#4 - Patents for unproved concepts - Nokia's Heat Phone

I discovered upon chance an article in a tech enthusiast's blog about Nokia's concept heat mobile phone. Essentially the phone is able to capture heat from any external source, whether it is your body, the heater, or even your car driving wheel if it manages to get hot enough, and transfer the energy to charge your phone.

This is a very forward concept that addresses the issue of poor battery life. The concept itself aims to solve the issue of not only battery life, but also to not have your phone die on you (in case you need the time or need to send one last text before meeting someone).

http://mobilepatent.tumblr.com/post/1303402511/nokia-concept-heat-mobile-phone



The backside of the phone resembles a cork or dried land, and that is the part that works to take the heat energy from your surroundings. Imagine just sitting down and having your phone charge without an external charger!

The interesting idea that this brings up is that companies will often experiment with very forward ideas like this and then patent it. I'd guess that most companies have cabinet fulls of patentable ideas that came out of their R&D labs, and they are waiting for the prime time when the technology systems and the demand will support the ideas. In this case, I think it's a close step toward the direction that wireless mobile phones are headed. More than being able to access networks wirelessly, don't you think it's time that our phones charged wirelessly too?