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more about #battery more comments → ID Ron Burgundy: New battery tech doesn't necessarily get me very excited, but newer, tinier, sexier gadgets do! Alas, I am not a chemist and I can only look at the p... more » Noobs-R-Us: What about the open format so we can borrow books from the library? Hello? Amazon? more » daftrok: Either it was an impressive feat of engineering, or the software was written so poorly it took six months to fix it, or what they were intending all a... more » Segador: So I guess I'm SOL with my gen1 Kindle? I guess that's what I get for being an early adopter. more » aidemthgink: LDSM [www1.umn.edu] Lactic acid is a byproduct of muscle tissue and some bacteria, i.e. Shewanella, can convert it into electricity. Just a thought. more » valkilmerisawful: Where's the Carl Sagan autotune now? Come one, we all know that anaerobic glycolysis would fill a thousand 500-page volumes via "Cosmos". Now I want... more » Killjoy: Okay, commenting specifically on the Usa subset: We currently run our bodies with an enormous glucose energy excess, caused by changing the balance o... more » FriarNurgle: Your're gonna want a little lube to plug this in. #bloodbatteries more » Curves: I get a strange vision of a combination IPhone and Vampire. #bloodbatteries more » aeronmichaelangelo001: So would this make America the largest power plant in the world? more » -
#batteries
Energizer's Next Gen Zinc Air Batteries to Triple Run Time
The technology for Energizer's Zinc Air batteries may go back 35 years, but it's certainly being used well. These new batteries, which we'll see this summer, will be smaller and have three times the run time of prior versions. More » -
#kindle
Amazon's Kindle 2 Gets 85 Percent Battery Boost, Native PDF Reading
Amazon claims that all it took was a six month firmware improvement test to get the Kindle 2 to run for 85 percent longer than before, which is a pretty damn impressive feat of engineering. More » -
#thiscyborglife
Can Your Body Be A Battery?
What if machines ran off biological fuel—blood sugar—from our bodies? Could we basically power gadgets on America's increasing supply of body fat and Snickers bars? More » -
#windows7
Windows 7 Netbook Battery Life Sucks Worse Than Windows XP
Yeah, netbooks feel so much nicer running Windows 7 than Windows XP, but you're paying a secret price: Your battery. On average, Windows 7 seem to suck all the life out of it 47 minutes faster than Windows XP. More » -
#solarpower
Kitschy-Yet-Eco-Friendly reNEW Solar Battery Charger
It looks like a battery-eating iPhone case, but the reNEW Solar Battery Charger concept is actually a clever little device that spits out fully-charged batteries while attaching to your windows with suction cups. Your back-of-the-house, no-one-will-actually-see-it-here window. Updated. More » -
#caffeine
Battery Refill Required
This t-shirt visualizes what we've all known for a long time: He who merges with the caffeine merges with the power. $20. [Glennz Tees via Fashionably Geek] -
#iphone
Monstrous Battery Pack Promises 20 Hours of Video Playback for iPhones
USB Fever's 3000 mAh add-on promises 8.5 hours of talk time or 20 hours of delicious video playback. More » -
#batteries
Crank This Battery To Charge Up
The Wind Up Battery is a rechargeable battery with a little pop-out hand-crank to power up using some good ol' fashioned elbow grease. I'd probably looks like an idiot using it, but better than suffering without a AA. More » -
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#science
Battery 500 Project Wants to Make a 500 Mile Range Electric Car Battery
IBM, UC Berkeley and five US National Labs are collaborating in a consortium to make an electric vehicle battery that goes all the way up to 500 miles per charge. More » -
#iphone
P-Flip Foldable Backup Battery Doubles As An iPhone Dock
Dexim's new P-Flip line allows traveling iPhone or iPod Touch users to juice up their devices and prop them up at the same time. More » -
#questionoftheday
How's Your Battery Life and Hard Drive Space With Snow Leopard?
