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Charge your iPhone and iPod On The Move

To stay loyal to the Apple gods means you have to live with the non-removable batteries on your iPods and iPhones. Bringing the USB cable along with you everywhere is good if you expect to have computer access to get some charge from its USB port, but not too helpful if you are out, let’s [...]

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Nokia Recalls 300 Million Batteries. Is Yours OK?

Nokia has announced a recall of 300 million of its batteries, which are manufactured by Matsushita between December 2005 and November 2006. This is due to over 100 overheating reports from around the world. Fret not, HipTech readers never get cellphones exploding on them. Affected model: Nokia BL-5C battery This battery is used in the following Nokia handsets: Nokia [...]

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No More Exploding Laptops, Thanks To Matsushita

Matsushita unveils that it is ready to mass-produce a new kind of lithium-ion battery that does not generate excessive heat even if it short circuits (the main culprit of exploding laptops). The battery uses a nickel-oxide anode instead of a conventional cobalt or nickel-manganese anode to generate more power. It achieves a capacity of 2.9 ampere-hours [...]

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Battery Powered By Water. Licking Is Enough To Charge It Up

Yet another amazing invention by the Japanese. Susumu Suzuki, president of Tokyo-based building material maker Total System Conductor, has created a battery that gets its power from water. The electric current from this battery is as powerful as regular alkaline batteries, yet as much as ten times cheaper to produce. The battery is even recyclable for [...]

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$430 million. Sony’s Damage From Exploding Battery Recall

A few days ago, we reported on Dell’s history-making laptop battery recall, which affected 4.1 million batteries worldwide. And as we know, Sony makes these batteries. So without doubt, the electronics giant took a very big hit from the recall. But we aren’t talking just a couple million of dollars. We are talking $430 million [...]

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Dell Recalls 4.1 Million Laptop Batteries. Largest Recall in History.

News of exploding Dell laptops have been popping up every now and then for the past few weeks. What appear to be mere mishaps of a handful of consumers turn out to be defective batteries affecting at least 4.1 million laptops. With today’s announcement for a major recall, it marks what is said to be “the [...]

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Future Batteries To Charge In Seconds

Don’t you wish your notebooks, music players and digital cameras can all be charged in a matter of seconds instead of grueling hours? The future is looking great for those of you who shouted “Yeah!”. M.I.T researchers have revealed that they have been working on a breakthrough battery technology that could make fast-charging and long-lasting rechargeable [...]

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Researchers Want to Turn YOU into a Walking Battery

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are going Matrix-style. No, not the coats and shades. They’ve created a prototype nanogenerator that is supposedly capable of producing electrical current via the bending and relaxing of zinc oxide nanowires. Zinc oxide is non-toxic, which means the wires can be safely planted into our bodies to help [...]

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Duracell’s 15 minutes charger and 2650mAh rechargeables

Even with lithium-ion batteries being the norm for electronic gadgets these days, rechargeable Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH) battery manufacturers are still going strong. Perhaps there’re still a ton of smart people who avoid such gadgets, knowing well how dirt cheap NiMH rechargeable batteries are, in comparison. And this group of people should be happy to [...]

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Charge your Gadgets On The Go

Although proprietary rechargeable batteries have almost taken over AAA batteries in gadgets such as cameras and portable music players, good ol’ AAA batteries do have their merits. Running out of juice while you’re away from a power source is never a problem, as it’s easy to buy a set of alkaline batteries to get your [...]

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