Dyson Pumps In $15 Million Investment For A New Smartphone Battery

Dyson, the famous British vacuum company, has shared that they have invested a cool $15 million (£10.14 million) into a spanking new kind of smartphone battery that is touted to be able to last at least double the amount of time which standard batteries are able to last before requiring a trip to the nearest power outlet. This particular technology is said to be developed by the battery-tech start-up known as Sakti3, which will be different from today’s liquid-based lithium batteries, as this happens to be a solid-state technology which is capable of storing up to double the amount of energy.

Dyson has participated in a joint development agreement in order to commercialize the battery, which so happens to be one of the major components found in today’s mobile technology, and is also one of the biggest obstructers when it comes to further progress.

While technology has improved by leaps and bounds over the past three decades in terms of portable and cordless technologies, but all of these happen to be reliant on liquid-based lithium batteries – stuff that has remained more or less the same ever since Sony first introduced them back in 1991.

Batteries did not manage to keep up the pace with other kinds of technologies and perhaps with this development, we might see flagship smartphones last more than a whole day on a single charge – and it would be great if smartphones of today are able to last as long as the Nokia handsets of yesteryear, where a full charge lets it go on for up to 4 days or so.

Edwin Kee
Categories: Gadgets
Tags: Battery, dyson