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Batteries Will One Day Be Smaller Than a Grain of Sand
When you think about batteries, two things come to mind; sitting out in the cold, waiting for your car batteries to be jumped, and the clunky lithium-ion batteries we’ve come to know and love as the life force of our gadgets. Research funded by DARPA is pushing the limits of battery technology in an effort to create the smallest batteries ...
Read More »Innards of the New MacBook Air Revealed: Four Batteries, No Hard Drive… Wait, What?
An anonymous tipster leaked this photo of the alleged innards of the new MacBook Air which is expected to be announced at Apple’s “Back to the Mac” event on Wednesday, October 20. New features include a re-designed case, more internal room for battery packs and no hard drive. Yes, no hard drive. At least that’s what these spy photos lead ...
Read More »Nespresso Capsules Used to Create Coffee Powered Batteries
Vienna designers Mischer�Traxler, also of Automatic Cake Decorator fame, used 700 used Nespresso coffee capsules, coffee grounds, strips of copper and salt water to create these coffee powered batteries. The batteries were used to power clocks at the 2010 Vienna Design Week. Six of the batteries connected together are enough to power a tiny clock. The whole collection of batteries ...
Read More »Battery Collector Gets Your Batteries Out of the Junk Drawer
Even people with above-average organization skills sometimes have a rough time keeping track of full batteries. Somewhere in your house, you likely have a junk drawer. And in that junk drawer is doubtless no less than 10 batteries of varied remaining energy levels. The Battery Collector is an all-in-one solution to battery organization and level testing. Shelf slots offering a ...
Read More »God Hates Us: AAAA Batteries Intro’d
You know what? Fuck Energizer and fuck that stupid pink bunny who keeps going and going. Batteries suck. I hate paying $4 for a 9V battery as much as you do. In fact, it’s absolute bullshit. So as a bullshit company, it makes perfect sense for Energizer to introduce yet another battery format to the market. This time around, it’s ...
Read More »Quick Cash for Dead Batteries (Plus: Bonus Swindling)
Apparently, there’s good money to be made in recycling older batteries. A recent Instructables article showcases how one sly fox made a few hundred bucks doing this. Seems all you have to do is round up a bunch of batteries, clean ’em up and you’ll make a fortune by turning them in at your local scrap yard. This article reminded ...
Read More »USBCELL Reinvents Recharging Batteries
Think about the masses of AA batteries you go through every year. How many of them could have been reused with an easier method of recharging? Even though we already have plenty of gadgets we charge from our computer, USBCELL allows us to save some money too. The USBCELL batteries charge right from a USB port on your computer, and ...
Read More »Hack: Extract 32 AA Batteries From a Single 6 Volt Battery
Interestingly enough, if you pop open certain 6 volt battery brands you will find 32AA batteries inside (a Heavy Duty Powercell was used in this example). That could mean some serious savings for anyone accustomed to buying expensive AA batteries. Then again, we have no way of knowing how these AAs compare to those brands, so it might still make ...
Read More »Never buy batteries for a flashlight again with Everlife Flashlight
You�ll never have to replace dead batteries in the Everlife/Faraday Flashlight because it doesn�t need batteries. That�s right, the Everlife flashlight does not use batteries; rather, it uses electro-magnetic induction, meaning that it gets its power from you shaking the magnets back and forth inside the flashlight. It has to be shaken for about a minute whenever its completely drained, ...
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