Few components in portable system design have as pervasive an impact on the user’s experience with the product as the power source and the system used to charge it. The length of time the battery ...

Maxell Corp. of America is expanding its line of lithium-ion and lithium-polymer batteries to target the increasing design-ins into wireless phones, laptop computers, and portable appliances. The ...

We don’t normally chase after commercial products, but when I ran across this guys work, I was impressed. My favorite has to be this solar powered GPS logger. It logs your trek to a SD card and it’s ...

As notebooks, PDAs, smart phones and other battery-powered mobile products proliferate, battery-power management continues to garner special attention. Semiconductor suppliers continue to launch ...

It’s no secret that wireless mice can eat through batteries pretty quickly. Rather than keep a fresh supply of AAs on hand at all times, [Phil] decided he would convert his mouse to use a rechargeable ...

Most smartphones and a majority of gadgets out there use either a lithium-polymer (Li-poly) or Lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery as a power source. While both these technologies have been working just fine ...