Toshiba develops MP3 player with 60 hour fuel cell battery

[ProtoJoe]

Firstly let me say I am not one to frequent these parts of the forum as most of the times its just giberish to me, but I thought that this deserved some highlight. So if this is in the wrong area, please move, and sorry.


Toshiba, who wears the belt for world’s smallest methanol fuel cell, has now developed two fuel-cell powered MP3 player prototypes. A flash-based player measuring 1.4 x 4.3 x 0.8-inches is said to run for 35 hours on a single 3.5ml charge of highly concentrated methanol while a hard drive based player swells to 2.6 x 4.9 x 1.1-inches and runs for about 60 hours on a single 10ml charge. Those dimensions are pretty sweet (the 60GB ipod is 2.4 x 4.1 x .75 inches by comparison) and will certainly get smaller once optimized for production. The players will be on exhibit at CEATEC Japan starting October 4th. Could this mean actual product by Christmas 2006?

[Thanks, Roamerick]

http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000623059086/

[Kaizen]

this looks cool i cant wait ..fiuh ipod ..well not really

[TriniXaeno]

battery life is a real mc for portable devices on the whole.

haven't seen many leaps and bounds in battery technology over the years.

can't wait for a leap frog like this to hit the market.

Pressura for the Energizer bunny.

Hopefully it will find it's way into Laptops as well.

Fill up your car and your laptop at the gas station and yuh good to go for the week.

Men sweating, laptop in the road, for days, wifi style. Not a plug in sight.

Look ma! No wires!

* [X]-Baego dreams.