Instead of relying on a phone insurance plan, I was able to use a credit card perk to get reimbursed for some of the repair ...

After carefully measuring the dimensions of this battery, it was replicated in plastic with a 3D printer. This enclosure was then stuffed with a small lithium cell scavenged from a USB power bank.

Back in the day, just about everything that used a battery had a hatch or a hutch that you could open to pull it out and replace it if need be. Whether it was a radio, a cordless phone ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Researchers at the University of Washington have created a cell phone that uses so little power, it never needs to charge and doesn't have a battery. Instead, it ...