Tag Archive for 'nimh-rechargeable-batteries'

10
Aug

New, Hyped Up Apple Battery Charger Offers Greener Standby Power Outputs

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Categories: Battery charger, New Product Reviews and Rechargeable Batteries

Image courtesy of mactalk.com.au

Everyone knows that Apple isn’t in the consumer-driven rechargeable battery business — they leave that industry vertical to companies like Sanyo, Vapex, and Panasonic. However, behind the scenes, Apple has invested millions into the R&D of its own in-house rechargeable battery technology. The LiOn rechargeable batteries used in its iPad, iPhone 4, and latest round of MacBooks are unprecedented in how long they can hold their charge and continue to perform an optimum levels. This, of course, is great news for the Apple consumer, since most of Apple’s most popular product are mobile-based.

But just as Ferrari started out as a strictly race-oriented car builder and only eventually got into the street car business, so too has Apple thrown its hat into the consumer rechargeable batteries market, looking to share a slice of the A$ 39 billion dollar pie, which is projected to grow to A$ 56 billion by 2013.

Apple’s new consumer-based NiMH battery charger hit the Australian consumer market just recently and, even though a battery charger is a rather modest piece of technology for the company that brought us the iPad, iPhone 4, and MacBook, it has caused as much of a splash as many of its top-tier gadgets.

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21
May

The Best Rechargeable Batteries For Your Camera Flashes

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Categories: Mobile Gadgets Living and Rechargeable Batteries

If you’re an avid photographer who is looking to use rechargeable batteries for your flashes, you might be surprised which kinds are the best.

Cool flash photo courtesy of digital-photography-school.com

Whether you take photos as a hobby or as a professional for weddings, newspapers, or some other form of media, then you know that professional camera flashes suck battery power fast. Very few professional photographers use disposable AA and AAA batteries for their camera flashes, since they know that one photo session can easily drain 4 to 8 batteries. For people who are just beginning to take their passion for photography seriously, using rechargeable batteries for your camera flashes are the way to go.

Much has been made lately about the new Li-Ion disposable batteries on the market today, such as the Energizer Advance  series, that give you extra-long performance with electronic devices at a very good price. However, even if it doesn’t bother your conscience that Li-Ion disposable batteries are bad for the environment, then you should still avoid using them for your camera flashes because it has been widely reported that they take too long to charge flashes between shots. In the long run, Li-Ion batteries are not the solution for a serious photographer.

So what’s left?

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16
Apr

Got a Flip Video Camera? Don’t “Flip” Over Their Rechargeable Battery Pack.

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Categories: New Product Reviews and Rechargeable Batteries

Thinking of giving up on rechargeable batteries and getting a rechargeable battery pack for your Flip Video Camera, instead? Think again!

The Flip Video Camera

It amazes me that the Flip Video camera hasn’t managed to put more expensive video cameras out of business. Its user-friendly features, quality video, and affordable price make it an obvious choice for the vast majority of people who just want to shoot simple videos. Even installing the batteries is simple: the Flip Video takes two AA batteries. Popping them in is as easy as it is with my TVs remote control.

But unlike my remote, which can milk two AA batteries for almost a decade, the Flip Video camera can drain a disposable battery in about fifteen minutes. That’s why most Flip Video users quickly realise that using rechargeable batteries makes a lot of sense.

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11
Apr

When Rechargeable Batteries Meet the USB Port: The Low-down on the USBCell

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Categories: New Product Reviews and Rechargeable Batteries

Everything these days seems to have a USB port or plug attached to it, and for good reason: as you’ll read elsewhere on the internet, the USB port and its plug offer amazing technological benefits. Most impressively, USB technology offers a kind of “smart electrical socket” that can both provide energy and transmit data simultaneously. The combination of these two features is impressive, which is why new applications for the technology continue to open up.

Rechargable battery technology is no exception to to the USB phenomenon. There are quite a few battery chargers on the market today that allow users to not only charge their NiMH rechargeable batteries, but also to recharge iPods, iPhones, digital cameras, and other mobile gadgets via USB as well. In this way, you don’t even need your computer to charge mobile devices anymore, and any gadget that doesn’t use aa or aaa NiMH rechargeable batteries can still be recharged from the same hub as your own set of rechargeables.

The folks at USBCell, however, have taken this fusion of USB and rechargeable batteries one step further by introducing NiMH-based batteries that charge directly from a USB port. The solid, one-piece battery housing that we’re all used to have been replaced with a nifty cap that flips ope to reveal a USB plug that fits deftly into any USB port.

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