Japanese mobile operator NTT DoCoMo has hooked up with gloriously-named AquaFairy to develop a micro fuel-cell to recharge its new 3G FOMA handsets. AquaFairy's fuel cells use only water to release power, extracting the hydrogen from the water, and using this as its fuel.


The new fuel cell chargers offer obvious benefits, enabling you to recharge your phone anywhere near water, and for free. This will have huge benefits for areas where electricity is either not available or sporadic.

Presumably it won't be long before these fuel cells find their way into the phones themselves, rather than just being used as rechargers, making mobile phones truly ubiquitous and constantly usable anywhere on Earth.

[Source: Mobiledia]