|Exhibit 3.3
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| | Filed: 12/27/2000CID: 1993-00283347WY Secretary of StateDoc. ID: 2000-00411797
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|AMENDED AND RESTATED
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATIONOFTANISYS TECHNOLOGY, INC.



Tanisys Technology, Inc., a
corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Wyoming, hereby
certifies as follows:
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|A. |  | The
name of the Corporation is TANISYS TECHNOLOGY, INC. The date of filing of its Articles of
Continuance with the Secretary of State was June 30, 1993, which Articles of Continuance
were subsequently amended by (i) Articles of Amendment to Articles of Continuance filed
with the Secretary of State on July 11, 1994, (ii) Articles of Amendment filed with the
Secretary of State on April 28, 1995, (iii) Articles of Amendment filed with the
Secretary of State on April 15, 1996, (iv) Articles of Amendment filed with the Secretary
of State on June 30, 1998 and (v) Articles of Amendment filed with the Secretary of State
on May 24, 2000.
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|B. |  | These
Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation restate the provisions of the Articles of
Incorporation, integrating all amendments filed with the Secretary of State since the
filing of the Articles of Continuance. Further, these Amended and Restated Articles of
Incorporation contain an amendment to Article 9 (now Article 4) eliminating the 5% Series
A Convertible Preferred Stock.
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|C. |  | The
amendment to Article 9 and the adoption of these Amended and Restated Articles of
Incorporation were approved by resolution of the Board of Directors of the Corporation
duly adopted by unanimous written consent on December 19, 2000 in accordance with the
provisions of Sections 17-16-1006 and 17-16-1007 of the Wyoming Business Corporation Act
and shall become effective upon filing with the Secretary of State.
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|D. |  | The
text of the Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation is as follows:
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| | 1. |  | The
name of the Corporation is:
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|TANISYS TECHNOLOGY, INC.
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| | 2. |  | It
was incorporated under the laws of the Province of British Columbia on January 27, 1984
and registered and continued in the State of Wyoming on June 30, 1993, and the period of
its duration is perpetual.
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| | 3. |  | The
purpose or purposes of the corporation which it proposed to pursue in the transaction of
business in this state is:
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| | Developing,
manufacturing and marketing computer hardware and software.
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| | 4. |  | A. |  | The
aggregate number of shares or other ownership units which it has the authority to issue,
itemized by classes, par value of shares, shares without par value and series, if any,
within a class is:
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| | Number of Shares | Class      | Par Value per Share
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| |                  | 50,000,000 |                    
| |                  | 10,000,000 |                    

| |  |  |  |  | To
the fullest extent permitted by law, the board of directors shall have the authority, by
resolution, to create and issue such series of preferred stock and to fix with respect to
any such series the number of shares of preferred stock comprising such series and the
powers, designations, preferences and rights (and the qualifications, limitations and
restrictions thereof) of the shares of such series.
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| |  |  | B. |  | Effective
May 24, 2000, all outstanding shares of Common Stock shall be reverse split on a
one-for-two basis so that each share of Common Stock issued and outstanding immediately
prior to the effective date shall automatically be converted into and reconstituted as
one half of a share of Common Stock (Reverse Split). No fractional shares will be
issued by the Corporation as a result of the Reverse Split. In lieu thereof, each
shareholder whose shares of Common Stock are not evenly divisible by two will receive one
additional share of Common Stock for the fractional share such shareholder would
otherwise be entitled to as a result of the Reverse Split.
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| | 5. |  | No
director shall be personally liable to the Corporation or any shareholder for monetary
damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except for any matter in respect of
which such director shall be liable under Section 17-16-834 of the Wyoming Business
Corporation Act or any amendment thereto or successor provision thereto or shall be
liable by reason that, in addition to any and all other requirements for such liability,
he (i) shall have breached his duty of loyalty to the Corporation or its shareholders,
(ii) shall not have acted in good faith or, in failing to act, shall not have acted in
good faith, (iii) shall have acted in a manner involving intentional misconduct or a
knowing violation of law or, in failing to act, shall have acted in a manner involving
intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iv) shall have derived an improper
personal benefit, or (v) shall have voted for or assented to a distribution made in
violation of Section 17-16-640 of the Wyoming Business Corporation Act or the articles of
incorporation of the Company if it is established that he did not perform his duties in
compliance with Section 17-16-830 of the Wyoming Business Corporation Act.
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| | 6. |  | The
members of the Board of Directors shall be classified, with respect to the time for which
they severally hold office, into three classes, as nearly equal in number as possible, as
shall be provided in the manner specified in the corporations bylaws, one class to hold
office initially for a term expiring at the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders to be
held in 1997, another to hold office initially for a term expiring at the Annual General
Meeting of Shareholders to be held in 1998, and another to hold office initially for a
term expiring at the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders to be held in 1999, with the
members of each new class to hold office until their successors have been duly elected
and have qualified. At each Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of the corporation,
the successors to the class of directors whose term expires at the meeting shall be
elected to hold office for a term expiring at the Annual General Meeting held in the
third year following the year of their election.
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|IN WITNESS WHEREOF, TANISYS
TECHNOLOGY, INC. has caused its corporate seal to be hereunto fixed and this Certificate
to be signed by Charles T. Comiso, its Chief Executive Officer and President, this 19th
day of December, 2000.
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| |  | TANISYS TECHNOLOGY, INC.By: /s/ Charles T. Comiso
Name: Charles T. ComisoTitle: Chief Executive Officer and           President
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