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<body topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" height="100%"> <tr> <td valign="top" width="130" bgcolor="#0000FF" text="#080000" background="061f0c00egayea.jpg"> <div> <b>Batteries Digest</b> </div> <div> <b> Navigator</b> </div> <div> <b>Topics</b> </div> <div> <b></b> <table border="2" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1" width="98" bordercolorlight="#C0C0C0" bordercolordark="#808080" frame="BOX" rules="ALL" hspace="0" vspace="0"> <tr> <td valign="top" height="16" width="86"> <div> <a href="index.htm" target="_top" title="Home Page"><u><b>Home</b></u></a> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" height="16" width="86"> <div> <a href="batteries_topics.htm" target="_top" title="Batteries Topics"><u><b>Batteries</b></u></a> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" height="19" width="86"> <div> <a href="fuel_cells.htm" target="_top" title="Fuel Cells"><u><b>Fuel Cells</b></u></a> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" height="16"> <nobr></nobr> <div> <a href="photovoltaics_topics.htm" target="_top" title="Photovoltaics Topics"><u><b>Photovoltaics</b></u></a> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" height="16"> <nobr></nobr> <div> <a href="miscellaneous_topics.htm" target="_top" title="Miscellaneous Topics"><u><b>Miscellaneou</b></u></a><a href="miscellaneous_topics.htm" target="_top" title="Miscellaneous Topics"><u><b>s</b></u></a> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div> <b>Departments</b> </div><br> <div> <table border="2" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1" width="98" bordercolorlight="#C0C0C0" bordercolordark="#808080" frame="BOX" rules="ALL" hspace="0" vspace="0"> <tr> <td valign="top" height="16"> <nobr></nobr> <div> <nobr><a href="advertising.htm" target="_top" title="Advertising"><u><b>Advertising</b></u></a></nobr> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" height="16"> <nobr></nobr> <div> <nobr><a href="corrections.htm" target="_top" title="Corrections"><u><b>Corrections</b></u></a></nobr> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" height="16" width="86"> <div> <b> </b><a href="meetings.htm" target="_top" title="Meetings"><u><b>Meetings</b></u></a> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" height="16" width="86"> <div> <a href="suppliers.htm" target="_top" title="Suppliers"><u><b>Suppliers</b></u></a> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" height="16"> <nobr></nobr> <div> <nobr><a href="index.htm" target="_top" title="Home Page"><u><b>What's New</b></u></a></nobr> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" height="16"> <nobr></nobr> <div> <nobr><a href="search.htm" target="_top" title=" Search"><u><b>Search Tool</b></u></a></nobr> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div><br> </td> <td valign="top" bgcolor="#A6CAF0" text="#080000"> <div> <table border="2" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1" width="620" bordercolorlight="#C0C0C0" bordercolordark="#808080" frame="BOX" rules="ALL" hspace="0" vspace="0"> <tr> <td valign="top" height="242"> <nobr></nobr> <div> <nobr>Batteries/Rechargeable 040408</nobr> </div><nobr><br> <br> <br></nobr> <div> <nobr><b><img src="4a012470.jpg" border="0" width="274" height="71" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0"></b></nobr> </div><nobr><br> <br> <br></nobr> <div> <nobr><b>Batteries/Rechargeable</b></nobr> </div> </td> <td valign="top"> <nobr></nobr> <div> <nobr><b><img src="07f47e50.png" border="0" width="327" height="229" align="right" hspace="0" vspace="0"></b></nobr> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div align="left"></div> <div> <i><b> <a name="_may_2004__portable_battery_powered" id="_may_2004__portable_battery_powered"><img border="0" src="1x1.gif" height="1" align="bottom" width="1" hspace="0" vspace="0"></a></b></i><i><b>(May 2004) Portable Battery-Powered Pocket Refrigerator for Insulin</b></i> </div> <div> A pocket sized cooling chamber for maintaining diabetic insulin in a cool state while traveling has been produced by Olaf Diegel, of <b>Massey University</b>, New Zeland. The rechargeable video-cam type battery operates the ‘TravelMate’ for between 4-12 hours. Cooling is performed by a 5 W solid state Peltier device. </div> <div> <i>NASA Tech Briefs</i>, April 2004, p. 20 </div> <div align="left"></div> <div> * </div> <div> <table border="2" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1" width="492" bordercolorlight="#C0C0C0" bordercolordark="#808080" frame="BOX" rules="ALL" hspace="0" vspace="0"> <tr> <td valign="top" height="391" width="480"> <div> <b><img src="777e0450.png" border="0" width="480" height="325" alt="Adobe Photoshop Image" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">As Japan’s world market as a rechargeable battery maker declines, South Korea is looking to gain share.  Holding 9.7% of the market in 2002, the country hopes to have a 30% share by 2005 and a 40% share by 2010. (Information from  “Korea to Beat Japan in Batteries by 2910” by Kim Sung-jin,</b> <i><b>The Korea Times</b></i><b>, 12/17/03. +</b> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div><br> <br> <div align="left"></div> <div> BD </div><br> </td> </tr> </table> </body>