I got a sourceless IM from a friend of mine about an advancement in laptop batteries today:

great PC is no good if it’s got no power, and we all want more power all the time. The humble lithium-ion battery may be headed for an early bath as methanol fuel cells begin to emerge. At CeBIT, Taiwanese firm Antig showed off a methanol cell that it says could keep a laptop running for up to nine hours. Instead of storing power, the cells generate electricity by breaking down methanol via an electrochemical process. The first cells could be on sale as early as 2007.

That is all I have to go on.  Does anything know more about these methanol batteries?  It sounds very intriguing, because battery issues has been one of the biggest drawbacks with laptops.