Batteries Becoming Limiting Step For Portable Toys

grqb writes "Reuters is reporting that strong growth for portable devices such as laptop computers, game and music players, PDAs and mobile phones is expected to pressure battery manufacturers to improve their products, which are quickly becoming the limiting step in portable technology development. The lithium-ion battery technology that is commonly used hasn't changed in several years. The race is on to find battery technologies that are lighter and have increased life, but major breakthroughs don't seem to be on the horizon other than the lithium polymer battery, which can squeeze roughly 10-20% more life than lithium-ion. Micro fuel cells that run off of methanol are touted to be the next major wave for portable power, although logistics and price still make these fuel cells long shots, which is why Nokia recently dropped development of this technology."

Comments

Re:Batteries?

[Gogo0]

You dont need as much battery life if you cant play your mp3s or videos on your portable devices.
DRM improves battery life!

Re:Obvious solution

[BlogPope]

I'm sure the Duracell lobby will run out of energy soon.

Its the Energizer lobby you have to watch out for. They keep going, and going, ...