The Apple iPod and the iPhone devices will operate in future with solar energy without relying on cables and non-renewable energies, thanks to a patent registered by the signature.
Several U.S. newspapers claim that Apple registered a patent for integrating photovoltaic cells in portable electronics with LCD screens.
The text of registration explains that “solar cells installed in the apparatus supplying electric power needed to recharge the batteries”.
Specifically, the cells would be located beneath the LCD screens of these devices, making mobile phone iPhone, whose surface is occupied almost entirely by a touch screen, a good candidate for this new technology.
The integration of photovoltaic cells in a way solve ecological problems of high consumption of portable electronic devices such as mobile phones.
The company, however, is not the first to experiment with this technology.
Last year, U.S. group Motorola developed a screen for mobile phones which allows the passage of 75 per cent of sunlight, which would allow the installation of photovoltaic cells below it.
June 2nd, 2008 at 1:47 am
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