Written on November 21, 2008 – 6:26 pm | by Maria Mihale |

According to Wikipedia, “a fuel cell is an electrochemical conversion device. It produces electricity from fuel (on the anode side) and an oxidant (on the cathode side), which react in the presence of an electrolyte. The reactants flow into the cell, and the reaction products flow out of it, while the electrolyte remains within it. Fuel cells can operate virtually continuously as long as the necessary flows are maintained”.

A Swedish company known under the name of myFC (My Fuel Cell) has one purpose and one purpose only: to free you up from power cables with advanced micro fuel cell technology. Its prototype is a charger that is based on a compact, flat alternative to the usual fuel cell stack – it’s a passive planer fuel cell. The FuelCellSticker are the result of the remarkable effort of myFC and, being layered together to create the charger, gives the device a thin appearance.



The highly anticipated Excess Charger was unveiled back in February 2008 at the 4th International Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Expo (FC Expo 2008), which was held in Tokyo, Japan.

The Excess Charger is the pioneer product in the myFC’s Excess Line and the first product stemming from the collaboration between myFC and its Nordic Consortium. This new and improved charger incorporated fuel cell with a world leading power density, based on myFC’s patent-protected FuelCellSticker technology, powered by an integrated and easily replaceable metal-hydride cartridge. The first in the Excess line has been designed specifically to cater to portable electronics demanding power levels of up to 3W.



Adding hydrogen, you obtain a clean and seemingly effortless passive power, and the only byproduct is water vapor that dissipated into the air. Something we’re not told by the company is how you get the hydrogen into this tiny package or how the hydrogen is produced.

More than that, the company wants to go beyond the micro fuel cell tech-based charger. It hopes that someday will have its micro fuel cells incorporated inside any cell phone or laptop, eliminating the need for plugging it in at all.

I’m not sure if these devices are as easy to manufacture as myFC claims them to be, but if they will ever hit the mass production, this could be big.

(Source: Dvice)