Mobile device manufacturers are facing a looming crisis, according to recent reports: A battery crisis, that is. With manufacturers and software companies attempting to outdo one another in equipping smartphones and tablets with power-hungry features while simultaneously slimming them down, they are rapidly pushing the limits of what the standard technology — the lithium ion battery — can accomplish. See Apple’s latest iPad, which is thicker than its predecessor due to a much larger battery, necessary to accomodate the higher-quality “retina display” screen.One solution is to develop better batteries, on which scientists are already hard at work.
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