Smartphone Thoughts: Researchers Develop Foldable and Bendable Battery

"It's a battery that looks like a piece of paper and can be bent or twisted, trimmed with scissors or molded into any shape needed. While the battery is only a prototype a few inches square right now, the researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute who developed it have high hopes for it in electronics and other fields that need smaller, lighter power sources. "We would like to scale this up to the point where you can imagine printing batteries like a newspaper. That would be the ultimate," Robert Linhardt a professor at the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies at RPI said in a telephone interview."

Battery technology hasn't changed in ages. There's always talk of new smaller and more powerfull batteries but we never see them make it to market. A bendable/foldable battery would be really cool and could really change the size and shape of todays devices. But, I'm not holding my breath. There's a pretty good chance that we'll still be using the same old LI-ION in our phones for years to come.