05/07, 10:00am
Toshiba may usurp Apple and Dell for thin PC title
Toshiba plans to claim the crown of the world's thinnest and lightest 13-inch notebooks, a leak may have revealed today. The system would use a full-power Core i7 processor but would use exotic cooling and construction to get as thin and light as Apple's MacBook Air or Dell's Adamo XPS. It would use a system known as "Mountain Blaze" to lower heat and would be made out of a unibody, honeycomb structure that would keep it stiff even at its thin dimensions.
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12/11, 9:00am
Toshiba SCiB Battery
Toshiba on Tuesday revealed a technology it hopes will make lithium-ion batteries genuinely useful for cars and other vehicles. Named a Super Charge ion Battery (SCiB), the upgrade changes the negative electrode material, the electrolyte, and the manufacturing process to create a battery which is both extremely quick to recharge and reliable enough to replace older but tough nickel-metal hydride batteries. The substances and the design of battery cells do more than just prevent the battery from catching fire in the hot environment of a car, Toshiba says: they allow a very large current to feed the battery, allowing a typical battery to reach 90 percent capacity in five minutes.
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