Article of the day: Light-powered screen could mean mobiles never run out of battery!!

There is a technology that you can save your location if you lost or send even text messages after your battery dies. But how about that if your phone's battery never discharge as it is charging all the time.  

It sounds good but it is true the technology behind it is Wysips that converts both artificial light and sunlight into electricity to make your phone alive all day long( actually even more).

Wysips crystal technology converts artificial light and solar power into electricity that can be used to keep a phone permanently charged. Sheets of crystals, pictured, can be fitted to the screens of devices and are able to convert 10 minutes of light exposure into four minutes of extra battery life

It uses light collecting crystals that can be fitted into the top or beneath of the screens of mobile, tablets, camera even to your laptops. At the early stage this can convert 10 minutes of exposure to 4 minutes of battery life. 

Last month, SunPartner and smartphone maker TCL Communications, which makes the Alcatel One Touch Idol Ultra pictured, announced they were developing smartphone prototypes powered by light that should be available by 2014

Future of this technology:

SunPartner specialises in solar NETs (New Energy Technologies) and Wysips stands for What You See Is Photovoltaic Surface. 
Photovoltaic technology converts solar radiation into electricity and semiconductors.
SunPartner bonds a thin layer of photovoltaic material onto a network of micro-lenses to produce a thin, transparent sheet. 
The technology can be implanted on any surfaces like screens and window, and the developer beleives that they can turn any surface into energy sources.  
It works by transforming the light energy into electric energy which directly transfer into the charging circuit.
The power from early versions of the component reaches 2.5 mW/ cm2 when exposed to sunlight, which gives between two and four extra minutes of communication time for every 10 minutes the phone is exposed to the light source.
SunPartner also add that products fitted with a sheet of 60-70 per cent transparency can generate power of up to 10 mW/ cm2 - around 16 minutes of extra life for every 10 minutes of exposure.

The first prototypes are expected to be ready by 2014.