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WHILE THE PROBLEM of smartphone battery life is something that has yet to be solved, one Israeli company is approaching it a little differently by looking at how they’re charged.
StoreDot has created a prototype battery and charger which it says can charging time down to 30 seconds.
The startup, which came from the nanotechnology department at Tel Aviv University, developed its prototype for the Samsung Galaxy S4, but has plans to adapt the technology to charge other phones.
While the protoype involves a charger, the real change is in the battery itself. The startup has been developing biological semiconductors, made from naturally occurring compounds called peptides – a compound created by two or more linked amino acids – which is used in the battery to reduce charging time.
The technology was demonstrated at Microsoft’s Think Next conference in Tel Aviv, and while the prototype is bulky, the makers say it plans to create a smaller version of it before it’s commercially produced.
Those hoping this product will arrive soon will have to wait a while though. The makers say they plan to bring the product into mass production in late 2016, and there’s no date for when the product will actually be released.
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Or I could just go back to a 3210 and charge it once a week. I’d also get my life back from the evil clutches of smart phone addiction….
……..plus u can play the snake game on it!!! …:……:::::::::::::
Ah Jaysus, there’s always one.
@Brian – jaysus have a day off Brian – take a nice walk – relax.
This can’t be good for his blood pressure.
Brian, that’s an appalling comment. The Nazis wiped out 1/3 of the world’s Jews while Christian Europe stood idly by. It’s a mindless attitude like yours that leads to fascism.
Step away from the Internet Brian………. deep breaths…….
Dipstick!
Go calm down Brian. It’s an advance in smartphone technology, not some life threatening device.
Calm down there Brian.
Im gonna buy 2 of them Brian
Brian, may I suggest you do your research. If anything it was the Palestinians who were in league with Nazi Germany, this is a historical fact. They had planned to replicate Hitlers concentration camp model in Germany and use it in the Middle East to kill every jew. In his journals, Muhammad Amin al-Husayni said Hitler told him “the Jews are yours”. To this day Muhammad Amin al-Husayni is revered as a national hero by Palestinians.
Brian K.
Your silly comment has drawn all the radical right wingers and Loyalists ,to the article like a swarm .
Your comment is absolutely out of order, now we have to suffer, as a result – Rachel/Richard, Jamesy , KKK & Hounds !!!
It was after all about a charger for our phones .
These people have only one agenda – attack everyone who doesn’t have their warped views !!!!!
I wonder how long it takes to charge that new-fangled battery though – or do you need a new-fangled battery yo do that …
Jedi, so were the irish government, but anyway any chance this can be used for electric cars???
I’d prefer to be called a Unionist if it isnt too much trouble for you. Cheers.
I know some people dont like that but what can I say, TOUGH.
I call bullshit.. The Zionist League collaborated with the nazis and there were nazi branches operating within Jewish communities in mandatory Palestine. This article from Haaretz has more details http://www.haaretz.com/mobile/.premium-1.583711
The close relationship between the Palestinians and Nazis is a well recorded, photographed and filmed fact. Anyone who claims otherwise really needs to stop reading some of the loonies Pallywood blogs. https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/muftihit.html
I’ve never understood why manufacturers don’t make strides to develop a smartphone that lasts more than a day between charges. Surely whoever nails that corner of the market will have a winner on their hands. They’re power hungry buggers! I miss the days of phones lasting several days at a time. Good luck to these guys. They may well have struck gold here.
No they won’t because everyone will just hijack the technology once someone makes the breakthrough, just like the first phone with a capacitive touchscreen didn’t take over the market. I read a while back that there is a breakthrough in battery technology in the pipeline, something that could last a week with fairly heavy usage.
Because battery technology is probably the hardest consumer tech field, including flying cars etc. Batteries by their make need revolutions in tech to get better (like this).
I’ve seen technology that could theoretically power a smart phone for 6 months, the only problem is the cost of this technology would make it unviable. Someday they’ll crack the cost side of it and produce something that will be a game changer.
Why all the negative comments? I’m sure it’s not going to catch fire spontaneously or magically run up a huge electricity bill in thirty seconds, the smartphone market is crying out for tech like this
Because this is The Journal. I would buy a charger yoke like this so fast if I could!
