Boost Your Notebook Battery Life with the PowerPad 130

Power: There's never enough, at least when you're a notebook-carrying road warrior. Electrovaya's PowerPad 130 is a flat, tablet-size portable power supply that promises to let your notebook run 3-4 times longer between charges. The 2-pound pad includes a fuel gauge and a pair of USB ports for charging smaller gadgets, like cell phones and iPods. It's compatible with most notebooks and can itself be charged to 85% of capacity in under 3 hours. At $299, it's not an impulse buy, but it could be just the ticket for folks who frequently fly coast-to-coast and never have enough juice to survive the trip.