Water-powered cell phones by 2010

Damian Koh | Apr 18, 2008

Samsung has developed a new kind of cell phone battery which is powered by water. And it aims to bring that to the market by 2010.

How this works is when the handset is switched on, reaction between metal and water in the phone will produce hydrogen gas. This is then channeled to the fuel cell where it reacts with oxygen in the air to generate power.

According to Oh Yong-soo, vice president of Samsung Electronics Mechanics' research centre, the new battery could last for up to 10 hours, adding that based on four hours of use daily on average, the hydrogen cartridge will have to be replaced about every five days.

The next development would then be to eliminate the hydrogen cartridge altogether and to rely only on water. While all that sounds promising, we guess it'll be hard to convince people to adopt it en masse. After all, we've been trying to keep our phones away from water all this while.

Via Chosun Ilbo

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ferdiei says...
they (Samsung) should be pretty serious given the timing in the nearest future when this would be intended for mass use. but similar to EMI, protective circuit has been developed since. but this "one" seems to be a novel approach (compared to what automobile manufacturers attempts with H2O until now) & innovative, squeezing in a simpler form of converting a form of energy into another. but ordinary consumer would wonder how to fit a water-cartridge onto the device, perhaps making it FART while in use, giving out gas...ooops

Apr 19, 2008 00:06