The most futuristic product is a tiny fuel cell to produce power for use in portable applications, from hedge trimmers to mobile telephones.

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The company is focusing first on embedding the technology within selected portable electronic applications to gain early revenues, while continuing its development focus on large-scale storage applications.

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Fourth, virtual resources must be linked to the power they consume in order to understand power consumption by applications and how to optimize portable workloads.

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And as with the flexible circuitry, this technology has commercial applications on its own, in devices such as portable computers or digital cameras.

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"These results open the potential for visibly transparent polymer solar cells as add-on components of portable electronics, smart windows and building-integrated photovoltaics and in other applications, " said study leader Yang Yang, a UCLA professor of materials science and engineering, who also is director of the Nano Renewable Energy Center at California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI).

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Cisco Cius is an ultra-portable device weighing just 1.15lbs (0.52kg) that extends the productivity benefits of Cisco collaboration applications to a highly secure mobile platform.

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