Battery fires are no fun. Just
The New York Times reports that Apple is researching new technologies to charge its products—and it could see its smartwatch come equipped with solar charging capabilities. Some day.
If keeping your smartphones, tablets, and other gear running all day long is more important to you than keeping your backpack light, the latest addition to Limefuel’s lineup of backup batteries—this 24,000mAh monstrosity—should be part of your daily kit.
Battery innovations have promised to change mobile technology for the everyday user, and we’ve seen all sorts related breakthroughs, from the 30-second battery charge to the urine-powered Samsung cell phone. … Continue reading
If you had to pinpoint one common feature of all the backup batteries on the market, it would probably be their uninspired brick-like form factor. There are exceptions, though, but none as elegant and civilized as Brando’s new lightsaber-themed portable backup battery.
Last year Vorson managed to squeeze a 2,500 mAh battery into its Bookmark power pack
A backup battery for your phone is only useful if you’re willing to carry it with you. So Native Union has come up with the JUMP which integrates a little extra power into your smartphone’s charging cable, ensuring it’s light enough to carry and always has a little bit of extra power to keep your device running.
Building the perfect battery is a hard problem. Batteries either too inefficient or too expensive or too unstable to power the renewable gadgets of the future. But a team of Harvard scientists just built a new kind of battery with a molecule found in food, and it could solve these problems.
If you own a smartphone and actually use it on a daily basis, there’s a good chance you’ve always got a backup battery close at hand. But what about your MacBook? Instead of desperately hunting for a plug when its battery life dwindles, Lenmar’s new ChugPlug is designed to integrate with the MagSafe adapter giving you a few extra hours of precious power.
Electric chainsaws aren’t anywhere near as powerful as the ones with gas engines, but Makita’s X2 LXT comes close—and offers several key advantages if you don’t need a tool capable of clear-cutting a forest.