Excellent product
….may well be.
But I won’t be buying and urge others to do the same for this or any other Israeli products unless and until it concludes a fair peace deal with the Palestinian people whose land they have stolen & continue to ‘ethnic cleanse’.
This was a powerful tactic in ridding the world of the similar ideology of Apartheid in South Africa. Israel deserves at least the same condemnation and more for its sheer brutality.
If ye don’t make the peace we won’t buy yere charger!! Has to work!
I hear Hamas are developing something similar Mike….the only problem is it comes with a suicide bomber attached….very bulky for carrying around….
Says Mike Hall, after he has signed in using his Facebook account. If you were a true believer in BDS you wouldn’t have a Facebook account as much of the technology involved in your Facebook account hails from Israel. I take it, Mike, that you don’t use USB flash drives and encourage poor farmers in Africa to avoid drip irrigation technology?
@Mike Hall
What a load of old BOLLOCKS,
“This was a powerful tactic in ridding the world of the similar ideology of Apartheid in South Africa. Israel deserves at least the same condemnation and more for its sheer brutality.”
It charges a phone, I suppose you dont buy phones and other devices made in in China either,,, I thought so!
For those who want a boycott of Israeli goods: South Africa, Cuba, Iraq, Iran…..boycotts….they NEVER work.
I’m not aware of any boycotts of Cuba, Iran or Iraq, but certainly the boycott of South Africa was very important in bringing about the end of apartheid.
Obviously many other factors played a part, but a consumer led boycott highlighted apartheid, scared South African producers and the government, prompted buyers to source produce elsewhere, plus discouraged investment, and academic and cultural ties, which isolate the government. Also the eventual imposition if trade embargoes would not have happened without the popular support built trough the boycott campaign.
Israel is treating millions of people like animals on a daily basis, and does so openly and with impunity. What can we, normal people, do to challenge it?
Or should we ignore it?
“I’m not aware of any boycotts of Cuba” – so, you never heard of the Cuban Blockade which continues to this day and has had zero effect in regime change or changing living conditions for Cubans. The same happened with Iraq post-Gulf War I. The only thing that changed the regime and living conditions for Iraqis was a full-blown invasion and we know how that ended. Iran is currently subject to strict sanctions at the moment, although the terms have been somewhat relaxed recently. Again no change in regime or living conditions. North Korea has been the subject of sanctions for decades, again making no difference. I think you’re overestimating the effect of the South African boycott and underestimating the effect of local politicians, citizens and foreign lobbying to be honest.
Says Brian who drives the JCB…and plays golf with the shareholders!!!!! http://youtu.be/EC6C-cAc240
What are you talking about, Da Vi D? I wrote two comments: the first pointed out one guy’s hypocrisy and the second comment pointed out how boycotts do not, and never will, work. In fact, the opposite can be said to be the case. When you boycott entire nations a trend towards hardline positions is well documented. As the world hardens its resolve on Israel, so the Israeli public swings towards ever more right-wing politics. By supporting BDS you are actually prolonging the suffering of the Palestinian people by saying you support blocking any attempts at dialogue (not allowed under BDS), any efforts by Israel to improve Palestinians’ lives (not allowed under BDS), making 10,000s of Palestinians unemployed (Palestinians are not allowed work for Israeli companies under the terms of BDS), and you condemn any peace-making efforts (no negotiations or peace-talks are allowed under BDS).
Tom – the only partial blockade / boycott in Cuba is The USA one and that is thankfully effectively ignored by every other Country.
It’s probably why it’s such a wonderful place still to visit , the fact that it hasn’t been Las Vegasised by the USA !
Would it not just roast the nuts out of the battery by charging it so fast. Cant be good for the battery itself.
It’s not just for any battery, as stated in the article the device comprises both battery and charger so you wouldn’t just plug in your phone as it is now, you have to have their battery in your phone too.
If I’m correct, electric car battery tech is very similar to smartphones. Imagine the implications for the electric car if this works. Also imagine the clamour from car manufacturers.
