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Here is something to look forward to. A Fuel Cell that powers this Pocket PC for 30 hours could one day be scaled to fit our devices. Mobion Won a General Innovation Award from Popular Science magazine for this baby, so it might have some clout to move it into a larger arena. The day you never need to recharge your cellphone—or any other gadget—just got a lot closer. Fuel cells have long been heralded as the way to eradicate the scourge of all handheld electronics: the dead battery. With their greater power-to-volume ratio, fuel cells last exponentially longer than batteries, and they can be re-juiced with a disposable methanol cartridge, effectively zeroing downtime. But nobody had been able to miniaturize them in a convincing application until June, when MTI Micro powered up a prototype pocket PC with its Mobion methanol fuel cell.
The demonstration wasn’t merely a tantalizing show-and-tell. Intermec, which develops inventory systems for the likes of Wal-Mart, is rolling out a radio-frequency identification (RFID) reader incorporating Mobion early next year. The IP3-FC/750 RFID reader is the first handheld commercial product to utilize a fuel cell—in this case, as a way to continuously trickle-charge the device’s lithium-ion battery. The reader will run for 30 hours, rather than eight, before it needs a new cartridge.
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