Historically, polymer batteries have not been able to provide the longV3021AU Batterylife manufacturers and consumers demand. Mitsubishi put lithium polymer batteries in its ill-fated Pedion notebook in 1997. The notebook sported several design novelties–it was far thinner than contemporary designs and was the first notebook with a shiny metallic chassis–but it cost nearly $6,000 and had some mechanical problems....

After its deployment, maintenance of the buoy fell to the Thai government.Funded by the US government’s USAID program, the buoy was the first of its kind deployed in the Indian Ocean.It is linked to a highly-sensitive pressure sensor on the seabed that measures ...

Extremely rare, the 1978 Heuer Ford Chronosplit RS Motorsport is the kind of piece that watch collectors dream about. Designed to look like spark plugs, the battery covers on the front of the watch require a special tool, and the upper LCD panel features a Ford logo. Amazingly, there’s a fully-functioning ...

Skeptics say that technology does not now permit green electricity to be bought separately from other power, a point they say the article glossed over. Robert Peterson, GM’s manager of electric-vehicle technology communications, says reporters are “asking much more intelligent questions about technology.” But he says he still must emphasize the difference between alternative-fuel vehicles for ...

Charged by the application of a very strong magnetic field, the Magnetic Tunnel Junction (MTJ) contains a set of nano-magnets–zones some 5 nanometers across in a zinc-gallium-arsenic-magnesium ...