A new battery which can charge in less than 30 seconds has been unveiled at a technology conference.
During the demonstration, a smartphone’s dead battery was charged to full power in 26 seconds.
At present, the battery is just a prototype but the firm behind it, StoreDot in Israel, believes it will take three years to come onto the market.
The demonstration model was said to be the size of a cigarette pack and was attached to the smartphone. The makers believe they can integrate a battery into a smartphone within a year.
The batter is bio-organic and relies on tiny self-assembling nano-crystals. The nano-crystals were first found during research into Alzheimer's disease at Tel Aviv University 10 years ago.
The technology has a range of uses, StoreDot founder Dr Myersdorf said. "Batteries are just one of the industries we can disrupt with this new material. It is new physics, new chemistry, a new approach to devices."
Dr Myersdorf said that the batteries are likely to cost 30 to 40% more to manufacture than traditional ones and the final product will be twice as expensive to buy as those on the market today.
