Flexible batteries may mean foldable game systems

Game systems and cell phones are shrinking each year. Look at Milton-Bradley’s Microvision, the first handhled game system with removable cartridges. Released in 1979, it was about a foot tall and several inches thick. Compare that to the tiny GamBoy Micro,

A recent development by researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute could mean even thinner, lighter and longer-lasting handhelds. It’s a bendable battery that, according to an article by Yahoo! News, “looks like a piece of paper and can be bent or twisted, trimmed with scissors or molded into any shape needed.”

Part of the problem with batteries is…