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Photos: USB-rechargeable AA Batteries
News A novel solution for portable power was launched on Tuesday — the USB-rechargeable AA battery. The UK company says it will soon be expanding its range to include phone and camera batteries. For now, the AA batteries — which are used in a multitude...
[September 20, 2006, 13:25]
New Game Boy Advance Revealed
News Partly to offset the demands of the internal light, Nintendo has added rechargeable batteries to the GBA SP. The rechargeable Lithium Ion battery that comes with the GBA SP offers 10 hours of continuous gameplay with the front light on, and...
[January 7, 2003, 9:41]
An End To Recharging For Mobile Phones
News The plan is to replace rechargeable batteries in mobile devices with a miniature version of the hydrogen fuel cell used to power electric cars, and recharge it with a super-efficient solar cell built into the devices.
[April 18, 2001, 14:25]
Nuggets: Remote Control That Will Keep You In Your Chair
News Four AA batteries or NiMH 4.8V rechargeable battery pack x240 pixel touch-screen LCD Instead, by keeping the RC5000 in its docking station you can keep its rechargeable battery topped up. It's not too bulky at 138x92x38mm, and with four AA...
[October 3, 2000, 13:15]
IPod's 'dirty Secret' Wins Web Fans
News Other iPod users have reported that the device's battery life diminishes with use, as is common for many rechargeable batteries. Unlike standard disposable batteries, the rechargeable power supplies used in the iPod and other high-tech gadgets do...
[November 26, 2003, 16:25]
Handspring Colour PDA, Phone Module Near
News The Platinum will also come with a 30MHz Motorola Dragonball processor and 8MB of RAM, but its screen will be monochrome and it will not have rechargeable batteries. The 3-ounce module will come with its own rechargeable battery.
[September 20, 2000, 8:16]
Apple Unveils IPod
Talkback iS THERE ANY IPOD OR MP3 PLAYER THAT USES STANDARD EASILY AVAILABLE REPLACEMENT RECHARGEABLE BATTERIES.
[January 1, 2004, 15:31]
Recycling Batteries And Phones For Free
News David Berlind reports from New York on the Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation, which helps organisations recycle rechargeable batteries and old mobile phones free of charge, in some cases benefiting charities.
[September 28, 2007, 17:40]
Energy Saving Scheduling For Embedded Real-Time Linux Applications
White Papers Many of these systems, in fact, are powered by rechargeable batteries, and the goal s to extend, as much as it is possible, the autonomy of the system. The problem of reducing energy consumption is becoming very important in the design of embedded...
[April 18, 2007, 0:00]
Printek Case Study: Rayovac
White Papers Rayovac markets the number one selling domestic rechargeable brand battery, and is the world leader in hearing aid batteries. Rayovac is the third largest U.S.manufacturer of batteries. Their partnership with Printek came about when Rayovac was in...
[September 25, 2004, 0:00]
Researchers Claim Battery-life Breakthrough
News The researchers have found a way to use silicon nanowires to give rechargeable lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries, used in laptops, iPods, video cameras and mobile phones, as much as 10 times more charge.
[January 15, 2008, 8:10]
NEC Develops Ultra-thin Battery For Mobile
News NEC also claims that the new battery is environmentally friendly because, unlike conventional rechargeable batteries, it does not contain any harmful heavy metals such as mercury, lead or cadmium. NEC has developed an ultra-thin, flexible...
[December 9, 2005, 15:50]
Bluetooth Add-on Coming To Palm V
News The Waveclip is powered by rechargeable NiMH batteries that the company claims provide more than ten hours of use. At the same time, the batteries can recharge the Palm V if the need arises. A Singapore-based company plans to release a Bluetooth...
[March 22, 2001, 8:34]
IBM Shows Off Fuel Cell With Mobile Potential
News This is quite a new concept that utilises both micro fuel cells and rechargeable batteries," Mitsuru Homma, group executive of power solutions at Sanyo, said in a statement. Unlike traditional batteries, fuel cells usually use alcohol or hydrogen...
[April 12, 2005, 15:05]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Turns out it died because its rechargeable batteries short-circuited; twenty years later, one of the batteries then went open circuit. Monday 1/07/2002 Did you know the skies are full of amateur radio satellites?
[July 5, 2002, 15:41]
Vista-friendly Peripherals Unveiled
News The Wireless Entertainment Desktop 7000, also a keyboard, has the same Vista buttons as the 8000 model, but lacks the backlighting and isn't rechargeable, taking four AA batteries instead. The keyboard is rechargeable with a horizontal docking...
[September 14, 2006, 10:00]
Nuggets: Kodak's DC3400 Is Easy As Pie
News Unlike Kodak's DC4800, you don't get a rechargeable battery. Instead four AA batteries are supplied. Two megapixel digital camera inc VAT) g (inc CF card and batteries), 133x54x76 Automatic and fill flash, red-eye reducer xAA batteries, 8MB...
[December 18, 2000, 16:01]
Nuggets: Nikon CoolPix 990 Is A Top-class Challenger
News Comes with 16Mb CompactFlash memory card, 4 x NiMH rechargeable batteries and charger as standard (not if they forget to pack it you don't! Oh, and Nikon forgot to supply a charger for the camera's batteries.if that happens to you, make sure you...
[December 22, 2000, 8:03]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Each battery has around half the capacity of the best standard AA rechargeable, meaning you'll have to charge it twice as often. USB batteries. First, the extra space needed in the batteries for the connector and the individual charging circuit...
[September 22, 2006, 19:25]
Photos: Recycling The Mobile Mountain
News Oxis Energy is pioneering lithium sulphide electrochemistry to produce a low-weight rechargeable battery. Although cadmium was phased out of new batteries in the 1990s, old batteries still turn up. An exhibition has opened at London's Science...
[April 4, 2006, 12:20]
