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Hitachi Readies Fuel Cell for PDAs

Anuj Jain writes "The Register is reporting that Hitachi and Japanese cigarette lighter maker Tokai will ship a direct methanol fuel cell system for PDAs in 2005. The prototype has already been built. The two companies believe they can develop the prototype into a device the size of a AA battery. Hitachi first demonstrated its fuel cell system back in March. NEC is also known to be working on a similar system of its own, as is Toshiba. Unlike Hitachi, they are targeting the notebook computer market. In October, Toshiba showed off a PDA-sized version of its fuel system that can recharge a mobile phone. Another article here. Light on details, but cool photo in the Reg article!"

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  1. Hello by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm still high

  2. First.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  3. In capitalist Japan... by quacking+duck · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    they stick cigarette lighter into your portable!

  4. Smoke 'em if you got 'em by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Balls, that is.

  5. creators' newclear power sails already fueled by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Due to excessive bad posting...blah blah blah.

    you call this weather?

    unprecedented evile/corepirate nazis/softwar thugs (Score:-1)
    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 12, @06:04AM (#7699252)
    cloning each other/themselves?

    they need to .continually refresh the suppLIE of wannabe fraudulent phonIE monIE billyonerrors, as the # of those with felony grand larcenIE indictmeNTs pending, or already sentenced, & on 'probation', grows daily.

    no matter, as the unprecedented evile execrable's clones are greed/fear/ego based also, they are no match for the creators' newclear power, & planet/population rescue mandates..

    actually, this stuff is unbreakable, operates seamlessly on several (more than 3) dimensions, & offers unlimited energy to build on.

    a real nightmare for the whoreabull payper liesense corepirate nazi softwar gangster stock markup fraud execrable/walking dead contingent.

    for each of the creators' innocents harmed, there is a badtoll that must/will be repaid by you/US, as the greed/fear/ego based perpetraitors of the life0cide against the planet/population, will not be available to make reparations.

    felonious softwar gangsters hoping to freeze time? (Score:0)

    by Anonymous Coward
    on Thursday December 11, @06:35AM (#7688518 [slashdot.org])

    buy striking DOWn UN motion to promote gnu/free stuff to developing nations.

    they
    seem to have hit the eXPanding georgewellian fuddite corepirate nazi
    execrable moretoll bullock. it's really just a sintax (t)error, whereas
    the fuddites' infactdead process, keeps replacing the 'one' in one
    wwworld, with won.

    lookout bullow. continued pretending does not help/makes things worse?, if that's even possible.

    united? nations? just won?

    consult
    with/trust in yOUR creators.... the light itself, is not frozen, but
    does function just as well in extremely low temperatures, all the
    way down to mynuts won? see you there?

  6. Re:'Terrorist' risk? by iminplaya · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    "...let him take a 'recharge' of pure methanol onboard the plane."
    Just eat a can of beans before take off, then they might ask why are you getting an enima from your laptop.

    Beans, beans, the magical fruit...

    --
    What?
  7. Re:Early Adopter? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Methnol isn't flammable. It's inflammable.

  8. Listen to Beatallica by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    (tune: Let It be)

    THE THING THAT SHOULD NOT LET IT BE

    When I find myself in times of trouble
    Hybrid children come to me
    Pray for father roaming--roaming free
    And in my hour of darkness
    It is standing right in front of me
    He is the thing that should not let it be
    Let it be, let it be
    Hybrid children watch the sea
    He is the thing that should not let it be
    Crawling chaos underground people
    Living in the world agree
    The wretch is fearless with insanity
    And though he has been sleeping
    There is still a chance that he will see
    That this thing should not let it be
    Not dead which eternal lie
    With stranger eons death may die
    These are words of wisdom--let it be
    I wake up to the sound of music
    Let the metal come to me
    Death to the one that will not let it be

    1. Re:Listen to Beatallica by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      Great Cthulhu! At least be properly seasonal!

      Over the River and through the Woods

      Over the River and through the Woods
      To the Plateau of Leng we go
      We hope that someday
      we can finally say
      that we saw the god on the slooo ope

      Over the River and through the Woods
      To Kadath so cold we go
      Nightgaunts pull the sleigh
      to hurry their way
      past the Shantaks O, we hooo ope

      Over the River and through the Woods
      I fear that we've gone too far
      the Gods don't condone
      a mortal at home
      farewell those who listened this far......

  9. mtbstudios@rogers.com by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    mtbstudios@rogers.com

    please email me some more info.

  10. didn't you get the memo? by *weasel · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    I don't know if the politically correct police told you or not, but you're not allowed to promote nuclear energy.

    you're supposed to ignore the inescapeable pollution and toxins that fossil fuels and lead-acid batteries dump into our atmosphere, and forget that nuclear power provides at the very least the opportunity for sealed system waste.

    nope, we'd rather be 100% certain that we're asphyxiating ourselves and the planet rather than run the risk of irradiating a designated part of it.

    any talk of a nuclear reaction is only to be met with horror and outrage. you're not supposed to point out science can create reactors in which it is -impossible- for them to go critical.

    no my friend, we are way more advanced a civilization than to think nuclear energy is plausible.

    --
    // "Can't clowns and pirates just -try- to get along?"