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Motorola researchers have successfully demonstrated a methane gas-powered fuel cell, which can provide enough juice between chargings for a month of mobile phone calls.
NEC and Sony are developing fuel cells that turn alcohol into electricity, potentially giving a new breath of life to mobile devices.
German researchers are developing new types of power cells that could mean mobile phones will never have to be recharged at the mains again.
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