Can't Get Longer Battery Life, So How About Faster Charges?

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NEC builds longer faster quantum
cryptography

NEC builds longer faster quantum
cryptography 09/17/2004 12:35 PM
Computer Weekly Sep 17 2004 5:01PM GMT

$5 Upgrade Makes Hard Drives Faster,
Longer Lived

$5 Upgrade Makes Hard Drives Faster,
Longer Lived 05/17/2004 10:21 AM
Looks like Serial ATA is bringing even more benefits of SCSI technology to we consumers, namely a new industry-standard Native Command Queuing (NCQ) technology that we'll first get a taste of in Seagate's new Barracuda 7200.7. What makes NCQ drives so interesting are their ability to more efficiently cache requests...

Lithium ion Battery Which Charges in One
Minute

Lithium ion Battery Which Charges in One
Minute 03/30/2005 04:59 PM

Toshiba has developed a new Lithium-ion battery which charges up to 80% of it’s capacity in just 1 minute.  Toshiba's prototype battery has a capacity of 600mAh and measures.8mm thick, 62mm high and 35mm deep. It was demonstrated in hard disc music player for about 10 minutes by charging 5 milliwatts in 5 seconds. According to a Toshiba Lab spokesman, the battery shows less than 1 percent deterioration in capacity after 1,000 cycles of discharging and recharging. The battery is planned to be available in 2006. Here are more details from the eetimes.com.

Toshiba achieved the breakthrough by using nanoparticles of several hundred nanometers coated uniformly on the negative electrode and newly developed electrolytic solution. This stable formulation does not react with lithium ions at the cathode in a manner that would lower the battery's cycle time. The electrolytic solution and nanoparticles enable large number of lithium ions move quickly to the cathode and store in the particles in recharging mode. With the stable electrolyte solution, the battery discharges 80 percent of its capacity at minus 40 degrees centigrade, compared to 100 percent discharge at 25 degrees centigrade for conventional Li-ion batteries. In the high temperature operation, Toshiba reported that the capacity deteriorates by only 5 percent at temperatures of 45 degrees centigrade after 1,000 cycles of discharging and recharging.

Toshiba Battery Charges in One Minute

Toshiba Battery Charges in One Minute 03/30/2005 06:12 PM
Impatient people may find Toshiba's latest invention something that would fit their lifestyle. The company announced Tuesday that it had discovered a way to recharge a Lithium-Ion battery to 80 percent in only one minute. Currently, the fastest batteries take approximately an hour to recharge to the same capacity.

Toshiba's New Battery Charges in Nearly
a Minute

Toshiba's New Battery Charges in Nearly
a Minute 03/31/2005 12:15 AM
Sci-Tech Today Mar 31 2005 4:03AM GMT

Longer life looms for laptop PCs

Longer life looms for laptop PCs 03/27/2005 08:43 PM
BBC Mar 27 2005 11:47PM GMT

Intel Promises Longer Life for Laptops

Intel Promises Longer Life for Laptops 03/20/2003 01:05 PM
Intel is aiming to extend the battery life of laptops to eight hours with a range of new technologies it has showcased at its Developer Forum. Currently, few laptops can survive on batteries alone for more than three hours.

Seriously Confused About iPod Battery
Life

Seriously Confused About iPod Battery
Life 09/24/2004 01:42 AM
I don't understand my iPod. By Jason Levine, Q Daily News (via MyAppleMenu)

Quick Tip: Saving Battery Life

Quick Tip: Saving Battery Life 04/03/2005 03:28 PM

Maximizing the Life of the G4's Battery

Maximizing the Life of the G4's Battery 04/06/2005 11:25 PM
Is it best to leave my PowerBook plugged into a power source at home, or to leave it unplugged so it can discharge and then recharge it as necessary?

Laptops with the Longest Battery Life?

Laptops with the Longest Battery Life? 08/03/2004 05:47 PM

Unhappy with your iPod's battery life?
Sue Apple

Unhappy with your iPod's battery life?
Sue Apple 12/24/2003 02:28 PM
Blatantly attempting to cash in on this whole pseudo-controversy about the iPod's battery life (e.g. "The iPod's Dirty Little Secret, etc.), a law firm in...

