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Lithium batteries should be banned as cargo on passenger planes, says UN...
Planes that carry passengers should be prohibited from carrying large quantities of lithium batteries in cargo, a United Nations aviation watchdog says. The ban is scheduled to come into force on April...
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Portable USB battery with Apple Lightning input port
This is the first USB battery I've seen with a Lightning input port (instead of a micro USB port). It's got 3600mAh and you can buy it for $(removed) when you use the YCOIWN27 coupon code at checkout....
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Anker's PowerHouse is the biggest "portable" power pack yet
We're huge fans of portable power gadgets, but this one isn't going in my pocket to help me keep my phone topped up after lunch. Anker's Powerhouse is the size and weight of a concrete construction...
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KFC's new meal box with a built-in battery to charge mobile devices
KFC's new "Watt a Box" is a meal box with a built-in battery, micro-USB, and lightning cables to charge your smartphone. It's available as a special limited edition "prize" for customers at KFC stores...
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Eneloops are amazing rechargeable batteries
I have just replaced my first set of Envelop AA batteries, ten years after I bought them. Around 10-12 years ago I was I doing a lot of underwater photography. High capacity, low-static-discharge AA...
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Video teaches you battery basics
My old MAKE colleague Collin Cunningham made an entertaining and educational video that explains battery specs: milliamp hours, voltage, chemistry type, etc. I've never opened a 9-volt battery but...
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This 10mm battery terminal ratchet makes my eternal screwing up less painful
My cars and bikes have the batteries in hard to reach places. This 10mm battery terminal rachet helps out! In prepping the Vanagon Westy for a long roadtrip, I found I've killed my house battery. I...
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Adding a bit of asphalt speeds lithium battery charging by 20 times
A Rice University chemist found that adding asphalt to lithium batteries allowed the battery to go "from zero charge to full charge in five minutes, rather than the typical two hours or more needed...
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Anker Astro E1 Candy-Bar Sized Ultra Compact Portable Charger
I've always had a good experience with Anker products, so when I saw this 6700 mAh battery on sale for $14, I bought it. I have other batteries with a lot more capacity, but I wanted one that was more...
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A $10 USB Multimeter for testing cellphones and powerbanks
This PowerJive USB Multimeter measures amps, volts and mAh on all my portable devices. I wanted to know if my 3 year old 10,000 mAh USB powerbank was still holding anything close to 10,000 mAh. This...
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Duracell wins battle of the alkalines, but cheap brands do well
Chris "The Crispiest Bacon" Hill made this perfectly-designed chart showing how long different brands of alkaline battery lasted in the same flashlight. The surprise would seem to be the Rite Aid and...
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Report: Three Apple employees treated after iPad battery "explodes" at store
Michael Potuck: "Apple's Amsterdam store has been evacuated and temporarily closed after an iPad battery exploded and released potentially harmful substances into the air. As reported by iCulture,...
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Swapping batteries on a 2011-era MacBook Air
I put a new battery in my 2011 11" MacBook Air. I love the laptop more than I minded the frustration. It will probably be easier for you. I come from the time where we carried spare laptop batteries...
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My Wahoo Tickr and Cadence sensors need replacement batteries
I am proud of me. My heart rate tracker, and my cadence sensor, both need their CR2032 batteries replaced from actual USE! Yesterday, during my 4x a week ride on my faux Peloton exercise bike, I...
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Some iPhone Xs and Xs Max owners are having problems charging their new handsets
When you pay 1,000 bucks for a thing, it'd be nice if it, you know, does what it's supposed to. In the case of a smartphone, that means taking calls, accessing the Internet, taking great photos,...
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Race AA batteries through tubes made of copper wire
As a method of testing battery output, it seems a bit elaborate, but racing AAs down coiled copper tubes looks like a lot of fun. Mr. Michal: Duracell, Varta or Energizer, Which Will Be the Best? In...
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How I stopped destroying car and motorcycle batteries
This PulseTech charger, and responsible behavior, has changed my life. I used to kill the batteries in my cars and motorcycles on an almost annual basis. I would intend to ride the bike more, but it'd...
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Stretchable, twistable battery for future wearable devices
Batteries have always been a barrier in the evolution and adoption in soft, wearable devices. You wouldn't want the chemicals inside batteries to leak out onto your skin and ideally there wouldn't be...
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Turning bricks into batteries
Researchers have transformed ordinary red bricks into batteries by injecting gases that enable the material to store electricity . Developed by chemists at Washington University, each brick costs only...
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Die Hard star Bruce Willis reprises role to push DieHard batteries
Yippee ki yay, Bruce Willis is pushing batteries. DieHard ones, of course. AdAge: Advance Auto Parts has tapped Bruce Willis to recharge DieHard, the 53-year-old car battery brand it acquired from...
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The best AA lithium rechargeables
Long denied to consumers, rechargeable lithium AA batteries are finally a thing. Which are the best? Project Farm tested several brands, exhaustively, and compares them to standard nickel...
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How to clean that gross discharge on your batteries
Over at Wirecutter, my friend and colleague, the Power Queen Sarah Witman got up close and personal with that whitish, crusty mess that often overtakes your alkaline batteries (you know what I'm...
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Concrete buildings could become rechargeable batteries you can live in
Concrete is the most widely consumed material in the world after water. Now, researchers have been exploring how it can be used to store electricity to eventually transform concrete buildings into...
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Wonderful TV commercial for batteries from Japan
This Japanese TV commercial for National batteries is absolutely wonderful. I'm not sure it would sway my battery buying decisions but it's certainly more entertaining than most TV commercials today....
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Scientists create new biodegradable batteries out of crabs
Lithium-ion batteries have allowed us to make some pretty impressive advancements in energy storage.They're not the most environmentally sustainable option, as they still lose capacity and degrade over...
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Watch what happens when you shoot a lithium-ion battery with a nail gun
The folks at iFixit put together this video about battery safety that looks frighteningly similar to the home experiments my friends and I used to do in high school. But they do with better safety...
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Electric vehicle "spontaneously combusts" on California freeway. Oh, you know...
Metro Fire of Sacramento reported that a Tesla Model S traveling eastbound on Highway 50 Sunday afternoon when its battery compartment suddenly burst into flames. "Engulfed in flames, nothing unusual...
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Reuters: Tesla rigged in-car driving range projections and established team...
Tesla had a secret internal team tasked with suppressing thousands of driving range complaints generated by falsely optimistic dashboard estimates. Reuters reports that "Tesla employees had been...
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Honda's Motocompacto is an electric briefcase-sized scooter
Honda's Motocompacto is an electric scooter that folds out of and back into a briefcase-sized block, inspired by (but even smaller than) the 1980s gasoline-powered Motocompo. Sporting an LED display...
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Marjorie Taylor Greene says Georgia can't have both batteries and bibles
In Marjorie Taylor Greene's divisive world, you can use batteries or read bibles, but never the twain shall meet. Or at least that's what she said at a town hall, as reported by Meidas Touch. "I'm very...
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