Your days of watching haplessly at your empty phone battery
in the midst of a wave of attack on Clash of Clans, may be over. Even better,
you forgot to charge your batter overnight but hey, charge it full in 5 minutes
flat as you put on your shoes. Welcome to the world of StoreDot, an Israeli
company that has created the full-in-5-minutes battery charger for mobile
phones.
StoreDot, a groundbreaking Israeli materials-science
company, opened its doors to Wired to demonstrate how by designing molecules
that previously didn't exist, it's designed a battery that gorges your phone
with powere in just several minutes.
"We're synthesisng new molecules designed from scratch in our labs," said Doron Myersdorf, founder and CEO of StoreDot, whose investors include Samsung, to Wired personnel. "We have 20 PhDs in our lab, imagining new molecules that don't exist."
The company grew out of nanotechnology research into
treating Alzheimer's disease at Tel Aviv University. Researchers discovered
that two-nanometer-diameter natural crystals -- which it calls
"nanodots" -- had an unusual ability to carry an electric charge and
to emit light. They then began working on prototype battery storage systems and
new kinds of display screens.
Today, the company is working with Samsung to build phone
batteries that can be recharged in less than a minute. Myersdorf showed WIRED a
demo of a phone that went from almost empty to near full in around 40 seconds.
An earlier prototype, a demo of which went viral on YouTube with more than 3.5m
views, showed a battery more than two centimetres thick that didn't fit inside
a smartphone's body. Today's battery can fit inside a Samsung phone. The
company claims it can charge its batteries 100 times faster than standard
Li-Ion batteries, and that they last three years.
The power of this charger was demonstrated recently at the
Mobile World Congress Show in Barcelona, Spain, and many said that it really
works.
StoreDot showed the prowess of its battery charger by using a Samsung Galaxy S6 equipped with a modified battery and charging port. The mobile has only 10 percent charge and within 5 minutes and 25 seconds, it went up to 100 percent.
Keep charging your phone so your camp won't get overrun by the clans. In the meantime, wait and be patient for the complete battery from StoreDot to hit the market.