If there’s even the slightest risk you won’t have access to an outlet or a powered USB port for 24 hours, you’d better hope you’ve got a backup battery in tow to keep your phone alive. And while function usually trumps form when it comes to external power sources, Incase has decided to overthrow the norm with a couple of backup batteries that are downright lovely.
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Researchers at the New Jersey Institute of Technology have invented and patented a battery so flexible that it can be rolled up and placed in the trunk of your car to power it, reports Phys.org. The invention’s many applications run the gamut from large-scale machinery to flexible smartphones. This could go a long way towards […]
A backup battery is only as useful as the cables you remembered to bring to connect your phone or tablet. Bring the wrong one, and your device will die a slow, frustrating death. So that’s why Digital Treasures has integrated USB, microUSB, Lightning, and Apple Dock Connector cables into its new ChargeIt 3600mAh backup battery.
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Imagine a future without batteries. But in the same future, your cell phone charges in minutes and stays charged for weeks. Thanks to the world’s first silicon power cell, this future might not be so far away—and graphene is helping us get there.
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Electric vehicles are a fast-growing technology that is ever evolving, and one of the latest contributors to that technological evolution is Volvo. The auto maker has come forward with details about its new battery technology, which, among other things, utilizes the car’s body panels and super capacitors. We’ve got all the details on this tech […]
Not to be left in the dust by the likes of LG’s continued exploration of the many fanciful ways batteries can be arranged in a smartphone, Samsung has appeared exploring the furtherance of the technology behind solid state batteries in Korea. Owing partially to the idea that these solid state batteries have a far smaller […]
As beautiful as it is to wake up to a fresh snowfall, the honeymoon’s soon over when you realize it’s up to you to clear a path for your car. You can go the shovel route and risk a heart attack, opt for a gas-powered snow blower and risk going deaf, or have at it with a corded model and risk electrocution. Thankfully there’s one other safer and quieter solution with Joe Snow’s new iON18SB rechargeable snow blower that runs on batteries.
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There are certain problems we all deal with every day, but don’t know why. Why do I need to keep resetting my router? Do I have a virus? What happens when a site I use gets "hacked?" Whether you’re the tech-savvy friend that’s always answering these questions or the friend doing the asking, here are the answers to the most common conundrums.
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No one really waits until a battery is completely and utterly dead before tossing it—we usually swap them out when a remote starts to get finicky or a flashlight begins to dim. So it’s estimated that most discarded batteries have an average of 400 milliamps of power left in them; a fact this clever advertisement capitalizes on to recharge cellphones.
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If you’re fortunate enough to use one of the handful of smartphones that natively support the Qi wireless charging standard—or have even opted for a case that adds that functionality—MugenPower’s now got a backup battery that lets you leave all your charging cables at home.
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