The next smartphone could charge via power from air, television, or cell and Wi-Fi signals The New York Times reported Sunday.
"Give me a better battery because it doesn't last long enough," Mujeeb Ljaz, chief technology officer at electric car battery maker A123 Systems told The Times.
According to The Times, there is an abundant amount of new gadgets with users who need a solution to the constant problem of finding a place to charge their devices.
"That need wasn't there five years ago," Ljaz told The Times. "Now it's a matter of the market and the developers coming together and saying, what is the need and how many R and D dollars do we put in?" Ljaz told The Times.
New products include fitness bands, eyeglasses, and smart watches The Times reported.
"Hoping and betting on new battery technology to me is a fool's errand," Tony Fadell, previous vice president at Apple told The Times. "Don't wait for the battery technology to get there, because it's incredibly slow to move," Fadell is currently CEO of Nest, which is part of Google following an acquisition in January.
Apple engineers have attempted solar charging on iPhones, and iPads in the past, and Google, Samsung, institutions of higher learning, and start-up companies have looked into their own endeavors.
"People do not want to have to go run and find a charger at 3 p.m. every day," Mark Randall senior vice president for supply chain and operations at Motorola told The Times.
"Battery technology advancements are lagging far behind advancements in mobile tech, while power consumption rate is increasing as consumers demand more from their devices," Meredith Perry, founder of wireless electricity company uBeam told The Times.
"When wireless power is everywhere, battery life and charging rates will no longer be critical factors in mobile devices as our devices will always be charging," Perry told The Times.
"The idea is basically you have signals around you," Shyamnath Gollakota, assistant professor of computer science and engineering involved with the project told The Times. "So why do you have to generate new signals to communicate?" Gollakota told The Times.
Google unveiled plans to sell Motorola to Lenovo The Times reported.
