Redox flow battery will be refillable

Imagine that you're driving your future electric car down the road, and it gives you a low battery warning. What do you do? Instead of spending a few hours at a recharging station, new battery technology being developed by the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany would let you pull into a service station and refill the battery with an electrolytic liquid.

The Fraunhofer Institute is using a redox flow battery, a type of cell that uses two electrolytic fluids exchanging protons through a membrane. This process generates electricity. Although this type of battery isn't new, the Fraunhofer Institute improved the energy density, making it equivalent to that of a lithium- ion battery.
Read more »

Ricoh officially announces modular GXR camera system

In what has to be the oddest new camera technology announcement of 2009, Ricoh unveiled its GXR system. It's not a mirrorless interchangeable lens (dare I say EVIL?) system, as was rumored around the blogosphere, but what the company catchily calls an "Interchangeable Unit Camera," where the "Unit" in question is a lens/sensor module which slides into a housing that includes the rest of a point-and-shoot's pieces--920,000-pixel 3-inch LCD, controls, hot shoe, and flash. A tiltable EVF that fits in the hot shoe will be optional.
Read more »

Samsung announces open mobile platform named bada

In a press release, Samsung announced its own open mobile platform called bada--a word that means ocean in Korean. This move will open up the Samsung mobile phone ecosystem to third-party developers through the use of a software development kit (SDK) that will be unveiled in December.

The main smartphone platforms in use currently are Windows Mobile, iPhone OS, BlackBerry and Android. Whether there's space for another to thrive is a big question mark.

Samsung's latest move did not come as a complete surprise though, as we asked the chaebol earlier this year if it would provide an SDK for its "smarter than smartphone" Samsung Jet model.
Read more »

Troll Touch adds touchscreen to Apple and Dell panels

Sick of waiting for an Apple tablet? Tired of having Windows 7 users show off their multitouch touchscreen programs? Well, Troll Touch is here to save the day, though you must be ready with a big wad of cash.
Read more »

Atom chipset getting a refresh at CES 2010

With CES coming in January and Windows 7 computers already everywhere to be found, a casual observer might assume that Vegas' annual consumer electronics extravaganza might not be as exciting for laptops. For Netbooks, at least, that seems to be completely untrue. Although Netbooks have seen an across-the-board upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7 and, in some instances, boosts like HD-resolution screens, added RAM and Nvidia GPUs, Netbooks still tend to run variants of the same N270/280 Atom processor we've seen since 2008.
Read more »

Crave is...

The name says it all. Crave is our blog about cool gadgets and other crushworthy stuff.

Drop us an email if you have tips or suggestions.

Crave for...

» Mobile Phones (2164)

» Digital Cameras (954)

» Notebooks (1209)

» PC & Peripherals (1281)

» Handhelds (581)

» Printers (78)

» Home AV (1103)

» Music & Play (875)

» Gadgets (1449)

» Future Tech (379)

» Green Tech (167)

» Lifestyle (142)

» Luxury (22)

» Home Appliances (56)

» Cars (97)

» Games and Gear (226)

» Software (85)

» Web (89)

Hot Topics

Subscribe to
Crave

What's Hot

apple apple inc. apple iphone apple ipod asia battery camera game google inc. iphone microsoft corp. microsoft windows mobile phone photograph singapore smart phone software sony corp. video

Today on CNET |  Reviews |  Crave |  Blogs |  CNET TV |  Digital Living |  Downloads