If you are fans of cases for iPhone that charges the batteries, well today I have for you a new one produced in the USA, this one being designed with the idea of allowing smartphones to be charged Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), using radio waves. It is produced by the co-founder of Nikola Labs, Dr. Rob, who claims that 97% of the energy consumed by a smartphone to transfer data and calls using radio frequencies is not recovered in one way or another.
In order not to permanently lose this energy, the people from Nikola Labs designed a case that can capture the radio waves around the iPhones to transform them into electrical energy designed to charge the batteries. The case that costs 99 dollars uses a proprietary technology of Nikola Labs that is not based on any radio transmitter, but which is capable of capturing any kind of radio waves around us.
... some 97 percent of the energy a smartphone expends to forge data and voice connections using radio frequencies is lost to the ether. Rather than let it all go to waste, this Ohio-based startup claims to have cooked up a way to harness that power and redirect it using aa humble-looking, $99 iPhone case. The harvesting antenna and DC power-converting rectifier circuit that make up Nikola Labs' secret sauce can only extend an iPhone's battery life by about thirty percent… and it does so sloooooowly.
The antenna which capture the waves the radio and the special converter can offer an increase of only 30% of the autonomy of the iPhone battery, and the charging process is extremely slow, considering that the energy capture and conversion procedure is not simple. Even so, although we will not see a fast charging of the battery during use, at least we will have a prolonged autonomy in most conditions and use of iPhones.
The technology behind this case was developed within Ohio University's engineering department, Nikola Labs having exclusive licenses for the technology with the idea of turning it into a real product. The idea behind the product is interesting and certainly many people would like a case of this kind capable of seriously extending the autonomy of the battery, but it remains to be seen when or if it will reach the market.
