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...grope for a hotel-room outlet again, and no more waiting for batteries to recharge, either. But details on how costly the devices will be to own and operate are scarce, and there are potential drawbacks. Will there be maintenance hassles? (Batteries are, after all, wonderfully simple.) Casio's laptop power plant is fueled by small methanol cartridges that are replaced when the liquid is spent. Will we want to carry spare fuel cans around with us? Will airlines allow them on board? The answers to those questions will determine whether my power outages continue. Until then, intermittent blackouts...
...Casio, for example, recently unveiled a prototype of a fuel-cell-powered laptop that looks acceptably normal. The power supply weighs half as much as existing laptop batteries and can run the machine for 20 hours at a stretch?quadruple the longevity of a fully charged lithium-ion battery. Medis Technologies, a NASDAQ-listed Israeli company, has designed a tiny, 80-g fuel cell that can sustain 20 hours of mobile-phone conversation...
...rolled up his sleeve and making motions to the veins in his arm, said he would be right back because he needed to go shoot up some heroin. For the next ten minutes, I stared at the stage, empty except for a lone stool holding an iMac laptop, wondering what kind of show this would...
Upon his return, Cex entertained the crowd, occasionally rapped over background music he played from his laptop on such topics as bicycles and his love for them, and, in the style of Whose Line is it Anyway, freestyled about three themes suggested by the audience: Buddhas, babies and chainsaws...
...officer investigated a burglary at the Design School’s Gund Hall, where a laptop bag—containing a CD player, credit cards and a cell phone—was stolen...