Fuel Cell Mobile Phone Recharger: Early 2010

Finding a cheap alternative to charge your mobile phone up has been the work of Taiwanese researchers for some time now, and it looks as though their “Fuel Cell Mobile Phone Recharger” is well on its way. It had been slated for a 2009 release, but now it will be sometime early 2010.

PC World reports that Jerry Ku from the Industrial Technology Research Institute said that the new handset rechargers would contain a fuel cell costing around $30. The fuel is much cheaper; a small blue canister of the fuel will cost around US$0.30 each.

Ku said, “The fuel canisters are inexpensive and small. They could be sold at 7-Eleven.” The fuel cell recharger will give you a two-hour charge, once depleted you will have to purchase a new canister. The thing that I would like to know is what happens to all the empty fuel cell canisters?