All the stories tagged with battery
DrainGuard provides detailed information about your Android’s battery usage
08/11/2011, Given that our smartphones can do pretty much everything we do on a computer – edit text files, images, music, surf the web, take photos, watch HD movies, stream internet content, etc, it’s not surprising that battery life has become [...]
Tourmaline Series USB battery pack from Gem Hsin
08/09/2011, Gem Hsin has rolled out their latest mobile charging solution, the Tourmaline Series USB battery pack which will be slim and light in nature. For those who love running around and are always on-the-go, there are times when you do [...]
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 [...]
T-Mobile G2 battery drain issues, carrier asks for help
08/05/2011, Never mind that your T-Mobile G2 has just received the Android 2.3 Gingerbread update – T-Mobile is currently looking for customers to help them out with an issue – specifically folks who have experienced what they call “massive battery drains”, [...]
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 [...]
Texas Instruments says all day battery life coming in 2013
08/04/2011, Assuming the world does not end next year, then we certainly want to hold Texas Instruments to their word – that is, they claim they will be able to churn out a chip for tablet devices that are full well [...]
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 [...]
Scientists create “world’s smallest” battery
08/03/2011, Our phones, which at one point in time started to get smaller, have started to get bigger again as huge displays are always a welcome feature when watching videos and playing games. The internals however, have started to get smaller [...]
Apple’s jelly roll battery patent could mean longer battery life in iPhones and MacBooks
07/28/2011, Battery life on laptops is one of the features manufacturers tend to use in their marketing strategies, which the MacBook Air claiming to be able to run for 5-7 hours. Since laptops are naturally meant for mobility and portability, battery [...]
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 [...]
Used electric car batteries can power homes after that
07/25/2011, Electric cars are not only green as they do not emit any fumes (although their lack of range is rather a downside for those who love traveling cross-country), and they’re quiet to boot. Well, since the law of entropy is [...]
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 [...]
