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How Sugar Could Charge Up Our Gadgets And Make Them Cheaper
Lithium-ion batteries are the most common technology powering modern devices. But lithium itself is a rare metal that’s hard to come by, so countries that have to import it are developing alternatives. In Japan, researchers have discovered a way to make a sodium-ion battery that can be made with plain old sugar.
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Samsung Building 128GB Flash Memory Chips For Next Year’s Superphones
There might just be a 128GB memory option when it comes to upgrading to the Galaxy S4 next year or the S5 the year after, thanks to Samsung now mass producing 128GB memory chips for use in mobile devices.
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Kindle Fire HD: The Pretty Little Tablet Spills Its Gorgeous Guts
The DIY maniacs at iFixit got their hands on the new Kindle Fire HD, cracked it open and found out some neat new details about the beautiful new 7-inch tablet’s guts.
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World’s Thinnest Graphite Heat Shield Stops Your Phone From Melting In Your Hand
The dual-core and quad-core processors used in modern smartphones make the devices extremely capable, but also run extremely hot. So to wrangle all that excess heat without adding too much bulk, Panasonic has managed to shrink its graphite heat shields to a mere 10μm (microns) thick. (Size comparison: a human red blood cell is 5μm…