Indian American teen invents wondrous 20-sec charger

Incase anyone is interested in the actual research, rather than just the media hype about this, check out: http://ce.sysu.edu.cn/UploadFiles/electrochemistry/2012/3/20... . It's a Chinese paper which talks about Hydrogenated TIO2-PANI as superconductors (Which is what this kid based her presentation off.

The only first-hand info I was able to find up to now, anybody has more?

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/education/competition...

I'm so sick of this bogus story.

Why do you think it's a bogus story?

Because supercaps aren't new and don't have the energy density of conventional lithium batteries, so they're completely impractical for use in something like a cell phone, unless you fancy carrying around a power pack in a backpack.

The fact that the device has only been tested on an LED (which will draw ~40mW) and is being heralded as a cure for slow-charging chemical battery packs which will draw something like 30x that and have to store something like 5.2 watt-hours of juice should be a pretty solid giveaway.