There are new reasons to stock up on batteries before Christmas morning this year. Some toy companies are cutting costs by not including batteries with their products. This especially applies to toys ...

Tinkerers and tech enthusiasts, brace yourselves: the frontier of biohacking has just expanded. Picture implantable medical devices that don’t need batteries—no more surgeries for replacements or ...

Gadgets sold without batteries. Toys sold in slimmed-down boxes or no packaging at all. More household goods that shoppers need to assemble themselves. These are some of the ways consumer product ...