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posted by CoolHand on Tuesday August 25 2015, @12:09PM   Printer-friendly
from the apple-envy dept.

A British technology company has claimed a major smartphone breakthrough by developing an iPhone that can go a week without recharging, running instead off a built-in hydrogen fuel cell.

Intelligent Energy has made a working iPhone 6 prototype containing both a rechargeable battery and its own patented technology, which creates electricity by combining hydrogen and oxygen, producing only small amounts of water and heat as waste.

The company is believed to be working closely with Apple. In what it claims is a world first, it has incorporated a fuel cell system into the current iPhone 6 without any alteration to the size or shape of the device. The only cosmetic differences compared with other handsets are rear vents so an imperceptible amount of water vapour can escape.

The plan is to offer the fuel cells as disposable cartridges.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2015, @12:49PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2015, @12:49PM (#227558)

    And of course having steady supply of water vapor near electronic device is just topping.

  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday August 25 2015, @02:49PM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Tuesday August 25 2015, @02:49PM (#227616) Journal

    Keep your device moist for tender results.

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