Charge your battery in 20-30 seconds

It is a common problem, and probably everyone has experienced it at times where it should NOT happen: your battery is dead, but you have no time to charge it!

Well, there might be a solution to your problem. Have you heard of Intel’s International Science and Engineering Fair? Last year about 1,600 scientists from 70 countries competed to win the $75,000 award for the best innovation. The battery charger that we’re talking about now didn’t win the competition, however the student also won $50,000 for her great idea:

Fesha Khare, an 18 year old girl from California realized the need for energy-efficient storage device. Therefore she developed a tiny device (supercapacitor), which allows an LED to charge in just 20-30 seconds! Her project builds on existing research and it has very high potential for applications in car batteries but also your cell phone batteries.

Let’s hope they employed more great researchers like Fesha Khare, and that this device will come on the market soon.

To read more about the last year’s interesting projects, check the link