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Samsung Doubles Battery Power With Graphene

by Tom Allen

Samsung claims to have made a breakthrough in battery power, using graphene and silicon. Graphene layers, added to a lithium-ion battery, are able to boost claimed performance by almost 100%, says the company. A …

LG Sees Hexagons as Battery of the Future

by Tom Allen

LG Chemical has shown off a hexagonal battery, for smartwatches, which it says will bring up to four more hours of lifetime every day. The idea is that the shape will enable larger batteries …

Tags:Batteries| LG Electronics (LGE)| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartwatches| Vol 22 - Issue 27

For Wearables, Power is The Elephant in the Room (WF16)

by Phillip Wright

The 2015 SID Display Week Wearable-Flexible Market Focus Conference hosted a session and panel discussion on the role of and limitations for wearables imposed by power consumption and battery size, type and capacity. The …

Gionee Packs in Dual Batteries for Four-Day Lifetime

by Tom Allen

A new smartphone from Gionee has appeared in a TENAA listing in China. The M5 is the successor to the M3, featuring two batteries and four days of lifetime. The display is a 5.5″ …

Tags:Batteries| China| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 22

Ubiquitous Energy Could Help Solve Battery Problems

by Bob Raikes

Next week at the SID iZone, the display community will have a chance to look at a new technology, being developed just up the road from the event in Redwood City, California by Ubiquitous …

Tags:Batteries| SID Display Week 2015| Solar Panels| Vol 22 - Issue 22

Wearable Power Limits Pose Display Challenges

by Bob O'Donnell

One of the many challenges the wearable market faces has to do with battery limitations and physical size. The simple fact is that batteries require a relatively large amount of space and that’s not …

Tags:Batteries| Vol 22 - Issue 20| Wearables

Lenovo Widens Battery Recall

by Tom Allen

Lenovo has extended its recall for faulty Thinkpad batteries to include computers shipped between 2010 and 2012. The batteries may overheat, posing a fire hazard. A list of affected devices can be found at …

Asus Claims 10-Day Smartwatch Battery

by Tom Allen

Asus has shown off a new smartwatch at the Milan Design Week. The Vivowatch puts a greater focus on fitness tracking than Asus’ Zenwatch; the biggest appeal is its battery life, which is said …

SolidEnergy Developing a High Energy Capacity Li-ion Battery

by Arthur Berman

SolidEnergy Systems Corp. (Waltham, MA), a start-up that spun out of MIT in 2012, is using innovative materials to develop an “anode-less” lithium-ion battery technology that allows for the storage of considerably more energy …

Tags:Batteries| Vol 22 - Issue 13

Rumour: Oppo’s Watch Charges in Five Minutes

by Tom Allen

China’s Oppo – a mobile device maker known for its high-end and affordable smartphones – is developing a smartwatch with very fast charging. According to Chinese social network Weibo, Oppo will show its new …

KAIST Keeps Power Draw Low in Eye-Tracking HMD

by Tom Allen

Image credit: NikkeiThe Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has developed a head-mounted display, which combines object recognition, eye-tracking and augmented reality (activated by blinking!). The ‘Smart Glass’ uses a different chip …

Vector Claims Month-Long Battery

by Tom Allen

A new company called Vector is to introduce a smartwatch later this month with ‘a whole month’ of battery life. Vector will show the watch at an event in Basel, on the same day …

Tags:Batteries| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartwatches| Vol 22 - Issue 09