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Fuel Cells To Appear In Laptops In 2004
prostoalex writes "The overhyped fuel cells will finally be delivered to the portable computing market. Toshiba and NEC will incorporate fuel cells into the laptops by 2004. Sony, Hitachi and Casio are expected to follow the suit. The tests show a fuel cell lasting 10 hours. With the form-factor of a Bic lighter, it allows the laptop user to carry a few extra cells in the laptop bag all the time. Battery prices are expected to run at about $200."
Booooooooooooooooooooommmmmmm!!!!!!
Is it just me, or can you already see the "FILL YOUR OWN FUEL CELL AND SAVE $$$" spam filling your mailbox? ;)
Spell cheek you've failed me four the last thyme!
"Is how much do the refills cost? Surely, 100ml or whatever of methanol is going to last you for 10 hours, but what do you do then? You can't regenerate it, so you go shopping for a refill?"
There's included instructions on how to fart into the fuel cell. That provides enough fuel for another 10 hours.
When nail clippers are considered a weapon, pretty much anything is fair game.
Could you imagine a bunch of nerds standing around the "pumps" at a refil station talking like truckers?
- "Where ya crunchin today"
- "I'm headin ova to the east side to war drive for a few hours then I gotta catch me a plane to Utah to kick McBride in the crotch."
- "Get 'er dun"
But seriously. Hopefully the refils are cheap enough that it would make this feasible. Otherwise I personally only see the technology being viable for desknotes or desktop replacement computers that are rarely away from a wall socket and could benifit from a (very) small battery.
There are only 10 kinds of people in this world... those who understand binary and those who don't
You know what else can be easily reconfigured to contain highly explosive materials for use as a portable bomb...? This shiney red rubber ball.
*pays homage to News Radio*
Banaaaana!
That's hilarious - somebody mod this funny, cuz some moron modded it insightful.
In this highly charged anti-terrorism atmosphere, it is important to make technology as transparent as possible.
iFuel-cell!
You can't take the sky from me...
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO - MOD THIS DOWN, MOD THIS DOWN!!! We can't allow this to be seen by an airline executive!!!!! Damn yooouuuu!!!!
And a better cocktail, IMHO. That other stuff will make you blind.
They say the first thing to go is your penis. Well, it's either that or your brain. I forget which...
Absolute Terrorism
Then the computer was all like beep beep boop
Booooooooooooooooooooommmmmmm!!!!!!
and then my testicles were, like, gone.
The computer blew up my testicles.
I liked my testicles
They were really good testicles.
It's nothing but crumpled porno and Ayn Rand.
" The day I can drive from home to school (~400 miles) without buying gas is the day that I will buy an alternative-fuel car."
It doesn't take an alternative fuel car. A friend of mine has '72 Dodge Monaco station wagon that he's restored. He has a 440 big block that has been bored out to 490 in it, and three fuel tanks. Even with that monster power plant, and 6000lb GVWR, he can go 500 miles without refuelling. Of course, right now, it'll cost him more than $100 to refuel...
I think that if you had a car like that, you wouldn't need a dorm. There's probably more room in the car.
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
But it won't be backwards compatible, so that way you'll have to buy a whole new laptop. Almost guaranteed. I thought the 802.11g equipment would be retrofittable because the antennas were the same. Nope! New form factor! Either put up with an ugly dongle that ruins the point of having a laptop, or pay us $3000 for a new one.
Sheesh.
i am a soviet space shuttle
Have you ever been clipping your nails and had a piece of nail fly off and hit you in the eye?
Deadly!
Damn! I've got to give that a try! That might top grounding 240V with my finger in high school shop.
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
>How about a wind-up dynamo crank on the side of the laptop? Let's make it 1 minute winding = 30-60min power.
Or you could intergrate that into the screen hinge. But, just imagine a geek, with his spastic uncoordinated movements, trying to charge his laptop. It'll look like he's doing the polka on an accordion.