I guess I don't understand something here. While I love the idea of double the talk time, the nice thing about a battery is that I can plug it in anywhere and just rock and roll for what amounts to a few pennies of electricity, but with this how in the freak do I recharge? Is it going to cost like $5 or $10 every time I want to power up?

So this might end up in actual products in 7 years?! I sure am glad I have this news source to keep me up to speed on breaking events.

I just patented a system that can do this for male subjects. A subject merely enters a special card into a conveniently located machine. The male subject is then asked to enter a Private Identification Number. Moments later, after the Automated Teller Machine runs a complicated algorithm a number directly corresponding to the male subject's relative attractiveness is printed up on a convenient receipt.

Dude, not even engineering societies have any kind of actual consensus on what is a motor and what is an engine so go blow it out your ass. Even the definitions they sort of agree upon (internal fule source=engine, external fuel source=motor) they recognize as arbitrary and lacking in real descriptive usefullness, so, again, get bent.

Look, as frustrating as it is for those that do not understand it, the world majority of affluent, and by "affluent" I mean on the level of American-style middle-class and up, want a big car. Preaching is not going to get that to change.Therefore, it makes the most sense to work on solutions that will effect the type of vehicles that people actually aspire to buy.

I don't know, are we sure that shock and vibration have the type of deleterious effect on structures at that scale? I mean, in theory I agree that moving parts = bad but this isn't inches of spinning platters this is nanometers of silicon. How do structures of that size respond to shaking and being dropped?

The reason to two other distinct phases double capacity is not because they are going to be used in addition to the other two phases but because they are less distinct than the other two and thus easier to create. It is the same thing as requiring less of a voltage difference to read current memory. So, Dorks, this has nothing to do with changing the mathematical base of whatever.

Excuse me, Engadget, I am from central casting. We have reports that one of our missing stereotypical "dudes from England" was seen here using words like "tonne" and "half a monkey". If he passes through here again could you please beat his limey ass and give us a call? Thanks

Look, I didn't mean to come off as so hostile. I was trying to sort of mock a group that I belong to. I mean, you don't see the silliness in only seeing such petty uses for a technology to more efficiently convert waste heat to electricity? I only meant the nerds tend to be fairly narrow in our focus. I am sorry if I offended.

Are you people freaking crazy? The billions of dollars spent every month keeping warm things cool and the most interesting application we can think up is charging our iphones? Don't any of you actually pay your own electric bills in the summer?

I hate nerds.