On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 22:14:25 +0000, Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:

On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 22:29:23 +0100, Martin Schöön
wrote:

There are place where any type of electrical equipment,
including digital cameras, are useless as soon as the batteries
are flat.

that is absolutely true.

however, there has been some very interesting research in low power
chips and memory - radical different technology and this maybe what
nikon is banking on.

were talking about batteries that might last years instead of hours.

Interesting.
We saw some of that in cell phones in the late 1990s when stand-by
time and talk time improved by an order of magnitude. Some of it
came form improved batteries but most of it was due to better design.

/Martin