Favorite survival toy I've found this weekend: Cellboost, a disposable cell phone charger that provides 60 minutes of talk time or 60 hours of standby. Should be handy to have when the power goes out. (I've already bought three, one for home, one for the office, one for my purse, er, shoulder bag.) There's also a version for the iPod.

Even cooler is the hand-cranked cell phone generator. Unfortunately, there isn't a version that fits my phone. Yet another reason why I shouldn't have sold my soul to Sprint.