Engineers have been struggling for years to develop some new breakthrough idea that will push battery technology to the next level. Instead, we've been stuck with iterative improvements that limit the ...

UltraCell Corp, of Livermore, Calif, a maker of micro fuel cell systems for portable devices such as satellite phones, radios and laptop computers, has raised $10.3 million in a third round of funding ...

The day where you can say goodbye to lame laptop batteries draws near, as a preproduction unit of the UltraCell XX25 micro fuel cell system was demonstrated at the Intel Developer Forum. The power ...

Intended to provide a completely independent power source for troop electronics in the field, the XX25 micro fuel cell prototype from UltraCell (Livermore, CA) uses a novel reformed methanol ...

Whether you’re talking on a cell phone, listening to tunes on a media player or typing on a notebook, it’s a good bet that the device’s battery won’t last as long as you’d like. However, that will ...

Fuel cells are not some novel new technology. In fact, most history books credit the invention of the fuel cell to Welsh chemist and physicist William Grove, who, in the late 1830s and early 1840s, ...