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Travel Smart with a Laptop Computer
It's not uncommon for business travelers to travel with a laptop computer in their luggage. While it may make conducting business on the road more convenient, there are some precautions to take prior to and while traveling with a portable computer. Replacement...
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Tell you how to monitor a battery
One of the most urgent requirements for battery-powered devices is the development of a reliable and economical way to monitor battery state-of-function (SoF). This is a demanding task when considering that there is still no dependable method to read...
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Safety Concerns with Li-ion
Safety is a sensitive issue that gets much media and legal attention, especially with Li-ion batteries. Any energy storage device carries a risk, and in the 1800s steam engines exploded and people got hurt. Carrying highly flammable gasoline in cars was...
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Global Battery Markets
The battery market is expanding, and the global revenue in 2009 was a whopping $47.5 billion.* With the growing demand for portable electronics and the desire to connect and work outside the confines of four walls, experts predict that this figure will...
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Apple's CES absence doesn't blunt laptop presence
Even though Apple the company is a traditional no-show at the Consumer Electronics Show, its new MacBook Airs were there in force. And on the PC side of the ledger, plenty of attendees were packing Netbooks, too. After traversing the acres and acres of...
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Giant batteries steady grid in New York
Lithium ion batteries aren't just for your laptop anymore. A group of truck-size battery banks are delivering quick bursts of power to the electricity grid in upstate New York. AES Energy Storage, a subsidiary of power generation company AES, today said...
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The Best Cordless Drill Batteries
Turn of on screw image by Marek Kosmal from Fotolia.com Cordless drills Cordless drills use a rechargeable battery that is either nickel based or lithium ion. The best cordless drill battery for your drill is determined by several factors. The drill you...
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Apple Macbook Pro (15in, early 2011) notebook
If you were considering a Macbook Pro recently but held off to see what the model refresh would bring, you might be disappointed. There aren't many innovative updates in the new Macbook Pro -- Thunderbolt is the only one worth writing home about, in our...
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Four Renegades of Battery Failure
Declining Capacity Energy storage in a battery can conceptually be divided into three imaginary segments of the available energy,the empty zonethat can be refilled, and the unusable part(rock content). Figure 1 illustrates these three sections. Figure...
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Your Future Battery-Powered Life
Hop into the DeLorean, and take a look at your life in 2021. Are spacesuits fashionable and is teleporting feasible? We’re keeping that a secret. But one thing is for sure: your daily routine has drastically changed, for the better. It’s smarter, more...
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Lenovo T420 Laptop With Long Life Battery Up To 30hrs
Something that often become a problem when using the laptop is battery life. How long is the ability to survive your laptop battery? Maybe if you understand the correct use and care, usually at high 2 hours. Some laptops have a battery that can last up...
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Will Secondary Batteries replace Primaries?
Consumer market put aside, the largest users of primary (non-rechargeable) batteries are the military, specialty emergency services and forest fire fighters. High energy density, long storage and operational readiness are among their strong attributes....
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All about Chargers
The performance and longevity of rechargeable batteries are to a large extent governed by the quality of the charger. In a price-competitive world, battery chargers are often given low priority, especially as consumer products. Choosing a quality charger...
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Why Lithium Has Become Our Preferred Battery of Choice
Over the last decade or so, most of us have slowly found ourselves increasingly dependent on a single type of battery: a lithium battery. This has led to some interesting questions on why lithium has become the preferred choice, and what comes after lithium?...
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Serial and Parallel Battery Configurations
Battery packs achieve the desired operating voltage by connecting several cells in series, with each cell adding to the total terminal voltage. Parallel connection attains higher capacity for increased current handling, as each cell adds to the total...
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Battery Life Finally Becomes a Positive for AMD
There’s been lots of talk about how new chips from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices are good at chores like handling video. But one of the biggest stories for AMD may turn out to be battery life. The Sunnyvale, Calif., company’s chips for laptop computers...
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A Battery-Ultracapacitor Hybrid
By combining the chemistries of ultracapacitors and lithium-ion batteries, a company called Ioxus has created a hybrid energy-storage device that could recharge power tools in minutes and might never need to be replaced. The company says future incarnations...
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NBN batteries pose disaster issue: experts
With some mobile telecommunication services in Queensland currently under siege and mains power shut off to thousands, an expert has warned that basic fixed phone services could have been cut off if the National Broadband Network Company (NBN Co) had...
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Power Tools Recharged In Less Than a Minute by New Lithium-Ion Ultracapacitor
Ioxus, a company located in Oneonta New York, developed a new type of lithium ion ultracapacitor. Ioxus offers pre-packaged modules, individual cells, or complete system integration to streamline productiveness. The ultracapacitors and hybrid-capacitors...
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Samsung Nexus S :Exotic look with brilliant features
Samsung Nexus S an Oleophobic surface phone with the multi touch input method and accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate. The internal memory of the phone is of 16GB and is with the 512 MB RAM and no card slot. This Smartphone is with the Camera of 5...
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Samsung Q330, an A-List budget laptop
Stylish and usable if you're after performance and power more than battery life. We’ve seen virtually no Intel Core i3 laptops in our Labs, not because we haven’t asked for them, but because Core i3 laptops have been somewhat thin on the ground here in...
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Cold brings out battery of charges
Curious about the toll the cold weather is taking on batteries these days, I stopped by The Battery Man at 1390 St. James St. on Tuesday to get the scoop, and learned that rather than vehicle batteries, the highest demand is for cellphone, camera batteries...
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New Toshiba netbooks offer all-day battery life and thin design
And whenever Australian Business Traveller takes to the skies we take note of what computers are being used in airport lounges and on the plane. There's no doubt that the older mid-sized laptops are making way for slimmer models, especially the 'thin...
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The Battery Cell Is The Key Part Of Any Battery – Battery Startup In Position To Make A Bigger Splas
After three years in business, ActaCell Inc. is turning out the kind of lithium ion toshiba laptop battery cells that could one day go into an electric vehicle. The Austin startup is making them very slowly in its crowded North Austin development lab....
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Safeguarding gadgets when mercury drops
This winter’s brutal cold might take a toll on your cellphone or laptop computer, which can become sluggish or even stop working when sufficiently chilled. But like your fingers and toes, these devices can be protected from the cold’s effects if you take...