Researchers Seek Truth in the Secret Life of the Battery
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A new "gas gauge" chip for laptop batteries provides much more accurate readouts of time left.
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Although a number of companies are working to develop higher-powered batteries for laptops and high-tech gadgets, real breakthroughs in the technology could be a decade away.
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Stem cell researchers continue to question Advanced Cell Technology scientists on their increasingly contested paper published recently in Nature.. In Bodyhack.
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It was a Holy Grail looming on the personal electronics horizon: a pocket-sized device with a workhorse battery and the capacity to hold hours of audio and video.
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Science & environment: Â· Scientists studied 1,000 brain tumour patientsÂ· Wider investigation into phones due later this year
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German researchers claim they have figured out a way to use body heat to generate power that could eventually run mobile devices.
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Anonymous sources feed the rumor mill with tales of an upgraded input device. In Gear Factor.
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Mobile phone users left talking to themselves when their battery runs out in the middle of a call could soon see an end to their frustration as scientists perfect a way to recharge electrical equipment while on the move.
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Scientists develop an electronic device to test for serious head injuries.
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By Larry Gierer, Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, Ga.  Feb. 12--Elijah Johnson looked at the camera and noticed stuff "oozing out of it." It was a 20-year-old Nikon -- and the batteries hadn't been changed in more than six years.
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Atomic clocks may be headed into cell phones, thanks to a breakthrough by federal researchers. Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated the heart of an atomic clock
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MOBILE phone users left talking to themselves when their battery runs out in the middle of a call could soon see an end to their frustration as scientists perfect a way to recharge electrical equipment while on ...
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Based on a new theory, MIT scientists may be able to manipulate carbon nanotubes -- one of the strongest known materials and one of the trickiest to work with -- without destroying their extraordinary electrical properties. The work is reported in the Sept.
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An electronic device that uses spinach to convert light into electrical charge has been developed by US researchers. Shuguang Zhang at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US, and research collaborators
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers made a 60-watt light bulb glow by sending it energy wirelessly &#151; from a device 7 feet away &#151; potentially heralding a future in which cell phones and other gadgets get their juice without having to be plugged in.
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Interested in a laptop that can run 30 or 40 hours before running out of juice? Researchers at Stanford University have found a way to use silicon nanowires that allow lithium-ion batteries to do just that.
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Boston-Power is about to uncover its long-awaited Sonata battery, which it says is less likely to blow up. HP appears interested.