You may be a millionaire or a billionaire, but there is one thing you are always short of....yes it is "time". In this busy world there is no time for measly day-to-day work like charging your phone. Wouldn't it be easy if your phone just finished charging in less than 1 min?? Not possible?? We had exactly the same idea until we read about the "Super capacitor" developed by "Eesha Khare", an Indian from California. This little device can be comfortably fit inside your phone and fully charge your phone in under "20 seconds". Khare's invention won her $50,000 in prize money at the Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award held in Phoenix, Arizona.
Normally, Super capacitors have limited use because they store less energy than batteries. But Eesha Khare has made quite an advancement with this technology.
"The super-capacitor I have developed uses a special nanostructure, which allows for a lot greater energy per unit volume," Khare said at Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Phoenix.
A phone could be fully charged in 20 to 30 seconds since Khare's tiny device fits inside cell-phone batteries. This sort of advancement in energy storage could also be applied to laptops and electric vehicles, among other devices.
Hope this technology hits the market soon. Khare will be attending Harvard this fall.