15 hours of battery life sounds fantastic for any netbook, but is the extra battery life really worth it if the netbook’s performance specs means it takes you that much longer to get things done? The MSI Wind U110 ECO netbook comes powered by a nine-cell battery good for what MSI claims to be over [...]
Next time the battery on your laptop runs completely dead, you may want to head out to the garage and dig up an old lead-acid battery to use as a replacement. This is what Viktor at Karosium did, and the results seemed to turn out alright.
It’s no secret that many have found themselves less than pleased with the toll the iPhone 3.1 update takes on the device’s battery life. While the new features brought about by 3.1 were a welcome addition, they don’t really have much use if the battery of your iPhone can’t keep up with them. Apparently, Apple [...]
While the overall consensus is that battery powered hybrid and all-electric vehicles are the future of the world’s auto industry, how to go about implementing the change to these vehicles has sparked up quite a debate. One of the concepts that seems to draw the greatest reaction is Shai Aggasi’s Better Place battery-swapping stations. As [...]
Finding ways to keep batteries from ending up in landfills can always be looked on as a positive. With the efforts of various recyling organizations and even governments to raise awareness about the danger that rotting batteries can pose to us, consumers are becoming more concious about the batteries they choose to rely on for [...]
One of the world’s leading medical technology companies, Medtronic, Inc., has recently warned doctors that approximately 6,300 of the company’s implanted heart devices have battery drainage problems that could reduce the life-span of these batteries. Apparently certain batches of Medtronic’s Concerto and Virtuoso devices, specifically those manufactured in 2006, are said by Medtronic to be affected [...]
Bet you didn’t realize that upon making the choice of which web browser to use, you’re also making a decision that will greatly affect the battery life of your laptop. It’s true though, and you might be surprised just how much of an impact said browser selection will make on the amount of time you [...]
While lithium ion batteries continue to become more common and more popular by the day, not everyone is sold that this particular battery chemistry is the way to go. After three years of performing road tests on a fleet of 126 Priuses
Finding alternative power sources for all of your electric needs isn’t as hard as some might think. In fact, there’s a nearly endless supply of power sitting within each and every one of us. The people over at Dahon have realized this, and for this very reason have created the BioLogic FreeCharge.
A group of researchers from Sweden are making big strides when it comes to the development of algae-powered batteries. The team, from Uppsala University in Sweden, has discovered that the algae Cladophora can serve as an effective coating substrate for use in environmentally friendly batteries. “These algae has a special cellulose structure characterised by a [...]
