Laptop Fuel Cells Coming Soon

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday March 11, 2006 @07:45AM from the whacking-people-over-the-head dept.

tomsastroblog writes "Soon laptop batteries could last all day and be recharged from a cartridge. BBC News has a piece on fuel cells as laptop batteries, and what their adoption could mean for laptop usage." From the article: "At the Cebit technology fair in Hanover, Taiwanese hi-tech firm Antig said its fuel cells should be on the shelves of computer shops by early 2007. The first versions of the methanol-using units should keep a laptop going for up to nine hours. Fuel cell technology got a boost recently when international air flight regulators changed rules that banned passengers from carrying flammable methanol onto aircraft."

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Re:dupe?!?!?!?! by Anonymous Coward · 2006-03-11 07:57 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I was using IE to search the web today and I never really realized how many ads there are. I usually use FF with adblock enabled. I mean, I actually saw fastclick and doubleclick sites! Things are still pretty bad with advertisers and seem to be getting alot worse too. And /. has Microsoft ads too??! That doesn't make a damn bit of sense to me.

To get back on topic..my laptop battery sucks and I sure could use one of these fuel cells.