HaloNoble6 Posted December 9, 2005 Report Share Posted December 9, 2005 (edited) Japan's NEC has developed a thin, foldable battery to be used in cards or clothes, leading to new possibilities such as people walking through ticket gates with fare passes in their pockets. The 0.3-millimeter (0.012-inch) thick battery can support tens of thousands of signal transmissions on a single charge and can be recharged in less than 30 seconds, NEC said. Here Edited December 9, 2005 by Felipe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capitalism Forever Posted December 9, 2005 Report Share Posted December 9, 2005 An exciting development! Thanks for posting! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
softwareNerd Posted December 9, 2005 Report Share Posted December 9, 2005 Very cool. Also check out this thin "ePaper". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ds1973 Posted December 12, 2005 Report Share Posted December 12, 2005 Yes, e-ink is doing some pretty cool work. Check out their press releases: http://www.eink.com/press/releases.html and how the technology works: http://www.eink.com/technology/howitworks.html Imagine the possibilities of a flexible battery integrated with a flexible display -- The "scroll" of the 21st Century. Also imagine a house without lights, just photo-luminescent wall paper (flexible OLED technology. I work with a colleague who worked on this at GE - not proprietary info, patent cited below). Check out US pat # 6,891,330 -- Mechanically flexible organic electroluminescent device with directional light emission. One of many steps to the future... http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?...S=IN/schaepkens Demetrius Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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