At the 56th Battery Symposium in Japan, Huawei showed off its next generation of quick charging batteries. Huh? Yes, there's a Battery Symposium in Japan, and yes, there have been fifty-five of them in the past. Stay focused here.

Huawei says its new lithium-ion batteries can achieve charging speeds ten times faster than normal batteries.

The company has shared videos of two types of batteries. One has a 600mAh capacity and can reach 68% capacity in two minutes.

The larger battery has a capacity of 3,000mAh. It apparently takes just five minutes to reach 48%.

For comparison, Qualcomm boasts that Quick Charge 3.0 can rejuvenate a battery to a comparable level in closer to half an hour.

As for the science, Huawei says it "bonded heteroatoms to the molecule of graphite in anode, which could be a catalyst for the capture and transmission of lithium through carbon bonds." This, the company says, increases charging speed without decreasing energy density or battery life.

For now, this is just wow factor. Hopefully we see the technology make its way into smartphones, smartwatches, or something similarly smart soon enough.