Computer Potatoe thrives in bringing you the latest innovation and technology and again we have got one that caught our eyes. A group of researchers -obviously- have managed to develop a Lithium battery that takes 2 minutes to charge and could last up to 20 years.
This is an exciting and great achievement as the current Lithium batteries can be charged and drained about 500 times and usually last about 2 years of continual use. This is the reason why after 2 years, your battery operated devices seem to last a little less after a full charge. The newly developed generation of batteries by scientists in Nanyang Technology University in Singapore could go 10,000 times and last 20 years.
As always, Computer Potato brings you the latest technology in its simplest form so we won’t be discussing the technical details. However, the materials inside the newly developed batteries are different and cheaper compared to the current generation of batteries. This could mean we will be seeing these batteries in the market soon.
Don’t get your hopes up too soon though, as this research is much more for batteries in electric vehicles than your smart phones. If history is to repeat itself – like it always does- mobile devices will be getting it a shortly after!
We are all aware Google is a giant in internet technologies, but not many know that google is looking into many other technologies to make life easy in the future. We have seen Google funding researches into driverless cars, robotics e.t.c
Now the technology giant has said it will be venturing into providing video chat services between doctors and people searching for diagnosis on the internet. This service – already being tested – will help thousands avoid misdiagnosing themselves. Google has said it will pay for the video chat services during the trial, but when it does go live patients, will have to pay for their appointments.
This can be a very important and beneficial service, as many people panic themselves by searching for symptoms on the internet, sometimes misdiagnosing and even self prescribing the wrong medicine. Not to mention it might turn out cheaper for the patients than actually going to a clinic.
After the release of windows 8 we heard Microsoft was working on the next windows. We all thought it would be windows 9(click to read post on windows 9).
Microsoft has finally unleashed its new windows system and it is not called window 9 but windows 10. As Computer Potatoe only brings you information in its simplest form, we can only say the decision to skip the number 9 is rumoured to be due to some technical issues with software confusing it for windows 95/98 without going into technical details.
There are many features in the new windows that will bring you back to the windows 7 days and even better, it still has all the windows 8 good features. See video below
