| A battery-powered airplane |
| Written by Billy Shih | ||
| Thursday, 27 July 2006 | ||
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Side Story
Silly me -- I thought newspapers were just going to become obselete because everyone read them online. That might still be a bit drastic, and a daily economic paper in Europe called Les Echos is trying to strike a balance by producing the paper electronically using iLiad E-reader.  Readers use a tablet that weighs less than a pound. Currently e-newspapers are only available in black and white, with 16 shades of gray. The real news is for the ad sales reps -- you can program the devices to show coffee ads in the morning and beer ads in the evening. Or if you happen to be reading your handy tablet near a Wi-Fi spot, ads may become more interactive to Mapquest you to their destination. Via: LiveScience.com Read More >>  Panasonic, insistent on proving that its new oxyride batteries have been increased by 120% in terms of efficiency and longevity, decided to prove the batteries' buffness in a logical way -- by powering an airplane with them earlier this summer. With our recent obsession with batteries, we stopped our "batteries + anything" Google search long enough to admire the work of Panasonic and the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Hell-bent on showing off the batteries, the Tokyo Institute designed a glider plane that flew -- albeit, briefly -- on 100 of the oxyride batteries. While it's certainly not the "21st Century Wright Brothers" as they're already claiming, we'll certainly salute you with our battery-powered flashlight over our solar-panel charging monitor.
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Captain
written by Jean-Luc Picard , October 02, 2006
I hope these batteries will be avaliable in England soon. Any got an info!
Good Product
written by bandung , July 23, 2007
Panasonic is working well....
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written by Suricou Raven , September 28, 2007
When discussing the environmental effects of batteries, the first and most important question is this: Can it be recharged?
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