03/31/2011, One of the major annoyances that we face while driving green vehicles that run on electricity is the long time it takes to get those batteries recharged. Especially when you’re in a rush and you can’t afford to wait around for an hour to get...

03/31/2011, Apple might have plans to create an external battery pack that can recharge your devices even if it’s not plugged in. According to the latest patents revealed this week, Apple has filed for something called “Power Adapter with Internal...

03/31/2011, What you see here are the Continuance batteries that is actually an iF concept design entry for this year, although we’ve seen such real life batteries before (albeit not in the exact format of charging). The Continuance will seek out an empty USB...

03/24/2011, A battery is a battery is a battery, but how different is this one that was concocted by Illinois professor Paul Braun? Well, Braun and his group has managed to develop a 3D nanostructure for battery cathodes which paves the way for super fast charging as...

03/22/2011, LG has announced the introduction of a new wireless charger called the LG Wireless Charging Pad LG WCP-700. Similar to the HP Touchstone charger, this wireless charger well let users charge their LG phones by just placing them on a special charging pad....

03/21/2011, Sony’s operations in Japan has been disrupted by the recent earthquake, but that doesn’t mean the consumer electronics giant is going to go belly up and retire with a whimper. No sir, in fact we now hear of plans to restart a lithium-ion...

03/20/2011, If you have updated your iDevice (that would mean the iPod, iPhone or iPad) to iOS 4.3, chances are pretty good you would have noticed that the battery life isn’t what it used to be. That might sound like bad news to you folks out there, but it...

03/14/2011, If you think that your regular alkaline batteries have no more life after you’ve finished using them, you’re wrong. It turns out that you can put those babies into a battery recharger – but not just any kind. The folks over at WattsClever...

03/14/2011, When movies are about to hit the big screen, you can expect tie-in merchandise to start flooding the market, and even more so when it is a superhero movie. DC’s upcoming Green Lantern movie just got a new addition to its merchandise line up. The...

03/07/2011, If you enjoy cycling long distances, and listening to music at the same time, but you only have a mobile phone you might notice your phone constantly running out of juice whenever you need to make phone calls, Well Nokia has a solution to the problem....

03/02/2011, RIM has been pretty quiet about how long their upcoming tablet’s battery life is, but according to some screenshots of the tablet’s “Battery Assistant” app, the cat might have been let out of the bag. And if these pictures turn out...

02/28/2011, Boffins from South Korea have managed to find a way to use graphene nanosheets in order to create a power source that can bend – now how about that? Could this mean Gumby-style batteries are on their way? Perhaps, and it would certainly be...

02/15/2011, Eneloops from Sanyo, when it first hit the scene, proved to be quite the hit considering they were charged right out of the box, and had a lifespan of more than a thousand charges without the “memory effect” problem – that is, the...

02/03/2011, There have been a plethora of tablet cases available for the iPad but what caught our attention about the Spark Tablet Case is that it is lined with solar panels. The Spark Tablet Case by Voltaic, has enough solar panels to generate 8 watts of power to...