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Microsoft Think Next Conference: Battery Charges Smartphones in Less Than 30 Seconds

Apr 08, 2014 01:37 PM EDT | By Justin Stock

Do you have problems making sure your phone is charged? Or ever look down to find your phones battery is about to shut off from lack of battery power?

A quick charge device unveiled at a technology conference being held this week in Tel Aviv, Israel, was used on a Samsung S4 smartphone, and showed a cell phone that can charge a smartphone in less than 30 seconds BBC News reported.

StoreDot, out of Israel had the device available at this week's Microsoft's Think Next Conference in Tel Aviv.

"We think we can integrate a battery into a smartphone within a year and have a commercially ready device in three years," Dr. Dorn Myersdorf who established the company told BBC News.

"Batteries are just one of the industries we can disrupt with this new material. It is new physics, new chemistry, a new approach to devices. It is about letting nature take its course. We just need a facility that can do chemical processing," Myersdorf told BBC News.

The device is bi-organic, and charges using small nano-crystals that can operate triple the speed compared to if a regular flash memory was used. The gadget can also be used to substitute for cadmium found in screens on cell phones.

As technology might often come with a more expensive price the device  makers expect the making process to cost 30 to 40 percent more than regular smartphones with screens that have cadium BBC News reported.

The product is expected to go for double the price it costs now compared to the ones currently available today.

The Samsung Galaxy S4 comes equipped with a 10x optical zoom, capable of taking images from long distances or short angles on point and with ease, Smart Mode options where consumers will be able to select from 25 pre-set camera modes such as sunset, best face, drama, and panorama to get the most effective photo possible, a 16 megapixel BSI CMOS sensor made with an optical image stabilizer enabling the user to take still photos with minimum blur a press release reported.

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