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Energizer is launching a packaging innovation for the brands hearing aid batteries. The new perforated design makes using your hearing aid batteries easier than ever. Replacing the traditional Spin Pack, the new practical design is easier and more convenient for hearing aid batteries to use. Because each battery is individually sealed and perforated, Energizer Hearing Aid batteries new packaging is designed to fit anywhere for convenient, on-the-go lifestyles.

Hearing aid batteries are Zinc Air batteries, meaning they are activated once the tab is removed from the battery, exposing them to air. Each battery in the new packaging has longer and wider tabs on each laptop battery that activates the power source once the tab is pulled away.

Features
Individually sealed means coins or metal objects wont touch batteries, avoiding a short out

Individual packages allow users to take one or two batteries with them and leave the rest of the pack behind, as well as keeping batteries fresh

Longer and wider tabs make inserting batteries into hearing aids easier

Each individual, perforated battery cell tab is barely the size and weight of a coin

Available for all styles of hearing aids, including those where the battery drops, tilts or snaps in

Available in all four sizes (10, 13, 312 and 675)
Suggested Retail Price
Energizer HA all sizes (4 pack) - $3.99

Energizer HA all sizes (8 pack) - $7.99

Energizer HA Size 10, 13 & 312 (12 pack) - $11.99

Energizer HA all sizes (16 pack) - $14.99
Distribution
Available now through mass food and drug retailers nationwide
Product Web Site
www.energizer.com
About Energizer

Energizer markets and distributes Energizer Hearing Aid batteries. St. Louis-based Energizer Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: ENR) is one of the worlds largest manufacturers and distributors of alkaline and lithium primary batteries, specialty and rechargeable batteries, and flashlights. Energizer is a global leader in the dynamic business of providing portable power.

For more information, visit www.energizer.com.

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Battery science has traditionally been the slowpoke of the technological industry. Look at a few of its competitors - in the last fifty years, screens have gone from black-and-white to color; from grainy cathode ray tube screens to high-definition plasma. Computers that used to be housed in gigantic warehouses, using thousands of vacuum tubes, are now overpowered by tiny boxes that sit on every college students’ desk. Processors, found in most modern devices, are built on an atomic scale.

Yet the batteries we use today are still based upon the same technology that was developed by Alessandro Volta over two hundred years ago. They are large, lose electrical charge with time, can leak dangerous acids, and even sometimes explode with misuse. But now, there comes new technology to finally replace the old - the nanobattery.

There are a few projects working with nanobattery technology, and one such endeavor comes from MIT’s Laboratory for Electromagnetic and Electronic Systems (LEES), which is improving on the design of ultracapacitors. TerraDaily writes:

“Today’s ultracapacitors use electrodes made of activated carbon, which is extremely porous and therefore has a very large surface area. However, the pores in the carbon are irregular in size and shape, which reduces efficiency. The vertically aligned nanotubes in the LEES ultracapacitor have a regular shape, and a size that is only several atomic diameters in width. The result is a significantly more effective surface area, which equates to significantly increased storage capacity.”
Unfortunately, most nanobatteries are still too expensive or impractical to be put to everyday use. Initially the technology will probably be used mostly in medical devices, military applications, and emergencies. But as is true with most technology, increases in production will likely result in decreases in cost. Perhaps one day soon the general public will enjoy laptop batteries which can hold a charge long enough to actually allow one to finish write.

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