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Batteries that last for months or years for portable electronics. That's a multi billion dollar solution if anyone can manage it. Battery tech has definitely n
by ErrantX 17y ago
Batteries that last for months or years for portable electronics.
That's a multi billion dollar solution if anyone can manage it. Battery tech has definitely not stagnated - it is just maddeningly hard to progress.
Even the most modern car out there (arguably, the latest generation Toyota Prius) is still a mess of gears, oil, wires, and fairly crappy and old UI conventions on the inside
The reason that "mess" has survived relatively unchanged for so long is simple: it "just works". It works really well and is simple. Changing a winning formula is tough.
Better locks for my home
We have digital locks at work and they are the biggest pain ever :) again there is a reason we have keys - they work.
- nazgulnarsil 17y agoWRT cars: switching costs can prevent marginal creeping improvement of the type we're used to in the iterate fast computer world.
- potatolicious 17y agoTo add to your point - battery tech (as well as power management tech) has progressed, but we've invented ever more power-hungry devices to match that progress. Those 4 AA batteries used to run your Game Boy for a handful of hours - nowadays a Li-ion battery packk that's half the size of those AA batteries can keep your Game Boy running for just about indefinitely. Except we no longer run 8MHz CPUs in our mobiles ;)
- stcredzero 17y agoActually, I bet that there are a lot of people out there who would be jazzed about a really well implemented 8MHz mobile. Especially if the batteries would run it for a month. http://runagate.noisepages.com/2009/11/8-bit-touch-sensitive-handheld-avr-homebrew-device-with-iphone-aspirations/ http://runagate.noisepages.com/2009/11/8-bit-touch-sensitive...