Organically Radical Battery is revolutionary
Mobilemag.com, TechEBlog, Thursday December 8, 2005 9:05 PM EST
NEC is making a bid to change the look and function of batteries. They call their new creation ORB, short for Organically Radical Battery. To call it ultra-thin and quick-charging is a ridiculous understatement. The battery looks like a piece of paper. It is just 0.3 mm thick, made of a type of plastic called organic radical polymer and assumes an electrolyte-permeated gel state, which is apparently an intermediate material state between solid and liquid. That makes the battery very flexible and pliant.
Charging time is almost incomprehensibly fast -- just 30 seconds.
