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Thanks to the invention of an 18 year old scientist    Imagine getting your mobile phone fully charged just half a minute! That was the thinking drove a teenage Californian girl to create a new technology which allows smartphones to be fully charged in 30 seconds or less. This invention was her response to the Intel-sponsored International Science & Engineering Fair 2013 (IISEF) Eesha Khare, a Student from Saratoga, California, won the second prize with a prize money of $50,000 at the Intel Science Foundation award for developing and showcasing the miniscule device which can be fitted inside mobile phone power cells to aid ultra-fast charging. Dubbed a 'super-capacitor', the component was exhibited at last week's IISEF and shown to power an LED light. The invention could potentially have further reaching applications including that of more efficient smartphone charging and within car battery technology. Khare's energy storage device can repo...

I'm particularly fascinated by the ever increasing relevance of mobile devices to our lives! A mere fifteen years ago, it would have been totally inconceivable how mobile phones would become the centre of our lives, help us to do amazing stuff that look ordinary today. Mobile devices were all about calling, receiving sms messages, with a few extras like calendar, alarms, calculators and fm radio.  Our simple mobile devices of those days have grown really smart over the years and have become everything conceivable to us.     As at November 2012, mobile devices accounted for 13% of internet penetration. Recording the highest internet penetration in Africa with 48,366,179 active users as at 2010 , Nigeria’s case becomes even more interesting compared to what is going on globally.   According to statcounter.com, about 60% of Nigeria’s internet usage comes from mobile.  Mobile devices have become our new library, diary, camera, personal assistant,...