New Coca-Cola Powered Mobile Phone to Replace Batteries

Mobile phone batteries and chargers could soon be a thing of the past thanks to Chinese designer, Daizi Zheng who has produced a concept mobile phone that is powered by Coca-Cola.

Daizi Zheng came up with the idea for the ‘greenphone’ as part of her final university project.

According to Ms Zheng the prototype can run up to 4 times longer than a standard lithium battery and has the potential to be completely biodegradable.

The eco-friendly mobile phone’s battery generates electricity using enzymes to catalyse sugar in the drink. As the battery runs out all that is left is water and oxygen.

The new phone was originally developed for Finnish mobile manufacturer Nokia but it was decided that the phone is too futuristic so will not be out any time soon. Bio batteries are currently being developed by electronics manufacturers and may hit the shops within the next 5 years.

January 16th, 2010