11/06/2009, It’s always irritating to dig up a bunch of half-used batteries in the drawer and not be sure which ones are usable. Duracell has probably been listening to a bunch of complaints from users, and came up with the Duracell [...]
10/08/2009, KDDI has recently shown off a new fuel cell battery that can be refilled with methanol, where it will run for up to 320 hours before requiring another refill. This prototype fuel cell is a type of hybrid device which [...]
10/08/2009, Researchers have managed to work out a penny-sized “nuclear battery” which is capable of producing energy from radioisotopes decay. While this technology is not new as it has seen action in military and aerospace applications to date, they’re much larger [...]
09/15/2009, One of the major gripes with electronics these days would be the lack of battery power, or rather, their ability to last longer than they do at the moment. South Korean boffins could change that though, having recently discovered a [...]
06/01/2009, Gallery 1: hands-on, Gallery 2: designs At Computex, NVIDIA is launching its new Netbook solution based on its handheld Tegra processor. The “computer” itself fits in the size of a DIMM memory module and the basic idea is simple and [...]
05/20/2009, We’ve seen battery technology improve by leaps and bounds over the years, but here’s something new for everyone to consider – the air-powered battery known as the STAIR (St Andrews Air) battery. It charges just like other standard batteries from [...]