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Intelligent Energy's Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology Can Now Fit Inside an iPhone

bladerunner2000 said:
Can you swamp much in those?
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I assume you meant "swap", because while I could swamp them, it's not something I'm keen on trying :)

The MacBook Air and iPhone were never considered upgradable devices. The RAM/CPU/GPU is fixed to the logic board just like today. The only thing I've replaced is the MBA's stock HDD with a special 1.8" LIF SSD.
 
I couldn't help myself from doing the math... Just to put the soggy iPhone concerns in context:

The iPhone 6 battery is 6.91Whr=24.9 kJ
Hydrogen combusts with 286kJ/mol
It will require combusting about 0.09 mol to replace the iPhone 6 battery
1 mol of Hydrogen results in 1 mol of water vapor.
Water weighs about 18g/mol
A full battery equivalent will discharge about 1.57g of water vapor.
The density of water is 1g/ml, so that is about 1.57ml of water

That's about 15 drops from an eye dropper over the course of a day, released in gaseous form.

The human body tends to release about 600g, or about 400 times that much water vapor over a day to stay cool.
 
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Yay hydrogen! In my pocket!!
Hindenburg_burning.jpg
 
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yipes....

This is great, so now we won't have battery explosions, because the USER plugged in a different non approved charger. We'll just see more fireworks go off...

See that hazard sticker on batteries.. ? Before it was only a fire hazard, now its just dangerous.

I can see Dr. Jeckel (Tim Cook) and Mr. Hide (Johny Ive) in their laboratories working. Whatever happens, don't press the Home button.
 
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Shaun.P said:
My chemistry knowledge is very basic, but I thought hydrogen was very dangerous if ignited?

I vividly remember my chemistry teacher igniting a balloon filled with hydrogen. BOOM!
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It's burst into flames! Get out of the way! please! Oh my, this is terrible... Oh, the humanity!
 
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Yes, this is much better than using a phone's battery that "recharges". I like the tech, but being disposable ? umm.. wouldn't that mean APple can charge us allot more in the long run than we current would by batteries ?
 
so how does this work for airline use? Am I not going to be taking my phone with me on the plane?
 
redheeler said:
I assume you meant "swap", because while I could swamp them, it's not something I'm keen on trying :)

The MacBook Air and iPhone were never considered upgradable devices. The RAM/CPU/GPU is fixed to the logic board just like today. The only thing I've replaced is the MBA's stock HDD with a special 1.8" LIF SSD.
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So then... disposable.

Im sticking to my 2012 MBP for as long as possible. I gave up on the Mac Pro line when they released that ridiculous trash can thing and forced everyone to stick to the gimped AMD gpus with proprietary PCI slots.
 
Do you think Apple will include a wrist strap so my hydrogen iPhone doesn't float away, or will it be a $35 accessory?
 
Never read so much nonsense in one thread.
If you don't know anything about fuel reactor cells, go and have a read on Wikipedia.
Some pocket sized fuel cells work on lighter gas. Never smashed a Bic butane lighter on concrete to watch it go boom? So you never had a lighter in your pocket, because it might go boom if you serious mishandle it?
I'm always near an power outlet, so for me there is no reason to carry such a device. But it's really nice technology and certainly has its uses.
 
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Why is everyone so concerned about this? Do you really think Apple will not test this out properly before installing it to their devices?
 
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69Mustang said:
Someone doesn't know what water vapor can do, besides evaporate. Condense;). I think the condensation was the poster's concern.
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Either way, I doubt it'd be enough to present an issue with clothes or electronics—even enough to drip. Or perhaps there's something else that can be done with the water vapor entirely...this is probably where Apple's engineering voodoo would come into play. ;)
 
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I want that mini arc reactor Tony Stark has in my iPhone. Charge that sucker never. I would settle for nuclear-powered though and charge once every 20-30 years.
 
clukas said:
... I will finally be able to buy that self destruct app I always wanted :D.
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I just thought of a new feature for "find my iPhone"! "Wiping" is so last century...

Now I can't get this image out of my head of Steve Jobs doing the keynote:

"With the new hydrogen powered iPhone, we've been able to greatly enhance the Find My iPhone experience. Someone steals your iPhone? You just go to Find My iPhone, click this button here, and Boom!"
 
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MentalFloss said:
I really blame incompetent science teachers for comments like this.

People drive around in vehicles with tanks full of much larger amounts of a potentially explosive liquid. These vehicles actually are driven by mixing that liquid with air and triggering mini-explosions. How many people get killed by gasoline explosions each day? And what if you drop a car? Does the gasoline explode? Huge mushroom cloud on the highway?
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This is incorrect, gasoline cars only explode in movies/TV with explosives added to them, gasoline only catches fire.

Gasoline is flammable

Hydrogen is explosive, and belongs only in rockets.

Not to mention all the others that have already highlighted the fact the iPhone is modified with vents for the "water vapor" to escape, wet pockets and purses and dripping (or steaming) all over does not sound like an advance in technology to me.

There are numerous problems with hydrogen fuel cells, battery tech (& faster charging) is going to outpace any benefits in just a few short years.
 
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