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Carat: The Brilliant App That Increases Your Battery Life By Showing What Other Apps To Kill
“Kill Pandora – Expected Battery Life Improvement: 1 hour 50 minutes” This is what you’ll learn from Carat, an incredibly useful free new iOS and Android app that’s the first…
It hits you when you least expect it. It slips away under a mask of dormant inactivity. And it can ruin your entire day. It’s your iPhone 4S battery life,…
If you ever get the sense that someone on the wifi network you’re using is hogging all the juice, you may be right. Not only does sharing wifi with others…
Designer Wonchul Hwang has an idea: it’s a AA battery with a pop out USB connector that doubles as a flash drive and a rechargeable battery, thus allowing you to…
The Nintendo Japan site disclosed the official specs on the 3DS, and while overall it looks good, there is one thing that might be a deal breaker for some. Apparently,…
RIM To Playbook Doubters: L8R H8R, Battery Life Is Just Fine
Remember when some dude said that the Playbook got 2 hours of battery life on a good day? Wrong, says RIM. They released an official message to all the haters.
Panasonic's New Electric Bike Has Big Battery, Boasts 66km Travel Range
We’ve covered quite a few electric bikes over the years, but Panasonic’s new model, the oddly named EX BE-ENE [JP, PDF] has one feature that makes it stand out: at…
How do you recharge an electric vehicle in 59 seconds? Simple. You swap out the battery. Tokyo’s largest taxi company has been testing a rather surprising and innovative method of…
Flying Green: The Possibilities And Challenges Of Electric Aircraft
Airplanes release greenhouse emissions into the atmosphere and require enormous amounts of fuel to fly. A Boeing 747 can consume up to five gallons of fuel per mile. But what…
Our good buddy Wayne in Singapore just picked up the Icon iPhone charger at a PC fair and reports that it’s real, it works, and it’s pretty cool.
MiLi Power Skin claims to be smallest iPhone external battery yet
The trade-off between compact size and prolonged battery life has plagued iPhone owners pretty much since the product was released. There’s only so much space to cram battery cells in…
Sanyo's electric bicycle charges battery on both flat ground and downhill slopes
We have reported about electric bicycles multiple times in the past, but today Sanyo in Japan announced [press release in English] the “eneloop Hybrid Bicycle” whose battery riders can actively…
Battery-powered socks that help keep your feet warm? What may sound a bit like overkill at first does make sense when you think of motorcycle riders or people having to…
Amazon announces better battery life and native PDF support for the Kindle
Amazon announced some major changes to their Kindle e-book reader today. Specifically, it stated that they’ve worked out a way to increase battery life by 85%. That means that the…
Solar energy and lithium-ion batteries: Sanyo now builds "green" homes in Japan
Sanyo is already being considered Japan’s “greenest” brand in the consumer electronics field (which is the main reason Panasonic is about to acquire the company), but them building complete, eco-friendly…
Let all other flashlights kneel before the mPower Emergency Illuminator
LEDs have really changed the flashlight market. It used to be that a Maglight was the pinnacle of illumination technology. Not any more.
Man has long been on a quest for a better battery. This has resulted in some less then ideal solutions, such as the potato battery (it was half baked) and…
Panasonic unveils Lithium-Ion battery module and home fuel cell cogeneration facility
Panasonic has on display at CEATEC a “1.5 kWh battery module [made] from 18650-type (18 mm in diameter x 65 mm in length) lithium-ion battery cells, which are widely used…
Report: Panasonic to use notebook batteries to power electric cars
Japan’s biggest business publication, the Nikkei, is reporting that Panasonic is thinking about using lithium ion batterries used in notebooks to power electric cars. Obviously, the big idea is to…
Panasonic robot runs 24km on two AA batteries, makes it into Guinness Book of World Records
OK, Panasonic’s Evolta batteries are quite powerful, alright. A robot in a mini car powered by nothing more than two AA Evolta batteries completed five and a half laps on…
Seidio's normal-size extended Palm Pre battery adds about 20% juice
If you find yourself wishing your Palm Pre had a tad more battery life, Seidio is now selling an extended life battery for $45. It’s the same size as the…
Sony, so far not known to be a particularly “green” tech company, has announced plans [JP] to commercialize a total of six different models of batteries that contain no mercury.…
Attention, HP Mini 1000 owners. It looks like HP has a six-cell battery for the netbook available from its parts Web site. The battery (part number 517581-001) is actually for…
Hitachi Maxell develops no-leak alkaline batteries, gives a warranty
Hitachi Maxell Japan has developed a new kind of alkaline battery that’s supposedly shielded well enough to prevent leakage in the case of misuse. The new batteries will be part…
Apple published a support bulletin recently, finally disclosing what it’s going to take to replace those Macbook Pro batteries. It can be done, but not by the end user, and…
Longer life lithium-ion batteries coming to a hybrid near you
Hybrid and plug-in vehicles have been plagued by poor battery performance in the past. The next-gen rides simply do not offer that much MPG improvement because of the lackluster batteries, but LG…
Hey look at the ugly beast! It will give your eee PC 10-14 hours of uptime. This guy got it from ebay for 90$. [via jkkmobile]
Mophie’s Juice Pack for the iPhone 3G is without a doubt a must-have if you can swallow the high price tag of $100. But I’d gladly pay the extra $100…
Japanese company sells iPhone battery with built-in solar panel
Tokyo-based electronics company OTAS is selling a lithium-ion battery for the iPhone 3G that comes with an integrated mini solar panel [JP]. The so-called LC-1500 is housed in a leather…
Quick Version: We take a look at three different iPhone/iPod chargers from Kensington, RichardSolo, and i.Sound, weighing the pros and cons of each.