Articles on Batteries

OxyRide - Nov 30, 2004

Crave Here's one for the archives of Ripley's Believe It Or Not--a car which runs on just two AA batteries. With that tiny bit of juice, Panasonic's ultralight 18.5kg vehicle can propel ... Read story »

HP laptop batteries recalled for overheating - May 15, 2009

Crave After two reports of flaming laptop batteries, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission announced that Hewlett-Packard is voluntarily recalling 70,000 lithium-ion batteries that shipped with several models of its HP and ... Read story »

Sanyo expands eneloop offering for Singapore - May 14, 2009

Crave The eneloop Solar Light conveniently doubles as a USB charger. Still, it's good for an emergency top-up when you're far from a PC or AC mains. This is expected to retail ... Read story »

GP ReCyko+Batteries - Apr 26, 2007

Crave GP has a battery of reasons you should consider its latest breed of power cells. Besides being, of course, rechargeable, it's powering on with its go green objective with the more ... Read story »

Juice up your disposable cells with Battery Wizard - Sep 21, 2009

Crave We all know that battery chargers typically recharge nickel-cadmium and nickel-metal hydride cells, but the Battery Wizard claims it can top up disposables, too. Yes, this charger can recondition standard alkaline ... Read story »

Future batteries to go nuclear - Oct 12, 2009

Crave Has nuclear energy been given a negative reputation, thanks to the militarization of this technology? Jae Kwon, assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Missouri, seems to ... Read story »

Zinc air battery aims to replace lithium eventually - Nov 6, 2009

Crave The components of ReVolt's current rechargeable battery technology include an air electrode, an interface below it in blue, and a zinc electrode. Startup ReVolt Technology is developing rechargeable zinc air ... Read story »

More specs for the Adamo XPS - Oct 26, 2009

Crave More information has trickled out about the Dell's Adamo XPS, the notebook with an eating disorder we showed you a video of last week. The highly abnormal machine sports some decidedly ... Read story »

Could nanotech create speech-powered phones? - Dec 4, 2008

Crave A variety of off-grid devices use the wind, the sun, or fuel cells to power up small electronics. But what if you could charge your cell phone just by talking into ... Read story »

Rechargeable USBCells - Sep 25, 2006

Crave Simply one of the best and more practical USB ideas we've come across. When the whole review team starts clamoring to get one, you know it's a winner. Just too bad ... Read story »

Tokyo electric taxis to test battery-swapping service - Aug 27, 2009

Crave Better Place will test its battery-swapping service with electric cars used as taxis in Tokyo. A test at Better Place's automated battery-swapping station in Japan earlier this year. The project, ... Read story »

Altec Lansing releases USB-powered Orbit speakers for laptops - Sep 15, 2009

Crave Altec Lansing introduced its USB-powered ultraportable Orbit speaker. The Orbit's USB cable is used for audio input and power, doing away with the need for batteries and a 3.5mm audio jack. ... Read story »

Mac OSX 10.5.7: Better for Hackintoshed Netbooks? - May 15, 2009

Crave More juice for your Hackintosh Netbook. Although Apple doesn't have any clear Netbook plans on the horizon, that hasn't exactly stopped anyone from getting their own Apple Netbook the hacky ... Read story »

Apple recalls Sony batteries - Aug 25, 2006

Crave After nine reports of its Sony-manufactured notebook batteries overheating, Apple is recalling 1.8 million of its PowerBook G4 and iBook G4 batteries due to safety concerns. Models sold between October 2003 ... Read story »

Sony recalls notebook batteries - Oct 18, 2006

Crave After a global exchange of its notebook batteries made for other vendors, Sony is recalling power cells in its own laptop line. According to reports, the exchange program is currently limited ... Read story »

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