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Researchers reveal flexible, stretchable lithium-ion battery
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Researchers have announced the development of a stretchable lithium-ion battery that could have countless industry applications, especially with the rising interest in flexible electronics and the constant advancement of medical tech. By using a process they call "ordered unraveling,"...
HP pays $425,000 to settle civil suit over defective batteries
- HP has agreed to pay $425,000 to resolve allegations that it knowingly failed to inform the US Consumer Product Safety Commission about defective lithium-ion batteries, as required by federal law. As is often the case, the faulty batteries were prone…
Nokia to release two Lumia 800 updates to fix battery woes
- Nokia just recently released its new, make-or-break Windows Phone 7 powered Lumia 800 smartphone, and it's already becoming apparent that many users are suffering battery-related problems.
Breakthrough could bring tenfold increase in battery life
- Although the autonomy of mobile computing devices has improved in the last decade, the gains are mostly through advancements in microprocessor and display technologies. Batteries themselves have remained largely unchanged in recent years, but a team of engineers at Northwestern…
Transparent li-ion batteries may become reality
- Pioneering researchers at Stanford University have announced what appears to be the first practical, transparent lithium ion battery. The experimental battery technology is said to be very flexible, utilizes a traditional Li-ion chemistry and can be manufacturered using a relatively…
Researcher to demo hack that destroys MacBook batteries
- Your Apple notebook might be vulnerable to an attack that could cause its battery to die, harbor malware or even explode, according to security researcher Charlie Miller. Speaking with Forbes, Miller explained that modern laptop batteries contain a controller that…
Wi-Fi napping could help double battery life on smartphones
- Justin Manweiler, a computer science graduate student at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, claims to have found a way to dramatically improve battery life of mobile devices with a small alteration to Wi-Fi technology. The proposed solution is called…
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