All these electronic gadgets that seem to pop up from nowhere have on common weakness: dependence on energy. You might own the latest and the greatest Nokia handheld, or the most feature-rich laptop, but when it comes to plugging it in a wall socket, there's no escape. Even portable energy storage solutions have annoying limits. They usually only provide enough energy to double as a backup battery, but after that you're toast.

It looks like Energizer isn't promising any nuclear energy solutions for our day to day handhelds (virtually unlimited battery life), but it has come up with some pretty interesting advancements that will be presented at CES. By introducing the Zinc Air Prismatic power solution, the company is hoping to provide 3 times the same amount of energy an alkaline battery does. This is the usual case at regular sizes, but another application would be thiner and more compact gadgets. By providing a high density energy storage medium, the solution isn't only capacity proof, but can also be used as a thin power source for powering new digital advertisement brochures (just to give an example).

So if using a multimedia mobile phone to its full capacity (WiFi, Bluetooth, HSDPA, conversations, texting, photo taking and music listening) will drain the phone's battery by the end of the day, then the 3-day full capacity usage the new Zinc Air Prismatic provide is quite worthy of admiration.

Imagine just how a 3-day iPod Touch music frenzy would be like, without having to worry about battery life so often. And although multimedia devices will surely make a good consumer for these new batteries, imagine how a small Nokia 1208 phone will do. This little mobile phone provides basic texting and conversation capabilities for at least 5 (maybe even 7) days of functionality, but coupled with this new advancements it could provide at least two weeks worth of juice.


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