Gaming: If This New Battery Breakthrough Goes Mainstream, You May Be...

Sodium-ion batteries may be about to have their moment.

Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.

Your weekly update on everything you could ever want to know about the games you already love, games we know you're going to love in the near future, and tales from the communities that surround them.

Our special GTA 6 newsletter, with breaking news, insider info, and rumor analysis from the award-winning GTA 6 O'clock experts.

From the creators of Edge: A weekly videogame industry newsletter with analysis from expert writers, guidance from professionals, and insight into what's on the horizon.

Hardware nerds unite, sign up to our free tech newsletter for a weekly digest of the hottest new tech, the latest gadgets on the test bench, and much more.

Sign up to our new Switch 2 newsletter, where we bring you the latest talking points on Nintendo's new console each week, bring you up to date on the news, and recommend what games to play.

Get sneak previews, exclusive competitions and details of special events each month!

Lithium-ion batteries are so ubiquitous that you're probably reading these words on a device that has one installed right now. They're pretty handy. They charge fast and can hold a lot of juice for your laptop or phone, so why wouldn't we just keep using them forever ? Well, they require lithium which has to be mined out of the Earth itself, so that won't last for all eternity. Oh, and they can explode, making them a risk when left next to your bed or in an unmanned part of a plane, so that's not ideal. Luckily, a new breakthrough means we may be able to move on from them.

Enter sodium-ion batteries. As reported by Live Science, a new experiment performed by researchers at the Tokyo University of Science has yielded promising results.

Source: PC Gamer