Easha Khare Wows The Crowd At Intel Science Fair
If you have ever forgotten your cellphone charger, you know how frustrating it can be. Mainly because even if you borrow someone else's it will still take several hours to charge up your phone. If you are lucky, you might be able to put your phone on the charger for an hour to get at least a little bit of phone time. Finding a charger that could charge up your phone in half an hour would be a miracle in itself. Well, soon you may be able to count yourself extremely lucky if you get your hands on a cellphone charger that can charge up your cell phone in 20 seconds!
As reported in Yahoo! News, 18-year-old Eesha Khare from California, took home a $50,000 prize after doing well in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Phoenix, Arizona. Khare was able to get a supercapacitor to power up an LED light, but the future implications are staggering. Because a supercapacitor is an energy source device that has the ability to hold a large amount of energy while only taking a short amount of time to charge up, Khare's project could easily lead to the development of devices that would provide a much better way to charge up cellphone batteries, and even car batteries in a very short amount of time!
The inspiration for the invention came from one of the most troublesome problems many teens face – having a cellphone with a battery that constantly dies. If Khare's creation goes to market we could soon have ways to quickly charge up electronic equipment that uses a rechargeable battery.
Considering the fact that Google has already approached Khare with their interest in her device, we might even see a much improved version of Google Glass in the foreseeable future. But regardless of what becomes of Khare's development, her place in scientific history is definitely well assured (and hopefully financial success will also be as well!).
