Yet another cool invention from Samsung. After they did break many European and American markets, they plan to knock out those solar power fanatics, by using water as a power source. Yes, you heard right. They intend to make fuel cell batteries that can power anything you can use in your pocket (cell phone, radio, mp3, etc). In fact, it’s not an invention in the full sense of meaning. It’s merely an innovation, an effort to bring the fuel cell technology to the market.The working principle is this: water reacts with a metal, produces hydrogen, hydrogen is fed to a fuel cell, which produces electricity. The power is impressive, it can make 3W of electricity! Your cellphone uses maximum 2W when it’s emitting your voice on air.
Now, I suspect that the precious secret metal is nothing else than aluminum, since aluminum+lye+water truly gets you hydrogen. I’ll try to make a simple fuel cell like those band aid ones to see if I can manage to get electricity at least to power a LED!
Samsung says that the project will be finished by 2010. They already have a working prototype, but they want to improve it and make it safe enough before releasing it to the energy-hungry market.
New inventions for 2010! (aka the future)
Confused? then let me explain. We’re currently in the future that as a child I looked forward to but it’s slightly more disappointing than I expected it to be, for instance the following things are missing:
- Flying Cars – car’s don’t really seem to have changed at all…
- Space Bases/Travel/Stuff – 50% of the stuff we send into space explodes :(
- Robots – OK we have a few things that can [vacuum your carpet], but nothing more really…
Nothing particularly outrageous, but still they’re all wrong :(
So here are my predictions for 2010 (the new future). They’re split into two categories:
- Concrete predictions – Stuff that totally will happen!
- Fluffy predictions – fluffy ideas that I can argue I got right – possibly contains humour
As a side note this idea has been totally scraped from the [last Lug Radio podcast] but now that it’s under a [Creative Commons License] it’s all good :D.
Fasten your seatbelts…
Concrete Predictions
- 1 Terabyte iPod – that’s a lot of songs kids
- Nuclear Fusion – putting stuff together can create at least as much energy as breaking it apart!
- Electric Cars – like the [Tesla] but I think that they’re going to become more common as better batteries are invented
Fluffy Predictions
- iPod connections on everything – most probably your microwave
- A generation of Adults with massive forearms from playing Wii too much in their childhood
- Linux kicking ass on the desktop – yeah yeah laugh it up, one day it will come true…
- Companies becoming more open – more open development, methods, what they’re thinking, what they’re planning etc
- Maybe a laboratory under the sea….maybe in another 10 or so years… :)
Come on then, what are your predictions for 2010?
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