Category: battery news
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Top 6 Tips for buying a new laptop battery
6 Tips for buying new laptop batteries Tip 1: Check your products manual To learn the battery specs is very important, before you buy a new laptop battery, your should know the battery model,it’s better if you know the battery volts and battery capacity.so you can buy the right one. Tip 2: Check for freshness…
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Laptop Battery Breakthrough Promises Lighter Weight, More Power
Better battery life is on the top of most people’s gadget wish lists. Now, a technology breakthrough from MIT offers hope for the mobile masses — but it will have to contend with other experimental approaches in a race to the market that could take years, experts say. MIT researchers say they have found a…
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HTC One X battery life boosted 10-20%
HTC One X extended life battery boosted 10-20% with unofficial Tegra 3 power management fix While putting the final touches on the HTC One X software, HTC’s developers managed to place an application in the wrong directory, causing some issues for the Tegra 3 power battery management software on the HTC Style Phone. The misplaced…
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Jelly Battery Can Power Small Electronics
Jelly has long been used to describe many things, including Santa’s belly around the holidays. But it has never been associated with batteries…at least until now. A new battery news posted in Physics touts findings that jelly could become a solution to make less expensive, but equally effective, batteries for small electronics. European scientists have…
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Testing Lithium Titanate Batteries – aussiebattery.com
Lithium Titanate Batteries Face Testing A Portland-based battery developer is rolling out a new battery technology and letting power customers kick the tires. EnerSol Energy Systems Solutions’ push to find early adapters to put lithium titanate batteries to the test is part of an increased focus on grid storage and electric vehicles. The three-man company…
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Apple MacBook laptop batteries susceptible to hack attacks
Now that Apple has endowed the Mac operating system with state-of-the-art security protections, a researcher has devised new attacks that target the machine’s battery. Charlie Miller, well known for his numerous attacks on iPhones and Macs, may not have achieved his ultimate objective of making a Mac spontaneously combust, but he has figured out how…
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Apple’s own version of NFC incoming
Apple preparing own rival to NFC? Apple isn’t one to adopt new tech just for the sake of it, and it looks like that’s not going to change anytime soon. The Cupertino company refused to use NFC for its Passbook app in iOS 6 due to the fact it’d sap the iPhone’s battery life, according…
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How To Benchmark Your Laptop Battery Life With Battery Eater
While that rule seems simple enough, it isn’t always easy to follow. Laptop manufacturers have a tendency to overstate laptop battery life, and sometimes by no small margin. A manufacturer who claims ten hours of battery life rarely confesses that the stated battery life can only be achieved if you leave the laptop running at…
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New Battery Technology Promises 10X Charge Life of lithium-ion Batteries
Researchers at Northwestern University have developed a lithium-ion electrode that they say will allow conventional Li-ion batteries to hold a charge 10 times greater than current battery technology. If true, that would theoretically allow electronic devices that use the technology about ten times the battery life that they use today, a key advantage for gadgets…
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Top 5 Common Problems with Laptop Batteries
The laptop battery is an integral part of a notebook computer, as it provides the portable power needed to use your laptop on the go. Unfortunately, laptop batteries can experience a number of issues, and even in the best case, a laptop battery only has a limited life before it will need to be replaced.…