The New Better Battery

[A Black Falcon]

http://www.news.com/2100-1041_3-6226196....=cnetfd.mt

The 10x better battery?

(title reference)

[Dark Jaguar]

This doesn't seem related to the tech in that older thread.

At any rate, it certainly seems like the big leap forward. If they are as durable as they consider them, and they work, I expect companies to all switch to this tech at some point.

[A Black Falcon]

No, but it's also about batteries... :)

But yes, a battery that holds 10 times more would be an amazing achievement. It would help portable electronics so much... even if increasing power would mean that many new things probably wouldn't exactly get 10 times the battery life of current portable electronics. :)

[Dark Jaguar]

That is one important thing to consider isn't it? Power is the big issue holding back laptops from outright replacing desktops entirely. After all aside from scaling down the tech, which hardware designers have become very good at, there's the power consumption issue. If that's not as much of a barrier, they'll scale it down all the quicker at the expense of a bigger drain on energy. At the same time, I'm sure that once people get that taste of 20 hour laptop life they won't want to go back. They'll still need to balance that.

[A Black Falcon]

True. And how about rechargable AA with this technology to get lots of hours out of Sega Nomads or something? :D

[Dark Jaguar]

Well the tricky thing there is the shape. Here's another one. Think Nintendo will replace the batteries in their DS with this new type?

[A Black Falcon]

Shape? How so?