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New Li2S/Silicon rechargeable battery promises 4x Li-ion power

Shane McGlaun, Mar 15th 2010 Discuss [0]

I am all for lots of research into battery technology. The better the batteries we can get in our phones and laptops, the longer we can go between charges. Last week Nokia filed a patent app for a batteyr that uses kinetic energy to recharge itself. If you could combine that Nokia tech with the new Li2S/Silicon Rechargeable Battery tech, we might have the ideal battery. Read The Full Story

Nokia files patent for self-regenerating phone battery, powered by piezoelectrics

Paul Fang, Mar 8th 2010 Discuss [5]

Cellular phone giant Nokia has filed for a patent for a self-regenerating phone battery, or in their own words, a "piezoelectric kinetic energy harvester". The patent essentially involves a battery that’s “contained within a first frame that is coupled to a second frame by one or more piezoelectric elements.” Read The Full Story

Logitech Squeezebox Radio Accessory Pack adds battery & remote for $50

Chris Davies, Feb 25th 2010 Discuss [1]

Logitech have finally released their Squeezebox Radio Accessory Pack, which will finally allow users of the Squeezebox Radio to cut the power cord. The $49.99 kit includes an IR remote control and an internal rechargeable Li-Ion battery pack; Logitech reckon it's good enough for up to six hours of wireless playback from the WiFi radio.

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Bloom Energy to revolutionize renewable power

Paul Fang, Feb 25th 2010 Discuss [0]

Today, Bloom Energy launched its first technology, the Energy Server, which employs stacks of solid oxide fuel cells to convert air, as well as sources as “unclean” as fossil fuels, into usable electricity. Read The Full Story

Unioo i800, i1500, and i5400 batteries for iPhone, iPod and other devices debut

Shane McGlaun, Feb 24th 2010 Discuss [1]

I don’t know about you, but when I use my iPhone for playing games or streaming video the battery is ran down very quickly. That means if it is early when I use up all my battery power I end up tied to the charger all day. A company called Unioo has unveiled three new external battery solutions with two designed specifically for the iPhone. Read The Full Story

Microsoft claims Windows 7 is guilt-free, laptop at fault in battery issue

Paul Fang, Feb 9th 2010 Discuss [0]

Microsoft recently announced that they would investigate some user upgrades to Windows 7 that provoked a new warning message (not seen XP or even the problem-ridden Vista) suggesting that users “consider replacing their batteries”. Turns out the software giant have reached a verdict that Windows 7 (and naturally therefore Microsoft) isn’t actually at fault. Who, or rather, what is? Absymal laptop batteries, according to the MSDN blog. Read The Full Story

HTC HD2 gets battery-equipped kickstand

Paul Fang, Feb 5th 2010 Discuss [0]

Apple’s iPad has a kickstand lined up for it already, so HTC probably figured out why not take advantage of its HD2’s beautiful screen and has decided to make a battery-kickstand combination for it. Read The Full Story

New lithium-ion batteries can last 20 years, be charged over 10,000 times

Paul Fang, Feb 4th 2010 Discuss [1]

Japanese company Eamex has claimed that they’ve discovered a way to significantly increase the lifespan of the high-capacity lithium-ion batteries that are used in hybrids/electric vehicles. The new battery technology may go through over 10,000 times , and last approximately 20 years. That’s leagues better than what we have at the moment - read on to see how they actually do just that. Read The Full Story

Scosche solBAT II solar-powered cellphone battery

Chris Davies, Feb 3rd 2010 Discuss [2]

There's money to be made from earth-friendly gadgets, and there's an iPhone-owning audience out there crying out for extra juice in their smartphones, so trust Scosche to put the two together. The Scosche solBAT II is, daft punctuation aside, a reasonably sensible solar-powered external battery, which comes with both a windshield mount and a universal carabineer for easy positioning. Read The Full Story

Panasonic unveils new safer laptop battery tech

Shane McGlaun, Dec 21st 2009 Discuss [0]

Massive amounts of batteries for laptops have been recalled over the last few years for risk of fire. The batteries were recalled due to the risk that the battery would short circuit and lead to a fire. Several battery related fires have been reported. Read The Full Story

Apple 3D head-tracking, iPod track pattern memory & improved power monitoring among patent applications

Chris Davies, Dec 17th 2009 Discuss [0]

Apple's engineers have been busy beavering away at patent applications again, and 3D head-tracking displays, intelligent iPod playback and more active battery management all seem to be on the Cupertino workbench. Of the three, the most interesting is probably Apple's work to use video, infrared or electromagnetic field tracking to move an on-screen object or interface according to the angle at which you're looking at it. Not only would the system work for 3D objects, but 2D UIs could be fanned or scrolled through depending on head position. Read The Full Story

HTC HD2 to get capacitive stylus and extended battery

Chris Davies, Nov 25th 2009 Discuss [0]

HTC's range of accessories for the HD2 pales against the array of options from which you can outfit your iPhone 3GS, but the company do have at least a few interesting things in the works. We've already heard about the HD2 car-kit, which automatically kicks the Windows Phone into a finger-friendly navigation mode, but now they've apparently confirmed a special stylus for use with the capacitive touchscreen is coming, together with an extended battery. Read The Full Story