This Bio-Organic Battery Charger Promises To Charge Your Smartphone In 30 Seconds
A battery that uses nanotechnology to charge your smartphone in 30 seconds may sound like something out of a sci-fi movie but an Israeli startup claims to have created just that.
By Sadho Ram — 09 Apr 2014, 04:06 PM — Updated over 10 years ago
StoreDot is developing a technology that promises to charge your smartphone battery in 30 seconds. They even unveiled a prototype at Microsoft's Think Next conference in Tel Aviv.
The Storedot biological semiconductor battery promises to fully charge your phone in 30 seconds.
Image via stuff.co.nzStoreDot's prototype is able to completely recharge a smartphone battery from 0%-100% in just 30 seconds. It relies on bio-organic nanodots, tiny conductive crystals that help enable rapid charging.
mashable.com
The pack, which premiered Monday at a Microsoft Think Next event in Tel Aviv, relies on microscopic magnets called "nanodots" to enable its game-changing charger. The prototype attaches to a phone that is then juiced up in half a minute.
The secret to StoreDot’s technology is quantum dots, which are about 60 times smaller than a single HIV virion
The “dots” are actually peptides that have been altered to have certain properties, like optical or the ability to generate charge when strained. Only two peptides are connected and they have a crystalline structure that aids in their stability and ability to hold a charge, which should last through thousands of charge cycles.
Peptides are short chains of amino acid monomers linked by peptide (amide) bonds. The covalent chemical bonds are formed when the carboxyl group of one amino acid reacts with the amino group of another.
The prototype is currently the size of a laptop charger, but StoreDot says they're working on reducing its size
Currently, the device is closer in size to a laptop charger than a smartphone charger, but the company says it expects the final product will be about the size of a typical smartphone battery.
mashable.com
So far, the prototype only works with Samsung Galaxy 4. StoreDot says that it's focusing on getting its technology to work with other phones.
The company showed how its technology can be used to fully charge a nearly empty Samsung Galaxy S4 within 30 seconds -- an exceedingly brief time in a world dominated by chargers that can take hours to replenish battery life.
cnet.comThe charger is expected to cost about USD30 and will be commercially released in late 2016
It took less than 30 seconds to take the Galaxy S4's battery indicator from the red zone to being fully charged
Image via hothardware.comThe company is shooting for a commercial debut towards the end of 2016 with an estimated price of up to $30. That's comparatively expensive for a charger, but perhaps a small price to pay for 30-second charging.
hothardware.com