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Intelligent Energy's Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology Can Now Fit Inside an iPhone
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The rate is very likely 100% pure water, pure water does not conduct electricity, so you are safe.
But does pure water make the water damage indicators light up?
New headline: Samsung to release the S6H in October to be first with a hydrogen based phone. Lee Kun-Lee is quoted in saying "our design team has been working on this technology since 10am and we expect to deliver well ahead of any other products that might offer this functionality".
No really... this sounds really cool... I hope it's practical and we see this someday soon. If it is, Apple should put some of their cash to work and just buy these guys.
BTW.... another off thought... given this gives out a little vapor... will it lead to the next "Watergate"?
No really... this sounds really cool... I hope it's practical and we see this someday soon. If it is, Apple should put some of their cash to work and just buy these guys.
BTW.... another off thought... given this gives out a little vapor... will it lead to the next "Watergate"?
Not sure why. I wore my Apple Watch from 8:00 AM to 10:15 PM yesterday. When I laid it on the charging stand when I went to bed last night it had 42% of it's battery life.
There's some amount of chemical energy in those fuel cells and there's some probability of failure. I think it's more reasonable to have irrational fear than irrational naivety with those things. I know that from a technical point of view a fuel cell failure that leads to an explosion is very improbable, but not impossible at all.
You don't recharge the hydrogen cell. It's disposable. As for recharging the iPhone, I imagine you'd recharge it the same way you've always charged. To me, the hydrogen cell seems more akin to a Mophie Juice Pak than a replacement for current battery tech. Further down the line it may become a replacement. Right now it just seems like something to store in the back pack/briefcase/glove box for that just in can time with no wall power.
And a wet spot in your pants making everybody asking themselves if you either had a happy moment or were too late for the toilet.
Everyone remembers the movie of the Hindenburg exploding, and they think we haven't progressed beyond that, and that the engineers designing this stuff never saw the film...
Not even close. It's a stop gap.
It depends on how you control it. You could also put flour in a can with a candle, a funnel, and a tube with a squeeze ball on it, squeeze the ball in order to puff the flour into the air and watch the enormous fireball that it creates. Whereas take a match to a pile of flour and pretty much nothing happens.
Am sorry I got carried away by the "funny meant" comments and added one myself.... Anyway, as far as I remember from science at school is that hydrogen is very explosive. Didn't a space shuttle vaporise because of the exploding hydrogen tank? Or is history apart from science also one of my weak points?
And - back on (your) topic - gasoline is explosive but way less explosive as hydrogen in general. Didn't the armed forces of certain countries (maybe yours?) develop a hydrogen bomb because it was more explosive than tnt and if so, why did they not consider to use gasoline instead?
Anyway, I will refrain myself from making funny meant comments in a funny meant discussion. From now on I will only add if I can lecture others. And no - I will not buy the first generation hydrogen powered iPhone. Just had my camera replaced (of the 6 Plus) and had my share of 1st gen again.
Have a nice day!
Don't plan on seeing it happen any time in the next several years. Most are still heavily invested in batteries including Apple. Hydrogen fuel cells in small electronics are still unproven and until they are you won't see big companies jumping to use them in devices they'll be creating by the hundreds of millions.
But, you know that hydrogen fuel tanks in cars are solid tanks made of magnesium don't you.
They can't/don't explode!
Yes & Yes! Every TV show and movie I've ever seen: dropped car = massive fireball.
