03-12-2006, 09:34 AM
Quote:Soon you could be running your laptop computer all day without a recharge as commercial versions of fuel cells go on sale.
At the Cebit technology fair in Hanover, Taiwanese hi-tech firm Antig said its fuel cells should be on the shelves of computer shops by early 2007.
The first versions of the methanol-using units should keep a laptop going for up to nine hours...
These "hybrid" devices will work with existing laptops and will fit into the media bay - typically the location of the CD/DVD drive...
full article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4794920.stm