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After the release of the first rumors regarding the possible production of a iWatch, information related to the fact that Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), could use flexible batteries in this product. In the video clip above you have a demonstration of such a flexible battery for SmartWatch-s, it being able to provide enough energy for a product of this kind. The Taiwanese company ProLogium produces them and uses a new technology to make them flexible, many other companies have been trying for years to achieve such a result.
Flexible Printed Circuits (FCP), where components are mounted on a bendable plastic substrate, have existed for several years, but until recently the batteries were the stumbling block. The patent shown by Apple still appeared to show rigid batteries mounted on an FCP. FCP Ceramic Lithium Batteries are the latest version of this technology, allowing the batteries themselves to be flexible.
Apple has several patents describing methods of developing flexible batteries, but those have rigid components, to distinguish them from the Taiwanese ones, which are constructed differently. If such batteries end up being sold to mobile terminal manufacturers, then in a few years we will have flexible smartphones available on the market.
