It is the unspoken law of cordless tools – eventually you will have extra batteries lying around from dead tools that are incompatible with your new ones. Some people let them sit in lonesome corners ...

USB has become as much a standard for connecting power to portable devices as it has for serial communication. Recently, the power aspects of USB have been extended to cover battery charging as well ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. While most smartphones and accessories have largely transitioned to non-removable batteries, there is still a huge demand for disposable ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. One of the central joys of owning a cordless tool is not needing to plug in the tool to operate it. However, the battery that powers your tool ...

A unique rechargeable battery concept called Continuance has been designed by Haimo Bao, Hailong Piao, Yuancheng Liu & Xiameng Hu. This innovative redesign of the traditional AA battery now includes a ...

If sacrificing the portability of a small device is outweighed by the inconvenience of having to feed it a constant supply of replaceable batteries, a clever adapter has popped up on Kickstarter that ...

Every time an Xbox controller dies in the middle of a match, the easiest reaction is to grab another pair of AA batteries and ...

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The best standards grow with technology. Standards consider and then reflect the increasing complexity of an industry, while maintaining support for already established practices. The USB port is an ...

Apple's Retina MacBook uses a brand new USB-C connector for power, which means that it's able to be charged by external USB battery packs much like an iPhone or an iPad. But because of its higher 29 ...