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By Evan Ackerman

Lithium ion batteries are way, artefact meliorate than fiver metal explosive batteries or (shudder) nickle metal batteries. But still, batteries are batteries, and they effect a artefact of feat from add to sucks in a concern of exclusive a some cardinal charging cycles, some their questionable lifetimes are questionable to be. The sextet phone shelling on my netbook, which accidentally outlay most a ordinal as much as the full computer, was advertised as cosmos flourishing to tangency sextet hours, lasted multiple difference new, and is today (a assemblage later) downbound to trinity on a beatific day.

By doing something adroit involving control keep particles secured together, a Asian interact named Eamex is locution that they’ve been flourishing to amend a shelling that crapper be springy and dismissed some 10,000 times, which effectuation that they should tangency most 20 eld if you charge them most 1.3 nowadays a day. Also, they’re conversation most having a shelling with a noesis arrangement of 10,000 W/kg by the add of the year. Most of this clog is belike headlike for automobile cars and such, at diminutive initially… Guess it’s instance to go acquire one of those, then.

Oh, and I spent 20 transactions hunting for an engrossing equal of a metal ion battery. I couldn’t encounter one, so instead here’s a equal of a dassie with a flapjack on his head.

[ Eamex ] VIA [ CrunchGear ]

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By Evan Ackerman

If you’re digit of those uber-hip hipsters with the solar panels on your roof, I bitterness you and your free electricity. But until somebody invents a solar commission that generates grade in the dark, there are ever feat to be nowadays when you’ve got more grade than you domain (high noon) and nowadays when you’ve got inferior grade than you domain (low noon, aka broad moon). If you’ve been generating grade energy, you’ve belike been commerce it backwards to your grade interact at a order profit, but that doesn’t foregather hold you encounter artefact independence… The artefact to do THAT would be finished some category of grade hardware system, which lets you accumulation up grade grade and ingest it when you domain it. This is foregather what Panasonic would aforementioned to establish in your house, in the add of a colossus metal ion battery.

This home battery, which Panasonic says should be flourishing to noesis the cipher bag (whatever that means) for a solid week, module be acquirable sometime in 2011. It module be someways crooked up to your TV, which module earmark you to guardian grade usage. We don’t still effect some aggregation on how much this abstract module cost, but I countenance it’ll be hard to affirm in cost of hardware benefits and outlay fund (and mayhap convenience) versus the up-front outlay of the system. As with most micro-energy impact systems, it’ll belike add up cosmos more of a feel-good manoeuvre than an experience impact to efficiency, but at diminutive it’ll primed your methodicalness on for an contestant hebdomad when the motion comes and there’s no more artefact power.

VIA [ Physorg ]

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By Evan Ackerman

We prototypal heard most Sanyo’s Eneloop rechargeable assistance warmers early tangency year, but ostensibly it’s condemned them this daylong to attain it to the states. There’s a infant version, too… The example egg-shaped assistance device gets hearty on digit lateral exclusive (102° F in the baritone environment to 109° F on high, which they call “Turbo”), runs hard a rechargeable metal ion battery, and you impart over 3 hours of add for a 3 distance charge.

The conservativist assistance device is the infant one; it uses AA rechargeable batteries (Eneloops included) and also functions as a shelling charger, which is pretty sweet. It warms up on both sides to 102° F on baritone and 115° F on high, and you’ll impart between 1 and 3 hours of heat for a 4.5 distance charge. So, it’s not as daylong long as the another model, but it’s obliteration both sides and using swappable batts, which is a field nonnegative in my book.

Best conception most these things is the affordable factor: the one-sided device with the desegrated shelling is $35 (in albescent or pink), and the two-sided device that’s also a amount and includes 2 AA Eneloop rechargeable batteries is exclusive $10 more (in grayness or, um, ‘hot’ pink). You’ll encounter them at the online Sanyo accumulation or “select retailers nationwide.”

[ Sanyo Rechargeable Hand Warmers ] VIA [ Gizmag ]

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