With each release of the newest smartphones, consumers are paying significantly more attention to the battery life that accompanies them. The realization that its capabilities are irrelevant if they can’t keep it charged has consumers taking second and third looks at the performance specs of the batteries found in iPhones, Droids, Blackberrys and the rest.
Day in and day out, the worldwide search for significant improvements to the lithium ion battery continues. With one of the best energy-to-weight ratios, no memory effect, and a slow loss of charge when not in use; the lithium ion battery has become one of the most popular types of battery for portable electronics. Still, [...]
“There were stories we would hear of children going out to the street and studying underneath street lamps, or literally coming to school with blackened noses because they’d been studying near kerosene lamps.” Jessica Lin – Soccket.com Throughout the world, even in the most impoverished of areas, children playing soccer is as common a scene [...]
Next time you find yourself with a dead battery on your iPhone and no USB charger or electrical outlet in sight, try and find yourself some oranges. Aside from serving as a delicious distraction from your power woes, the citrus fruit actually has the ability to charge the battery of your iPhone. Just hope you’re [...]
While there has yet to be an official price set on the battery-powered Nissan LEAF, it’s now known that Nissan is asking those who are seriously considering purchasing the revolutionary vehicle for a fully refundable $100 reservation fee. With interest in what Nissan is calling the ‘world’s first all-electric, zero-emission car designed for the mass [...]
Energy storage technologies have the potential to increase the reliability and transmission of California’s energy supply. Building a portfolio of energy storage options balances the development of newer, distributed storage technologies, such as batteries. The purpose of this project is to demonstrate a sodium sulfur battery energy storage system. -California Energy Commission- The California Energy [...]
When buzz started being generated throughout online communities that Windows 7 may be causing premature battery degradation(causing batteries to die quicker than they should), Microsoft took the bull by the horns and began investigating. A spokesman from Microsoft stated at the time that it could possibly be a problem in communication between the BIOS and [...]
“I’ve never seen interest in batteries as high as it is now” – Esther Takeuchi, PhD, professor in advanced power sources at University at Buffalo For over twenty years, the lithium/silver vanadium oxide battery has been an instrumental part of the medical industry as it’s used to power nearly 300,000 implantable cardiac defibrillators (ICDs) annually. [...]
Believe it or not, there are people reading this who just don’t believe that anything is really given away for free. If you happen to be a part of that minority, this post isn’t for you. For everyone else, craziestgadgets.com announced their Craziest Gadgets Humpday Gadget Giveaway yesterday, and the gadget featured in this week’s giveaway [...]
The one major issue that comes with going the way of using a wireless mouse or keyboard is the need for batteries. Depending on how much you use your computer, this could end up being costly enough to make you seriously reconsider the idea. However, with the new Logitech Wireless Desktop MK710 and it’s alleged [...]
