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Last year Toshiba developed a new lithium-ion battery that can incredibly be recharged to 80% capacity in one minute. That is right one minute and it is recharged to 80% capacity. That is extremely fast especially when we consider that current lithium-ion batteries take about an hour to be recharge to that amount; that is a 60 fold improvement. Not even considering the increased energy capacity and other improvements of this new battery, the rapid charging ability is already enough to make this battery worth while, it is just an unbleiveable improvement! Unfourtantly even though it has increased capacity it does not seem that it has increased capacity in any vast amounts when comparing it to the recharge time improvement; however it does boast a 600mAh energy capacity. This battery real benefits can be found in its life span and usable in almost any temperature. This battery can operate in very high extremes of temperature; it can discharge 80% of its capacity at minus 40 degrees which happens to interestingly be the same in the Fahrenheit and Centigrade scale. Sufficient to say it is very cold and as anyone like myself; who has left rechargeable batteries out in the cold knows this will be a very helpfully feature. In addition, they say it losses only 5% of capacity at temperatures as high as 113 degrees Fahrenheit after 1,000 cycles; meaning that the battery is very high life. Unfortunately we may not see this battery in laptops right away Toshiba seems to be trying to market it more towards cars and locomotives at this point, however this technology should eventually be incorporated into laptops I would imagine, we will see it in them in the not to far future.