Tech breakthrough leads to a new battery that charges in 3 minutes and lasts 20 years
A startup has reportedly developed an ultra-fast charging battery that could change the EV game completely. The battery was developed by Adden Energy, a spin-off …
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Scientists invented a wearable that recharges in the most incredible way
For all the technological advances that have been made in the consumer electronic space, batteries are still the biggest limitation. Allowing a device to charge …
Astronauts are swapping out ISS batteries like it’s an old pickup truck
The International Space Station is a high-tech laboratory and high-flying living space. It’s an incredible structure that has been keeping astronauts safe and helping them …
Virgin Atlantic flight forced to land after passenger’s backup battery burst into flames
There are few things in this world more panic-inducing than realizing your smartphone battery is about to die in the middle of a long flight. …
Omni 20 USB-C battery pack review: If you try this $200 battery, you’ll never go back
I remember introducing the rest of my family to rechargeable battery packs about seven years ago, just as everyone was migrating from Blackberries onto a …
Apple is giving $50 refunds to anyone who replaced an iPhone battery last year
Apple is offering a $50 credit to any customers who paid Apple $79 for a battery replacement in 2017, according to a report from 9to5Mac. The …
Battery packs are for so much more than charging phones these days
Battery packs are as ubiquitous as they are cheap. The top-rated battery pack section on Amazon is one of the most hotly-contested on the entire …
Researchers finally invented a battery that won’t explode when it fails
We carry devices with us every day that have built-in rechargeable batteries, and whether it’s smartphone, tablet, or even an electronic cigarette, the lithium-ion batteries …
Amazon is recalling six battery packs due to fire risk
Amazon has issued a voluntary recall of six AmazonBasics portable battery chargers due to overheating, The Verge reports. The power banks, sold between December 2014 and July …
Groundbreaking invention can restore old lithium batteries to 95% capacity
One of the biggest stories in consumer electronics right now is Apple’s secret throttling of older iPhone models with aging batteries. The company misled customers …
Apple: Decreased performance with old batteries is a feature, not a bug
In a statement this afternoon, Apple addressed the consumer outrage about deliberately slowing down old iPhones with bad batteries. In its statement, Apple briefly explained …
New nanomaterial promises batteries that charge in seconds
Despite often annoying us with shorter-than-ideal lifespans and the occasional explosion, modern rechargeable batteries are actually quite remarkable, especially when you consider the power they’re …
This new battery tech breakthrough could mean even faster electric vehicles
Electric vehicles have a few key advantages over traditional combustion-powered cars, and one of the biggest is the potential for extreme acceleration. The Tesla Model …
Science finally figured out why your phone battery gets worse with age
Anyone with a laptop computer or smartphone knows all about how batteries lose their capacity over time. The day you bought it, your phone could …
Scientists have built a tiny battery that provides power and cooling at the same time
When it comes to processors, heat is enemy number one. Packing ever more powerful processors into constantly shrinking mobile technology is a recipe for cramped cases …
Scientists invented a battery that could work for a decade without degrading
Energy storage degradation in rechargeable batteries is a pretty serious problem that many of us put up with on a regular basis. It’s why your …
Here’s an awesome new battery technology that will never make it into your phone
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: an awesome, revolutionary, life-changing battery technology was just developed by researchers, allowing smartphones to last longer with …
Here’s the battery that could have saved the Galaxy Note 7
Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 was absolutely the most publicized example of faulty battery technology in the history of mobile phones, but exploding batteries aren’t exclusively …
Here’s what a smartphone battery looks like inside just before it explodes
We’ve all heard plenty about exploding batteries this year, so it’s kind of funny that scientists are just now digging into what actually causes rechargeable power …
How to stop your smartphone battery from exploding
2016 may be remembered as the year self-driving cars started to become a thing, or as a low point for American democracy. But it will …
Revolutionary new battery runs on gravity
It’s the same old story: batteries are holding us back. Technology is advancing so quickly across so many industries, but the next-generation batteries needed to power …
Researchers have created flexible batteries that never need to be recharged
One of my biggest gripes with today’s smartwatches is charging — specifically, that I have to plug in my wristputer every night, or it becomes …
Breakthrough battery prototype can store five times the energy of current Li-ion batteries
It’s the question that smartphone users have been asking for years: When will we get vastly better battery power in our devices? Thanks to some …
Breakthrough research could solve a major problem with lithium-ion batteries
Lithium-ion batteries are fantastic but they’re also unstable and can be explosive when they overheat. Researchers at Stanford University have been working on how to …
New breakthrough could lead to huge battery improvements
A research team at the University of Alberta may have made a breakthrough that ultimately leads to dramatic improvements in the batteries that power everything from …
A cotton T-shirt may one day charge your cell phone
Two engineers at the University of South Carolina conducted research that showed a modified store-bought T-shirt can act like a supercapacitor and store an electrical …
Apple to improve battery life by increasing cell density
An Apple patent uncovered on Thursday describes new technology Apple is experimenting with in an effort to increase the battery life in its device lines. The …
