Articles on Battery

Redox flow battery will be refillable - Nov 11, 2009

Crave This radio-controlled model car is powered by a battery that can be refilled with an electrolytic fluid. Imagine that you're driving your future electric car down the road, and it ... 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 »

Porsche illuminates with premium flashlight - Nov 12, 2009

Crave Space-age design: The mPower Emergency Illuminator is set to hit stores in March, 2010. Flashlights are becoming more and more sophisticated, as well as rather expensive. Case in point: The ... Read story »

Wii controller gets renewable power pack - Jul 24, 2008

Crave Here's a chance for you to chip in to the well-being of Gaia and go green. Sanyo and Nintendo have joined forces and introduced a new Eneloop Wii battery pack complete ... Read story »

Better battery life, native PDF support for Kindle e-book reader - Nov 25, 2009

Crave Just in time for the holidays and facing heavy competition from Barnes & Noble's upcoming Nook e-book reader, Amazon has announced that it has improved the Kindle's battery life when ... Read story »

Japan unveils remote which runs without battery - Nov 23, 2009

Crave Don't you hate it when your TV remote runs out of juice? Or when your clicker gets totaled by a battery leak? NEC and Soundpower Corporations' new battery-less remote control ... Read story »

Report: 9.6-inch Apple tablet expected in February - Sep 16, 2009

Crave All has been quiet on the Apple tablet rumor front since the company introduced its new iPod lineup a week ago, but now a new report reveals components information for the ... Read story »

Induction-based Wii remote charging kit - Nov 24, 2009

Crave Nintendo has possibly the least elegant implementation for its Wii remote as far as battery power is concerned. While users can recharge their PS3 and Xbox 360 controllers easily via ... Read story »

Get longer uptimes with Windows 7 - Sep 2, 2009

Crave Ruston Panabaker, Microsoft's principal program manager of strategic silicon partnering, shows how later builds of Windows 7 were able to let the processor enter low-power states for longer periods of time, ... Read story »

AMD Tigris and Congo platforms promise better battery life - Sep 16, 2009

Crave AMD on Thursday announced its Tigris laptop platform, intended for mainstream applications and offering full 1080p, DirectX 10.1 support and offloading video encoding to the Radeon HD 4200 GPU. With new ... 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 »

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 »

Samsung launches new laptops with impressive uptimes - Sep 4, 2009

Crave Samsung's X3 uses a six-cell battery to offer nine hours of battery life, or six hours when playing video. BERLIN, GERMANY--Most companies find one press conference sufficient at gadget shows, ... Read story »

Dell unveils rugged tablet PC - Oct 28, 2009

Crave Dell unveiled a 12.1-inch rugged convertible tablet PC, the Latitude XT2 XFR, the first multitouch tablet PC that can withstand ballistic shock, extreme temperatures, dust, sand and moisture. The Latitude XT2 ... Read story »

Tag Heuer Meridiist gets Lamborghini flavor - Nov 3, 2009

Crave If you like fast cars, you might get revved up by the Meridiist phone from luxury sports watch maker Tag Heuer. The company has teamed with Italian super sports car ... Read story »

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