One of the major issues facing our increasingly mobile technophiles is power – portable power. If you own a cell phone you know the frustration of trying a drained battery and the length of time required to re-charge. Imagine a battery with twice the life and a 10 minute recharge time.

A North Vancouver company was showing off it’s new fuel cells at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week.

Angstrom Power Inc. has been working on micro hydrogen systems for use in mobile devices. Fuel cells like the ones Angstrom develops are electrochemical energy converters, producing electricity, water vapor and heat from hydrogen and oxygen.

Angstrom has announced a global first with the completion of a six-month test of fully integrated fuel cell-powered mobile devices. This revolutionary power platform was successfully integrated into MOTOSLVR™ L7 handsets for the trial, with no modification to the outside dimensions of the devices.

Offering twice the run-time of batteries and with recharge times on the order of 10 minutes, Angstrom’s EverOn™ capability promises to supplant the lithium ion batteries commonly used in today’s portable electronic devices.

The trial devices did not rely on the use of any battery – instead, they drew power from Angstrom’s Micro Hydrogen™ platform, which is comprised of a novel fuel cell architecture, innovative micro-fluidics and a revolutionary refillable hydrogen storage tank. Angstrom has demonstrated research results showing twice the talk-time of the equivalent batterypowered devices in side-by-side testing. read more in this press release

Fuel cell photo from the Angstrom web site