Collaborate Disseminate
Lithium-ion batteries are often in the news for terrible reasons, but the problems go well beyond faults in the cells themselves. The post Don’t Blame the Batteries For Every Lithium-Ion Explosion appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading Don’t Blame the Batteries For Every Lithium-Ion Explosion
A small number of gadget makers here at CES are realizing that the very best gadgets are the ones that turn on. The post This Is the Year Gadget Makers Finally Fix Battery Life appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading This Is the Year Gadget Makers Finally Fix Battery Life
We get a lot of press releases at Hackaday, but this one was horrific enough that we thought it was worth sharing. Apparently, some kids are accidentally eating lithium coin cell batteries. When this happens with bigger cells, usually greater than 20 millimeters (CR2032, CR2025, and CR2016) really bad things happen. Like burning esophaguses, and even death.
The National Capital Poison Center has done some research on this, and found that 14% of batteries swallowed over the past two years came from flameless candles like the ones above. We know some of our readers also deal with batteries in open …read more
It’s been about a year and a half since the Batteroo, formally known as Batteriser, was announced as a crowdfunding project. The premise is a small sleeve that goes around AA and AAA batteries, boosting the voltage to extract more life out of them. [Dave Jones] at EEVblog was one of many people to question the product, which claimed to boost battery life by 800%.
Batteroo did manage to do something many crowdfunding projects can’t: deliver a product. Now that the sleeves are arriving to backers, people are starting to test them in the wild. In fact, there’s an entire …read more
Continue reading Counting Laps and Testing Products with OpenCV
At Hackaday, we get notified of a lot of the cool events going on in hackerspaces all around the world. We’d like to keep you informed too, just in case there’s something going on in your neighborhood.
So we’re going to start running a weekly column on Saturdays that groups together all of the upcoming week’s exceptional events and noteworthy gatherings. If your hackerspace has something going on, let us know on or around the preceding Wednesday. We’ll see your space in on Hackaday!
What would you hack to clean things up …read more
In its pursuit of slimmer, more powerful phones, the entire industry is setting itself up for more Note 7 fiascos. The post Gluing Galaxy Note 7 Batteries Down Made It Worse for Samsung appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading Gluing Galaxy Note 7 Batteries Down Made It Worse for Samsung
Samsung’s Note 7 fiasco is a reminder that battery cell tech is still a volatile issue. The post Why Smartphones Still Blow Up appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading Why Smartphones Still Blow Up
In Fairbanks, Alaska, keeping the lights on is a matter of life and death. Continue reading Behold: The World’s Largest Battery
Scientists building new materials are looking to nature for inspiration. Continue reading Crab and Shrimp Shells Could Be Used to Make Battery Parts of the Future
The iPhone’s not as groundbreaking as it used to be. That could change though! The post Three Big Upgrades That’d Make the iPhone Exciting Again appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading Three Big Upgrades That’d Make the iPhone Exciting Again
