Batteries Continue To Suck

pvt_medic writes "As technology continues to grow, and we see more and more of a shift to portable electronic devices in our daily life, we are still constricted by one simple thing: Batteries. Newsweek has an interesting article about the lack of development in battery technology. 'Ironically, in our headlong rush to create sophisticated untethered computing, the most problematic technology turns out also to be the oldest: those nondescript metal cylinders that never seemed to be included with our Christmas toys.' And for those of you who would like an extensive overview about batteries, ExtremeTech.com has a nice overview."

Comments

no battery advances? huh?

[Lumpy]

Obviousally the writer is so young as to not remember the evil that is the NiCad battery.

Today's batteries are unbelieveably nice and great compared to the utter crap we had to use just 7 years ago.. NiCad batteries would get a memory effect, last very short times and have abyssimal storage capacity.

batteries have came a long way, and they will continue to improve... how about making processors and displays that dont suck down amps of power?

the problem isn't the batteries, the problem is the horrible inefficency of today's tech!