Taiwan’sAntig Technologyand AVC Corp will be demonstrate off a fuel cubicle for laptop at next week ’s CeBIT Trade Show . They ’re say their fuel cell is output - ready and can go into laptops by the 2d one-half of this year .
While we here at Gizmodo bonk the idea of anything that allows us to stay outdoors for longer to write this blog , at least in warm weather , you ’ll have to excuse our potent ( but lie with ) skepticism when it come to fuel cells actually making it into consumer laptops anytime this twelvemonth . After all , in 2003 NEC was say fuel cell - powered laptops would be out in 2004 and that by 2006 they expected “ the fuel cell to be much more efficient and run for almost 40 hours without needing a top - up . ” Ha ! Toshiba ’s also been meaning to transport fuel prison cell in their laptops since 2004 , but admit at CeBIT 2005 that it ’d in all likelihood be three more year before they could actually commercialize them .
Notebook - Ready Fuel prison cell To Be Shown Next Week[ExtremeTech ]
Toshiba present fuel cell prototype[IDG News Service ]
Fuel cell laptop promises long life[BBC News ]
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