Fuel cell outfitter Horizon is now offering a personal hydrogen power plant for use with its MiniPAK and HydroSTIK products. Although it isn’t cheap, the system will (cleanly!) charge all of your small devices using the same water you drink.
First seen at CES years ago, Horizon’s MiniPak has (finally) gone on sale for $US100. It’s the first personal, portable fuel cell—if you don’t count the Japan-only Toshiba one—and is like a mini power plant for charging gadgets.
The Dynario fuel cell charger from Toshiba will launch in Japan on October 29, bringing with it direct methane fuel cell injection that lets you charge two mobile phones simultaneously.
Techblog.gr claims to have just leaked Toshiba’s mobile product line for the next year, and there are three products we found especially exciting—a 7-inch netbookish transformer and a series of touchscreen QWERTY mobiles.
Sony’s new concepts for fuel cell batteries come in some interesting flavours, like these speakers-with 70s transistor radio look-that can recharge your phone or multimedia player. Or the fuel-powered, completely-wireless, coffee maker-looking home theatre speaker.
Chemical engineers working at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a hydrogen fuel cell that measures only 3 millimeters across. That could mean longer lasting, eco-friendly power for your gadgets.
