| silicon said: Wait... that sounds like it still has a battery. |
It's a battery Jim but not as we know it. If your device will always be used within range of the transmitter then there won't be any need for a traditional battery. Unlike a mobile phone which you will be taking out of transmitter range all the time. Sounds cool.
So much for Yahoo's "don't by a PS3 because the battery in the controller will fail" advice. Next year there won't be a battery in the controller for it to fail on you.
Batteries are a bit of an environmental nasty, even the ones in wireless controllers, because you've eventually got to throw them out. Anything that removes the need for batteries and their chemicals without affecting useability of a device is a good move.
Imagine my electric lawn mower not needing to have a cord running from the house to the mower, or not having a battery that loses it's charge 7/8ths of the way through mowing the lawns.
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