[mikevp]

Miracle battery breakthrough du jour.

I've been watching this soap opera for years. These announcements keep coming, but nothing I can pop down to Fry's and pick some up.

Let me know when they're on the shelf at Fry's or Best Buy, or I can order them from Amazon.

[perl4ever]

Well, anything that does suddenly appear in stores or whatever, if you google it, you generally find that it's been in the process of development for 20 or 30 years.

So any given story about an innovation could be perfectly real, just not ready for prime time for a few decades.