Israel-based tech start-up StoreDot has developed new ultra-fast chargers that can power up a smartphone’s battery in just two minutes time.
The fast-charging process involves use of a completely new type of battery, which contains specially synthesised organic molecules. The new battery will have slightly shorter battery life and will last about five hours on a two minute charge.
The company said it has redesigned the internal structure of the battery to allow for a fast charge rather than improving the capacity of the battery itself, Mashable reported.
The batteries have been built using some hi-tech materials which work as a ‘super-dense sponge’ soaking up charge really fast and charging smartphone in unbelievable time.
Doyon Myersdorf, the founder and CEO of StoreDot says: “These are new materials, they have never been developed before.”
“We have reactions in the battery that are non-traditional reactions that allow us to charge very fast, moving ions from an anode to a cathode at a speed that was not possible before we had these materials.”
The battery will be more expensive than typical batteries and Myersdorf anticipates the device will add about USD 50 to the total cost of a phone. Ultra-fast battery chargers were shown off at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
The CEO said that the company is currently in early talks with “all the big guys” and have already had more than a dozen meetings with potential partners during CES. The company’s current goal is to have the batteries in the hands of consumers by 2017.
Before somebody asks me, “I am ready for 2-minute phone chargers”.