Korean researchers have found a way to make lithium-ion batteries, the power packs commonly found in most consumer electronics, hold eight times more charge than they do now. A group led by Processor Cho Jaephil of South Korea's Hanyung University said that their breakthrough could lead to batteries that last 16 to 32 hours—that's enough to keep your laptop on and running through a flight from New York to Beijing, layover in San Francisco included.
The technology works by replacing graphite as the main material of the negative electrode in li-ions with 3D porous silicon particles made of silica and hydrogen flouride. The idea of using silicon nanowires is not new, but silicon tends to expand when in contact with lithium, making a regular pairing of the two unstable. Professor Cho's team said that it was able to overcome that shortcoming by using porous particles.
The team's applying for four basic technology patents in South Korea, the U.S. and the E.U., and will begin commercial production on the battery in four to five years. Cho added that his team's also working on merging the tech with solar panels. Solar-charged 16 hour batteries? Let's just hope the proper protections are in place to not turn these into mini-laptop bombs. [TMCnet]
According to an anonymous Engadget tipster, Verizon is supposedly launching their own version of the HTC Touch Pro on November 24th, following in the wake of 
During the election season, Barack Obama's campaign got a lot of kudos for its use of social media tools. As we noted in our post entitled 
This stainless steel, serrated cake knife plays music as you slice your delicious cakes and pies. Although its product page says that it plays tunes "suitable for every occasion," it only comes with "Happy Birthday," "Jingle Bells," the "Wedding March," and "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow," linked to the four buttons on the grip. For $14, I would want my cake slicer to come with more musical selections, like "Auld Lang Syne" or the "Funeral March". I don't mean to be rude, but I could think of many more occasions that call for cake! [
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At first glance, the new ball set to drop over Time's Square this New Year's Eve looks a lot like designs from years past. However, the updated ball is twice as big as previous versions (12-feet tall, 11,875 pounds) and it will be the first to be a permanent year-round fixture atop One Times Square. Besides its size, the ball is decked out with 2,668 Waterford Crystals and powered by 32,256 Philips Luxeon Rebel LEDS that are capable of generating more than 16 million distinct colors and billions of patterns. Essentially, it's a giant 
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Yes, another iPhone/iPod touch dock speaker that looks like the iPhone or iPod touch. But the Logic3 i-Station is not any dock because, grab onto your underpants, it can rotate. Rotate. Ro-ta-te, people, so you don't have to "strain your neck," like the press release says. You don't believe me? I'm not surprised. Check out the explicatory diagram by yourself.
As a prospective homebuyer, I have watched enough HGTV to learn a few things: people like open floorplans and they like big kitchens with stainless steel appliances—but they don't like wallpaper. Still, that has not deterred designers from trying to make wallpaper appealing again. One such designer named Camilla Diedrich is attempting to achieve this feat using intricate designs and fiber optics. Her Nature Ray Charles series comes in several different colors and can be purchased for about $231 a roll—although there are no details on how the wallpaper works or how it is applied.
It still looks too busy if you ask me, plus that lighting effect could get real annoying real quick—unless there is a way to shut off the power (or you are tripping balls 24 hours a day). [
They are secret. They are kinetic. They are made of rubberized rocket fuel. And they fire up destroying absolutely everything they come across, bouncing through bunkers, filling buildings with extremely hot flames, obliterating everyone and anything inside with fierce heat. The Pentagon officially calls them "kinetic fireball incendiaries". Other people call them kinetic rocket fire balls, and the way they work make them absolutely terrifying weapons.
Studios are pimping out Blu-ray titles heavily this holiday, and it may be the first time that we see a significant amount of players hovering around the $200 mark. Still, just because the technology is more affordable doesn't mean everyone will be ready to get on board. The economy still sucks and there are many people out there who think Blu-ray won't have a long tenure as the top format. So, my question to you is: will you finally go Blu-ray this holiday?
Most of us don't appreciate all the processes involved with our OS's boot sequence; we're far more interested in watching that status bar fill. In this visualization of the Linux boot sequence, each function is a node, and each line connecting the nodes represents a call, direct branch, or indirect branch. The image itself was created via logarithm interpreting the process as electrical signal, so if we're reading this correctly, it's almost as if you're looking at the brain pathways that boot Linux (oh you computer science junkies will have a field day with that analogy). [
Emperor, I mean Treasury Secretary, Paulson may have decreed that the bailout isn't just for bunk mortgage securities anymore, but my guess is you and I won't be receiving a chunk of that $700 billion federal pie directly anytime soon. So today's recession special Dealzmodo roundup will ensure you're not left out with a JVC MiniDV camcorder for $130, $100 off a Sony Mylo internet device and the Family Guy complete series for $60 bucks—in a Stewie head no less! But that, of course, is not all.
At least that's what a big picture of said 
Attendees can get some pretty cool swag at big conventions, but I have yet to see a product as functionally hysterical as this sperm-shaped USB drive handed out at the American Society For Reproductive Medicine's (ASRM) 2008 conference. I'll tell you what—whipping this thing out at while using your laptop at Starbucks should prove interesting.
[Thanks Eric!]
This is so cynical it just might work. Google 
I've never played a pinball video game that was quite right—
The classic lace-up gets some new styling with the Vans Fixed Gear Era ($65). Designed for fixed gear cyclists, the sneaker sports a canvas upper paired with a triple-stitched rubber-reinforced...
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