Fizzy Phone: Mobile Runs On Coca-Cola

[mobaholic]

Bulky mobile phone chargers could soon be a thing of the past with handsets running on soft drinks instead.

Daizi Zheng designed the 'greenphone', which is powered by Coca-Cola, as part of her final university project.

The Central Saint Martins graduate came up with the concept for Finnish mobile phone manufacturer Nokia.

Ms Zheng said the prototype could run up to four times longer than a traditional lithium ion battery and has the potential to be fully biodegradable.

The greenphone's bio battery generates electricity using enzymes to catalyse sugar in the drink.

As the battery dies out, only water and oxygen are left behind.

Unfortunately, Nokia will not be developing the greenphone prototype further in the near future.

Ms Zheng told Sky News: "At the time they wanted something to bring out within the next two years and thought my design was too futuristic."

But she added that bio batteries are being developed by large electronics companies and may be on the market in the next five years.

Source:-   YahooNews

[andy]

Interesting, but it might actually work out a bit expensive

If all that is left is water and oxygen, how do you recharge the phone? Add more liquid and more sugar.

One can of drink is more expensive than the annual cost of charging a mobile using electricity. Ok, the charger and battery cost several times more than that, but would this cell be cheaper?

Let's see a Toyota Pious powered by a few thousand of these.

[mobaholic]

There is a follow on article, from a different source, which speaks of a Green phone which runs on sugar, here.