Fairfield startup working on child-safe battery technology
Days after the U.S. Senate passed a law aimed at making it harder for children to ingest batteries, a Fairfield-based startup announced it has made serious progress on another way to make batteries safer. Melissa Fensterstock, the CEO of Landsdowne Labs, said her company is developing a coating designed to prevent the child from being burned if the battery is swallowed. “We’re developing a safer battery,” she said. “We’re tackling this problem around button battery ingestion.” Read more >>