[Sandwich]

http://phys.org/news/2013-04-small-size-big-power-microbatteries.html#ajTabs

Though they be but little, they are fierce. The most powerful batteries on the planet are only a few millimeters in size, yet they pack such a punch that a driver could use a cellphone powered by these batteries to jump-start a dead car battery – and then recharge the phone in the blink of an eye.

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With so much power, the batteries could enable sensors or radio signals that broadcast 30 times farther, or devices 30 times smaller. The batteries are rechargeable and can charge 1,000 times faster than competing technologies – imagine juicing up a credit-card-thin phone in less than a second. In addition to consumer electronics, medical devices, lasers, sensors and other applications could see leaps forward in technology with such power sources available

Poor battery life has beeen my major issue with smartphones. This seems able to change all that.

* Sandwich is cautiously excited

[Dragon]

That's very interesting. If they make a reasonably priced smartphone using them, with Android and a QWERTY keyboard, small enough to comfortably fit into a pocket, then this might even cause me to actually upgrade my phone.

[headdie]

interesting, be interesting to see how long it takes to refine the technology into a private consumer level item

[The E]

So long as they don't explode then provoked enough.....

Seriously, a battery with an energy density like that is something I would only want to carry in my pocket if it has been rather thoroughly tested.

[Lorric]

Well, it certainly flashes the "too good to be true" hazard light, so I'll believe it when I see it, but it could well be one of the great inventions if it lives up to the hype.

[Trivial Psychic]

By by handguns, hello Electrolasers! 

[headdie]

By by handguns, hello Electrolasers! 

tbh laser tech in general from hand held tools to weaponary

[Fury]

So long as they don't explode then provoked enough.....

Seriously, a battery with an energy density like that is something I would only want to carry in my pocket if it has been rather thoroughly tested.

Quite so. Safety is paramount in consumer level hardware. But at this point anything that can surpass our ****ty batteries is welcome. We've been stuck with current battery tech for two decades now.

[Nuke]

So long as they don't explode then provoked enough.....

Seriously, a battery with an energy density like that is something I would only want to carry in my pocket if it has been rather thoroughly tested.

you know i dont think the explosions have been caused by the batteries, i think its more to do with manufacturers using underrated components, or mismatching power demands with battery ratings. ive been using and abusing lithium cells for several years (without safety chips) and ive yet to make one explode. drawing way too much current, overheating them, sending them into the ground at insane velocities, charging them improperly (with a no frills not too smart charger of my own design layed out on a ****ing breadboard) with no reguard for cell balence.

i dont know what these manufacturers are doing. i suspect they are reducing the power demands of the devices in software, testing their power usage, and then using a battery with a power rating that can barely meet those demands. of course take it out of the factory setting into the real world, and those batteries are overtaxed. manufactureres cut way too many corners. is hate to think that my engineering is better than theirs.

[Goober5000]

Very nice.  I guess the naysayers forgot about Mossad.

[BloodEagle]

So I wanted to know the exact (Hell, an estimate would be nice) vol/amp rates rather than 'thousands of times betterer?' and found that the relevant information is behind a tollbooth.  I get that this is common among university research databases, but I still have to say that it's freaking annoying. 

Assuming this all checks out, I'd like to see how it impacts the auto industry.

::EDIT::

Actually, that's not a university database (serves me right for not checking the link). 

[karajorma]

Don't believe the hype. Don't, don't, don't, don't believe the hype[/Public Enemy]

[Nuke]

yea im not really impressed. i knew something was iffy when they didnt give us any specs.

[headdie]

Still an interesting concept though, but yer like karajorma's post says more research needs to be dont to see what the true capabilities are and if and where there is a place for them

[Sandwich]

Very nice.  I guess the naysayers forgot about Mossad.

[Ghostavo]

And here I was wanting to never having to recharge my kindle ever again.

[BloodEagle]

And here I was wanting to never having to recharge my kindle ever again.

Nuclear batteries exist. 

[Nuke]

And here I was wanting to never having to recharge my kindle ever again.

Nuclear batteries exist. 

and can be had on the russian black market.

[Luis Dias]

regardless of hype, the reaction in the thread is funny as hell. A new revolutionary battery that could change the entire way we handle energy infrastructure for good. Reaction: "YEEEYY! BETTER SMARTPHONES!"

[Klaustrophobia]

a battery that loses 5% capacity every cycle isn't going to do wonders for the energy industry at large.  or smartphones either, for that matter.