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Recharge Smart Charger Offers Recharge Time, Battery Power Meters

How has Energizer kept its successful bunny brand of batteries going, and going, and going (and going) for so long? By playing it smart — the Energizer Recharge Smart Charger, that is. A recent survey...

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Can One Rechargeable Battery Fit All Sizes?

We see plenty of unusual green concepts here at EarthTechling, and this one is definitely interesting: a rechargeable, one-size-fits-all battery. It’s called the A to D Rechargeable Battery (which...

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Apple Battery Charger Has Low Power Draw

Apple often believes the only way it can get something right is to build it itself. This mantra seems to apply especially to its new Battery Charger, unveiled yesterday for a price of around $29. It is...

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Lowe’s Lets You Recycle Cellphones, CFLs

Looking for a responsible way to recycle rechargeable batteries, cell phones, CFLs and plastic shopping bags? If 1-800-Recycling and EcoSquid are too much trouble, just head on down to your local...

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Sanyo Has Enhanced Rechargeable Battery

It’s no question that a lot of Christmas goodies come with batteries–and long after the shiny new toys under the tree have faded, those batteries will be sitting in your local landfill, doing nothing...

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Rechargeable Battery Recycling Rate Up

In 2010, Call2Recycle– a North American free battery and cell phone collection program–reports that it collected 6.7 million pounds of rechargeable batteries for recycling, a 10.1% increase over 2009....

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A Hand Crank Rechargeable Battery Concept

Recently, we covered a concept design that supplies power to your portables (and other devices) via a wind-up, spring-loaded mechanism. But what about all those battery-powered peripherals? Designers...

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DIY Wind Turbine Charges Batteries

If you use rechargeable batteries on a regular basis, you might want to brush up on your DIY skills for a new project we recently came across on the Hack a Day blog that harnesses wind power using...

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Will Plant-Based Dyes Power A New Generation Of Rechargeable Batteries?

Rechargeable batteries are a technological marvel that powers our modern world. Without these reuseable power packs, smartphones, tablets, and electric toothbrushes would be fantasy instead of reality....

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Mophie Juice Pack Helium iPhone Case Protects And Powers

A couple of phones ago, I ran into an abnormally crappy battery. Thinking myself clever, I found a double capacity replacement online. What I didn’t realize is that it would double the size of my phone...

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Lithium-Ion Microbattery Charges 1000x Faster Than Existing Tech

Sometimes good things come in small packages. And sometimes those things are the most powerful batteries on the planet. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a...

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Pomegranate Points Way To Silicon-Based Li-Ion Battery

Science describes nature, but science also borrows from nature. We’ve heard about a solar leaf, a smart watch inspired by buzzing insects, a hybrid car inspired by water, self-cleaning glass inspired...

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Rechargeable Battery Recycling Rate Up

In 2010, Call2Recycle– a North American free battery and cell phone collection program–reports that it collected 6.7 million pounds of rechargeable batteries for recycling, a 10.1% increase over...

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A Hand Crank Rechargeable Battery Concept

Recently, we covered a concept design that supplies power to your portables (and other devices) via a wind-up, spring-loaded mechanism. But what about all those battery-powered peripherals?Designers...

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