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Customizing Your Battery Life: Apple’s Smart Power Management Patent
“Different strokes for different folks” That timeless saying is quite honestly the best way to sum up the millions of different ways and reasons that people use their laptops. And while a continued advance in laptop power management allows users to customize and extend their machine’s battery life better than ever before, there’s still a [...]
The 60 Year (….and still going) Battery
A battery like this makes a 10+ hr. battery seem fairly insignificant. In fact, any battery that lasts 60+ years and counting (yes, that says YEARS) pretty much tops them all. Good luck getting this one into your laptop though. This epic battery is called ‘Karpen’s Pile’ after it’s creator, and it currently sits in [...]
AMD Unveils Fusion Chip at CES 2011; Touts 10+ Hour Battery Life
AMD, the California-based tech giant that has emerged as one of the world’s leading developers of computer processors, is set to display its new Fusion APU (Accelerated Processing Units) this week in Las Vegas at CES 2011. The Fusion chip is being touted as an industry game-changer and, aside from various other major benefits, is [...]
The Last Text: Don’t Text and Drive Documentary by AT&T
Being that The Battery Times is sponsored by one of the world’s largest online websites featuring cell phone batteries, anything that’s cellular phone related is of great interest to us. This particular mini-documentary by AT&T, however, should be of interest to anyone and everyone that owns a cell phone.
Charge with the Wind: iFan for iPhone
“I for one charge my phone every day and am still amazed how short its power lasts. Quite often I run out of juice in the middle of the day, for these moments I came up with the Ifan. An hardware App in the shape of a soft rubber skin with the energy wind fan [...]
Widespread Use of Solar Power Closer to Reality? M.I.T. Thinks So
The longstanding knock on solar energy, and it’s a significant one, is that it can’t be stored and essentially needs to be instantly used or lost forever. According to M.I.T., that may be about to change.
Drink Your Way to Better Battery Life with the Beer Battery Widget for Android
Let’s see a show of hands- Who loves beer?…..That’s what I thought. For the multitudes of beer-lovers throughout the world, the Beer Battery Widget v2.1 for Android is an ideal way to keep track of how much battery life is left on your phone. It’s a very simple concept; just pay attention to how much [...]
