Monday, December 24, 2007

New Nanowire Battery Holds 10 Times The Charge Of Existing Ones

ScienceDaily reports: "Stanford researchers have found a way to use silicon nanowires to reinvent the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that power laptops, iPods, video cameras, cell phones, and countless other devices."

Smaller, better, faster, more affordable, efficient, and reliable portable batteries are one of the single most fundamentally important advances to the future of portable electronics. Although this has to go hand-in-hand with more power efficient components (such as: screens, ICs, storage devices)

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