consumer electronics

Gadget fans prize small consumer electronics devices for their portability, convenience and growing host of features, but the smaller consumer electronics devices all have one drawback: limited power supplies. That's one reason why the development of portable power sources is on the cutting edge of the high tech revolution, and why the companies that can come up with the best portable power supplies are poised to become industrial giants in the early part of the 21st Century. Whoever can come up with the best way to provide power to hand-held and other small consumer electronics devices will become unspeakably wealthy, which is why there is so much activity in this sector, and so many different approaches being tried, from improving battery technology to creating refillable alcohol fuel cells, to flexible, stowable solar power arrays, and other approaches that are still on the drawing boards of technological innovators working in labs around the world. You can count on it that in the world of consumer electronics, the most effort will be expended to supply power to laptops that are away from wall sockets and generators.