Charging batteries in only seconds

Battery life--or lack thereof--has been an increasingly vexing issue as the wireless universe . But MIT researchers think that they may have made a key discovery in a technology from the past: the capacitor, which was invented more than 300 years ago but has roots that go back to 600 B.C. And according to ScienCentral Video News, the work at MIT could lead to a phone or laptop battery that can be fully charged in seconds.