PalmOne, Battery Tech, ASMC on Your Mac
Life

PalmOne, Battery Tech, ASMC on Your Mac
Life 07/21/2004 02:22 PM
Wednesday's Your Mac Life QuickTime Webcast radio show will feature PalmOne director of Web publishing Rick Whooten who will talk about a new online resource center targeting Mac users. Battery Technology Inc. (BTI)'s VP of marketing and sales Dave Sarazen will be on hand to discuss new high-capacity batteries for iPods. And Kevin Langdon, CEO of Crywolf Computers, will discuss The Apple Specialists Marketing Co-Op (ASMC), a new group of Apple Specialist resellers. Peter Cohen of MacCentral.com and Macworld magazine will have all the latest gaming news. If you have questions for any of tonight's guests, please send them along. The show is Webcast live from 5:30PM to 8:00PM Pacific, 8:30PM to 11:00PM Eastern, and is available in an audio video feed or an audio-only feed, depending on your bandwidth.

IDF 2004: Intel eyes all-day battery
life

IDF 2004: Intel eyes all-day battery
life 09/08/2004 09:42 PM
PC Pro Sep 9 2004 2:16AM GMT

Can a New Disposable Battery Change Your
Life? Parts of It, Maybe

Can a New Disposable Battery Change Your
Life? Parts of It, Maybe 04/06/2005 09:28 PM
Panasonic is introducing inexpensive disposable AA and AAA batteries that it says last up to twice as long as alkalines. How well do they work?

Disfigured Iraqis Are No Longer Scarred
for Life (Los Angeles Times)

Disfigured Iraqis Are No Longer Scarred
for Life (Los Angeles Times) 04/18/2004 05:42 AM
Los Angeles Times - BAGHDAD — Rolling on a gurney toward the dank operating room of Al Kindi Hospital recently, Khalid Abid Nimer flashed back to a decade earlier, when he had made a similar trip in the same hospital for a far different operation.

IDF, Fall 2004: Intel eyes all-day
battery life

IDF, Fall 2004: Intel eyes all-day
battery life 09/09/2004 04:52 PM
PC Pro Sep 9 2004 8:12PM GMT

Panasonic SL-CT820 CD Player with 220
Hour Battery Life

Panasonic SL-CT820 CD Player with 220
Hour Battery Life 09/14/2004 04:52 PM

Panasonic's new "SL-CT820" has the world's longest battery life for MP3/CD players: 220 hours.

As you would imagine, there are a couple technicalities to this figure. First of all, you need to be playing WMA files; your maximum battery life with MP3 is 210 hours. (Oh damn). You also need to use one of those external batteries - you know, the ones you somehow connect with a cable to the CD player. But even if you choose not to, you still get a 130 hour playback time of MP3 audio. Pretty swell, considering even the latest hard drive-based players get, what, 20-some hours of playback?

Keyboard with 512k of memory, 700h
battery life

Keyboard with 512k of memory, 700h
battery life 08/31/2004 01:55 PM
Cory Doctorow: The AlphaSmart Neo is a full-sized keyboard with a little LCD screen on the top. It acts as a word-processor, letting you type into its 512k cache while it draws power from 3 AA batteries. When you get back to your Mac or PC, you just dump the text over USB or IR. The thing runs for 700 hours on a 3 AA batts and costs $250, and weighs about 2 lbs.

My only complaint about this thing is the storage: 512k? I know that's a whole novel and then some, but geez, flash-RAM is so cheap now -- why not just give it a SD slot and I could use an old 64MB card from my last camera? Link (via Engadget)

Update: Chris Taylor points out that AlphaSmart has a model that supports memory cards -- and it comes with WiFi and PalmOS.

Researchers Seek Truth in the Secret
Life of the Battery

Researchers Seek Truth in the Secret
Life of the Battery 12/28/2004 04:55 PM
A new "gas gauge" chip for laptop batteries provides much more accurate readouts of time left.

Power to the people: Panasonic
introduces longer-life Oxyride batteries

Power to the people: Panasonic
introduces longer-life Oxyride batteries 04/07/2005 06:00 PM
Will the Energizer Bunny have to march to the beat of a new drum? Panasonic hopes to do just that by promising longer life and twice as much power with its new Oxyride batteries.

Apple Rolls Out New iPod with Extended
Battery Life (Reuters)

Apple Rolls Out New iPod with Extended
Battery Life (Reuters) 07/19/2004 09:29 AM
Reuters - Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL.O) on Monday said it introduced its new version of its successful iPod digital music player, boasting extended battery life.

BatMax Starts Production and Sales of
the World's First Battery Life Extender
for Mobile Phones.

