Paper Battery

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091207/sc_nm/us_battery_paperScientists never stop amazing me. What will the future be like when all electronics are made of paper or powered by paper?

Amazing dude amazing. I dont need to spend soooo much money once its mass produced!

Nice. We'll see amazingly thin and light electronic products soon if this implemented correctly. :D

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Agreed. a thnner DSi!!!

Nah, I think NDS era will have ended when we got that mass produced. Actually I'd like to see multimedia devices to be as thin as a credit card. This is one of the technologies that supports that and I bet we'll see it in about the next 10 years or earlier. :D

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Not me, i prefer a good weighty device.1.It won't snap when I hold it (I have a "T-800" grip :( )2.It feels more real than some toy3.I can blugeon people with it if they true to steal itMy ds phat has passed all 3 areas...my dsi can't even give someone concussion :(Dslite just busted...weak.

Humm... I'm not talking about today's device... Think outside the box, it'll have lots of consideration before it is made, it won't break so easily... (Have you ever chipped your credit card in two, no?) and believe me, our "thick" electronic devices will be considered ancient in the next ten years. :)

paper as betteries? what about the trees?!?
other than that little point, nice! less pollution! (but less trees... :( )

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dont worry, its a renewable source. cut one and plant a new one. that simple. only the illegal logging makes cutting trees bad. they cut the trees illegally and they dont even plant seedlings or something. but in a controlled way, it will be renewable.

kamuikurou · #7Humm... I'm not talking about today's device... Think outside the box, it'll have lots of consideration before it is made, it won't break so easily... (Have you ever chipped your credit card in two, no?) and believe me, our "thick" electronic devices will be considered ancient in the next ten years. :)

I came close....i tried to use it like a knife once.It failed-i had to jab their eyes to get them away :(Anyways...I'm an old fashioned person, at times I prefer my big old nes, however this doesn't mean i like the size of the 360, Ps3 or the old xbox.

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This is another concern of mine.We will still be using trees, that and I doubt they would plant and grow them...but then again prehaps they tought of that.Will they be as durable I wonder, or practicle?All I know is, as much as I would love to see a water powered car (as in tap water) as it has these problems.1.In australia we are in draght, so it would be wastful2.If it's from a river that might screw around with it3.In heat it would evaporate-forcing people to do problem 24.I would out drink the car :PAnyways, paper would have it's fair share of issues, I mean...sure you don't get batts wet...but what if you grabbed it with sweaty hands, I do this often (damn aussie summers...)

Flammable materials and electrical currents aren't a good combination. Imagine your paper based motherboard catching fire because your processor overheated :)

Wow, this is really incredible! The cost of batteries holds back a lot of technologies, not just the ones that immediately come to mind, like personal electronics & cars, ect. Paper batteries could lead to some really impressive innovations in the medical field, like lightweight cybernetic limbs & organs, & in the energy field, replacing huge, deep cycle batteries to store energy from solar/wind/hydro-powered generators, to name just two other areas.The energy field excites me the most - solar panels can already be made relatively cheaply, but the gigantic batteries required to store the energy generated hold a lot of people back from switching to alternative power. The number of batteries to power a normal refrigerator for example, would fill a warehouse! But these paper batteries would be low-cost & take up practically no space at all. Amazing! <3

Perhaps hologramic devices will be a reality shortly after these batteries are made... won't it?

lol draw dirty pictures and use them to look at more dirty pictures

dont paper catch fire if it too hot? so what stoping the battery from getting burn?

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exactly, this is bad idea

So.. maybe we could power paper airoplanes to fly farther

calvin_0 · #15dont paper catch fire if it too hot? so what stoping the battery from getting burn?

paper has a high ignition temperatue... as long as a naked flame doesnt touch it, it should be fine. I'm pretty sure they'd have to treat it anyway due to some imposed law or another.

they wont sell a product if its will be a utter fail. those scientist wont be that stupid to let the paper burn, and most they are not the one making the products, designers, and developers will find a way on how to merge it in their products.

It would be real stupid to leave a fire going on in your house. And most electronic handhelds are normally used in the house, and if you know youre using a paper battery when youre close to fire, that is just downright stupid if you drop the device into the fire