We're doomed to days of dwindling cell phone batteries and interminable recharging times for at least a couple of more years.

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The retail package includes the Trakdot Luggage device, luggage tag, and batteries, works globally with any cell phone or SMS enabled device for a low annual price, and each device can be linked to multiple phones.

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An operating system to manage batteries would work much like an operating system for your computer or cell phone: it coordinates the communications between the hardware and the apps to make sure the various programs, such as those for taking photos and browsing the Internet in the case of cell phones, are running well and do not interfere with each other.

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But the more functions cell phone manufacturers add, the greater the amount of power the phones use and the less practical running them on lithium batteries becomes -- so the race to find a viable alternative is on.

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