Tag: BATTERY CHARGER

Your tickets are booked. Your bags are packed. Your passport's been dusted off. It's finally time to take off for that exotic vacation you so sorely deserve, and to totally disconnect from the rest of the world... sort of. Sure, you probably won't want to spend too much time trolling through e-mails instead of strolling across the Île Saint-Louis. If you're like us, though, you'll still ...

Having just gone through a pair of AA batteries in two days playing some tennis on Wii, we're once again reminded that batteries are very, very wasteful. But not as wasteful as the Battery Powered Battery Charger. The device charges up AA or AAAs batteries, not from a wall outlet, but from D batteries that you put in the other side (not included). As OhGizmo points out, disposable D batteries ...

Some big brains at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed battery technology that could change the way we charge up our cell phones, cameras and other devices, according to the MIT News. The technology involves a change in the channeling of lithium ions through -- you guessed it -- lithium ion batteries. Created by MIT Professor Gerbrand Ceder and graduate student Byoungwoo ...