Sunday, 13 April 2014

Prototype charger can power up smartphone in 30 seconds

By Brett Molina,

Smartphone makers are clever enough to make devices with larger screens and fancy fingerprint sensors. Yet, so far, very few have figured out how to create a smartphone battery that lasts more than a day (maybe two if you never use your phone).

StoreDot built a prototype smartphone charger that will charge your device in 30 seconds. In a video posted to YouTube, StoreDot takes a Samsung Galaxy smartphone at 27% of its battery life and fully charges the device in a half-minute.

The company unveiled the device, which is currently the size of a laptop charger, at Microsoft's Think Next conference in Tel Aviv, the Wall Street Journal reports.

StoreDot says it's working on shrinking the size of the charger, which could cost about $30 when it hits stores. The report says StoreDot will start commercial production in late 2016.

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