Light-powered batteries and chargers

Charge your cell phone using light, cour­tesy SunCore

[SunCore’s] Nova­cell is an exter­nal charger that will power mobile devices via a USB con­nec­tion. That’s the con­nec­tion found on most cell phone charg­ers today.

That’s not all Sun­Core is work­ing on.

The com­pany also devel­ops embed­ded light-powered batteries.

The only thing that would make this cooler would be the abil­ity to charge a device screen-side up.

…or a kinet­i­cally charged bat­tery like in those wristwatches.