Workplace stress can tear us apart. It plays havoc on our physical and emotional well-being -- and ultimately sabotages our performance.

Cellular phones, cameras, MP3 players and headsets can be charged without wire by adding a transmitting and receiving coil to transfer magnetic power from the base to the receiver.

Occupy Wall Street, a phenomenon which has circled the globe, has taken on a life of its own and become the rallying cry of many who seek to bring attention to the perceived injustice being dispensed to many during harsh economic conditions.
 

A fuel cell is an electrochemical device that combines hydrogen fuel with oxygen to produce electricity, heat and water. The fuel cell is similar to a battery in that an electrochemical reaction takes place as long as fuel is available.

 

The world is facing a growing youth employment crisis. According to the latest International Labour Organization (ILO) ILO data, about half of the world's estimated 199 million unemployed people in 2010 -- or nearly 96 million -- are aged between 15 and 24.

The supercapacitor, also known as ultracapacitor or double-layer capacitor, differs from a regular capacitor in that it has a very high capacitance.

It maybe a safe bet to say business bankruptcies will be going up in the near future, given all the dark economic clouds gathering these days ranging from the U.S. economy slowing down to the global government debt crisis to the over-par Canadian dollar.
 

As part of ongoing research to examine performance degradation caused by cycling, Cadex tested a large volume of portable batteries for wireless communication devices.

 

A lot has been written about the slowdown in the electronics sector in Canada and the seeming shortage of start up activity in the microelectronics sector.

The safety of lithium-ion is a sensitive issue that gets much media and legal attention. Any energy storage device carries a risk and in the 1800s, steam engines exploded and people got hurt.

This summer saw the Whistler resort in British Columbia play host to a uniquely Canadian technology conference, CMOS Emerging Technologies (CMOS-ET).


 

The polymer hype of the early 2000s is still going strong, however, most users cannot distinguish between a regular Li-ion and one with polymer architecture.

 

The person who first said, "It?s not who you know, but what you know," was obviously never forced to do business in Canada.

The casual battery user may think there is only on lithium-ion. As there are many species of apple trees, so do also lithium-ion batteries vary and the difference lies mainly in the cathode materials.