{"id":6169,"date":"2007-12-12T05:01:47","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T05:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/scib-battery-breakthrough.html"},"modified":"2007-12-12T05:01:47","modified_gmt":"2007-12-12T05:01:47","slug":"scib-battery-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/scib-battery-breakthrough.html","title":{"rendered":"SCiB Battery Breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"3\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/scib.jpg\" \/>The biggest problem with mobile devices has been &#8212; and for the foreseeable future &#8212; will be the fact that battery technology is not advancing fast enough to keep up with the power needs of today&rsquo;s mobile devices. Battery breakthrough is something technology enthusiasts dream about but rarely get.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">This may have changed as Toshiba has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/usubmit\/2007\/12\/11\/3154638.htm\"><font color=\"#800080\">announced<\/font><\/a> a new technology called SCiB or Super Charge ion Battery. And the great news for battery enthusiasts (do people really fit such a moniker?) is that there are two breakthroughs here.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">The first is that in five minutes the battery charges to 90%. This is huge for mobile users and car drivers as they can rapidly charge their devices.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">The second breakthrough is battery life which the company says is ten-years under rapid charging stress.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">The technology is also environmentally friendly as it will make it possible to have more flexible battery-operated vehicles and the batteries will last so much longer.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">It seems impossible that battery technology could have improved this dramatically but according to Toshiba, you don&rsquo;t need to pinch yourself. Generally when we get such good news there is a downside.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">As many of us recall &ndash; whoops, poor choice of words, Sony&rsquo;s batteries used in many laptops caused <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/tom-keating\/computer-hardware\/more-sony-battery-woes-as-in-7-million-and-counting.asp\"><font color=\"#800080\">explosions<\/font><\/a>. Toshiba says their SCiB technology is safer of course.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">But one wonders what the drawbacks to this new technology are. Will the defect rate be high? Will there be health problems associated with it?<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">I am not trying to be an alarmist but it just seems the new Toshiba battery technology is too good to be true. I just can&rsquo;t wait to see it in my next laptop, cell phone and car. I wonder how long it will be before this happens.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">I hope Toshiba decides to send me one of these batteries soon to try out in my laptop and if it works as advertised I am sure many people will begin to think SCiB stands for &ldquo;Seems Cool, I Believe&rdquo;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest problem with mobile devices has been &#8212; and for the foreseeable future &#8212; will be the fact that battery technology is not advancing fast enough to keep up with the power needs of today&rsquo;s mobile devices. Battery breakthrough is something technology enthusiasts dream about but rarely get. &nbsp; This may have changed as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,118],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}