Are Transparent Flexible Lithium-ion Batteries Coming? Do We Care?

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If you're a cell-phone fanatic, you may remember the LG GD900, which boasted a transparent touch-sensitive keypad dialing surface. It was neat to see, but the majority of the phone still remained opaque. We immediately started thinking: What if you could make a power tool transparent? Quickly followed by: Would anyone care? and What would it take? Well, for one, transparent plastics are nothing new, but transparent lithium-ion batteries - well that's something entirely different. It takes more than just a transparent shell to make something transparent. With batteries taking up a large part of our electronics, getting those transparent would make for some very interesting (and unfortunately, easily losable) devices.

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