Will a new screen cut smartphone charging to once a week?

However, the new material could mean that users only have to charge their handsets once a week. The important point to note here, is that the material will reportedly use little to no power to illuminate itself, thereby mitigating the single biggest reason for power drain in modern day smartphones – the display panel. The new material will allow for a cheaper way alternative to normal smartphone and tablet screens, improving both visibility in sunlight, which most phones and tablets are zero at, and saving your battery like anything.

The technology could also find its way into creating holograms that could not be counterfeited, said Hosseini.

The firm is in talks with a number of manufacturers about the technology, but said it was not at liberty to divulge names for legal reasons.

“You have to charge smartwatches every night, which is slowing adoption”, the Bodle Technologies founder and engineer told the Telegraph.

No idea when Bodle Technologies will bring this new display technology but, at least, we know there is an effort to make such.

The touchscreen material, invented by Bodie Technologies, a University of Oxford spin-off company, is based on the technology that is used for rewritable DVDs. “If you had a smartwatch or smart glass that didn’t need much power, you could recharge it just once a week”. This stack is fed a very low-energy electric current to produce colour images.

Initially still images were created using an atomic force microscope but the team went on to demonstrate that such tiny “stacks” can be turned into prototype pixel-like devices. The startup was formed by researchers from the University of Oxford following their discovery that “extremely thin, flexible, transparent layers of a new smart material” can be used to create high-resolution displays.

Smartphone displays are like light bulbs. But what if you could use a bright screen they has nothing to do with the battery?