I find this experiment so f***ing amazing, because I was never thinking about something like it. To fill up your mobile phone with coke, to gain energy for your phone… who can image that this really exist. It does!
Daizi Zheng ( graduated in product design 2009 from Central Saint Martins College in London) and Nokia built a prototype of a mobile phone using Coca Cola as a energy supply.This is an amazing proof how to combine science with design to form something totally new in a good handy shape.
This is a client project aimed at designing an eco-friendly phone for Nokia. As a result of my research, I discovered that conventional phone batteries are: expensive, harmful to the environment and difficult to dispose of. In addition, the conventional battery manufacturing process consumes many valuable resources. The concept is based on the idea to create a pollution free environment by using bio-batteries as an alternative to conventional batteries. A bio-battery is an ecologically friendly, energy supply system which uses enzymes as a catalyst to generate electricity from carbohydrates (currently sugar). In order to use the bio-battery as a power source for the phone all that is required is a small supply of a sugary drink. Once the battery dies only oxygen and water remains. Bio-batteries are fully biodegradable and have, on a single charge, a potential life-span three to four times longer than conventional lithium batteries. Meanwhile, bio-batteries are a whole new way of looking at batteries and afternoon tea.
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