All the stories tagged with battery
Wood battery might be the future
08/16/2012, I wonder then – if future batteries were to be made out of wood of sorts, then isn’t it more flammable than today’s lithium ion batteries which are used in a myriad of devices? Well, researchers are currently working on [...]
New car battery charges in “minutes”
08/15/2012, In the battery circles, some have argued for years that carbon batteries could eventually steal the show to lithium-ion ones, but so far it hasn’t been the case. A new battery for electric cars which being developed in Korea may [...]
Nissan unveils new battery capacity estimators
07/06/2012, Nissan has just revealed a very useful service for its popular electric vehicle, the Nissan Leaf. The service allows the owner of Leaf to better gauge whether or not their battery has enough power left to get them to their [...]
New spray-on batteries could revolutionize energy storage
07/02/2012, Renewable energy has been one of the most researched topics ever since gas and oil prices have begun to rise and people have paid attention to their effects on the environment. Making your home run on renewable energy can be [...]
Paintable battery invented at Rice University
06/29/2012, A battery that can be spray painted? That certainly sounds like quite the novel idea, and it has been implemented by researchers over at Rice University, allowing virtually any object to be converted into an electricity storage device. This particular [...]
New memory might help smartphone batteries last the distance
06/13/2012, If there is one thing about modern day smartphones that many of us loathe, it would be the lack of battery life on these puppies. It seems as though the amount of juice in your battery depletes rather fast, so [...]
Prieto Battery has a lithium ion battery that is 1,000 times more powerful in the works?
06/01/2012, One of the modern bane of the gizmos and gadgets that we use would be the battery life – or rather, the lack of it, when you take into consideration a full day’s worth of normal use. Most of us [...]
Super Lithium-Ion Battery from Washington State University
05/22/2012, Researchers over at the Washington State University (WSU) might have stumbled upon a solution that many of us would love to have – the Super Lithium-Ion Battery. The superlative word “super” is used simply because this new discovery is said [...]
Extended battery for HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE arriving early
04/26/2012, Although the Big Red that is Verizon hasn’t launched the HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE, it hasn’t stopped the Taiwanese conglomerate from shipping the accessories that will go along with the device. Two particular devices that currently deserves our attention [...]
Clams provide battery power apart from being rich in iron
04/25/2012, For those of you who love your clams, perhaps it is time to see them in new light. Apart from being an extremely rich source of iron (although there is also the risk of obtaining a touch of food poisoning [...]
NEC to make bendy screens possible with super-thin batteries
03/19/2012, It looks like we’re one step closer to being able to own devices with flexible screens. The folks over at NEC announced that they are developing a super-thin battery that could be incorporated into credit cards or bendable screens. These [...]
Panasonic EVOLTA robot battery charger
12/28/2011, Panasonic has created quite the icon where robots are concerned with the EVOLTA mascot that represents their range of rechargeable batteries, where this robotic mascot has also completed an Iron Man Triathlon in the process. Well, the old proverb goes, [...]
PS Vita beats Nintendo 3DS in battery life test
12/21/2011, When it comes to portable gaming, one main point stands out among the rest – battery life. After all, there is no point in having superior graphics over your rivals when the hardware sucks more more juice than a black [...]
