FollowThere’s nothing worse than losing the charge on your iPhone at the company picnic. But fear not, you won’t be stranded Twitter-less next to the potato salad if UCLA’s new energy recycling LCD technology ever makes it to market. According to its inventors, the traditional LCD polarization process loses as much as 75 percent of light energy — something that eats around 80 to 90 percent of the device’s power.
The UCLA team led by Professor Yang Yang has come up with an organic photovoltaic polarizer that would convert the light from the back light into electricity to charge the phone battery. In addition, the polarizer would also absorb light from external sources such as sunlight or even indoor lighting to recharge the phone battery. Professor Yang Yang says that this would be the future for display technology for not just phones but also for tablet computers and other electronic devices. Once this technology gets implemented, the only time the phone battery drains is when it is in the pocket or the purse!
Source: engadget
