Gadgets will last longer……

In a press release from Toshiba they speak of a battery capable of recharging to 90% in under 5 minutes while remaining useful (i.e., 5,000+ recharges) for 10 years or more!  This is the world of the Super Li-ion battery.   Toshibas Super Charge ion Batteries, or SCiBs are readying themselves for the tasks at hand.

The range goes from the 2.4V version which measures 62 x 95 x 13-mm and weighs in at 150-grams all the way to  the big, bad boy 24V version which stomps in at 100 x 300 x 45-mm and a mighty 2000-grams.

But before you start throwing all your regular rechargables away Tosh’s first production run is for industrial-use only and will provide power to hybrid cars and the like.   So, when will we see phone, laptop and PSP versions eh?

This news tidbit was scalped from those lovely people at Engadget.com