If you are a laptop-toting person on the move often, this is something to look forward to. Korean giant Samsung is now making fuel cell technology for notebooks a reality, which could power a laptop for 8 hours a day for a month. Samsung showcased a new DMFC (Direct Methanol Fuel Cell) dock that can power a Q35 ultra portable notebook for 8 hours a day for a full month.

According to Samsung press release, the fuel cell has an energy density of 650Wh/L and total energy storage of 1,200Wh and will be available to the public by the end of 2007. Widespread use may take several years but what it means that by 2012 we could have more than 80,000 consumers using this technology.

Samsung is not the first company to look into this Toshiba had announced late last year that it had developed two prototype direct DMFC units and had begun testing their operation in MP3 players. Fuel cells is technology that sparks a reaction between hydrogen and oxygen won through the electrolyzation of water to produce electricity.