New Battery Tech Gives Eight Hours of Play Time on One-Minute Charge

[PH3NOmenon]

How on earth do you charge a battery with a physical reaction?

It's either nuclear or electromagnetic then?




It seems very unlikely that tech of this importance is released for an xbox controller before anything else. If this was true, we'd be seeing it in phones and cars already, no?

 

[Pyrian]

Maybe it's a spring? A wind up controller. =D

 

[Veylon]

Maybe it's a spring? A wind up controller. =D

It does seem to be the most reasonable answer. We used springs to power handheld objects in the past.

So why not again?

 

[Naldan]

Maybe it's a spring? A wind up controller. =D

It does seem to be the most reasonable answer. We used springs to power handheld objects in the past.

So why not again?

Because the consumption of energy is too high in these devices, if it's one spring.

Maybe it's thousands, millions of springs. But this in one minute?

I simply hope it won't be like the ion akkus of today. It's rare, but they explode. And when they explode, it's devastating at worst.

I always tremble in fear and agony when I have to hold my SAMSUNG Galaxy S+ which I regularly use in the bathroom while smoking, showering and stuff. It will explode sooner or later. And that will be at the same time of the year when I actually use it for telephoning instead of YouTube. This will be my death. Help.

 

[Xman490]

I'm pretty sure the XbOne controller has way more than 8 hours on regular AA batteries. They last long enough for a final play session after the "battery is low" notification comes on.

 

[Denamic]

Battery tech has always interested me. With more and more advanced gadgets, power consumption is a concern. And with portable devices, that power consumption directly influences battery life. Battery life can be the difference between bliss and wanting to kill yourself out of pure boredom.

 

[KingsGambit_v1legacy]

Over the years, there have been a dozen or more such announcements, each promising higher capacities, faster charging and so on. To date, not a single one exists in the only form that matters...that of a product I can buy, and use, today. Until such a time that these things exist in the real world, I no longer care or believe any promises they make. It's still vaporware at this point, words on screen or paper.

 

[Skee]

Based on the picture posted by Jamash, the size could explain why this revolutionary battery technology would start with game controllers. If that's the smallest they can make it currently, it has no chance of working for phones yet, let alone cars. (The energy to volume ratio of that thing would require you to fill a van with these to get decent range.) But a game controller can just about tolerate a bulge like that.

Still likely vaporware, but the claim could at least make sense.

 

[mad825]

Maybe it's a spring? A wind up controller. =D

It does seem to be the most reasonable answer. We used springs to power handheld objects in the past.

So why not again?

....Seeing as this is electrical energy aka electrons (stored via chemical energy) and not kinetic (Physical) energy. Chemical can easily be altered to deal with the electrons/positrons while a spring or something physical in that manner would be deformed, possibly irreversibly without specialist maintenance at least.

Self-winding watches don't use much if any electrical energy.

 

[Strazdas]

Or use a wired controller like normal people. I guess we are a bit closer to quick-charging technology that could be used in electric cars, though?

I suppose this tech is great for the MLG/ pro gamers out there.

pro gamers dont use wireless.

One step closer to power armor!

For those who don't know, top-level R&D teams have made power armor that works like that seen in games like Halo or film characters like Iron Man (minus the flying and hand blasters though), but what's holding it back is battery life. The best battery in the world can't power it for long enough to be practically useful in battlefield operations.

the key is exoskeletons, like seen in STALKER [http://stalker.wikia.com/wiki/Exoskeleton]. Its not so much of an armor as an enhancement. imagine a soldier that can run faster, lift more and punch harder without ever getting tired.

 

[MercurySteam]

Man the stuff at CES this year has been sweet. Obviously everyone's first question will be "how much will it cost to implement elsewhere?" but controllers are a good start I think. Now just imagine if we could apply such technology to car batteries......