Chinese designer Daizi Zheng has created a conceptual mobile phone for Finnish cell phone giant, Nokia. What’s different about this concept device is that it is powered by sugary soft drinks. Zheng phone runs on a battery that uses enzymes to generate electricity from carbohydrates. So rather than running out of juice, literally, a user could simply refill the tank with a bit of cola or root beer. Great, just what we need, another reason to stockpile soft drinks.
Zheng provides additional information on the project as follows:
Through out my research, I found that phone batteries are an expensive power source, consuming valuable resources on manufacturing, and are harmful to the environment. This new concept uses a bio battery to replace the traditional battery, thereby creating a pollution free environment. Bio battery is an ecologically friendly energy, which generates electricity from carbohydrates (currently sugar) and utilizes enzymes as the catalyst. By using bio battery as the power source of the phone, it only needs a can of your favourite sugary beverage to generate water and oxygen while the battery dies out. Bio battery has the potential to operate three to four times longer on a single charge than conventional lithium batteries. The by-product is fully biodegradable.