BBC Tests Pre-Commercial Toshiba Fuel Cell Laptop

nbannerman writes "Fuel cells have been talked about a lot recently, but Toshiba have finally demonstrated a working model. The BBC News website provides some interesting background on fuel cells, but does carrying a warning for the future; 'Toshiba's phase one fuel cell shows how near, but also how far, the version is from being a commercial reality.'"

moonshine battery?

[Anonymous Coward]

It is only a matter of time before some dry county distillers catch on to the idea, which will bring the whole new meaning to the term 'drinking and [hard]driving'.

Just the thing to use in First Class Seating

[SockPuppet_9_5]

Try getting THAT through airport security.

As a general rule...

[elliotCarte]

Dear Tomoaki Arimura (pictured in the linked article), As a general rule, the tip of one's tie should come to about the edge his pants.

Off-topic of course, but I couldn't help it. Is he trying to polish his shoes with that thing, or...? Sorry, mod me down if you really need to.

Oh, fuel cells are cool. Your car wants one.

Yeah, but what's really cool...

[lottameez]

..is that with a small adapter, you could use it to toast marshmallows at work. :-P

huhmnnhuhhmhh ....marrssssshhhhhmmaaaallloooowwwsssss...huhmnhuh

Forget about

[The_Isle_of_Mark]

Forget about ever taking one of thes eon an airplane. Methanol is a self oxygenating liquid, I believe, so it is very volatile.
Explain that to the airport police..."Really, it is a liquid fuel for my LAPTOP! Ow, that rubber glove doesn't help much for pain does it?"

Here is a picture of it during boot up

[geekoid]

http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/Able1.jp g [nuclearweaponarchive.org]

Re:Yeah, but what's really cool...

[Masa]

huhmnnhuhhmhh ....marrssssshhhhhmmaaaallloooowwwsssss...huhmnhuh

Dear God! What are you doing with those marshmallows? Having sex with them? You sick bastard!

Re:spindly arms

[MrSquirrel]

Speaking of laptops starting fires, why is it no one's talking about this:
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=2607 [dailytech.com]
Why does an 11 year old have a brand new iBook anyway!!! I didn't even get a freakin' Speak'n'Spell until my 16th birthday.

Re:Summary: Not Practical :(

[0110011001110101]

hello,

welcome to slashdot, you are apparently new here.

I don't think you critically read the article.

People here don't even read the articles, much less in a critical fashion.

Maybe you are not new here, and instead just confused. People here are very often critical of the articles that they have not even read... if so, please disregard my email, if not, please add me to your newsletter.

Re:Just the thing to use in First Class Seating

[yppiz]

Well, the poor little bugger doesn't like to fly, so I'm just giving him a little something to calm his nerves."

And if it's a MacBook, and you've installed SmackBook Pro [medallia.com], your seatmate may decide to let you have the entire row to yourself.

--Pat