Teen invents revolutionary device to charge a cellphone in 20 SECONDS

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4 pointswill_brown3 comments

"To date, she has used the supercapacitor to power a light-emitting diode, or LED"

This is getting a lot of press where the reporters apparently can't even read what they wrote. This is in no way developed enough to charge a phone. It's cool that she was able to get Intel's award but the hyperbole is over the top.

In fairness to your point, the original article and my post - My title was edited b/c of the HN 80 character rule and the original title includes the word "potential".

Full Title: Teenager invents revolutionary device which has the potential to charge a cell phone within just 20 SECONDS

well then

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