There is no mystery as to why over half of cell phones in use today are smartphones. With the increasingly frenzied digital lives that people are now living, it is necessary to have a device that can adapt to the user. However, far too often do we find ourselves still going late in the day while our smartphones sit dead in our pockets.
Smartphone battery life is one of the major selling points of a smartphone, and for as long as the smartphone has been around there has been a race between top dogs such as Apple and Samsung to create increasingly longer lasting smartphone batteries.
But what if the solution to a longer lasting smartphone didn’t lie with a better battery, but with a better charger?
This is exactly the question that tech start-up StoreDot considered when developing their lightning-speed smartphone charger, which can be seen charging a Samsung Galaxy S3 in the video below.
StoreDot Flash-Battery Demo via Doron Myersdorf.
The “flash-battery” works via biological semiconductors, which have several uses, one of which is to accelerate battery charging.
Though the charger is still in early-stages of development, the good news is that StoreDot has goals of finishing a commercial version as soon as 2016. Even better is the price prediction: it is estimated that the finished product will only cost around twice what a regular cell phone charger costs today.
Thinking beyond just the smartphone market, it is exciting to imagine how the technology could be used in alternative applications. With all mobile devices there has been a battle for longer battery life; but what if our laptops and tablets of the future were able to work wirelessly all day long, stopping only for a moment to receive a quick charge?
The possibilities are certainly something to think about.
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