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13 Day(!) Cell Phone Charge in Seconds

Oct 9, 2009 03:53 PM

Toshiba's latest fuel cell prototype would enable the consumer to charge any number of gadgets in a matter of seconds.

The new technology was demonstrated at Japan's CEATEC show, in which a modified Toshiba T002 phone (powered by a direct methanol fuel cell and a li-lon battery) was treated with one squirt of methanol and subsequently ran for 320 hours (that's over 13 days!).

Can't wait for this to hit the shelves.

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