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Nanosys Does Sharp Fuel Cell Deal
News Japanese electronics conglomerate Sharp has inked a deal with nanotechnology specialist Nanosys to develop fuel cells for portable electronic devices. Fuel cells that can run MP3 players, mobile phones or even TVs on small amounts of methane are...
[January 19, 2005, 8:30]
Toshiba Claims Fuel Cell Breakthrough
Talkback Fuel Cell Technology Invented and Created by NASA. I love these thieves saying they created something NEW,,, typical Japanese Mentality. NASA your the Best, Way to GO !
[June 25, 2004, 19:50]
Hitachi Squeezes Fuel Cell Into PDA
News Toshiba originally planned to produce a fuel cell in 2004, but delayed its plans by a year. Toshiba demonstrated a prototype fuel cell at this year's CeBIT electronics show in Germany, while NEC and Hitachi showed prototypes at the Nano Tech 2003...
[December 11, 2003, 10:35]
IBM Shows Off Fuel Cell With Mobile Potential
News No date was given for a commercial release of the fuel cell technology. IBM and Sanyo have put together a prototype of a fuel cell system for ThinkPad notebooks. The methanol-based fuel cell is designed to work with most standard ThinkPad systems...
[April 12, 2005, 15:05]
Fuel-cell Breakthrough Could Boost Portable Power
News Fuel-cell technology is very well established -- fuel cells are used on the space shuttle and a fuel-cell-powered car led the women's marathon at the Sydney Olympics -- but the engineering problems of miniaturising fuel cells for use in portable...
[December 11, 2003, 9:10]
Antig Confident Of Fuel Cell Success
News Speaking at the CeBIT trade show in Hanover last week, Antig said that it was already in negotiations with several laptop makers who were interested in deploying its fuel cell technology. Taiwanese manufacturer Antig has claimed that its fuel cell...
[March 14, 2006, 12:50]
Toshiba Fires Up Methanol Fuel Cell
News Toshiba next week plans to exhibit a fuel cell prototype that it said has the potential to replace environmentally taxing, rechargeable batteries with clean-energy technology. The Japanese electronics company, which ranks among the top notebook...
[March 6, 2003, 8:39]
Notebook Fuel Cell A Reality This Year?
News Taiwanese company Antig Technology has developed a compact prototype fuel cell integrated into a notebook PC. The company also showed off a prototype 12W fuel cell for notebook PCs and a prototype fuel cell charger for mobile phones.
[March 10, 2005, 17:00]
Toshiba Delays Commercial Fuel Cell
News Toshiba demonstrated the first prototype of its fuel cell at the CeBIT technology show in Hannover earlier this year. At a demonstration of its latest fuel cell prototype for portable devices in Japan on Friday, Toshiba said the cells would not be...
[October 3, 2003, 13:40]
Methanol Fuel Cells 'smaller And More Powerful'
News Some fuel cells take the water that emerges as a byproduct of the fuel cell reaction and remix it with the methanol. Although the first fuel cell-powered devices have been delayed, some are expected to hit the market next year.
[June 22, 2004, 12:40]
UltraCell Ready To Bring Laptop Fuel Cell To Market
News UltraCell's systems are fuelled by methanol, and include a reformer that converts it into hydrogen the fuel cell itself can use, Hill said. Fuel cells convert hydrogen and oxygen into water and electrical power, but technology and expense have kept...
[March 10, 2006, 15:10]
An End To Recharging For Mobile Phones
News In Hall 7, meanwhile, the Fraunhofer Department of Energy Technology is due to show the first functioning micro fuel cell for use in smartphones and PDAs. The plan is to replace rechargeable batteries in mobile devices with a miniature version of...
[April 18, 2001, 14:25]
No Fuel Like An Old Fuel
Leader No, we're not talking about IBM and Sanyo's fuel cell announcement this week - although it fits the template. We're talking about every fuel cell announcement in the past ten years. Fuel cells are the archetypical "Tomorrow's World" idea.
[April 13, 2005, 14:40]
Fuel Cell Phones Far From Reality, Says Report
News In March this year, Toshiba unveiled a fuel cell prototype that it said has the potential to replace rechargeable batteries with clean-energy technology. However, ABI expects the first 5,000 units of commercial micro fuel cell products in laptops...
[September 12, 2003, 9:14]
Motorola Creates Gas-powered Cell Phones
News Motorola researchers announced on Tuesday that they have successfully demonstrated a methanol gas-powered fuel cell, which can provide enough juice between chargings for a month of cell phone calls. The fuel cell is essentially a miniature...
[October 3, 2001, 9:00]
Gas-powered Notebooks Get Lighter
News Another fuel cell company, MTI MicroFuel Cells, gives the same projection. The replaceable fuel cartridges initially will last two to three times longer than batteries but eventually last 10 times longer.
[August 19, 2002, 17:05]
Toshiba Claims Fuel Cell Breakthrough
Talkback Isn't Fuel Cell technology also supposed to remove the environmental damage element to batteries, is the device easily recyclable, will the facilities exist or have to be made (i.e.easy dismatalation, common material used for recycle process.
[June 25, 2004, 23:02]
Smart Fuel Cell Shows Off Alcoholic Laptop Power
News Munich-based Smart Fuel Cell GmbH has shown early production examples of a methanol-fuelled device capable of producing 40 watts of power and intended to provide electrical energy for laptop, printer and cellphone at the same time.
[April 23, 2002, 17:18]
Samsung Turns To Mobile Phone Fuel Cells
News The South Korean manufacturer has signed a deal with a US-based fuel cell firm, MTI MicroFuel Cells. Samsung believes that fuel cells could be the future of mobile phone power. Under the agreement, the two companies will spend the next 18 months...
[May 18, 2006, 17:15]
Wearable, Long-lasting Linux
News Fuel cells can potentially provide an unlimited supply of portable power and may be the perfect solution to the currently limited life for batteries used for portable electronics," said Edward G Newman, president and chief executive of Xybernaut.
[February 18, 2000, 14:09]
