Apple’s reported ties with Intelligent Energy in the UK could within the next two years result in iPhones and iPads that run for several weeks on just a single charge.
It’s good news for those that never seem to have enough juice to keep their iPhones up and running – the days of dead batteries might soon be over. That’s assuming today’s reports of Apple’s partnering with a fuel cell company from the UK are to be believed anyway, as like most matters of such a nature nobody’s bothered to confirm or deny it yet.
The long and short of it is that Apple has apparently joined forces with Intelligent Energy in order to work on a project that would see fuel cells make their way into iDevices of all kinds before the end of 2016. How said cells work is rather complicated to say the least, but put simply it’s a case of a specific fuel source being used to create electricity by use of a controlled chemical reaction. It all sounds a bit weird and not exactly befitting eco-concerns, but in actuality the use of hydrogen in such fuel cells can be much kinder to Mother Earth than any conventional batteries in mass use.
And what’s more, they’re so efficient that if implanted into an iPhone for example, a single charge could be more than sufficient to keep the thing up and running for weeks at a time.
It’s been known for some time that Apple has/had ties with Intelligent Energy, so for those following Cupertino developments on the whole it shouldn’t come as the biggest surprise on Earth. And what’s more, if the project bears fruit in years to come it certainly won’t be the first time the market has been given access to fuel cell technology.
In fact, it was as far back as 2005 that an MP3 player in prototype form was unveiled by Toshiba, which with a dose of just 10ml of methanol could pump out tunes for over 60 hours.