You've had the weekend to play with Snow Leopard and have stuff run faster, apps break and all the other glories of a new OS. But how much extra space did you get, and how's your battery life? More » -
#imagecache
Energizer Screws You Out of Precious Milliamps. Milliamps!
Looks like the $12 Energizer E2 rechargeable D battery is actually a AA battery (retail price: $3) in a larger shell. Try to keep your anger at an appropriate level: A short, derisive grunt should be just right. [Natural News] -
#batteries
Olivine-Type Sony Batteries Die Slow, Charge Like Whoa
Your weekly incremental battery breakthrough: Sony's olivine-type lithium ion batteries are said to live four times longer than typical li-i fare, and charge to 99% in just 30 minutes. Only for power tools, for now. [SonyInsider via OhGizmo via BBG] -
#diy
Convert a Netbook Battery Into an iPhone Battery
Why would you hack your MSI Wind's battery to add a USB port when you can just connect your iPhone or any other device to the netbook's USB port? Well, just because you can. More » -
#usb
X-Power 1 iPhone USB Cord Comes With Built-In Rechargable Battery And....Gives Orgasms To Kristen Bell
The X-Power 1 USB cord has a built-in rechargeable battery to give you a bit of backup power on the go (assuming you remember to take the cord with you). Their ad seems to imply more than that though. More » -
#chargers
Messless Charger: The Showoffiest Way to Charge Four Gadgets Simultaneously
Like the Callpod but fancier since it props up your gadgets on a shiny platform, the Messless Charger comes with six connectors for charging up to four gadgets simultaneously. It's about $100 thanks to the gloss factor, though. [pocket-lint] -
#digitalcameras
8 Ways to Get More Battery Life Out of Your Digital Camera
Sure, you know how to squeeze more battery life out of your notebook—dim the lights, kill the wireless—but what about your camera? Photography Bay has 8 tips: buying a faster memory card is the most surprising. [Photography Bay] -
#batteries
Energizer Energi To Go DSLR Charger Gives Paparazzi More Portability
Need to hide in the bushes for eleven hours outside Megan Fox's house while taking the occasional super-zoom shot? Need to recharge your batteries but have no outlet? Energizer's portable charger clip is there. More » -
#panasonic
Panasonic Locks Out Third Party Camera Batteries With Latest Firmware
If you've got a Panasonic digital camera and you're using a third party battery pack, DON'T UPDATE YOUR CAMERA FIRMWARE. Your battery will get locked out by the authentication scheme Panasonic just implemented. More » -
#usefulskills
Survivornerd: How to Start a Fire With Your Cellphone
It's a tough call for a nerd lost in the wilderness: Use your cellphone battery to start a fire and survive the night, or play another game of Brickbreaker? At least with this guide you'll have the option of survival. More » -
#macbookpro
MacBook Pro Hands-On Gallery
We've got a delicious gallery of pics of the new 13 and 15-inch MacBook Pros. More » -
#batteries
New Lithium-Sulfur Batteries Could Last 3 Times Longer Than Lithium-Ion
Scientists at the University of Waterloo have designed a lithium-sulfur battery that, thanks to nanotechnology, is capable of 3 times the power of lithium-ion batteries with equal volume while remaining both lighter and cheaper to produce. Long-distance electric cars, anyone? More » -
#review
HyperMac External MacBook Battery Review
The Gadget: The HyperMac external laptop battery, which, through its Magsafe connection gives MacBook Airs up to 32 hours and MacBook Pros up to 8 extra hours of battery life. There's also a USB port for USB charging. More » -
#apple
New 15-Inch MacBook Pro Features 7-Hour Battery Life and SD Card Slot
Apple just announced new MacBook Pro models with the same upgraded, 7-hour battery life as the 17-inch MacBook Pro, a bump in memory, processor, and storage, as well as an SD-card slot. Most importantly, they'll be shipping today. Yes!
