Nanodot-Based Smartphone Battery Recharges In 30 Seconds

Zothecula (1870348) writes "At Microsoft's Think Next symposium in Tel Aviv, Israeli startup StoreDot has demonstrated the prototype of a nanodot-based smartphone battery it claims can fully charge in just under 30 seconds. With the company having plans for mass production, this technology could change the way we interact with portable electronics, and perhaps even help realize the dream of a fast-charging electric car."

Re:Very bulky.

[K. S. Kyosuke]

Don't forget to count into the bulkiness the size of the inevitable mandatory fire extinguisher.

Re:Very bulky.

[werewolf1031]

I hear consumer electronics have this funny way of getting smaller (and cheaper) as time goes by. But that's just a rumor.

Re:Interesting, but they admit low-current capabil

[Jason Levine]

you'd have to deliver 1.2MW to charge the battery in that time

As I read that quickly, I got excited and then realized I was reading it wrong and you did not state that you'd need to deliver 1.21 gigawatts.

Re:Phones yeah

[Mr D from 63]

Going to need superconducting charge cables. My mom sure isn't going to be wrestling 00 gauge charge cables into a connector.

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No problem, we'll just 3D print em'. 3D printing will solve all our problems.

For that matter, why don't we just 3D print a fully charged battery?

Re:Very bulky.

[K. S. Kyosuke]

Nah, that's just an illusion, you've simply grown up. I remember my brother's dumbbells seemed awfully large to me at one time when I was a kid.

Re:Very bulky.

[Anonymous Coward]

So.. that's what you called them, huh?