEco will be carrying the new PowerGenix Nickel-Zinc (NiZn) AA cells.

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The average American uses between 300 and 700 plastic bags per year. If everyone in the United States tied their annual consumption of plastic bags together in a giant chain, the chain would reach around the earth 760 times!. rePETe Original Reusable Shopping Bag at DepotEco.com In time for Earth Day

“If a bit of foil is all it takes to reduce my dependence on disposable batteries then that’s fine! I can reuse the same bit of foil over and over and over and over and…….”

Pet Waste Cleanup & Lawn Care
by Drs. Foster & Smith Educational Staff
Lawn Care Solutions

Keeping your lawn free of pet waste and looking its best can be a challenge for pet owners. Let’s face it, dog waste cleanup is not a task we look forward to. And the 4″ diameter brown polka dots in our yard [...]

At 140 lumens/watt, these pill-sized plasma light bulbs by Luxim are a pretty awesome contender for “light of the future”.