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#editorial
I Love Battery Packs and Portable Chargers
As Matt explained last year, batteries are holding up laptops, cellphones and PMPs from lasting long enough and running fast enough to get things done properly on the go. What's my solution? Portable battery packs. More » -
#batteries
MSI Wind Battery 'Mod' Can Go All Night (and Day) Long
Armed with an MSI Wind U115, 9-cell battery and some time, Johannes from Eee PC.de created what very well may be the Sting of netbooks. Stamina—er, battery life—was an astounding 25 hours. More » -
#netbooks
Samsung N120 Netbook Brings 10.5-Hour Battery, Bigger Keyboard
Samsung wasn't finished after yesterday's N110 and NC310 netbooks, oh no: today brought news of yet another offering, the N120, effectively a double-wide N110 with room for a bigger keyboard, battery and nicer speakers. More » -
#gadgettip
Gadget Tip: Keep Your Phone Away From Your Groin For Better Battery Life
Woman and guys with belt-holsters had it right—it's better to keep your phone away from your body. More » -
#review
Lightning Review: Duracell Powerpack 450 Talking Portable Power Unit
The Gadget: Duracell's Powerpack 450 is a portable power source for AC, DC and USB-powered electronics. It also features a vehicle jump starter, air compressor, flashlight and a voice feature. -
#batteries
Battlemodo: Energizer vs Duracell Rechargeable Batteries
Duracell vs Energizer was one of the headlining tech fights of the '80s, as Walkmanseseses chewed through cell after cell. Today, a better match up is the one between their rechargeable batteries.
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#iphone
Mophie Juicepack Air Is Thinnest iPhone Battery Extender Yet
We've seen several iPhone battery cases/extenders—and we've liked what we've seen. But offerings like the Fastmac iV have been a bit on the pudgy side. More » -
#cellphones
Cellphones Don't Kill People, Crazy Homemade Guns Kill People
Not surprisingly, it turns out that there was more to the story behind the mysterious death of a Chinese computer salesman. Apparently, it was a crazy homemade gun that killed him—not an exploding cellphone. More » -
#explodingcellphones
Cellphone Explosion Kills Another Person, Severing His Carotid Artery
When a cellphone explosion kills a person, you think it is a rare event. When you learn that another man just died for the same reason, you start looking at yours like a potential killer. More » -
#diy
Humpback Eee PC Gets 15 Hours of Battery Life
Eee PC enthusiast Tenacious Dre has put together a 15-hour 12-cell cell battery for his overclocked netbook. I guess he won't try passing it through airport security, because the thing looks like an ACME bomb: More » -
#pranks
Video: Hooking a Car Battery Up to a Wet Towel Rack Is a Pretty Horrible Prank
This is one way to lose friends/roommates for good: sneak into the bathroom while they're in the shower, cover the towel rack with tin foil, and hook up a car battery. Zzzzap! More » -
#fuelcells
World's Smallest Fuel Cell Could Power Your Gadgets
Chemical engineers working at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a hydrogen fuel cell that measures only 3 millimeters across. That could mean longer lasting, eco-friendly power for your gadgets. More » -
#greenenergy
Kinesis K2 Puts Solar and Wind Charging Power In a Handheld Unit
There have been other handheld charging devices that utilize the power of the sun and wind, but none claim to match the capacity of the Kinesis K2. More » -
#tmobileg1
Seidio Increases G1 Battery Life By 15 Percent Without Adding Bulk
The T-Mobile G1's lack of battery life has always been a concern, especially after we learned about its data roaming issues. Seidio's new battery combats this problem without the need for a new cover. More » -
#batteries
Nickel-Zinc Rechargeable Batteries to Seriously Challenge One and Dones?
Last week, Energizer outed their Zinc Air Prismatic batteries, and now we hear of a possibly more promising AA nickel-zinc rechargeable battery from PowerGenix. It appears that zinc will be our new battery overlord. -
#batteries
HP's New Boston Power Laptop Batteries Last 3x Longer, Charge To 80% in 30 Minutes
Coming to HP laptops at the beginning of next year, the new cells by Boston Power (dubbed "Enviro" by HP) will charge faster and last 1,000 cycles without degrading.
