The “Charge It Forward” campaign from myCharge is giving away chargers and asking everyone who receives one to pass it on to someone with a low battery. Continue reading Friends Don’t Let Phones Have Low Battery with myCharge
Developing a better, more efficient battery for increasingly connected technology is a real “killer app” that will change the game dramatically. Continue reading 3 Battery Innovations That Could Change Everything (or not)
We keep returning to those two problems that hinder the advancement of truly innovative mobile technology: batteries and bandwidth. Devices and software are powerful enough to do the amazing things we want, but either we cannot get the data we need to our devices where we are or the devices that can are so power-hungry that they do not really qualify as mobile. There are regular (and amazing) advancements in both technologies — but for now, users need a work-around for what we can affect: battery-life. At the Pepcom “Holiday Spectacular” event, we got to see two currently available products … Continue reading If You Read One Article About Portable Batteries, Read This One
The woes of the mobile device power user are most often directly related to the two great hurdles to consumer technology: “battery and bandwidth”. We have always assumed that the improvement would come through technological enhancement to battery capabilities and network speed — but innovation always finds its own way. The new Yubi Kickstarter project (just launched today) changes the rules on recharging our mobile devices: rather than expanding the battery (either through a larger battery or an external one) the Yubi project brings the charger to everywhere we are. Called the “everywhere-you-spend-time solution”, the Yubi smart-docks are designed for bars, restaurants, cabs, … Continue reading Yubi Happy You Heard About This
Expanding the discussion of battery life in wearable devices, particularly Google Glass and the Vuzix M100. We consider integral vs supplemental batteries. Continue reading Battery Life – Vuzix, Glass and everyone else
Lithium-ion batteries—which power everything from the largest datacenter UPS to the smallest mobile device—could be getting a major overhaul that not only increase their power, but also their potential lifespan. Continue reading Researchers Chase the Longer-Lasting Battery
We take a look ahead at some of the technology that could make the leap to the consumer in 2013… and why they likely won’t. Continue reading Tech Trends of 2013 (and the two reasons they will fail)