Teen invents 20-second mobile phone charger... sort of

 

AN 18-year-old girl has invented a super-capacitor that could one day charge your phone in less than 20 seconds. 

And she has just been awarded $50,000 for her discovery.

Eesha Khare, from California, was awarded the Young Scientist Award by the Intel Foundation after developing tiny device that fits inside mobile phone batteries, allowing them to charge within 20-30 seconds.
The device can last up to 10,000 charge-recharge cycles. (Rechargable batteries can only be recharged about 1000 times).

Unfortunately the gadget has so far only been tested on an LED light, but the good news is it worked just as it was supposed to, meaning it has a good chances of working succesfully in other devices, like your mobile phone, too.

Khare told NBC that she was inspired to create a practical solution after growing frustrated that her mobile phone battery kept dying.

So, on a scale of one to incompetent how inferior do you feel right now?

news.com.au 20 May 2013

A brilliant effort, with congratulations to Eesha Khare!

No one from the corporate world could invent something like this, or is there another agenda?

Currently from one of Australia's apparently leading retailers an Apple iPhone5 car charger, i.e. one that plugs into a 12V socket, with an output of 2.1Amps and a 'Lightning' cable retails for AU$39, which is incidentally made in China.

A blatant rip off.

An item of similar specifications is  available for $6 online.