Eat your heart out Duracell bunny!
A team of scientists has discovered how to make mobile phones run for months in-between charges.
The electrical engineers based at Illinois University in the States reckon their research could lead to mobiles and laptop batteries lasting up to 100 times longer between charges, The Telegraph reported.
The team has apparently been looking at altering the way a phone or laptop's memory works in a bid to save battery life.
Currently electricity is passed down skinny metal wires in a phone's memory to retrieve data every time information is accessed, so the engineers have been playing with the size of components based on their theory that smaller components that store and retrieve information would use less electricity.
They reportedly found that battery life could be prolonged by using carbon nanotubes, which are 10,000 times thinner than a human hair instead of the present thin-ish wires.
A graduate student on the team called Feng Xiong, who is also the lead author of the research paper to be published in Science, reportedly said: "The energy consumption is essentially scaled with the volume of the memory bit. By using nanoscale contacts, we are able to achieve much smaller power consumption."
Leader of the project, Professor Eric Pop, reportedly added: "I think anyone who is dealing with a lot of chargers and plugging things in every night can relate to wanting a cell phone or laptop whose batteries can last for weeks or months."
He also apparently reckons that the research could make it possible to run mobile phones by harvesting solar, heat or kinetic energy as the devices would be so energy efficient.
