Carbon Nanotube Ultra-Capacitors being developed/tested at MIT would be the most ideal candidates to replace any battery (not just for DoD). And if they wanted an easy way to charge them, how about wirelessly via another MIT invention recently seen in the news. Since charging a capacitor is almost instantaneous versus a much longer time for batteries, the loss due to efficiency of wireless power could be negated? I don't know if this would work for sure, but just seems common sense to me.
Poor kid cast his spell succesfully, enchanting the item with great magical properties. Too bad the leather was inferior and did not hold the enchantment long enough for him to descend from the tops of Teldrassil safely.:(
I have a Neuros and the darn thing has given me nothing but problems. I guess that's what you get when you buy a product when it first comes out. I hear the newest one's are being manufactured better, but be warned about the original models.
A list of the problems I've had: Randomly formatted my disc a few times when I first got it. The battery charger plug on the device became unsoldered twice (each time I had to return the device to be fixed with a 4 to 6 week turnaround). They told me it must be the plug I was using to recharge it (I used the car charge I bought from them, and the wall AC adapter that came with the device). Shortly after getting my free upgrade to USB2.0, the device stopped functioning (could not read the disc). I called tech support, and they actually told me to hit it quite rigorously on the side to get the needle of the hard drive to "unstick". I guess the Toshiba HDs they bought were faulty, and that is what Toshiba told them to recommend to their customers if the needle became stuck. What do you know, it worked!!! Since then, the only problem I've had is that the fuse in my car charger blew, but I can fix that on my own. Has worked great for what it does, just pray you don't get the beta.
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Carbon Nanotube Ultra-Capacitors being developed/tested at MIT would be the most ideal candidates to replace any battery (not just for DoD). And if they wanted an easy way to charge them, how about wirelessly via another MIT invention recently seen in the news. Since charging a capacitor is almost instantaneous versus a much longer time for batteries, the loss due to efficiency of wireless power could be negated? I don't know if this would work for sure, but just seems common sense to me.
The LEES ultracapacitor project would win this hands down.
No, no. Tom Brady won it. He had that game from the coin toss on.
Poor kid cast his spell succesfully, enchanting the item with great magical properties. Too bad the leather was inferior and did not hold the enchantment long enough for him to descend from the tops of Teldrassil safely. :(
What about our beloved penguins? Will they survive the mass extinction?
MPAA == Motion Picture Association of America America != Finland. QED: MPAA did not shut these sites down.
Nope, they gave us earliest buyers of the Neuros a free upgrade to usb2.0 when it became available.
I have a Neuros and the darn thing has given me nothing but problems. I guess that's what you get when you buy a product when it first comes out. I hear the newest one's are being manufactured better, but be warned about the original models.
A list of the problems I've had:
Randomly formatted my disc a few times when I first got it.
The battery charger plug on the device became unsoldered twice (each time I had to return the device to be fixed with a 4 to 6 week turnaround). They told me it must be the plug I was using to recharge it (I used the car charge I bought from them, and the wall AC adapter that came with the device).
Shortly after getting my free upgrade to USB2.0, the device stopped functioning (could not read the disc). I called tech support, and they actually told me to hit it quite rigorously on the side to get the needle of the hard drive to "unstick". I guess the Toshiba HDs they bought were faulty, and that is what Toshiba told them to recommend to their customers if the needle became stuck. What do you know, it worked!!!
Since then, the only problem I've had is that the fuse in my car charger blew, but I can fix that on my own.
Has worked great for what it does, just pray you don't get the beta.