Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Fuel Cell Powered Handsets

NEC is supposedly set to begin pushing fuel cell-powered handsets The handset features a touchscreen display and what appears to be able to potentially recharge the handset once the fuel has all been used. Color choices seem to be a bit “girly” but it appears the liquid provides the color, so perhaps there will be some additional colors when it’s released sometime this year. However, there has been no word on any specs, pricing, or networks.




The electrochemical device that we are all familiar with is the battery. A battery has all of its chemicals stored inside, and it converts those chemicals into electricity. This means that a battery eventually "goes dead" and you either throw it away or recharge it. With a fuel cell, chemicals constantly flow into the cell so it never goes dead, as long as there is a flow of chemicals into the cell, the electricity flows out of the cell. Most fuel cells in use today use hydrogen and oxygen as the chemicals.



Alicia

1 comment:

Bald Eagles Team Blogg said...

This is actually good idea and whoever made it deserves some kind of award. We all use batteries today, and most of the things we own, operate on some kind of battery operated system. We all know that battery will go dead sooner or later, even if its rechargeable, so why wouldn't we be able to find a god use for something like this. Usage of this in a regular household would save us a lot of "garbage disposal" and also money, because they should lasf for long time.
Dragan