Step Toward Liberating Electronic Devices From Their Power Cords 130
Science_afficionado (932920) writes "A new type of supercapacitor that can hold a charge when it takes a lickin' has been developed by engineers at Vanderbilt University. It is the first 'multi-functional' energy storage device that can operate while subject to realistic static and dynamic loads — advancing the day when everything from cell phones to electric vehicles will no longer need separate batteries. These devices could make it possible to design electrical devices that are not limited by plugs and external power sources."
How many? (Score:5, Funny)
How many stories have we read in the last two decades about breakthroughs in power that will replace current battery technology, cut the power cord, end our dependence on carbon or make our undies clean and white on half the water? How many have resulted in actual products and a better life?
Only the clean and white one.
hold a charge when it takes a lickin' (Score:3, Funny)
What does this folksy nonsense actually mean? Something to do with saliva?
Yep, reckon so..gahoop gahoop gahoop.
bestiality is illegal and guns are not for oral us (Score:4, Funny)
> a 9-colt with your tongue?
If that's a 9mm Colt, that sure sounds like a bad idea.
If you're talking about tonguing a horse - nasty.