BatMax Starts Production and Sales of
the World's First Battery Life Extender
for Mobile Phones. 02/01/2005 09:13 PM
BatMax, the first cellphone battery life booster that extends the mobile phone battery life and reduces charging time is now in production and is currently being shipped to both U.S. and international retailers and wholesalers. [PRWEB Jan 22, 2005]

TechRestore, Inc. Announces the iPod
Battery Freedom Service - Lifetime iPod
Battery Replacement.

TechRestore, Inc. Announces the iPod
Battery Freedom Service - Lifetime iPod
Battery Replacement. 06/22/2005 03:01 AM
TechRestore, Inc. announced today that they have begun offering a new lifetime iPod battery replacement service. [PRWEB Jun 20, 2005]

Power trip Can computers keep getting
faster and faster?

Power trip Can computers keep getting
faster and faster? 07/25/2004 04:11 AM
BBC Jul 25 2004 7:52AM GMT

3G to Boost Speed, Faster and Faster

3G to Boost Speed, Faster and Faster 01/05/2005 04:20 PM
Wi-Fi Networking News Jan 5 2005 7:24PM GMT

Linksys says faster..FASTER!

Linksys says faster..FASTER! 01/04/2005 08:10 PM
Over at CES, Linksys will be announcing a new series of 802.11g products that integrate SRX, a new speed boosting feature.

Currently, 802.11g networks have a range of between 120 and 160 feet and a transfer at 54mbps.

Linksys claims that the SRX enabled 802.11g products can provide 3 times the range (450 feet) and is 8 times faster (i.e. nearly USB 2 speed wireless).

It's completely compatible with other 802.11g and 802.11b networks.

The wireless router is expected to sell for $199 and each card around $129 and should be available at stores shortly.

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XML-Deviant: Faster, Faster!

XML-Deviant: Faster, Faster! 12/19/2004 03:49 PM
Edd Dumbill reports on debate about making XML faster and leaner and offers the opportunity to send nominations for this year's XML Anti-Awards.

Half-Life facial expressions used in
autistic life-skills classes

Half-Life facial expressions used in
autistic life-skills classes 05/14/2004 07:41 PM
Here's a novel use for a First-Person Shooter:

An autism institute apparently is interested in using Half-Life 2's facial animation capabilities to help teach autistic children how to recognize expressions, according to PC Gamer magazine.

Link

LifeBio.com’s “Road of Life Adventure”
Seeks Ordinary People with Extraordinary
Life Stories

LifeBio.com’s “Road of Life Adventure”
Seeks Ordinary People with Extraordinary
Life Stories 07/23/2004 09:58 AM
LifeBio, Inc., the leading online personal history company, believes that everyone has a story to tell and they need to tell it. From August 2 to August 7, the company will conduct free audio interviews, present workshops on why and how to tell life stories, and give away old-fashioned wooden YoYos, traveling through the Midwest. People they meet will pick LifeBio questions from a traveling treasure chest and share memories through audio and written recordings. [PRWEB Jul 22, 2004]

Wired News: Campus Life Comes to Second
Life

Wired News: Campus Life Comes to Second
Life 09/25/2004 09:11 AM

Life Imitates Seinfeld Imitating Life

Life Imitates Seinfeld Imitating Life 01/02/2004 04:48 AM
Woman Files $10M Suit Vs. Starbucks .. suing each other

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20 New Half-Life 2 Screenshots @
PlanetHalf-Life

20 New Half-Life 2 Screenshots @
PlanetHalf-Life 08/15/2004 05:34 PM

"Our" man no longer

"Our" man no longer 05/20/2004 01:14 PM
Surprise, surprise ... is Ahme d Chalabi the next terrorist in the making< /a>?

AMD: no longer the also-ran

AMD: no longer the also-ran 06/21/2004 04:39 AM
Long-term strategy for serious contender

Second Life Teaches Life Lessons

Second Life Teaches Life Lessons 04/06/2005 04:59 AM
Players use the online game for all kinds of non-game purposes, from counseling abused kids to teaching business students to be entrepreneurs. By Daniel Terdiman.

Record Longer

Record Longer 05/16/2004 05:58 PM

Optional No Longer

Optional No Longer 09/03/2004 11:55 AM
Expense-free option grants are a thing of the past, thanks to FASB's new rule.

iMac G4 No Longer?

iMac G4 No Longer? 06/04/2004 02:02 PM
According to Appleinsider Apple has informed resellers to not expect any further shipments of the iMac G4, leading the way for an iMac G5 and has dela...
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