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Imagine being able to charge you Pocket PC battery fully in just 3 minutes. If Toshiba's new battery technology is all it's cracked up to be, we'll get that wish in about 3 years. They have developed a fast-charging battery technology that promises to charge handheld batteries about 60 times faster than current lithium ion batteries. Lithium-ion batteries charge by absorbing ions in the negative electrode, and they discharge when ions flow from the negative to the positive electrode. Conventional lithium-ion batteries charge at a rate of 2% to 3% of their total capacity per minute and take an hour or more to fully charge, according to the company.
Toshiba's prototype batteries are lithium-ion batteries that contain a material in the negative electrode that is able to absorb about 80% of the battery's total power capacity in about a minute, according to Masayuki Ishikawa, assistant director at the company's Corporate Research and Development Center in Kawasaki, near Tokyo.
If Toshiba's new battery technology is all it's cracked up to be, we'll get that wish in about 3 years. They have developed a 
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