World's Smallest Fuel Cell
The University of Illinois has developed the smallest working fuel cell in the world. This is very neat from my perspective because this is the type of technology which will allow the real world realisation of the prototypes we've been building in the lab. Battery life and battery inflexibility is a limitation of current technology. It's an easy thought experiment to imagine a set of fuel cells in a mesh being embedded into fabric or a flexible surface and to see just how much more bendable this setup would be than one with bulky batteries. There's still some way to go for power output and before manufacturing at scale happens; but, combined with low power flexible displays such as E Ink or OLED this opens up a lot of possibilities.
Tags: fuel cell, OUI, no batteries, eink, OLED
