The Associated Press reported that one teaspoon of fuel from the product will provide about 20 times the run time of a battery the same size. The company plans to sell the product for US$100 to $150 with refill cartridges that go for $1 to $3.

Despite the advances, researchers are cautiously optimistic.

"We're not around the corner," said Mouli Ramani, a vice president at Lilliputian Systems, in The Associated Press report. "We're still 12 months to 15 months away from having this in consumers hands."