Posted by Oliver

David Garrett over at Top Tech News is reporting that Samsung, the $50 billion high tech electronics manufacturer has announced a major breakthrough in fuel cell technology.

According to the article their most recent effort, which is based upon direct methanol fuel cell or DMFC technology acts as a docking station/cum fuel cell and has the ability to power a laptop for up to eight hours a day, five days a week for four weeks at a time before requiring refueling. A second, smaller fuel cell that does not resemble a docking station would hold roughly a coffee cup sized amount of fuel and power the device for up to a week.

Given the inverse relationship between battery life and device functionality I am very excited about this particular piece of news. I’ve been long waiting to be free from the myriad chargers and spare batteries that I constantly carry with me so that I can be sure that I always have available power. It would be a welcome break to see this innovation reach smaller mobile devices. The sooner the better.

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