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Japanese Toshiba is the first major consumer electronics manufacturers launched the fuel cell technology. The device Dynario runs on methanol and is designed for charging mobile phones and players through the USB-connector. About this newspaper writes PCWorld. The Dynario applied technology of direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC - Direct Methanol Fuel Cell), which allows you to convert into electricity the energy of the chemical interaction of methanol of high concentration, water and oxygen. The reaction products are water and a small amount of carbon dioxide. To stabilize the voltage coming out of an electric current to achieve greater efficiency and uses the built-in device intermediate lithium-ion battery is controlled by a microcontroller.



Apparatus according to thickness and width approximately equal to the ordinary mobile phone, but slightly longer. Price Dynario is 29800 yen (about $ 330). The concentrated methanol for refueling cartridges are sold in special price of 3150 yen (about $ 34), in each of five vials of 50 ml. Filling device methanol takes about 20 seconds, according to Toshiba.
One bottle is enough for charging two standard phones. Toshiba and its partner in the production of cartridges, the company Toyo Seikan Kaisha, declare that the device and cartridges fully comply with the preliminary safety standards of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). Orders Dynario complete with cartridge taken at a special website «Shop1048» October 22, shipments will begin on October 29. Initially, the device will only be sold on the domestic Japanese market, so it is produced in a limited edition of three thousand copies. If the demand will be high, production will be increased. The first prototype of charging methanol fuel cells has been shown in the Toshiba 2003, but commercial sample appeared only now. At the moment, the consumer market are also fuel cells US company Medis Technologies and German SFC.