Low Battery? This phone runs on NO battery! - Yanko Design

But last week we did a roundup of our favorite power banks and now we're talking about a telephone that runs without batteries. Don't worry, the irony isn't lost upon u.s.a.! We're laughing at ourselves too! However, you tin never tell when innovation steps in and changes the game. That's what this Battery Costless Phone is!

Stripped of all its functions, except calling, the battery free phone actually uses and needs minimal amounts of energy which it harnesses via light around it, and radio waves that linger in the air. You lot can brand calls via the capacitive number pad, and it uses Skype to communicate with other phones. However, whenever you lot want to use the microphone, yous need to concord a mic button down to relay your voice (much like a walkie talkie). The phone is just a stripped down grouping of circuit boards and wires for the time-being, but we tin can wait a fully fabricated mobile phone too quite before long!

With some scientists working on gilded nanowire batteries that can concluding upwardly to 500 years, the Battery Free Phone is a production of lateral thinking. Gold infused batteries would be insanely expensive and possibly these battery-less phones volition cater to the section of the population who just want and demand the bare-basics. You'd probably have to pay a small amount for a Skype subscription, simply think if all the fourth dimension you lot'd save charging the damn device!

Designers: Vamsi Talla, Bryce Kellogg, Sam Crow, Wu Meiling, Shyam Gollakota & Joshua R. Smith.