Congress will sneak into your bedroom tonight and steal a precious hour of sleep, but you don't need to take the theft lying down. Get up tomorrow and use a few tips from Consumer Reports to steal back some hard-earned cash. General Housekeeping Batteries: Toss new ones in your smoke and carbon mono...

With Sony already showing off hybrid fuel cell-powered chargers, it makes sense that we’re also seeing a hybrid battery for cell phones. Like Sony’s other prototype tech, this portable pack runs on a combination of methanol and lithium ion. It outputs a maximum of 3W and is good for watc...

Battery recycle Battery is generally cylindrical in shape with two terminals, one positive electrode and one negative electrode that conduct electricity along with a substance called electrolyte, that works on the electrodes, chemically and help convert into electrical energy. There is a copper wire...

Battery recycle Battery is generally cylindrical in shape with two terminals, one positive electrode and one negative electrode that conduct electricity along with a substance called electrolyte, that works on the electrodes, chemically and help convert into electrical energy. There is a copper wire...

Click the image above to view the full photogallery. The intel on new developments keeps piling up, so now that we're snowed in, let's clean out the closet a bit, shall we? 1) William Beaver House: Closings in André Balazs's once-sexy FiDi condo tower commenced in December. So far, per Street...

It’s official! Cleantech, the sixth industrial revolution, has arrived on time and in the midst of extraordinary crisis. Like every good revolution, blood is flowing in the streets; the guillotine is en route to Wall Street and the mob is so busy plotting retribution for the excesses of the past t...

When it comes to battery packs for plug-in hybrids, smaller is better, according to new research from Carnegie Mellon University. Led by engineering professor Jeremy Michalek, the study authors found that plug-ins with battery packs large enough for only about seven miles of all-electric range can s...

Filed under: Computers, Laptops, Notebooks It's been quite some time since we've had a good exploding battery story. Back in 2007, it seemed like nobody was immune from the plague, with Sony being blamed for battery recalls extending to laptops from Apple, Dell, Toshiba, and a number of others. Give...

I’ve tried rechargeable batteries — mostly because I hate paying for new batteries all the time, and getting rid of the old ones — but I use the crap out of my batteries, and inevitably I wake up one day and those rechargeable batteries I shelled out for no longer hold a charge.  ...

A lot of us who go vegan do so because of a video or because of an image that stayed in our head. Maybe of a single animal who conveyed his or her misery more than any other in "Meet Your Meat" or in a different undercover investigation. For me it was a few different images. The first one being the ...