Tag archive: batteries

Does anyone still listen to their tunes on a 1st-generation iPod nano? According to a statement posted on the Apple website on Friday, the battery inside some of the early nanos could overheat, posing a potential safety risk. “This issue has been traced to a single battery supplier that produced batteries with a manufacturing defect. While the possibility of an incident is rare, the likelihood increases as the battery ages,” the statement said.… Read More

These days, almost every smartphone user has felt the pain of their battery giving up the ghost — often at the worst possible moment. Sure, maybe you didn't have to play Angry Birds or Words with Friends when the battery was at an 89 percent charge, but now that it's at 1 percent (with no USB or wall power in sight), you're desperate to receive that critical text or email message. We've all been there. New research from… Read More

A small battery-powered robot made by Panasonic will be put through its paces next month when it takes on a testing Ironman triathlon course in Hawaii. The stunt being performed by the Japanese-made robot is intended to promote Panasonic’s latest set of batteries, which the Japanese electronics company claims can be recharged around 1,800 times using a special recharger pad. As reported by Reuters, Panasonic’s Evolta robot has already climbed… Read More

With modern life leaving people on the go and using their handheld devices more and more, the question arises of how we keep everything charged. Lugging around a power cable isn’t a solution and battery technology is still lagging a bit behind usage rates. The idea of charging a battery or device with wireless power has been considered a viable solution—albeit a relatively unexplored one. IMS Research, a technology consultancy, released a report… Read More

Science has not yet provided us with batteries that can power our electronics for more than 10 hours, but we have learned how to make batteries really small. Researchers at Rice University, led by Professor Pulickel Ajayan, have developed a complete lithium ion battery/supercapacitor hybrid that fits inside a single nanowire. The tiny device is 150 nanometers thick (it takes 1 billion nanometers to equal a single meter) and proves that lithium… Read More

When it comes to abandoning fossil fuels and discussing the future of energy, few technologies garner more attention than batteries. Simply, like most technologies, they need to become smaller and more efficient to play a significant role in changing our usage of power. But what about batteries becoming transparent? Researchers at Stanford University have developed a battery that allows about 60 percent of light to pass through its structure.… Read More

Ever since the bus was invented, the accompanying bus shelter has been a common feature of city life. Not only does it inform the would-be passenger where to wait, it also provides the driver with vital information regarding where to stop. Without them, who knows, there could be thousands of empty buses in our cities going around in circles, while lines at the aforementioned bus shelters snake around the block. Furthermore, as the name suggests,… Read More

Canada's Research in Motion is hoping to make a big splash with its PlayBook, a tablet companion to its BlackBerry smartphones that it says will beat the iPad at Web browsing and be a hit with enterprise customers. However, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal's All Things D, the PlayBook's QNX operating system may come with a high price: the PlayBook's battery reportedly only lasts a “few hours”… Read More

IBM has released its fifth annual “Five in Five” forecasts, illustrating five technology innovations it believes will come to pass in the next five years. And while each of the predictions is intriguing, one is certainly capturing a lot of attention: mobile phones with built-in holographic projectors so users can get a 3D view of the people with whom they're speaking…and maybe cute little blue-and-grey robots too.… Read More

We already know that tablets are going to take a bite out of PC sales and robots will take over social networks, but what else is happening in the next five years? Well, IBM has a few guesses. The company recently unveiled its annual “Next Five in Five,” showcasing five innovations it thinks will hit the tech market in the next five years. This year's list is filled with better batteries, 3D holograms, computer heat energy,… Read More

Cars are becoming exciting technology again. According to the AP, Panasonic will invest $30 million in Tesla Motors, or about 2 percent of the company. The Japanese electronics maker is hoping to reap some profits from the electric car movement. The company already makes batteries for Tesla, which has been selling electric sports cars since 2003. Together, the two companies plan to jointly market and sell packs of batteries themselves, a market… Read More

Tesla is certainly one of the most well known companies in the all-electric vehicle market. The company produces the Tesla Roadster that is a green sports car. The vehicle is one of the most attractive and desirable electric vehicles on the market and boasts some of the best EV performance and mileage around. One of the keys to improving the driving distance of the Tesla Roadster is to improve the battery packs in the cars. Tesla uses round… Read More

A month after reports surfaced that Panasonic was going to be in taking over electronic giant Sanyo, the deal is done: Panasonic has announced that it has acquired some 50.19 percent of Sanyo in a deal with some ¥403.8 billion, or about $4.6 billion USD. Panasonic's takeover of Sanyo was assisted by Sanyo's three largest investors—Goldman Sachs, Daiwa Securities SMBC, and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking—all of whom agreed… Read More

Rechargeable batteries are used in so many different products that we use today – everything from our computers and mobile phones to our cars have batteries inside. One of the major areas of research is in new battery technologies that will increase the run time of electrical devices and make safer batteries. Lithium-ion rechargeable batteries have been on the market for a long time and are prone to problems. The batteries, for instance, were… Read More

The LG Statement reads: “These counterfeit batteries are not manufactured by LG, but illegally bear the LG trademark and closely resemble actual LG batteries. LG is working closely with government agencies to identify and prosecute all sources of these unlawfully counterfeited batteries. In a handful of instances, these counterfeit batteries have ruptured while installed in a TM-510 cell phone, frequently when also… Read More