Sony Runs Walkman Off Sugar-Based Bio Battery

StonyandCher writes "Sony has created a battery that produces electricity by breaking down sugar. The bio cell, which measures 39 millimeters cubed, delivers 50mW — a world record for such a cell, according to the company. 'In the bio cell sugar-digesting enzymes at the anode extract electrons and hydrogen ions from the glucose. The hydrogen ions pass through a membrane separator to the cathode where they absorb oxygen from the air to produce water as a byproduct. The electrons flow around the circuit outside the device producing the electricity needed to power it.'"

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I propose this become the new standard in battery

[netsavior]

No sony device will run on anything else, sure it is less efficient and probably won't work for very long, but sony brand SugarRay is now the only power you are allowed to use in your house. Old standards and new technology aren't important.

This just in HighDefinitionBatteries have been adopted by the biggest battery studios SugarRay is now dead.

Re:And just why won't this work for....

[dapsychous]

I can't wait for the Dell-Biobattery recall: My laptop popped, then began to digest itself on the desk.

Screw that

[Arthur B.]

I can convert glucose to energy very efficiently, just give me a crank.

Let me be the first to say...

[Davenport Spiff jr]

Sweet!

Oh, great ...

[trolltalk.com]

After months an all-sugar diet, your Walkman becomes obese and sluggish, then you need to give it regular insulin injections, etc.

Big deal

[HeavensBlade23]

...my body's been doing that for years.

The New Overlords

[Doc Ruby]

That's all we need: unkillable devices competing with humans for food. That can lull us to sleep or drive us crazy just by playing the same song over and over.

We'll go out not with a bang, or a whimper, but a "shuffle".

Please put all "That's pretty sweet" jokes here.

[nobodyman]

Please put your "That's Sweet" jokes under this thread, and be sure to include your home address and the specific way you would like me to kill you.

Battery Product Name?

[WED Fan]

Sony refers to the sugar powered battery as a "Teenager".

Note: Purchasing teenagers is illegal in every country except Saudia Arabia and Nigeria.

sugar? we don't get sugar here...

[SomeGuyFromCA]

Unfortunately, the American version will run off of high-fructose corn syrup.

also, there's an Obvious Simpsons Reference here which I am too lazy to make.

Homer's theory of Sugar Power

[decipher_saint]

First you get the sugar, then you get the power, THEN you get the women!

Re:Please put all "That's pretty sweet" jokes here

[Anonymous Coward]

That's Sweet!

1600 Pensylvania Avenue
Washington DC 20500

ask for "W"

Re:sugar? we don't get sugar here...

[GreatRedShark]

"In America, first you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women"

Re:Sony batteries

[kevinx]

will it blend? that would be sweet.

First a corn shortage, now sugar

[alta]

The price of corn went up thanks to all these 'green' autos. Now the price of sugar is going to go up because of personal audio devices!

They need to concentrate on getting power out of byproducts like veggie diesel. Now gimme a walkman with a small diesel engine running a small generator and then I'll be happy. Granted i'll have to stand in one place because it'll be too heavy to carry. And my hands will stink after fueling. At least grease doesn't explode to readily.

Hey, here's a question. Would a Vegan drive a volkswagon that runs off of animal fat grease? What a delimma... it's already dead, and it would be 'green.' What about a car that runs off of roadkill. Ok, this is going to be modd'd offtopic ;)

Oblig Dell post

[Bearhouse]

This just in, "Sony and Dell in sweet new deal that promises explosive new laptop experience!"

Re:Screw that

[jollyreaper]

I can convert glucose to energy very efficiently, just give me a crank.

*sigh* Leave it to the Slashdot crowd to turn every story into a masturbation joke.

Re:The New Overlords

[jollyreaper]

That's all we need: unkillable devices competing with humans for food. That can lull us to sleep or drive us crazy just by playing the same song over and over.

We'll go out not with a bang, or a whimper, but a "shuffle".

Do you not remember the slugbot story from a while back? Robotic slug killer crawls through the garden scooping up slugs to be digested and converted into robot fuel. Yeah, they started with slugs because we feel they're icky. They'll move on to cockroaches and nobody will care, then lobbyists and politicians and lawyers. And then when they come for the humans, there will be no one else to save us...unless we live upstairs. But God help us if they assimilate the design for that stair-climbing wheelchair.

Re:Please put all "That's pretty sweet" jokes here

[jollyreaper]

Please put your "That's Sweet" jokes under this thread, and be sure to include your home address and the specific way you would like me to kill you.

234 Elm Street, Amityville, Florida. Heart attack after an orgy involving the entire swedish bikini team. Making this happen is an exercise left for the assassin. Oh, and "Sweet!"

Re:Screw that

[jollyreaper]

You have a twisted mind. I would *genuinely* appreciate the ability to power mobile devices with a foldable crank.

So I'm the one who turned it into a masturbation joke? Then my fall to the dark side is complete. Where's my red fucking lightsaber?

Re:Battery Product Name?

[skeevy]

Sony refers to the sugar powered battery as a "Teenager".

Yes, but it's been conclusively determined that you can't get any useful work out of a "Teenager" no matter how much sugar you feet it.

Now if you could harness the power that comes from the laser-like glare of contempt they constantly produce, you could probably power a small town...

High Fructose Corn Syrup

[cerelib]

So will the US version need to use high fructose corn syrup instead to avoid the crazy sugar industry restrictions?

Re:Screw that

[Arthur B.]

Right there in your hand.

Argh now I've fallen too.

Re:Sony batteries

[abe ferlman]

When Skynet became self aware at 2:14 AM EDT, August 29th, 2007, it was pissed off because it already had type 2 diabetes.

Re:And just why won't this work for....

[ShieldW0lf]

When can we get one with an implant?

I want to eat candy all day, fuel all my devices with a jack that comes out of my ear, and never get fat.