Genesis Electronics, Inc., a developmental stage electronics company with a patented process for charging a battery from solar energy and efficiently transferring that energy to the battery of an electronic device, recently announced that the company will create an international network of authorized, licensed distributors to facilitate sales of its products.

Holding a U.S. patent for a solar-powered charging technology, Genesis is completing development of a solar-powered charger for cell phones under the name SunBlazer™ and expects to bring the product to market within the next several months. The company’s solar-power charging technology can be used to greatly increase the reliability of hand-held and portable electronic devices.

Ed Dillon, Genesis Electronics’ chief executive officer, recently commented, “Today’s cell phones are loaded with features that can rapidly drain the phone’s battery, so Genesis’ solar-powered solution is both practical and timely. All preliminary demand indicators clearly showed the need for licensing major distributors

AuthenTec [AUTH: 1.78, 0.00 (0.00%)], the world’s leading provider of fingerprint sensors and solutions to the PC, Wireless and Access Control markets, released their Q1/09 earnings and held their analyst conference call May 12th after the market closed.

As I wrote on my Twitter feed, 3 of the companies in the portfolio reported last week, and all things considered, AuthenTec was not the highest on my priority list by any means.

Sure, I guess that speaks to the status of the company, and I’m seriously considering shuttering the entire position as I’ll discuss below, but for now, it looks like with AuthenTec’s huge cash position (the stock currently trades at less than the $2.31 per share in cash on hand), as well as their intellectual property (IP) and client

Since the company was founded in 2002, GTX Corp has been committed to creating personal location solutions to keep all types of people safer. With our society becoming much more mobile than it was 25 years ago, GTX has dedicated its efforts to developing miniaturized GPS tracking devices into a variety of consumer products.

One of the first products that GTX has developed is the Xplorer, an athletic shoe that incorporates a small GPX tracking device into the sole of the shoe along with a number of other patent-pending ideas. As with any other electronic device, the Xplorer needs a power source. To meet this need, GTX has created a proprietary battery that can run several days before a recharge is necessary.

According to Patrick Bertagna, President and CEO of GTX, “The Xplorer smart GPS tracking shoe is the first of wearable electronics

Most investors want to abandon everything and run for cover thanks to all the bad news, stock collapses and recession. Can it get any worse? Sandy Franks of the Taipan Publishing Group says, “no.” So what do you do with your money now?

Here she recommends to buy gold, invest in stocks with discrimination and keep your money liquid in treasuries.

This from Sandy:

The stock market did not react well to the government’s $787 billion economic stimulus plan.

On Feb. 23, 2009, the Dow tumbled to 7,114 – hitting an eleven-year low. The other major indices, including the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq, fell as well.

The latest economic numbers aren’t any better. The price of single-family homes plunged 18% and the Consumer Confidence Index, which was down slightly in January, plummeted more than 12 points in February to 25.

The combination of bad economic news and a tanking

mPhase Technologies Incorporated has made the most significant breakthrough in battery technology in more than 100 years. The company’s new AlwaysReady Smart NanoBattery is helping batteries keep pace with the highly evolved electronics they are used to power. The technology inherent in this new NanoBattery provides the manufacturer the ability to produce it on such a miniaturized level it can be placed on a microchip.

The new NanoBattery uses a chemical reaction similar to traditional batteries, but it utilizes a unique mechanism to combine the chemicals and control the characteristics of the reaction. mPhase refers to the controlled reaction as “Power on Command”, because it allows the user to locally or remotely activate and deactivate the battery, freely switching between an active and inactive state. Activation is initiated on the user’s command, causing the chemicals to mix, electrochemical reactions to occur, and power to be supplied to an

In a previous post I commented that “when you think “cheap”, you think Walmart (WMT), when you think “value”, you think Target (TGT)” Walmart seems to be taking an interesting and to date, very effective path to altering that image, electronics.