Battery technology is reaching its performance limit and may not be able to cope with the next generation of power hungry cell phones, laptops, digital cameras, camrecorders, PDAs and military ...

Engineers have been struggling for years to develop some new breakthrough idea that will push battery technology to the next level. Instead, we've been stuck with iterative improvements that limit the ...

The day where you can say goodbye to lame laptop batteries draws near, as a preproduction unit of the UltraCell XX25 micro fuel cell system was demonstrated at the Intel Developer Forum. The power ...

Using MicroFuel Cell technology, Manhattan Scientifics (New York, NY) has created a working prototype of the Power Holster, a portable charger/cell phone carrier intended to eventually keep a user's ...

ALBANY, N.Y. -- Cell phones free from nightly recharges. Laptop computers that run and run without needing an outlet. Pocket TVs with enough power to show a Ken Burns documentary. Portable gadgets are ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/zdb649/analyzing_micro) has announced the addition of the "Analyzing Micro ...

Intended to provide a completely independent power source for troop electronics in the field, the XX25 micro fuel cell prototype from UltraCell (Livermore, CA) uses a novel reformed methanol ...

UltraCell Corp, of Livermore, Calif, a maker of micro fuel cell systems for portable devices such as satellite phones, radios and laptop computers, has raised $10.3 million in a third round of funding ...

The current buzzword in personal electronics is Wi-Fi, but the full potential of the latest laptops, cell phones and PDAs is being held back by batteries that last just a few hours. Major consumer ...

The components of a proton-exchange membrane fuel cell. Click to enlarge Undoubtedly while you carry out your day-to-day work around the radio station you use at least several rechargeable batteries.

Japanese mobile network operator NTT DoCoMo announced on Thursday that it has developed a prototype micro fuel cell that will recharge a third-generation mobile phone. The device, manufactured by ...