Can a Display Screen Let Me Recharge My Cell Phone?

French organization Wysips is implementing a whole new technique which may cause smartphone touch screens to perform double duty as photo voltaic power panels to recharge cell phones.

The thought is fairly interesting [1] because it entails laying an extremely thin transparent photo-voltaic film layer together with the mobile phone screen. The film might get energy not only from the sun, but any nearby source of light.

Estimated recharge times could be about six hours from sunlight and some minutes longer from leaching electricity from indoors lights. Wysips is at work for the 2nd development of the technology, which looks to supply thirty minutes of talk-time after just an hour or so in the sunshine.

The issue with a solar battery charger is the fact that the sun moves continuously, and my practical experience continues to be that you must move the battery charger every couple of minutes to help keep it in the sunshine.

Actually most solar chargers for cellphones could be beneficial to folks who spend lots of time outdoors, and should not readily utilize a car or wall charger for devices. Backpackers, fishermen, etc, would possibly like this.

Otherwise, you are probably more satisfied using something different. The most effective solar cellular phone chargers available on the market take too much time to charge - a 1 hour charge provides you with just enough to make a 5-10 minutes mobile call. It requires something similar to 8-10 hours to obtain a full charge.

Another big problem with these chargers could be that the unit is only able to be charged around 500 times. This could equate to approximately 12 months in case you used it everyday. You will never go green using this thing, since you'd must change it every 12-18 months.

With more men and women getting cellphones and iPads etc...., the drain on electricity grids is increasing. So, incorporating the capacity for the cellular phone to independently re-charge from the light signifies they might help pull their own weight, and you also wouldn’t need to take with you a different battery charger or move it around.

Another interesting truth is the opportunity to utilize this system to charge the cell phone while using the indoor light... it is a real benefit. The product could be continually charging as light falls on display, meaning it will be topping off it’s power as the cellular phone just sits inactive.

This progression is much more appealing than previous attempts to generate solar chargers for smartphones, for instance Samsung's Blue Earth mobile phone [2], which included a solar charger on its back. A few months ago Apple was awarded a patent [3] for a method to charge small gadgets using solar powered energy, an indicator that this company considers solar energy worth exploring.

The solar efficiency from Wysips' charger is only 9 %, in comparison to the best solar panels used elsewhere. That is much better than the 0 % smartphones offer now. The additional green energy gained coming from a solar charger including Wysips' could allow cell phone designers to build up slimmer batteries for their devices, or allow for faster, better devices with satisfactory battery lives.

Footnotes:

[1] Wysips Official Internet site explains in more detail how the new solar charger works [2] Official Samsung site where it's released the info about the Blue Earth Phone [3] Techcrunch writes about the Apple's patent on solar powered devices.

About me: Sofia Susan Sheppard writes for the solar battery chargers blog, her non profits hobby blog site she uses to discuss the latest technology information about solar chargers for small systems.

Note: I want to thank Sofia Sheppard for this article and making me aware of this wonderful new technology. I am looking forward to seeing it used in new products as they are being introduced. It is important for us to take advantage of all the ways we can to conserve energy whenever possible. I hope that engineers learn about these new technologies and begin using them in their designs. Thank you Sofia for bringing this product to my attention and thinking of my site as a forum for introducing others to this company that is designing products for the future.

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