http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/energizer-promises-new-and-improved-zinc-air-battery-for-summer/ Engadget Comments for Energizer promises new and improved zinc-air battery for summer 2010 http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/energizer-promises-new-and-improved-zinc-air-battery-for-summer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/energizer-promises-new-and-improved-zinc-air-battery-for-summer/Dec 1st 2009 7:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/energizer-promises-new-and-improved-zinc-air-battery-for-summer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/energizer-promises-new-and-improved-zinc-air-battery-for-summer/Dec 1st 2009 7:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/energizer-promises-new-and-improved-zinc-air-battery-for-summer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/energizer-promises-new-and-improved-zinc-air-battery-for-summer/Yes.]]>Dec 1st 2009 7:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/energizer-promises-new-and-improved-zinc-air-battery-for-summer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/energizer-promises-new-and-improved-zinc-air-battery-for-summer/
These are NOT rechargeable. They run on one charge for an extremely long time. That's the big deal. They use them in hearing aids now. ]]>Dec 1st 2009 7:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/energizer-promises-new-and-improved-zinc-air-battery-for-summer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/energizer-promises-new-and-improved-zinc-air-battery-for-summer/
FFS don't name it AAAA, it sounds so awkward and fugly. Call it A4 or whatever, just keep it under 3 letters to make it easy to pronounce, kthnx

- a consumer]]>Dec 2nd 2009 4:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/energizer-promises-new-and-improved-zinc-air-battery-for-summer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/energizer-promises-new-and-improved-zinc-air-battery-for-summer/Dec 1st 2009 7:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/energizer-promises-new-and-improved-zinc-air-battery-for-summer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/energizer-promises-new-and-improved-zinc-air-battery-for-summer/
OFF TO THE READ LINKS!]]>Dec 1st 2009 7:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/energizer-promises-new-and-improved-zinc-air-battery-for-summer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/energizer-promises-new-and-improved-zinc-air-battery-for-summer/

... and the fact I can't edit what I just wrote to make it somewhat coherent.]]>Dec 1st 2009 7:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/energizer-promises-new-and-improved-zinc-air-battery-for-summer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/energizer-promises-new-and-improved-zinc-air-battery-for-summer/"The first model will be the 1.5V PP355 (AAAA volume) battery, which will be available in a new 5mm-thick prismatic package, measuring 32.2 x 14.7 x 4.0mm."]]>Dec 1st 2009 8:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/energizer-promises-new-and-improved-zinc-air-battery-for-summer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/energizer-promises-new-and-improved-zinc-air-battery-for-summer/Dec 1st 2009 7:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/energizer-promises-new-and-improved-zinc-air-battery-for-summer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/energizer-promises-new-and-improved-zinc-air-battery-for-summer/Dec 1st 2009 8:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/energizer-promises-new-and-improved-zinc-air-battery-for-summer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/energizer-promises-new-and-improved-zinc-air-battery-for-summer/Dec 1st 2009 8:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/energizer-promises-new-and-improved-zinc-air-battery-for-summer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/energizer-promises-new-and-improved-zinc-air-battery-for-summer/Eneloop FTW]]>Dec 1st 2009 10:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/energizer-promises-new-and-improved-zinc-air-battery-for-summer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/energizer-promises-new-and-improved-zinc-air-battery-for-summer/Dec 1st 2009 11:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/energizer-promises-new-and-improved-zinc-air-battery-for-summer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/energizer-promises-new-and-improved-zinc-air-battery-for-summer/Dec 1st 2009 9:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/energizer-promises-new-and-improved-zinc-air-battery-for-summer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/energizer-promises-new-and-improved-zinc-air-battery-for-summer/
There is nothing prismatic about this design, as it doesn't split light into a spectrum. Talk about worse than meaningless; it's actually trying to undermine an already understood word.]]>Dec 1st 2009 9:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/energizer-promises-new-and-improved-zinc-air-battery-for-summer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/energizer-promises-new-and-improved-zinc-air-battery-for-summer/Prismatic refers to the battery shape being elongated with parallel sides, not the properties of bending light. ]]>Dec 1st 2009 11:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/energizer-promises-new-and-improved-zinc-air-battery-for-summer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/energizer-promises-new-and-improved-zinc-air-battery-for-summer/Dec 2nd 2009 3:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/energizer-promises-new-and-improved-zinc-air-battery-for-summer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/energizer-promises-new-and-improved-zinc-air-battery-for-summer/Dec 3rd 2009 4:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/energizer-promises-new-and-improved-zinc-air-battery-for-summer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/energizer-promises-new-and-improved-zinc-air-battery-for-summer/Dec 1st 2009 9:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/energizer-promises-new-and-improved-zinc-air-battery-for-summer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/energizer-promises-new-and-improved-zinc-air-battery-for-summer/Dec 1st 2009 10:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/energizer-promises-new-and-improved-zinc-air-battery-for-summer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/energizer-promises-new-and-improved-zinc-air-battery-for-summer/Dec 1st 2009 11:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/energizer-promises-new-and-improved-zinc-air-battery-for-summer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/energizer-promises-new-and-improved-zinc-air-battery-for-summer/http://data.energizer.com/zincairprismatic/Default.html
The "Handbook" link is the most informative.

There is a lot of not-so-great news left out of the press release:
1) These are NOT rechargeable
2) They seem to be competing with alkaline and claim to have 3x the capacity in the same volume, and are especially targeting small devices since the battery is only 5mm thick.
3) The bad news is that once you pull the cover off the air hole (yes, they need air, hence "zinc-air") they die in about 6-8 weeks whether you use them or not. I think this fact is a killer and makes these cells a waste of time for anything I own.
4) The 8 week death of #3 can be mitigated somewhat by having a sealed orifice in the device that controls air getting the battery so the battery gets no air when off. But I can't see Chinese device makers going to that much trouble for this battery.
5) I'm sticking with Eneloops

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