Comments on: Neat Stuff

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 22:38:18 +0000

Actually, I was personally thinking about solar cells with their own batteries on the back, but small devices would obviously be the first to be targeted commercially. Room for the battery and the cost of designing batteries for devices is a drag on new products.

Still, the thought of an electric car that didn’t act like a pick-up with an empty bed is appealing.

By: jamsodonnell

jamsodonnell — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 12:07:00 +0000

Wow.I wonder where they will be used. Badtux is probably right on that.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 07:52:12 +0000

The actual use of this would be for very tiny devices, where currently the metal casings of traditional lithium batteries make creating such devices impossible. The deal is, when you’re thinking of the impact of this technology, thinking small is what you should do. Electric cars don’t need this technology, they need something with higher energy density than this provides (this technology basically only provides lithium battery energy densities, which we already have for electric cars, and which isn’t enough). But an ultra-thin electronic device… you just *know* that Steve Jobs could have thought of half a dozen possibilities for making really thin gadgets out of this stuff. Or even real e-paper that’s, like, actually like paper…