Printable battery market to expand

Power Paper, a privately held company based at Kibbutz Einat in Tel Aviv. Israel has developed printable batteries to power a stick-on insulin delivery patch for diabetics. The disposable device is made using an ordinary printing press to lay down a battery half a millimeter thick composed of five layers of zinc and manganese dioxide.

Now, marketeers are working on expanded applications including CD cases that would play samples of included songs when activated and packaging that presents multimidea sales pitches while tracking its own progress. One skeptic, however, characterizes the flexible ultra-thin batteries as "a solution looking for a problem."

A related article in Technology Review describes the RF or radio frequency chips that boot up, perform calculations and transmit information when exposed to the right frequency radio wave.

Read the source article at dailynews.yahoo.com. The RF article is at technologyreview.com.