The most popular place for wear-harders to get batteries is http://www.batterybarn.com/ click on *camcorder batteries*, then search by *battery part #*, then click on *Sony*, then NP-F960 NP-F960 is the wear-hard standard. You can get *one* for only $113 which includes shipping (all batterybarn prices include shipping). Greg gets 5 hours, but you have to remember that Greg purposely doesn't use X windows in order to save power, so you'll have to do this too. Also, Greg, last I'm aware of, is using a pretty state-of-the-art embedded computer which may give him substantially lower power consumption than the alternatives, one of which you may own or have in your wearable plans... If you don't want to go with the 960, Lenmar is the standard Sony battery clone maker. They don't have a clone for the 960, but they clone the 750 and the 950, $68 and $100 respectively (at batterybarn). Whay you would pay $100 for a 32.4 WH battery when you could get a Sony 38.8 WH battery for $13 more I don't know, but there's your choice... Battery barn el cheapo carger is $46. Tethered charging may cause you some problems as in, LiIon chargers are all smart chargers. AFAIK you can't just give plain juice to a LiIon battery. Out of my tiny league, here -- ask again and/or check the archives. -Chris
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