All the stories tagged with: battery
Galaxy Nexus gets an optional larger battery in Korea
11/29/2011, The Samsung Galaxy Nexus still hasn’t reared its head on this side of the world yet, but it looks like its Korean brethren have already started receiving matching accessories. According to reports online, folks who purchase the Samsung Galaxy Nexus [...]
Small holes actually increase battery strength
11/15/2011, Who would have thought that a slab of cheese with holes inside might actually be the inspiration to boost the performance of batteries in devices that we use? Yes sir, scientists have actually managed to give battery strength a much [...]
iOS 5 bugs affecting battery life, fix coming (Apple)
11/02/2011, You may have heard that some iPhone 4S users have been complaining about their battery life as of late. There are many speculations floating around, but basically, Apple came out and said that they know about a number of bugs [...]
NEC’s new battery technology said to last twice as long
10/17/2011, While we long for new battery technology that will be able to let us use our smartphones or tablets for longer periods of time, NEC has managed to develop a new lithium-ion battery technology that they are claiming will be [...]
Sony ESSP-2000 battery said to last a decade
08/08/2011, If you’re ever living under the threat of being attacked by a nuclear power, surely you would be well honed in your emergency drills – taking cover in some sort of underground bunker and hoping that the Fallout-style lifestyle will [...]
PowerSkin launches battery-boosting case for Samsung Nexus S 4G
08/04/2011, Power drain is a huge concern for smartphone users – especially Android users, as most of them aren’t known for having outstanding battery life. Now with screens getting larger and 4G connectivity on the rise, there isn’t much improvement going [...]
Electric car battery replacements do not come cheap
08/04/2011, So you are feeling smug that you finally took the plunge to purchase an electric vehicle, knowing that you do not contribute to greenhouse gas emissions whenever you are right beside a Hummer at a red light, throwing a smirk [...]
Stanford researchers create new transparent and flexible battery
07/26/2011, We’ve seen featured transparent batteries before in the past, way back in 2007 in Japan, and now four years later we have a new transparent battery, this time created by the folks at Stanford University. A team of researchers from [...]
Apple MacBook batteries hacked to burn or explode
07/25/2011, We know that computers can be broken into by hackers for malicious purposes, but who would’ve thought that laptop batteries could be broken into as well? At the Black Hat security conference next month in Las Vegas, a security researcher [...]
Scaraby energy backpack concept charges with solar and kinetic energy
07/21/2011, Because going green is good, alternative forms of energy are getting more common by the day, especially those that are generated by renewable sources. A designer named Benjamin Beck from Berlin has decided to come up with a concept battery [...]
Orange Sound Charge T-shirt keeps your phone juiced at gigs
06/20/2011, While a smartphone is an awesome device to have, one of its biggest drawbacks when compared to regular feature phones is its battery life. Many phones have trouble making it through a full day (sometimes even half the day when [...]
Renesas Electronics develops wireless data transmission that doesn’t use battery
06/16/2011, Wireless data transmission is one of the greatest forms of battery drain in our mobile devices, but it looks like things are about to get better. The folks over at Renesas Electronics Corporation have developed a near-field wireless communication technology [...]
Toshiba Regza 19P2 TV has an internal battery
06/15/2011, Toshiba has just announced a new addition to its REGZA TV line up. Called the 19P2, this LCD TV is 19″ in size (1366 x 768) and has a feature that makes it stand apart from other TVs – it [...]
