Chinese designer Daizhi Zheng has created a mobile phone that uses
sweet drinks like Coca Cola instead of lithium batteries.
Zheng has been working on this
revolutionary device for Finnish cellphone giant
Nokia, and claims he has come up with a way of using sugar-based drinks to
power mobiles. Any sweet drink, even sugar-sweetened water would be enough to
keep the phone running much longer than lithium batteries.
The bio-battery invented by Daishi Zheng generates
electricity from carbohydrates, using special enzymes as catalysts. In the
process, the device generates oxygen and water. The designer claims his
sugar-based bio-battery lasts up to four times longer than a fully charged
lithium battery and is much easier to recharge: just pour some more sweet fuel.
Lithium batteries are very
expensive and harmful for the environment, so if Zheng’s Coke-powered cellphone
turns out to be real, it would be a significant breakthrough.
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