Imagine making dinner while leaving your phone to charge using this thing. By the time youd get back the phone would be on fire
That’s some imagination you got there you’d be some craic in a pub, but I reckon your a duck feeder
Id be better craic in a pub than some loser who has enough time on his hands to insult people anonymously using a troll account with a picture of his mothers arse on it you fool.
Everyone knows you charge your phone quickly by putting it in the microwave…..
Previous patents covering leaps forward in battery technology in other industries (such as automotive) have been bought out and buried by existing battery manufacturers and companies who stand to make a loss if the technology goes to market. We might never see this technology at all.
Scratch a Journal article and you’ll find a conspiracy theory nut. Go off to Jim Corr’s web site and stop bothering us.
“Previous patents covering leaps forward in battery technology in other industries (such as automotive) have been bought out and buried by existing battery manufacturers and companies who stand to make a loss”
Why wouldn’t they just patent and incorporate the technology, and give themselves a competitive edge. I’m not sure you’ve thought your (crazy) theory through.
You still need a socket to plug it in though. Think I’ll wait until a wireless method for safely transporting electricity gets invented :p
Your phone might run out of battery before then
Nikolai Tesla claimed this a hundred years ago….but it later transpired he wasn’t fully plugged in himself.
My Nexus 5 can charge wirelessly . I do need to put it on a charging plate though, but there is no wored connection between the phone and anything else. Saves wear and tear on the he micro USB, and saves time plugging it in and out.
This charger is great but no point buying it, it doesn’t work on Saturdays
This could be great for electric cars…
Why bother? You can charge an iPhone 5 by putting in the microwave for 40 seconds.
Something that will catch fire in your pocket…. Worse still on an Aeroplane… No thanks.
Boeing batteries? A disaster waiting to happen…
Whilst I salute the ingenuity I would not buy any product made in Israel given their continued occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and the Golan Heights, plus their illegal land grabbing by way of a giant wall built through Palestinian lands.
@ Kingstown
Well you had better turn off tour gas or burn Polish coal (they occupy German teritory) because of Russian annexed Crimea and still occupy Japanese and Finnish territory from WW2 and not buy anything from China ( you wont need the charger as you phone is built in China) remember Tibet? and of course dont put any middles eastern oil in your car because of their treatment of women, GAYS, etc
Something strange about this announcement.
This came out 4 days ago:
http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/teens-invention-could-charge-your-phone-20-seconds-f1C9977955
The students name is Eesha Kare. Now in Harvard.
Probably coincidence. StoreDot’s innovation is only really being reported in the last 24 hours, but it was first mentioned in English-language media 4 days ago too:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/antonyleather/2014/04/04/new-nanotech-breakthrough-promisses-30-second-smartphone-charging/
Meanwhile, the video in the article itself was uploaded to YouTube on 31st March.
Ms Kare won that prize in 2013.
So, you’re saying there is something strange about one person making a public announcement about a piece of technology in 2013 followed by another group making a similar, though not identical (and when you compare, the Israeli product is inferior), announcement? To me, it kind of sounds like any other industry. Hollywood generally releases two related, yet competing, movies every year (thing Dante’s Peak vs. Volcano; Deep Impact vs. Armageddon; Battle: Los Angeles vs. Skyline). Also, Samsung and Apple do this all the time. So do car manufacturers, and computer producers.
Sorry, just to clarify, the first sentence should finish “…making a similar, though not identical…announcement a whole year later?”
Yes. That’s what I’m saying. There is something strange about it.
Shut up and take my mon
I’d like to see the electric bill….
it’d be the same as a normal bill. a battery can only take a certain charge.
charge 1kwh for 2 hours is the same as charging at 1kwh in 30 seconds.
Think of a pint of beer, if you knock it back your getting the same amount as if you drink it slowly.
Now admittedly I know nothing about electricity but 30 seconds flash charging as opposed to leaving your phone plugged in all night while you sleep… 6 to one, half a dozen to another I would say.
Havent been and wont be purchasing anything from that country thanks
If you had to walk more to charge the phone by somehow tapping into the energy reserves in our bodies then that would be a good move.
Never mind that sh!t here’s Mongo
I’d buy it!
I’d also buy a big one for my Electric Car and E-bike.
A dock studio charges an s4 in no time.
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