Gamer’s And Workaholic’s Dream

Notebooks have turned inside out the lives of paper pushers Their still biggest deficit is the battery which usually ails after a few hours of intensive work and makes those willing to work always look for a socket.

A US-American team of researchers recently developed a battery with which notebooks, mobile phones, PDA’s and other mobile devices will display 10 times more endurance. An average notebook of today, for instance, will in future be able to stand an endurance run of 30 hours. This is made possible by Nanotechnology. How this functions exactly, you can read here.

The leader of the research project, Yo Cui, feels confident about the significance of the super-battery: “It’s not a small improvement. It’s a revolutionary development.” Regarding the commercial launch he remains noncommittal. That might take some years.

This hesitation is justified. In 2003 a similarly groundbreaking miracle of modern age was announced: the DVD of the future, developed by Venkatesan Renugopalakrishnan at Harvard University in Boston. It should be able to save 50 terrabytes of data mountains and be launched in 2004. What didn’t happen. On July 2006 its developer promised for the second time a launch at the end of 2007 / beginning of 2008. According to inquieries of the German magazine “Der Stern” on September 2007 still nobody within the German electronic trading had the foggiest idea of the sensational “PCD”. Who knows what the future of the “future’s battery” will be like?

In any case it will be a sensation not only for all the workaholics out there, but also for gamers. And for all the mobile gaming industry. Mobile phone batteries are already very powerful, but still mobile games gobble lots of energy. With new “super-batteries” another technical hurdle is to be cleared away from the course of the mobile games’ development.