This battery made of nuclear waste never needs to be recharged
Nuclear power provides roughly 10% of the world’s energy. Yet one of its biggest challenges is radioactive waste. While spent nuclear fuel is typically stored …
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An iPhone as thin as a credit card? This battery tech breakthrough could make it a reality
I marveled earlier this week at the incredible thinness of the Huawei Mate XT batteries. That’s the world’s first commercially available tri-fold foldable phone. Starting …
Incredible new batteries barely degrade after charging hundreds of times
Battery health is critically important, as we tend to hold on to our smartphones for several years. Battery health is also vital for other electronics …
Crazy new shapeshifting battery can stretch and twist
Researchers at the Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications in China have created a shapeshifting battery that can be stretched upwards of 5,000 percent. The …
Researchers made a battery you can eat that will power an edible robot
At some point in the not-too-distant future, a doctor might instruct you to swallow a robot you can eat to deliver some sort of therapy …
Researchers made batteries powered by tears for smart contact lenses
One of the coolest things we’ve seen in movies like the Mission: Impossible series is smart contact lenses that display all sorts of cool information …
New breakthrough may let us charge smartphones in 60 seconds
What if charging your phone took less time than brushing your teeth? A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences could …
Researchers invented water-based batteries that store more energy than lithium-ion
Chinese scientists have created a new type of water-based battery that is more efficient at storing energy than standard lithium-ion batteries. The new battery type …
This ultra-high density battery will power next-gen soldiers
Amprius is working on ensuring that its wearable battery fits into military operations. The battery will be part of a new Amprius battery vest, which …
Scientists made implantable batteries that are powered by your body’s oxygen
Pacemakers and other devices that go into your body often rely on batteries that need to be replaced or recharged in some way. However, a …
Giant sand battery can store up to a month’s worth of energy for an entire town
An entire town in Finland could very well get a lot of its heat from a giant sand battery before too long. The new battery …
Ingenious dirt-powered fuel cell can draw nearly limitless energy from soil
A team at Northwestern University has created a paperback-sized device that can rest within the soil and draw energy from it. The dirt-powered fuel cell …
New 48-Volt Quant supercar can go 600 miles on a tank of ‘salt water’
Electric vehicles are just one of the many solutions that engineers have been pushing as a way to cut down on global warming and greenhouse …
Samsung says it’s investigating swelling batteries in Galaxy phones
YouTuber Mrwhosetheboss discovered recently that several Samsung Galaxy flagship smartphones have started swelling up, a sign that the battery was failing. Like the handset in …
iPhone 14 might get battery life boost thanks to new 5G chip
As with any new generation, the iPhone 14 will deliver several improvements over its predecessor. Battery life is one of the upgrades that iPhone 14 …
This is what happens when you recharge your phone at 200W
Smartphone battery charging speeds have increased dramatically in recent years, with various companies pushing the envelope on what’s possible on phones and challenging each other …
This incredible new tech can recharge a smartphone in just 8 minutes
The newest smartphones support insane charging speeds, both when it comes to wired charging and wireless charging. And as has been the case for several …
Exciting new battery technology could extend the life of your next phone
Launched in 2015, the iPhone 6s can run Apple’s latest iOS release and benefit from all the new features Apple has developed in the years …
A 14-year-old girl died after a smartphone battery exploded overnight
Smartphone batteries aren’t supposed to explode, which is why the ones that do always seem to make the news. Most of the time, affected users …
Apple’s battery replacements still havn’t made everyone happy
Late last year, Apple admitted that it has been throttling performance on older iPhones with worn-out batteries. The admission won Apple a legion of bad …
Watch this recalled laptop set an entire room on fire
Most of the electronic gadgets we use are powered by lithium-ion batteries, and very occasionally, those lithium-ion batteries can malfunction. When they do, they have …
This is what Apple’s battery health ‘fix’ looks like
As part of its please-don’t-sue-us apology tour following the iPhone battery throttling revelations, Apple promised to introduce new battery health features to iOS 11.3, as …
Apple CEO Tim Cook ‘deeply apologizes’ for iPhone battery ‘miscommunication’
In an interview with ABC News, Apple CEO Tim Cook has offered an apology to “anybody that thinks we had some kind of other motivation” …
Apple stores are overrun with customers wanting cheap battery replacements
In order to placate the litigious masses calling for Tim Cook’s head over the iPhone battery slowdown feature, Apple recently decided to slash the cost …
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 …
Lithium-ion battery inventor claims discovery of revolutionary new battery tech
John Goodenough, the physicist widely credited with the invention of lithium-ion battery tech we all use today, has published a paper detailing his latest battery …
How to tell if Apple owes you a new iPhone battery
Apple is currently in the sixth stage of the “dealing with an Apple Product Fault” flowchart: Grudging Acceptance of a Very Limited Problem Probably Caused …
