Soon Your Phone's Battery Will Last Three Months Thanks To A Huge Breakthrough

You can do just about anything you can think of with your smartphone, but you can't do it for very long. Really, the more powerful phones become, the more often you have to charge them. And the more exciting things you do that you want to take pictures or videos of, the more likely your phone's battery will be on its last legs. Murphy's Law has never cared much about technology.

However, engineers have made a new material that could make your nightly charging routine a thing of the past.

A recent breakthrough by researchers at the University of Michigan and Cornell might finally deliver a lasting cell phone battery.

Cell phone makers have been promising batteries with longer lives for years now, but the surest way for consumers to not be disappointed has been to lower their expectations.

But, with the development of a "magnetoelectric multiferroic" substance, you might be able to go months between charges of your phone.

It's not so much that this material will allow batteries themselves to last longer, but that phones and computers will be able to do things using a minuscule fraction of the power that they use now.

Just a few pulses of energy will allow our computers to do the things that now require a steady stream of electricity.

So they'll be able to perform the same functions using 100 times less power, meaning you won't have to race for a charger when Facebook drains your battery.

Although the researchers believe we're still a few years away from seeing this technology in our phones, the groundwork is there.

It'll be difficult to wait that long, but totally worthwhile.

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