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This project in Google's secret research lab could change the future

• http://www.businessinsider.com, MATT WEINBERGER

It's not just about making sure our cell phones last a little longer, though that's a nice side-effect too. Really, what's going on is that the new wave of wearable devices, flying drones, electric cars, and what-have-you are going to have higher and more specific power needs than what you get with our current lithium-ion (like in phones) and alkaline batteries (like in Wii controllers).

It's the same reason Tesla and IBM have their own battery research efforts, too. 

So take for example solid-state, thin-film batteries, which offer better battery life while still being thinner and lighter than our existing batteries. They're currently expensive and hard to make a lot of them, but they'd be perfect in the next generation of smartphones. 

But as the report notes, they're also perfect for Google Glass, since the better battery life helps with stuff like video, which can sap a lot of power.


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