When are we likely to see new battery tech implemented in generic 4/6/9 cell laptop batteries?

I for one want one

http://news.cnet.com/A-tenfold-improvement-in-battery-life/2100-1041_3-6226196.html

 

I would prefer "wireless" AC adapter instead of the battery.

 

I guess it is a tradeoff. With that there would be no need for batteries but wireless electricity could cost more than wired electricity. Higher bills is not what many want.

 

I've seen "new" tech on the news for the past several years and have yet to see much improvement from the standard lithium ion batteries we have now... I wouldn't count on seeing these any time soon - although I wish I did.

 

well, these news on the nanowire lithium-ion batteries are more than one year old, but until such things do hit the market a lot of time will pass.

there needs to be a company that is going to buy a license to produce such batteries, production technology will have to be developed, the production cycles need to be simulated and tested, as well as the safety of such batteries.

when you think of the exploding lithium-ion batteries in notebooks and cellphones, one just can guess how much time is needed to test the safety of those new batteries.

keep in mind that they will store about ten times the energy of a typical lithium-ion battery. if you have seen explosions of current batteries, what will happen if the explosive energy will tenfold...? these batteries could kill people...

if i were to produce these batteries i would make sure that those batteries are designed perfectly before i even would think of selling them.

so probably a lot of time will pass before these batteries will surface on the consumer market.

 

Yes.. I too am looking for better battery tech. Why not li-poly? Practical workarounds available now:

* buy a ASUS 1000HE battery and transplant the cells. They have 2900ma cells. A lot of notebooks have 2200ma cell batteries. Easy way to improve your battery life by 32% without adding weight.

* Use a new 2.5" Hitachi 5k500b HDD will improve battery life too, with it's 0.5W idle power and 1.4 W average read/write. Also is the fastest 2.5" 5400rpm drive available so a great upgrade. Or use low power SSD.

* undervolting/underclocking CPU using RMclock and setfsb.

 

Li-polymer batteries are expensive.

It would be cool to strip everything on a netbook and cram li-polymer battery on every posssible space. Then you'll have like 40 hours of battery.

 

Who what the next generation batteries for laptops can achieve, judging from the pace of how fast electronic and digital technology progresses..