An Israel-based startup, StoreDot Ltd, demonstrated a working prototype of a bio-organic battery charging technology that promises to fully charge a phone's battery from flat zero in just 30 seconds.
With high-end smartphones comes the worry of battery life. The answer to this known issue can either be a magical battery that can run for days without compromising on features like camera, high-speed data, games and music, or a charger that can charge the battery in a jiffy. The latter wish is likely to be fulfilled, thanks to an Israeli startup StoreDot that has developed a prototype of a bio-organic battery charging tech based on quantum dot technology. Simply put, the working prototype can fully charge a phone in just under 30 seconds.
The Tel Aviv startup is aiming at commercial availability within three years. The technology was first shown at Microsoft's Think Next conference in Tel Aviv. The StoreDot team produced what it calls, nanodots, chemically synthesized bio-organic peptides, or short chains of amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. These nanodots help improve the electrode capacitance and performance, which results in reducing the charge times to a few seconds.
"We are about one year from a functional prototype that will be inside the device," StoreDot's CEO and founder Dr Doron Myersdorf told TechCrunch. "Right now we show a battery that extends beyond the form factor of the smartphone. So in one year we'll have reached the size, and in two years we'll reach the required energy density for the entire day. So we are talking about three years for a commercial ready device. So I assume it will be three years before you can actually purchase it on the market."
The prototype was tested on Samsung Galaxy S4, but the company hopes to expand support to other handsets later. Reports also have it that Samsung is one of the investor groups for the startup, which has raised $6.25 million. The demonstration video on YouTube shows how the Galaxy S5's battery charges from 27 percent to a 100 percent in just 30 seconds. (Watch here)
With the use of bio-organic raw materials in the new tech gadget, the company has eliminated the risk of carrying toxicity and reduced the heavy metal weight.. According to the company, the final product will cost twice that of an average charger, up to $30, WSJ reports.
