BENGALURU: How annoying is it to see a thin red line of battery left in your Smartphone? A lot I suppose.  Spare chargers, power banks, so  on and so forth we have them all but all of us face the ‘low-battery’ crisis someday or the other. Is there any simpler solution to handle such crisis? Yes, certainly. Nikola labs in collaboration with University of State, Ohio, invented the ‘Rectinnae’ or the rectifying antennae, shaped like an iPhone case. Energy produced out of nothing but ‘thin-air.’

Rectinnae converts microwave energy into usable electricity. Do you remember the 1^st grade physics? Energy can neither be created not destroyed—this is the basic principle that led to the invention of this case-cum charger that can be used to charge up to 30 percent of the power bank. Rectinnae charger harvests energy wasted by phones when it sends out radio frequency signals through Wi-fi, Bluetooth or even when the data is on.

Bob Lee, the founder of Nikola Labs explains that 90 percent of the energy is lost through such radio waves. Therefore his labs worked on a case that could save the energy that is being lost, which in-turn provide efficient energy that is good enough to be feasibly reused. The case will primarily have an enforced cover, an RF harvesting antennae, a signal strength detector and an RF-DC converter.

The company did not go public with the innovation as it is still in the making and is yet to figure out solutions to support the charging where there is weak phone signal strength. This technology can only support iPhones as of now. However if this innovation takes a complete shape it could lead to another revolution in fast changing technology.

So let us hope for the product to be launched in its complete form soon and save us the trouble in times of battery crisis.

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