Unlike
other flexible batteries, the paper battery is completely integrated, says Linhardt.
Not exact matches
It's a fully
flexible, washable power source that can connect with
other wearable electronics, eliminating the need for conventional
batteries.
Because the
battery is soft and
flexible, it could be put into a person's soft tissue, where it should be capable of providing a power source for a pacemaker or
other medical device.
The one hindrance in mass adoption is the fact the motherboards,
battery, processor, RAM and most
other internal components are not designed to be
flexible and this will require a monumental effort by the entire supply chain to make a future of
flexible e-paper a reality.
Moreover, the Earl runs on Google Android 4.1 Jelly Bean mobile operating system, and comes with i.MX 6 DualLight Cortex A9 1 GHz processor, 1 GB RAM, 16 GB internal memory,
flexible 6 - inch E-ink screen with 1024 x 768 pixels resolutions, glove friendly IR touchscreen, additionally,
other specs also include WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0, NFC, GPS + GLONASS, accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, temperature, barometer, humidity, anemometer, microSD card slot, AM / FM / SW / LW radio, and IR blast, apart from that, the built - in rechargeable
battery offers over 20 hours of
battery life.
At $ 99.95, the kit is the same price as the Juice Pack above, but it's more
flexible since the same
battery pack can be used with countless
other Charge Station cases on
other phones.
However, many earlier reports indicate that the function of
flexible displays may have never been to usher in
flexible devices, but rather to allow for much thinner and lighter, unbreakable devices, with more room for larger
batteries and
other updated components.
A
flexible OLED display could potentially bend into shape and roll, but there are
other components like the chipset and
battery to take into consideration.